As Bella bolted through the door of the Forks emergency room, she was scared to death that something horrible happened to her dear friend. She kept imagining walking into Alice's room and finding her attached to all kinds of machines. Bella had to fight back the tears as she entered the room.
Keep calm, don't show her you're upset. She'll be okay Bella said to herself. She just knew it was bad.
That was until she saw Alice.
"Hey Bella, what's shaking?" Alice said as she sat on her hospital bed. A young internist was wrapping her pinky toe in a giant bandage.
"Are you sure you know what you're doing down there sweet cheeks," Alice asked as she tossled his hair. "You're like five. Shouldn't you be home by now getting ready for your day at kindergarten?"
The young doctor glanced up at her and said, "Keep it up and I'll make sure that toe never heals properly and you'll never wear Manolo Blahniks ever again."
Alice gasped and looked at Bella. Bella giggled. She knew that would get Alice to shut up for a moment.
"Some people," Alice said as she rolled her eyes.
Bella sat down in the chair next to the hospital bed. "The way the nurses sounded on the phone made it out to be you were dying. What the hell did you do?"
"I was on a call with one of my clients and she kept going on and on about some girl trying to steal her son. I channeled her late husband and had myself laughing so hard that I knocked my crystal ball onto my foot. I broke my fifth metatarsal."
"Yikes, I'm glad you're okay though. I'm sure I'm here to drive you home, correct?"
Alice nodded. "I don't think I'll be driving anywhere for a while until this heals, correct doc?" The doctor rolled his eyes and finally finished. "You're done. Just stay off it for a while and if there are any problems, come back to see us."
"Can we go now?" Bella asked as she stood. The doctor handed Bella a list things to do for Alice's foot and a prescription for pain killers.
"He gave me the good stuff," Alice said as she winked at Bella. Bella glanced down at the prescription for 800 milligram ibuprofen and laughed.
As Alice hobbled down the hallway of the hospital, Bella kept reading the at home instructions, totally not paying any attention to where she was walking. Unbeknownst to her, the infamous baby doctor was drinking a cup of coffee and walking in her direction. The two of them slammed into one another, coffee covering the both of them again for the second time that week.
"Shit," Bella screamed out. As she glanced up while wiping hot coffee of her chest, she realized the hot baby doctor was standing right in front of her, his scrubs covered in coffee himself. She blushed as he tried to use his bare hands to wipe coffee off her boobs.
Alice stood off to the side, laughing so hard she nearly fell but her crutches caught her.
"Oh my gosh, Just Bella, are you okay?" The unbelievable hot doctor asked.
"I guess so. I think you burned my boobs though," she said, blushing. The baby doctor stared down at her chest and turned a bright shade of red.
"I um, I'm sorry. Let me get you to a nurse," he said stammering over his words. He was embarrassed that he'd gotten caught.
As Alice hobbled behind the odd couple she realized something.
Bella was infatuated with this goof of a baby doctor.
The way she bit the edge of her bottom lip as they walked side by side and they way she tried to walk as close as possible without jumping him in the hallway said it all. From that moment on, Alice was determined to get the two of them together.
Bella rounded the corner and as the great doctor grabbed a wheel chair, she tried to make him understand that a wheelchair was completely unnecessary.
He wouldn't listen.
As he pushed her to the desk at the emergency room, he explained to the charge nurse the situation and she was whisked away to another room. As Edward cut the corner to the room, he took the turn just a little too sharp and tossed Bella out of the wheelchair and onto the floor. Alice, who was having a hard time keeping up found Bella unconscious on the floor and baby doctor freaking out over what he'd done.
"What kind of doctor are you?" Alice asked as she tried her best to wake Bella.
"I'm a pediatrician," he said.
"Figures," Alice said as she poked Bella with her crutches. "Wake up slut, wake up."
"I need to get someone to help her," Edward said as he walked away. Alice bent over and Bella opened one eye.
"Is he gone?" she asked as Edward walked away.
"Yeah, are you okay?"
"No, let's get out of here," Bella said as she stood. She helped Alice hobble as fast as she could to the nearest elevator.
As Edward turned back around the corner, he watched as Just Bella waved from the closing elevator door.
Later on in the lobby of the hospital, Alice had a few burning questions for Bella.
"What the actual fuck was that?" She asked as she sat down in the lobby chair.
Bella plopped down next to her and sighed. "That was Dr. Edward Cullen. He's a baby doctor. And way hot. And out of my league."
Alice laughed. "He's as much of a klutz as you are. What was all that about?"
Bella looked down at her chest and laughed. "It's the second time this week that I've been burned and covered in hot coffee. I met him at work when he came in for coffee and I've been thinking about him non-stop for days."
Alice smiled as she, nodded in agreement, and then she punched the shit out of Bella's arm.
"Why the hell didn't you talk to him?"
Bella grabbed her arm and let out a huge yelp.
"That actually hurt Alice!"
"I know. Now why haven't you talked to him?" She said, balling her fist up again.
"I don't think he's into me. I mean besides. Would you be into me?"
Alice shook her head. "Bella, I told you that was a onetime thing in high school…"
"Not that goofball, I mean what guy would be into me? I can't even hold a steady job. I come home each day smelling like grease and shame."
"I have a sincere feeling that it will all work out okay for you," Alice said, smiling at Bella.
"Alice, don't start that Psychic crap again," Bella said pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Just Bella, can we talk?" a sexy voice said from behind her.
A/N: Hilarity ensues next week...
