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A/N:: First off, I was going through all of my old Reviews from PUTP and MSC and most of my reviewers are still with me. So I just wanted to take a second and thank you all! You guys are so amazing and one of the main reasons I continue writing! I 3 you guys so much and thanks from the bottom of my heart for staying with me!
Second off, if you guys are for SURE you are ready...the secret is finally coming out! So enjoy this chapter and let me know what you think. It's my favorite chapter so far. =)

Edward POV

Friday, was all I could think about. I ached for Friday to come so I could see her beautiful face again, Friday had taken forever to get here, but finally here it was. Now that it was here though I couldn't concentrate on anything. I had mixed up my patients name. Forgot Rose's name momentarily which gained me an "Edward knock the fuck out of it" remark. I had received two phone calls from my sister already and it was only 5:30. It started with "I'm so excited for you Edward", then "tell me whatever she tells you", then "don't push her too far Edward", and now it was "are you sure you want to go out with her Edward?" Yeah Alice let me cancel almost an hour before our date. Not likely.

I showered quickly and ran some gel through my untamable hair. I then threw on a pair of jeans and a black button up with a pair of dress shoes. I hope I wasn't too under dressed. It then hit me. What if SHE stands me up. I was stupid enough to not even get her cell phone number.

Wow, I'm an idiot.

I left my house at 6:30 and headed downtown to 'Ciao Bella'. I arrived at 6:50 and got a table in the back of the restaurant. Right at 7pm on the dot the beautiful brunette I laid eyes on 2 weeks ago came floating in. She looked breath taking in her skinny jeans and black pumps accompanied by a flashy fuchsia tube top. Her brown hair flowed wavy down her back. She looked gorgeous.

She spotted me in the corner and flashed me a smile as she made her way towards me. I stood up to greet her.

"Hi." she said breathlessly.

"Hi Bella, you look beautiful." I smiled.

"Thank you, you look very handsome yourself." she blushed.

"Let's sit?" I asked as she nodded.

Our waitress came at that moment to order our drinks. I got a gin and tonic and Bella ordered a cranberry vodka. We sat in silence as we skimmed the menu, finally the waitress brought our drinks and Bella almost downed the whole thing in one sip. I chuckled, "don't be nervous, I told you we don't have to talk about anything you don't want to." I smiled. She nodded. Bella nibbled on her mushroom ravioli while I ate my fettuccine alfredo.

Finally Bella broke the silence, "My favorite color is purple, I drive a silver Toyota Corolla, I hate it but Emmett made me buy it after my red pick up truck 'Betty' broke down two years ago." she blushed. "I work at the Seattle Daily as a journalist, I write on boring stuff like business and politics but they pay very well being that I have a bachelors in journalism so I won't complain." she smirked. "My mother left us when I was 7, she ran off with her intern from the insurance company she worked at, he was 8 years younger then her, I never heard from her again. My father and I were very close until I moved to Chicago with Emmett. It was like he closed us off from him after that. I talk to him maybe once or twice a year on birthdays. Haven't seen him in a little over three years." Bella shrugged. "Emmett and Sophia are all the family I need." she half smiled. "Your turn."

"Hmm ok. My favorite color is green, I drive a silver Volvo sport edition. I am a Doctor at 'Children's Place', my parents have been married for almost thirty years, I see them every Tuesday for a family dinner, along with Alice, her husband and my best friend Jasper and their son Tyler." I smiled.

"Your family sounds very nice." she smiled as we got a third round of drinks. I told the waitress I was done, I wanted to be able to drive her home if need be. "They are, you'll have to meet them some day if you'd like." I smiled. "Maybe." Bella smirked. I paid for dinner and Bella and I took a walk across the street to a park.

Bella sat on a bench and patted the spot next to her, "So where should I start?" Bella said after taking a deep breath.

"Wherever you'd like, or no where if you'd prefer." I shrugged.

"You're so easy to talk to, I want to tell you everything, I trust you for some reason." she half smiled.

"Good I want you to trust me." I smiled back.

"Well, I guess from the beginning would work."

"Ok from the beginning." I nodded.

"Well, as I said earlier my mother left us when I was seven. My father says after I was born my mother wanted to leave. She said she didn't love my father anymore. He says he guilted her into staying for my sake, so she did. When I was five my mother became pregnant again, my dad says my mother lost it. She wanted to have an abortion, she said my father tricked her and made her pregnant. I don't know what he meant when he said that but he always said my mother thought he tricked her. They finally came to an agreement, my mother would have the child, my father would raise us and my mother was free to go. So that's what she did." Bella said sadly.

"I was six when my sister was born. My mother stayed for a few months, my father thought she changed her mind, and then one day she was gone, leaving a single note about falling in love with her intern Phil Dwyer. I had a happy childhood, my father was the chief of police in Forks. I was the mother to my sister and the mother to my father. I learned how to cook and clean by the age of ten. I met Emmett, Angela and Ben in High School, Angela and Ben dated and Emmett and I dated. He became a huge part of my life, my rock. We dated for a year, but then found that we were better off friends, we were inseparable, Emmett came from an unstable home also, so we understood each other." Bella sniffled.

"Anyways, Emmett and I went off to college in Chicago. He was going to school to be a physical therapist, and me for journalism. I kept in touch with my sister mostly, my father felt like I was leaving him like my mother. I hated that he felt that way, but I needed a life. I was twenty-two in my last semester of College, living a great life when it came crashing down. I open my door one day to find my sister in tears on mine and Emmett's door step. My father had kicked her out. I was livid, she was sixteen years old with no where to go. I didn't understand why he would do that, and then she told me she was pregnant." Bella cried as I took her hand in mine and rubbed her knuckles soothingly.

"Charlie, my father was very old fashioned. No sex until marriage, let alone have a child. I refused to separate her from her life so I packed up myself and my sister and moved back to Forks, leaving Emmett and my life back in Chicago. Being in a small town though, news travels quickly. My sister was known as the whore of Forks high school, so I pulled her out and began home schooling her. I had a little apartment, one bedroom. Working at the library making minimum wage, hardly making ends meet, taking care of a pregnant 16 year old and doing it by myself. My father wouldn't talk to my sister or I. Emmett came to visit for Christmas, we spent our last Christmas in town and then I moved my sister and myself to Seattle where I had a job offer at the Seattle daily." Bella attempted to calm her breathing as she looked me in the eye.

"Everything felt like it was going so good. Emmett came to visit us every three months for the weekend. My sister and I were doing great. She was ready to give birth in March. They induced her on March 15, everything was fine, she delivered the baby at 7:11pm. They were both healthy, and then at 9:50, we lost her." Bella cried as she tried to keep quiet. "My sister died laying in her bed. She had a seizure and died, the one person I had as family left me. Later they diagnosed it at 'Eclampsia', they never noticed it, and it ended up killing her. I couldn't focus when they told me. I remember just sitting their staring at the baby. I stayed in the room with the baby alone that night. The next morning they asked me what I wanted to do. What other choice did I have, I didn't know the child's father, my father wasn't talking to me and I sure as hell wasn't giving up my only family left. I loved that baby, so I told them I wanted custody. I knew it would be a long process, but I would do it. Not only for myself, or for the baby, but for my sister Breeana. They asked me what I wanted to name the baby and I remembered Bree loved the name Sophia. So I named her Sophia Breanna Swan." Bella sighed as she wiped her eyes.

I took a deep breath, this was so much more then I thought it would be. This woman in front of me was so strong and brave. What do you say when someone tells you a story this big? I said the first thing that came to mind, as stupid as it was.

"So Sophia is?"

"My Sisters' Child." Bella smiled sadly.

"In the court's eyes, and everyone who met her after her birth mother died though, she is mine." she nodded. "You're the only person I ever told this too outside of Emmett and my father." she cried as I cradled her face in my hands

"Thank you for trusting me to tell me this. You are a brave, strong woman. You took on a huge task and are doing an amazing job. You are so selfless, you are an angel. That little girl loves you so so much." I sighed.

"I love her so much too. She is my everything."

"So Angela." I nodded figuring out the story in my head.

"Yes, last time she saw me was at the Christmas party right before we moved. Bree was six months pregnant." Bella smiled sadly. "I couldn't tell her. I knew I'd break down. It's just too much."

"I'm here for you Bella, here for you and Sophia." I said reassuringly as I hugged Bella close.

"I don't expect anything from you Edward, that's not why I told you. I trust you to tell you, but I don't expect anything from you." Bella smiled.

"Emmett?" I asked.

"Emmett what?" she asked.

"You love him." I stated

"Yes, not like that though. He is like my brother, my best friend, my life. He up and left his whole life when I told him about Bree, he's practically raised Sophia with me. He moved here after 5 months of Sophia being born and has lived with us ever since." she shrugged.

"He loves you?"

"Like I love him," she smiled. "That's why he doesn't like you, he's scared you'll hurt us, but I'm scared of the complete opposite. I've never felt like this before Edward." she said quietly.

"I have feelings for you I've never had for anyone and I hardly know you. I don't get it." she shrugged. "I don't want to mix you into my crazy life, what I have right now works for me, it's not stable but it works." she sighed

"I'll take you however you will let me, be it as a friend, someone to love, or your child's doctor. However you want me I will be there. I can't fight the feelings I have for you Bella, I don't know how to put them into word's but I feel them full force." I said lowly. "Bella?" I asked,

"Yes?" she whispered as I held her face between my hands.

"I'm going to kiss you now." I breathed against her face.

"I don't think-"

"Don't think Bella, just feel." I said against her lips as I pecked them slowly waiting for a response. I felt her lips mold against mine and I enveloped her bottom lip in-between mine and they began to work against each other. Bella moaned into my mouth as I slipped my tongue between her plump lips. Bella allowed me access into her mouth and I felt my whole body buzz with electricity as our lips worked against the other.

Slowly, Bella pulled her lips from mine. "Did you feel that?" she panted as I nodded my head and stared at her swollen lips.

"Edward?" she whispered.

"Yes Bella?"

"I can't make any promises of what may come from this. I will warn you though, I may hurt you." she said sadly. I lifted her chin with my finger.

"Isabella, nothing would hurt more than you walking away right now without even giving me a chance." I said quietly as I stared into her eyes.

"I don't even think I'm capable of that." she mumbled.

"Good." I smiled.

It was then in that moment that I knew without a doubt that Bella was in just as deep as I was.

It was then in that moment that I knew I had walked into the lions den and there was a large possibility that I was going to get hurt.

It was then in that moment that I knew I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with her.

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