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Chapter 6:

The next day Tony and I are were headed over to Alice's shop to hang out for a bit. My Dad offered to watch him for a bit because he didn't need to go to work until later in the afternoon but I also wanted to give my Dad a little break. He has really been helping me out with Tony and I don't want to take advantage of that. I brought a bag along with different activities for Tony. I promised him we would go to the diner for lunch after our visit and if he was real good we could split a milk shake. That's really all that it takes to get him to behave like the little angel that he is.

Walking into Alice's shop Tony took off right for the back room. He really has warmed up to everyone. It helps to remind me that I did the right thing in moving us here.

"Hi Alice. I brought a whole bag of toys to play with today."

"That's great Tony, but before you can play you need to do something." Alice has never looked so serious before.

"What do I need to do?" I could tell he was a little nervous about what she was going to say. If I was being honest I was a little nervous too.

"You have to give me a Hello Hug of course." Her face instantly changed into a huge smile. Tony laughed and ran right up to her. I could tell he was giving her one of his famous Tony Squeeze hugs.

"There, now that's better. You can play with all your toys now." Alice said as he went to dump out his bag.

I decided to have a little fun with Alice as she went to sit down on the couch.

"Hey, where's my hug Alice?" Tony was laughing so hard at this and I just gave Alice my most serious Mom Face. She giggled and stood up so I could wrap her in a hug as well.

"You seem to be in a good mode this morning." Alice said as we sat down on the couch.

"Yeah, I guess I am. I had a great night sleep after my bath last night and it's another sunny day in Forks. You can't go wrong with that." I told her.

"We are having one of the best summers on record. It's as if you brought the sun with you from Arizona."

"Too bad I didn't bring the really hot temperatures too. I'm so use to it being so hot that you really can't spend more than 20 minutes outside at a time."

"What are you talking about 72 is a heat wave for around here." Alice said laughing.

"That is true."

"So, are you still excited about Saturday? You are going to back out now that you know it's a date are you?"

"I'm not going to back out. I guess I just didn't realize he was actually asking me out. I thought he was just being nice to Tony because we're friends with most of his family."

"I'm sure that's why he was nice to begin with, but I'm betting he invited you guys over because he likes you."

"I doubt that. Have you seen your brother? He's a walking god. What would he want with me? I'm sure he could have any girl he wanted."

"True. Even if he is my brother I can admit that he looks good. He could also get any girl he wants. He just doesn't want any of those other girls. I'm not kidding you; he has never taken an interest with girls before. Tanya even suspects he's gay because he wouldn't touch her with a 10 foot pool."

"That's the tart that works at the garage?" That had Alice laughing again.

"That's probably the nicest name I've ever heard of for her before. As Tony is on the other side of the room, I'll stick with that name and not the other colorful names she has. I still don't know why Rose and Edward keep her there. All she does is flirt with Edward nonstop."

"That's got to be very annoying." I can't even imagine what that would be like.

"I asked him once and he said it helps to keep him in the shop busy. He knows if he has any down time she will come out and start to bug him so he just stays as busy as he can."

"I guess that would work. It's one way to stay motivated."

"That is true. So, do you want to talk about your ex and why he sent you his car?"

"I think he did it just to mess with me really. To remind me that he can still get to me even if not in person. I never told him where I was going so it's a way for him to make sure I know he is keeping tabs on me and knows where I am. I can't' stand that car. It was his pride and joy. It meant more to him than I and Tony put together. There's no way I can keep that thing around. I really don't want Tony to see it either. I told Edward that I didn't care what he did to the car as long as it was never seen again."

"He really sounds like a piece of work." Alice said softly as she was rubbing soothing circles on my arm.

"He is. I know he can't physically get to me and that's good. I'm just worried about what he's going to try to do mentally. Not just what he can do to me but also what he can do to Tony."

"I can't imagine what it must be like or what you are going through. That is partly because you haven't shared very much, and that is ok. You will tell me what you are comfortable with when you are ready and I'm ok with that. Just know that you have a HUGE support system here in this town. We will all make sure nothing can happen to you and if for some reason something does happen, we will all be here to help get you through it. You can count on us."

"Thanks Alice. It means a lot to me to hear that from not just my Dad, but from a friend too."

We spent the next hour just hanging out. We didn't talk about anything else that was very serious. We really had a great time. Tony had a blast playing with his toys all over the store.

"Alice I'm sorry if this is out of line, but how are you able to stay in business. Every time I've been here I've never seen a customer come in." I know it was probably pretty rude of me to ask, but it's really been making me nervous that I was going to have no customers once I opened my store up.

"Oh, I get a few customers here and there. Mostly they come in on the weekends and in the evenings. Summers are my slowest time as most of my customers are the high school girls. They just don't shop much during the summer as there is no one to impress until they have to go to school every day. I've also got a web site and that's where most of my income comes from. I actually have people buying these closes all over the world. I'm pretty picky about the clothes that I carry and I have a few exclusive rights with some designers so if you want the clothes you can only get them through me. I could probably close the shop down and just do the online store, but I like having something to do and somewhere to go each day."

"That's amazing. I'm glad you like having this shop or else I might not have met you." I said as I was picking up the rest of Tony's toys.

"Oh I'm sure we would have met some other way then. You fit with us Bella. You are meant to be our friend."

"Thanks Alice. It sure does feel that way."

With that we said our goodbyes and headed over to the diner.

"Do I get to have a milk shake Mommy?" Tony asked as we were pulling into the parking lot of the diner.

"Sure do. You were great when we were at Alice's."

"YEAH!"

There weren't very many people in the diner yet although I'm sure we were just before the big lunch time rush. I let Tony pick where we were going to sit and he picked a booth right by the front window so we could watch the cars on the street drive by.

"Hi, my name is Jessica and I'll be your waitress today." The woman put a menu in front of both Tony and me. "Is there a drink I can get started for you?"

"I'll just take a coke and he will have milk."

"I'll go get those started for you."

"Thanks." Then she walked off. I started to look through the kids menu so I could get that figured out for Tony right away.

"They've got grilled cheese. Would you like that?"

"Yeah."

"Ok, now you can have French fries, apple slices, or carrots with ranch. Which would you like?"

"Carrots with ranch. Don't forget the milkshake either Mom."

"Don't worry, after we eat our lunch I'll order the milkshake."

A few minutes later the waitress came back with our drinks.

"Do you know what you would like?"

"Sure do. He will have the grilled cheese sandwich with carrots and ranch, and I'll take just a cheese burger with fries."

"That sounds good. I'll put that in for you. Say, didn't I see you go into the empty shop that's down on Main Street the other day?"

"Oh, um yeah you probably did. I'm going to be putting in a coffee shop there. I've recently moved into town."

"That's so cool. We could use a good coffee shop around here. What's your husband do?"

I glanced over to Tony and was very glad to see he was too busy coloring to notice the nosy waitress and what she was asking.

"Actually I don't have a husband."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Well as you are new here let me give you some friendly advice. There are a few guys around here that you just need to stay away from."

"Um, ok." Was this woman for real? I didn't know her and she was going to start going on about the town gossip to me.

"There really are only two guys who you have to stay away from. Both are single now, but that doesn't mean anything. Mike Newton is one of them and he runs the sporting goods store in town and Edward Cullen…" Before she could finish Tony decided it was time to start listening.

"Is that my Edward Mom?" I actually choked on the spit what was in my mouth. I started coughing and tried to drink some of my coke to help but it didn't seem to do much good. What is he talking about his Edward? Before I could control my coughing though Jessica decided to ask what I was thinking.

"What do you mean your Edward?"

"He's my friend we have a lunch date with him too. That's what Alice said."

"Alice Whitlock you mean?"

"Um, I don't know. How many Alice's are there that you know?" Oh my gosh, who is this child. When did he get such a back bone? It was just two months ago he wouldn't even talk to a stranger and here he is talking back to one. I wasn't about to stop him either but it was a bit shocking to see how far he has come.

"Well. I've never been spoken to like that from a child before." Jessica was staring at me as if I was going to have him apologize. I probably should but she was really getting on my nerves. I'll be the bigger person and apologize for him. I'm not about to have him do it.

"Sorry about that." Yep, that's good enough of an apology.

"So you really have a date with Edward Cullen?"

"Yep."

"Well you must be mistaken. There is no way he asked you on a date. Besides, you've got a kid." I could not believe it. Who does she think she is, before I could say anything though I heard a loud deep voice from the door?

"He's a great kid too Jessica. What's it to you anyways? Just because you can't find someone who's willing to be seen with you out in public doesn't mean no one else can date."

I looked up to see Emmett and another guy walking right to us. I also notice the few other people in the diner had all stopped what they were doing and were watching what was going on.

"Hi Emmett, Peter I didn't see you guys come in. Would you like me to find you a table to sit at?"

"Nope, here's fine. Do you mind Bella?" Emmett asked.

"Not at all, please sit one down."

"Great. Hey Tony this is Jasper's brother Peter, can he sit with you?" Emmett asked walking over to his side of the table. Shoot maybe I should have thought this through before saying they could sit with us.

"You are Jaspers brother?" Tony asked Peter.

"Sure am."

"Ok you want to see what I'm coloring?"

"Sure do."

"Wow Peter, you're a man of many words aren't you?" Emmett said as he was sitting down on my side.

"Oh Jessica, I think we will take two more cheeseburgers and fries over here." Peter said trying to dismiss her. "See, I can say a lot of words."

Emmett and I just laughed at that. Tony showed Peter and Emmett what he was working on and they both were talking about what else he could add to the picture. I started to feel like I was interrupting them just by being here. After a few more minutes our food showed up. It was funny to me how Jessica didn't even say anything as she dropped off our food.

"So Bella, I hear you've got big plans for Saturday."

"Gosh, are you guys on some sort of phone tree or something. Does everyone know?"

"Know what?" Peter asked

"She and Tony have a lunch date with Eddie boy on Saturday."

"Well that's only because she hadn't met me yet Emmett. Why would she want to settle for Eddie boy when she could have me?" Then he winked at me. Oh my gosh. I know I am just about as red at the ketchup bottle on the table.

"Oh please, you really think you're hot stuff don't you Peter?" Emmett said with a huge mouthful of food.

"I know I'm hot stuff. Don't you think so Bella?" He actually winked again. I think I might actually die of embarrassment.

"Please Peter. She's just going to say you are cuz she's a decent human being whose not going to want to hurt your feelings. There's no competition between you and Eddie."

"Wow Emmett, I never knew you spent so much time checking us out. Should I be a little worried about you?" With that Emmett just started laughing. I still have not moved. Sure Peter was good looking. He had this rugged look to him. You could just see him working all day out in the hot sun. Sweat dripping from him. Then he'd need to pull his shirt off just to get some relief and his stomach would be there for all to see.

"Bella?"

"Huh, what?"

"Where did you go? All of a sudden your eyes glazed over and you got this big smile on your face." Emmett said while lightly shaking me.

"Oh, um, well, what?"

"Ha ha ha. You were trying to figure out which was hotter weren't you?" Emmett asked.

"I told you Emmett she doesn't need to try to figure it out. It's obviously me." Peter added.

"Whatever Peter, you just keep telling yourself that." Emmett said. I really needed to try to change the subject or I was never going to be able to eat my lunch.

"How are the plans for the shop going Emmett?" Hopefully we could talk about the shop from this point on.

"Oh, they are so good. I think I've got the last one done up. I just need you to ok it and then we can start working on it. I've got time on the books so we should be able to get it done in about 2 weeks."

"That's great news. I can't wait to see it all done."

After that lunch was pretty uneventful. Emmett was so excited that Tony was getting a milkshake because he said it gave him an excuse to get one. Peter continued to try to flirt with me, but I think it was more to get Emmett going than anything else. Peter seemed like another great guy. Jessica left us alone for the rest of the time we were there which was a blessing. I'm so glad Emmett and Peter showed up when they did. I just don't know how much more I could handle of Jessica on my own. Now I just need to try to spend the next few days not freaking out about Saturday.

A/N: Please for reading.