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Lucky Coincidence – Chapter 6 – Perplexed

As I drove, I panicked. Sure, Edward assured me every so often that he was perfectly fine and it wasn't a big deal. But I couldn't help but freak out that I almost maimed the perfect and utterly gorgeous Edward Cullen.

"Seriously. I am so sorry!" I whimpered.

"Bella! Calm down, it'll be fine." Edward grinned at me.

"But what if you press charges?" I asked. Wait, did I seriously just ask that?

Edward chuckled loudly. "What would the charge be, I may need some help."

"Um … dropping a weight on your foot, hurting you?"

"Then I should sue the gym for letting you in, shouldn't I?" he peered over at me and I gasped, audibly.

"Oh Bella, I was just kidding!"

"Ha ha, I knew that …" I winced. Awkward. For the rest of the car ride, we were both silent. I was silent because I was fuming about dropping the weight. He was just too damn beautiful! And he wasn't talking probably just because he didn't risk saying anything else about the weight. I was still visibly freaking out because my hands gripped the steering wheel; they were almost white and I was breathing hard. Never once had I felt like this about a man, but I internally scolded myself. He's engaged Bella! He's taken; you must stop thinking of him. Then before I could stop myself, I spoke, "So how's Tanya?" I silently cursed myself.

"Oh, uh, she's great." That's it? She's great? What did the bitch – I mean Tanya – do now? Interesting …

I slowly pulled into the hospital parking lot and parked, pulling my hands off the steering wheel, wringing them and cracking my knuckles. I saw Edward wince and I stopped. Not a lot of people liked the cracking of the knuckles. "Sorry," I whispered. He nodded, understanding. I then realized he needed help. I jumped out of the truck and ran over to other side, only after I managed to trip. Me and my clumsy self. I yanked open the door and helped Edward out, smiling weakly. He grinned back and I melted inside, his smile was so amazing. I helped him into the hospital and walked up to the young women at the desk, supporting Edward.

"Hi … uh 'scuse me?" I said to the nurse, who just ignored me. I started to speak again when Edward rapped his knuckles on the counter. The women looked up startled and then smiled warmly when she looked at Edward. Ugh, so many girls just stare at him, it's so annoying. Then she looked at me and raised her eyebrows.

"Hey, can we just go up?" Edward asked.

"Sure, Mr. Cullen." The nurse smiled again. Mr. Cullen? She knew him?

"Come on Bella," Edward smiled at me again and I sighed. We caught an elevator just as it was about to close and stood there in silence. When we got off at the second floor, Edward pointed me to the right and he stopped us in front of a door.

"Why aren't you going to the emergency room?" I asked.

"No need?"

"No need, why?" Now I was confused.

"Just follow me Bella." I obliged, not wanting to make him pissed or anything.

"Hey Mandy, is he here?" Edward asked the women at the desk and she nodded, smiling at both of us. At least she's nice. I thought to myself. Wait, who's "he"? Edward walked over to a large, wooden door and knocked loudly. I heard a "come in" and Edward pushed the door open.

"Edward?" A male's voice asked, concern laced in with warmth.

"Hey dad," Edward chuckled. Dad?! Oh … right … he's a Cullen. I had already figured he was Edward's father.

"What happened Edward?" The man asked. I peeked around Edward and finally saw what the man looked like. He looked a lot like Edward with the pale skin and he was thin, but his hair was blond and he seemed just a bit older than Edward.

"Oh just a little incident at the gym, no biggie, my foot just kills." Edward smiled at me and winked. "Oh Bella, I'm sorry, this is my father Carlisle Cullen."

I smiled at Carlisle and said a small hello. Carlisle nodded back, giving me a warm smile.

"I was wondering if you could fix me up dad."

"Sure, that's what I'm here for," Carlisle laughed. "Come here." Edward let go of me and hopped over to one of the chairs in front of the desk that Carlisle was sitting behind. "You can sit if you'd like Bella."

"Thanks," I said as I walked over to the chair. I sat quietly as Carlisle looked over Edward's foot, that was perched on the desk. Carlisle pulled him out of the room for a minute, coming back and declaring it was fractured. I listened to his jokes about Edward's foot, he was trying to find out what exactly happened but Edward wouldn't bite. It made me feel kind of good that Edward wasn't going to totally rat me out and embarrass me in front of his father.

"Well Edward, that's all I can do for you now, it's fractured so you just have to stay off of it for about a week. I will come by your place later tonight once I am off work and give you this boot to put on it to keep it stable, and a pair of crutches for you to walk with, just like I did when you were a kid." Carlisle's laugh boomed through the room and I couldn't help but smile, Carlisle seemed like a good husband and father, he must have raised Edward to be the same. "Oh and would you mind driving him home? He shouldn't be driving with his foot…"

"Dad-" Edward started to chide his father for blatantly asking me a big favor like that.

"No Edward, it's fine! Of course I could drive him, it would be no problem."

Edward, I will call Emmett or Jasper, and get one of them to drop by the gym and drive home your car for you."

"Thanks dad.

'Nice to meet you Bella!"

"You too, it's nice to meet you too Dr. Cullen." I smiled

"Oh, please, call me Carlisle. It makes me feel a lot less old."

"Ok. Will do. Carlisle." I helped Edward up out of the chair.

"See ya later tonight Dad!" Edward called back to his father over his shoulder as we walked out of the room and past Mandy who smiled at us again and waved at me. I smiled back, happy that she was nice. We walked back to the elevator and I was surprised to see we were the only ones in it.

"So Bella. What are you doing around this time next week?" Edward asked me.

Was he asking me out? But he's engaged … oh maybe it's just as like friends or something! "Um. I don't have anything going on. Why?"

"Oh, I just wanted to invite you to have some coffee with me. After all you've done, I feel it's appropriate." Edward said simply.

"Um, ok. After all I did? What, fracture your foot? Make you walk with crutches for a week? Oh and just drive you to the hospital to make up for all of that. Really, I'm sorry about what I did, and I should be the one taking you out to coffee. I mean I dropped a weight on your foot!"

He put a finger to my lips to make me stop rambling. "No, you drove me, and stayed, and driving me back home. Please just let me take you to get some coffee. That's it. Please? I insist." He smiled that dazzling crooked smile at me and my resolve melted.

"Ok. Fine. I will come. Thank you for inviting me."

"Great, I'll pick you up next week, on Wednesday during your lunch break, is that alright?" He asked me.

"That's fine! My lunch break is whenever you can come, since I am the manager and we really don't get that many customers I can get off at anytime." I said, smiling as we walked and hobbled out of the hospital now, heading for the car.

"Alright, well my job is lenient also, so how about noon?"

"Sounds good to me!"

"Then it's a date!"

Did he mean that? Like a date date? Or is he just repeating the old saying 'it's a date'. And well 'getting coffee' is like the well known first date kind of thing. But, he's engaged, so it must have just said the saying without the actual meaning.

I helped Edward in then walked to my side, getting in and starting the truck. We were perfectly silent the whole ride, a kindergarten teacher would have loved us.

I offered to give him a ride home, only to remember his Volvo was still at the gym so I just smiled and drove to the gym. I dropped him off at his car and he spoke to me again,

"So I'll see you later!"

"Yeah, bye," I smiled widely. I was so happy right now. But what about Tanya? Won't she be mad that he's going out with me? Eh, whatever!

When I got home later, it finally sunk in. I was technically going on a date with Edward Cullen. Even if it's just as friends, it's still a date. Even though I dropped a weight on his foot! I must have some good luck at times. I mean most guys would freak out and then back away slowly, claiming that they were fine but Edward was different I guess.

My thoughts were in a jumble as I drove home. I was very excited for next Wednesday and then I was also nervous. The one thing I hoped for was that I didn't trip and spill my coffee all over him. That would be totally embarrassing. For once, I was actually going on a date with a guy instead of just hanging out and not talking. Now Bella. This isn't a date, its just coffee with a friend! I scolded my self. But I couldn't keep my self from thinking this was a date. When I got home, I went to my closet and tried to find something to wear. Oh Bella! You silly, there is no need to choose now! You have a week! But I went against my thoughts and pulled out a pair of shorts that I thought were very flattering and a black, sparkly shirt that was also quite flattering. It wasn't entirely coffee date material, but it would work. Then I thought of shoes. My eyes focused on the four-inch black, Prada heels that my mother insisted on my buying a couple years ago. They would be perfect!

Oh, why couldn't Wednesday come any sooner? I thought on Friday morning. I wanted to see Edward so badly. The last couple days he had not been to the gym, but that was expected. I could just imagine Tanya tending to him, making sure he's okay and giving him small kisses to make him feel better. I cringed and pulled my thoughts away from that subject to focus on the customer at the jewelry store.

"May I help you ma'am?" I asked the women.

"Yes, I'd like to buy a promise ring for my daughter." The women said and I tried to keep myself from snorting. Who wore promise rings anymore? Those Jonas Brothers people started it all and then my boss' daughter wanted one and he decided just to have a whole case full of the things.

"Oh yes, we have those right over here," I motioned to the clear case over on the right of the store.

"Thank you." The women smiled and I nodded at her as I walked back over to my chair. Angela was off of work because she was on bed rest. That damn baby, why wouldn't it just come yet? I just had so much to tell her but Ben was so paranoid that he wasn't letting anyone call or come over to visit Angela. But, I hadn't been able to tell her anything, because she had had her doctor's appointment that day and it had been at a time soon after I got to the store from dropping Edward off at his apartment. She had just rushed out as fast as she could, and then when I called her later to tell her, Ben had answered and told me that she was put on bed rest and she couldn't have visitors or phone calls. I had heard Angela screaming at him in the background, trying to get him to hand her the phone, but he refused and hung up on me when I pushed him to just do what she wanted. I was pretty sure that she was going crazy because of Ben, but he loved her and she was lucky so I was hoping she just put up with it.

I sat down on my chair and thought of Wednesday. It was Friday today and I seriously couldn't wait much longer, I was just too excited.

The weekend dragged by, I had had no plans, so I ended up just sitting on my couch in my pajamas for most of the days. I just watched TV, and searched the web. I checked my favorite twilight website hisgoldeneyes . com, looking for any new news on the new twilight movie coming out.

I was excited for Monday to come for the first time in my life, and it was all in anticipation for Wednesday. When I got to my treadmill and started to jog on it, watching my feet until I got into a regular rhythm.

I looked up and routinely- since Thursday morning- looked around the gym to see if Edward was here. I saw a glimpse of bronze hair behind someone walking by, over by the weights, I craned my neck around, as to see him sooner as the other man walked away. Our eyes met, and he smiled crookedly at me, as a tentative, and becoming goofy grin spread across my face. I looked away from his eyes, a blush flooding to my cheeks.

My eyes found his foot on the floor, his leg straightened out in front of him, it was strapped in a big plastic and cloth boot, I had used this type of walking cast a couple times in my clumsy life. I also noticed a pair of crutches underneath the bench, surely his, and stored there for the time being, as he lifted weights. Which it was the only thing he could do with his injured foot. My eyes wandered back up to his eyes, and I noticed he was still looking at me, I blushed yet again, and looked down to my iPod. I put in the other ear bud, and turned up the music, trying to drown out any nasty thoughts about Edward.

"So are we still on for this Wednesday?" A velvety voice said, breaking through my musical peace. I jumped really badly at the surprising voice.

"Y-y-y-yeah! Of course! Wouldn't miss it!" I said, once my breathing had gone back to normal from my scare, and Edward had stopped laughing hysterically over scaring me.

"Alright! Good! Well I will see you then!"

"Wait! What about tomorrow? Won't you be here?" I asked eagerly, dearly hoping to see him as much as possible despite my thoughts in my head.

"Probably, but we won't talk. We need to get to know each other better on our coffee date." He said cryptically, and was it just me or did he accentuate the date part? Is this something more than I have been assuming?

The next day at the gym Edward was there, but he didn't talk to me, just as he said, he only smiled at me when I looked up from my treadmill. I had given up on the weights thing after that last incident with them.

Both days of this new week, I had gone to work all tingly, and happy inside. I would find myself smiling for no reason, and I would get the feeling of just wanting to belt out a song like in a musical, standing on the counters and the whole jig. Edward had an effect on me, and I don't know how this one man could do this to me with a few simple smiles while at the gym.

It's Wednesday! Finally! I have less than two hours until Edward is supposed to be here to pick me up but I'm all ready. I was very lucky because it was pretty sunny in Forks, so the shorts that I chose were perfect. I had taken a shower this morning and I let my hair dry naturally before curling it just a little bit. I had pinned my bangs back and sprayed a little perfume on my neck, and smiled at myself in the mirror. I sat anxiously in my desk chair, turning on the computer, watching youtube, looking at a magazine, reading a book but nothing could keep my mind off of the clock. The time seemed to take forever. When it read 11:30 I swear I almost hyperventilated, but then I quickly calmed down, not wanting to faint and miss my date, no my coffee date as friends.

As soon as the clock read noon, I stood up and walked over to my window, staring out to the street, waiting to see his Volvo. At exactly 12:03, his car drove up and squealed excitedly. I moved away from the window and sat in my desk chair, waiting for the bells on the door to ring to get up, as to not seem to excited. As soon as it did I walked over out of the door, smoothing my shirt before I turned the corner to the store. I saw his eyes widen just a bit when he saw me.

"You look beautiful Bella!"

I blushed a deep crimson as I muttered out a simple thank you.

"Ready?" He asked as he held out his arm. I nodded and shrugged on my light jacket and grabbed my purse from its position leaning on my chair, before linking my arm through his. It felt so … natural. He helped me into his car and shut the door behind me before walking over to his side.

I didn't bother to ask where we were going; I pretty much assumed the local coffee shop. I was correct when he drove into the parking lot and got out to open my door for me.

"Thanks Edward." I spoke and he nodded at me, smiling. We walked into the coffee shop and seated ourselves. Edward pulled out the chair for me and I swooned even more. He was such a gentleman!

"So Bella, how have you been?" He asked as the waitress came over to take our order. He chose just a decaf coffee while I went for a latte.

"I've been great! And you?"

"I've been alright …" He trailed off and I felt like something was wrong. I didn't feel like asking though so we both became quiet.

"How's your foot?" I asked awkwardly, breaking the awkward silence that was so bad I swear to god a gay baby must have been born.

"It's better. Carlisle let me off the crutches and out of the damned boot last night after a check up on it. He x-rayed it and said that everything was healed, and just not to walk for a long time, or run on it for more than a short burst."

"That's good! I still feel so bad about that!"

"Ah, don't. You didn't mean it! It's ok, I swear!" He chuckled, reassuring me, using hand motions to me to emphasize it,"So…how's the store?" He asked.

"Pretty good! I guess …thanks for asking," I looked up and smiled at him.

"And Angela?"

"Oh I think she's good," I looked up at his confused expression.

"You think?"

"Well she's been on bed rest right now so she isn't working and her husband Ben won't let anyone call her or come visit her. He's worrisome." I explained.

"Ah, I see." Edward chuckled.

For the rest of the time we spoke about just random things that were barely important so it was kind of awkward until he brought up a touchy subject.

"So Bella, have you ever thought you were in love with someone but they truly didn't love you back?" Edward asked.

I gasped. "Yeah. As a matter of fact I have. Why?"

"No reason. I was just wondering. You seem like a girl who could have any guy she wanted." He grinned and I laughed out loud. Not every guy.

"Ahhh … not every guy. That is not me, trust me."

"Really? Hmm."

"Yup. Really." We kept talking more and slowly got away from the love topic. That wasn't something I really liked discussing. We talked comfortably for a long time, just random things. I ended up telling him about some things I had never really told anyone else, I just felt so comfortable with him. We talked about funny things, and ne point ended up laughing for a few minutes, until our sides hurt and we couldn't breathe when Edward told me this horrible joke that was so horrible it was hilarious.

We had finished our coffee and muffins as Edward ordered a little later for us. As Edward looked at the time to see that it was almost three; we decided it was time to leave. We got back in his car and drove back to the jewelry store, laughing and going on about things. I heard a good song come on and I turned it up.

"What song is this?" Edward asked loudly, having to raise his voice over the now really loud music.

"You don't know this song?!" My eyes bugged.

"Nope. Sorry!" Edward chuckled loudly.

"It's 867-5309! By Tommy Tutone! You don't know this song?!" Everyone knew this song! I belted out the lyrics, getting quite a laugh from Edward.

Jenny, Jenny


Who can I turn to


You give me something


I can hold on to


I know you'll think


I'm like the others before


Who saw your name and number


On the wall



Jenny, I've got your number


I need to make you mine


Jenny, don't change your number


867-5309


(867-5309)


867-5309


(867-5309)


"I'm sorry Tommy, but I don't know this song." Edward was almost crying now from laughing so hard.

"Crazy. Wait if I'm Tommy then you're Jenny! Ha ha!" I continued singing the song as Edward pulled into the parking lot and I didn't get out until the song ended.

"You have a great singing voice," Edward said, trying not to laugh.

"Thank you!" I smiled.

"Well Bella, I had a good time, thanks for coming."

"I did too."

"We should do this again sometime."

"Yeah, we should!"

"What about same time next week? But this time I think we should just leave together from the gym. It would save a lot of time. And not many people come in that early to buy jewelry anyway right?"

"Yeah! Sure! That would be great! I would love to; I had a really great time today! And just leaving from the gym would be fine! We rarely get anyone in the store that early… so that wouldn't be a problem."

"Alright, awesome! Well I guess I will see you tomorrow at the gym."

"Okay, yeah, well, uh, see you later Edward." As I turned to open the car door, Edward's hand grasped my arm and turned me around. I saw him lean forward and he kissed my cheek, ever so softly.

"See you around Bella."

I jumped out of the car, cheeks burning. The second time in just over a week! He's engaged, how can he do that? Or is he? No. Tanya wouldn't be that stupid as to not say yes to Edward.

I unlocked the store door, and turned around for one last wave to Edward, I smiled my way into the store. Sitting, no more like collapsing happily into my desk chair in my office, the chair spinning a little with my fall. I smiled happily, thinking of my great afternoon. I pushed my chair away from the desk, and kicked the ground making it turn around quickly. I kicked it again, and again, and again until I was spinning very fast, laughing and giggling manically.

"Ahem."

"AGH!" I screamed at the sudden noise of a person coming from the door way of my office. I kicked the ground too hard, from the fright and the chair tipped right over.

I landed, thank god, on the back of the chair. "Oomph! Ow."

I heard snickering from the doorway, and my head snapped around to see who was there.

"Sorry for scaring you." Said the velvety voice mixed with chuckling, from the godly perfect face, of Edward.

"Aw, shit." I mumbled. "Why is it that I am always making a fool of myself in front of you?"

"I don't know. Maybe it's just a lucky coincidence for me, to see you in your most unfortunate but cute moments? Like now. That looked really fun, and your face just showed how much fun you had, until you fell." He said as he grabbed my hand- making my whole arm tingle- and pulled me up from the floor.

"Thanks for helping me up. And thank… You…?" Well that was weird… was he flirting with me?

"Anyway, you forgot your jacket in my car… And I just wanted to return it to you." He handed me my jacket, that I hadn't noticed until he mentioned it.

"Oh. Thank you."

"No problem! Well, I will leave you to your chair spinning." He chuckled, "I'll see you tomorrow at the gym."

"Yeah. See you." I said as he turned around and walked back to the door.

"Bye!" He yelled back at me once more before I heard the bells meaning the door was opening.

I waited until I heard the door shut and then collapsed again into my desk chair, except now it wasn't because I was happy, but that I was mortified.

I spun the chair to face the desk, and screamed as loud as I could for a full minute. "Agh!" I screamed one last time. I slumped forward until my head hit the desk. "Ugh Ugh Ugh!" I muttered loudly, as I banged my head over and over on the desk. Sure was a very lucky coincidence indeed, I thought sarcastically.

You know it was very nice of him to bring you back your jacket now… Ugh! Stop you evil backstabbing thoughts! I can't think of an engaged man like that! But what engaged man flirts like that? And what engaged man would kiss your cheek, and say he had a "good time", after taking you to a coffee date, that lasted three hours, and he said you should do it again sometime. Oh yeah, and didn't you hear him say you were cute like two seconds ago? Stupid, awful, devil, and totally right thoughts, GET OUT! Ok? I know you are right and that is why I am not thinking those thoughts! He is engaged! I can't like, or love him! It's wrong! But still why would he do all those things? It's just so perplexing.

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