Hey, everyone! So as you might know - the next chapter hasn't been up in like a month...I know. I am working on it - then I realize the computer I was writing on crashed. SO all of my chapters are gone. Just hold tight - I might be able to get one out today...but it might be short...So here it is....

My eyes were working wonders, I knew, as I saw the lady standing next to me ask, "Are you alright, son?"

I nodded absentmindedly, thanked her for her notice and walked slowly towards the reunited family. Behind me, I managed the catch the elderly woman's remark, "Young men these days don't even know any manners. Didn't even bother to look at me. Hmph!"

I chuckled as I knew that I must have seemed to be rude, but it was not incidentally. She must have noticed the lost, forlorn look I must have had in my eyes, when I saw the little family rejoice. I needed to find out who that woman was and why she was with a Mike look-alike.

Before I realized it, I was just in front of the family I was anxious to meet. I looked at the man as he smiled when the little girl had asked him a question. The Mike look-alike smiled and simply ruffled her hair. The woman beside, Veronica, was laughing when she noticed the man and girl interact.

I needed to find out who they were, so I mustered up my courage and I was already - what the hell! I am a FBI agent, I should be able to do this.

I sighed as I realized that I was talking to myself out loud again when I noticed a few heads turn, but not including the family I wanted to see me. I was about to say hello when I heard the woman, Veronica, say, "I think we must be going along." She must have noticed me walk up to them, because I saw her throw a glance at me before turning her back towards me.

The man seemed surprised, but he didn't mind when he replied, "Alright."

"No wait!" I exclaimed as I ran foreward to try to stop them from exiting the airport. Damn it! I missed them when they immediately left through the door and out to catch the next taxi.

I knew that I was not going to let this go.

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I stepped out of my taxi and onto the pavement in front of the magnificient hotel Alice had managed to get me. Really, I wonder how she knows about everything, everywhere. I realized that it was just one of the quirks that came with the package "Alice". I was just glad to have her to be my sister. I knew that I had to catch up with Rose and Emmett to see how Lisette was.

It was gorgeous - the hotel. The magnificient architecture on the outside of the building had drawn me in instantly. I knew that I was going to get the vacation I had so called deserved here. I walked inside and checked in.

The woman incidently was checking me out, I could tell, and was not so light on the flirting either. With her rich Italian accent, she had asked me, "Would there be anything you would be needing, Mr. Cullen?"

"No," I spat out as I instantly regretted my tone. The look on her face was too pitiful to pass without saying that I was sorry. I apologized and thanked her before going to my room.

When I arrived in my room, for some reasons, memories of her blocked my vision. It had been in a room like this that Bella and I had first become friendly towards each other and not hold an animosity.

She had woken me and I rubbed my eyes as I asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"

Bella realized that she had screamed out loud, but she shook it off, "Oh, it's nothing. Go back to sleep, just a flashback."

I propped up on one elbow and I raised my eyebrow, but my eyes were still full of concern, "Anything you want to talk to me about?" When I saw Bella being hesitant, I added, "If you don't want to, that'll be okay. But I just want to let you know that I'm there for you."

Bella looked at me skeptically, but knew that I was telling the truth. Bella shook her head, "It's nothing. Anyways, I can't get to sleep. Can you talk me to sleep?"

I just wanted to kiss those teary eyes and say everything would be alright…WHOA, I had thought. Where did that thought come from? This time, I shook my head as I asked, "Well, what do you want me to tell you about?"

Bella thought for a moment and then replied, "Yourself." When I raised my eyebrow, Bella for some reason chuckled, "Tell me about yourself."

I nodded as I tightened my lips, "Well, if you insist. I was born to Edward Sr. Masen and Elizabeth Masen. My parents died when I was eight. My father died of lung cancer and my mother followed shortly afterwards by…" he stopped as he looked ashamed. Bella instantly recognized what he was saying, and she laid her hand on his and gave him a reassuring smile. He smiled faintly back, before continuing, "I had been in an orphanage until I was ten, when Carlisle and Esme found me. They instantly fell in love with me, and brought me home. Ever since then, I had been honors student, pro athlete and heart throb. Afterwards, I decided to work as a FBI agent as the rest of my family had thought of doing. And here I am, lying in the bed with you."

Bella rolled her eyes at my pick up line, but not before yawning intensely. I smiled and said, "Tired yet?"

Nodding, Bella slept on her pillows, muttering, "Good night." Afterwards, she fell right asleep, snoring lightly. I chuckled and gave her a kiss on top of her head, before sleeping under the covers slowly afterwards.

I knew that somehow I was going to be able to get through this - somehow. I needed to get through the memories and move on with my life, even though I knew I couldn't.

I finally made the choice to phone Rose to see how Lisette was. I set down my suitcases on the ground as I grabbed my Blackberry and laid on my bed. I dialed the familiar number and waited for a person to pick up the phone.

"Hello?"

I smiled at the person over the phone, "Hey Rose?"

"Edward! You made it! How's Rome?"

I chuckled before I asked, "It's great, but how's Lisette? Is she being a good girl?"

"Of course, why wouldn't she be? She's just sleeping now. I can wake her up if you want me to..." she trailed off not sure of what to do.

"No it's alright. Just tell her I called."

I left the conversation hanging at that and I knew she could sense the tension between us. We really didn't have anything to talk about outside of Lisette. She still had me angered of how she treated Bella.

However she had managed to catch something wrong, "Edward, are you alright? You don't seem yourself."

Well...obviously, I wasn't. I had seen a woman who I swear to God looks like Bella, but should I tell her that? Wouldn't she just think I was hallucinating? Wouldn't she think that I was...crazy? Too caught up in the past?

I had managed to reply, my voice very hoarse, "I think I saw...Bella."

On the other side of the line, I could hear no reply..

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OOO! Cliffy! So here you have it! The next chapter! I hope you guys liked it. I will try to get the next chapter out soon - sooner than this one, I hope.

Thanks!

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