A/N: This chapter came a little easier than the last one so I was able to update a litte sooner. Hope the next one comes as quick. I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter Nineteen

Edward's POV*

Bella had warned me that she was a different person when she drunk, she was right. Isabella as I called this side to her,was almost the complete opposite of Bella except that both of them were able to cause me to think very very inappropriate things. And she was extremely funny. Even more than usual.

She wasn't the only one feeling a little tipsy, as my sister was giggling right along with her as we exited the bar around three in the morning. I held on to Bella, trying to get her walk straight. I called a cab while my sister and Bella stood on the side walk hugging each other goodbye. That took about fifteen minutes.

Jasper was helping Alice back home and I was going to make sure my assistant got home safely. The cab arrived and I help her into the car, but not before she hit her head getting in. I couldn't help but chuckle as she bounced back into my arms before she looked up at me with the innocence of a child and said.

"I'm sorwy," I didn't know why she was sorry. She was the one who was going to have a massive headache in the morning. I finally got her in the cab and she told the driver where to go. She began to talk again. I was surprised at how talkative she was when she was toasted. She didn't say much at work not unless she had a question. I listened to her talk about her friends back home. She began to describe her home in Forks, Washington. She said it was green, too green. Too green and wet. She explained that she didn't like the wet or the cold and the that she missed the dry heat of Phoenix, Arizona. She said that before we arrive in front of her apartment. I could tell it was in the middle of Brooklyn. She flung open the door and stumbled unto the side walk before the car had come to a complete stop. My heart took off. I swore, this girl was going to be the death of me. She was so clumsy I felt like if I took my eye off of her for just one minute I was going to lose her to some random stream of events. I pulled out my wallet as she bent over to look back in the door.

"Thanks fora bwring me home." Then she very uncoordinated saluted two fingers as she stumbled as she tried to wave goodbye. "See ya," she turned wobbly and attempted to close the door.

"Oh, no" I called after her. " I'm going to make sure you get inside." I flung a couple of twenties at the driver and scuffled across the seat to the catch the door. She was already pulling open the door that lead into the building when I finally got out of the car. I rushed behind her before the door locked me out, just in time to catch her when she missed the first step and stumbled forward.

"Oops, I missed the swair." She giggled before she looked over at me.

"I thought you left." I could see she struggled with the thought.

"No, I'm going to make sure you get upstairs okay. I got to make sure I have a secretary come Monday," I grinned and helped her climb the next couple of steps. She basically led me to the second floor before we came to two double doors. I let her walk to the door on her own as she scrimmaged in her purse for her keys. She finally found them and got ready to place them in the lock but she dropped them before they had even touched the metal dead bolt. I watched her leaned forward and knew what was coming. She whacked her head against the door, hard, then staggered back to touch the spot that was hurt. She turned and looked at me.

"Ouch," she stated befuddled. I laughed this time. Bella was amazing, I thought to myself before I walked over to the door and picked up her keys.

"How about I get this?" I said before I found the only key that looked like it would fit. I kept an eye on her out of the corner of my eye as I tried to fit the key unto the lock. It didn't fit. I tried and tried again, but still nothing. I turned back to her and saw that she was staring at me. It wasn't a stare that made me uncomfortable. It was like she looking for an answer to a question.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" I asked off the top of my head. She glanced at the apartment number to the side and squinted.

"Does that say 301?" she asked stepping forward, quite off balanced with one foot bare and the shoe in her hand. I glanced behind me at the sign.

"No, this is 201," I replied. She gazed at it for a minute before she moved the stairs.

"Wrong floor," she giggled. It was cute, I thought before I let out a sigh and a smile and followed her. We went one floor up and did the whole process over, not including the head and door collision. I opened the door and let Bella into her own loft.

"Oh thank god. I've got to pee."

She dropped her bag and shoe on a table near the door before heading to the back, which I assumed was her bed room. I laughed to myself as I closed the door behind me.

It was a nice apartment, and it reminded me of it's owner. Quite homey and yet furnished liked it belonged to women in her thirties. If I knew Alice and I did, then I knew that she'd had her way with this place.

I worked my way over to the a large case that held some dishes and a few photos. Bella was in most of them, Alice and Jasper in others. Then two older people in a frame, holding a small baby. I assumed they were her parents. There were other pictures there as well. Pictures of a young Bella seated at the piano, and another with her standing against a long golden bar in a pink tutu and tights. She couldn't have been more than eight and she didn't look happy. I smiled. Bella didn't strike me as a dancer with the fact that she could barely walk across a flat surface without falling over her own feet. I heard a noise behind me and I turned to find her coming out of her room.

"You have no idea how weird it is knowing that you're also my best friends brother." she said before she walked, more stable I noted, to her kitchen. " It's even weirder seeing you standing in my living room. " She slurred. I wonder if I would ever find that not cute.

"You have now idea how much I enjoy seeing you like this," I joked. She opened her fridge and pulled out a bottled water. She hopped up unto her counter and for a moment I wasn't sure that she would make it so I helped her up. I glanced up and she was looking at me again.

"You don't look like Alice," she stated. I folded my arms across my chest and leaned against the counter next to her.

"That's because were aren't blood related." I answered. " We're adopted." I added. She took another sip of water and slid from the counter. She moved passed me to her front door.

"Where are you going?" I asked chasing after her.

"To the roof. I need some air." I followed her up two more flight of stairs before we arrived on the roof. It was dark and the only light came from the city across the river. I found her leaning on the wall staring over the bay. She had an amazing view of the Brooklyn bridge and the city. I settled in next to her, making sure not to touch her though I found myself wanting too.

" This is the best part about living here," she stated as she gazed out over the water. There was a light breeze and I noticed how it lifted her bangs. I didn't respond. I didn't really have anything to say. She turned to me.

"How old were you?" she asked. "When you were adopted."

"I was seven when my parents died. Carlisle, my dad was there when they passed. He was the attending doctor in the hospital at the time and knew that I didn't have anyone else. He took me home that day. It was his wife, Esme's idea to adopt me. She wasn't able to have any kids so she was ready to take me in. Three weeks later they became my legal parents." I had never spoken about my adoption to any one before. Not that it was a sad moment for me but just because I never did. And most people were to afraid to ask. I was sure that if Bella hadn't been drunk that she would have been too. However I was glad that I could speak to her about it, even though she might not remember anything in the morning.

"And when was Alice adopted. And you have another brother, don't you?"

"Yeah, Emmett was next. He came two years after me and Alice a year after that."

"Your parents are amazing people for doing that," she stated and I glanced at her then. She smiled and I couldn't help but return the gesture.

"So you said your dad's a doctor, what does your mom do?" She asked.

"She's an interior designer. She's the one who decorated my penthouse." She gasped and I twisted to look at her. She was gawking at me wide eyed.

" Your mother is that Esme Cullen," she stated like she come to some unknown realization. " My mom loves her. She used one her designs to decorate our house in Florida." I grinned shyly.

"Wow, everyone in your family is famous." I didn't say much about that, though it was true. I just continued to look out over Brooklyn before I asked,

"So what does your dad do?" After there was no answer I glanced over at her and saw her fast asleep against the wall as she slowly slipped to the ground. I caught her just in time.

"I guess it's time to go inside." I annouced to myself as I scooped her into my arms and headed back to her apartment. She was a small girl and she felt so fragile in my arms as I entered her bed room, the only light coming from the street lamp outside her window. I placed her in her bed and removed her jacket that she was still wearing. I placed it at the foot of her bed and turned back to her. She looked so innocent laying there, her light breathing filling the room. I smiled and tucked her under her covers.

"Good night Bella," I leaned forward, not sure of what I was planning on doing, but stopped when she moaned and switched from her back to her side. I chuckled and left her apartment. Bella Swan had to be the most interesting assistant that I had ever had and most possibly the most interesting women I had every met. It wasn't such a mystery to how I'd fallen for her anymore.

*End of Edwards POV*

I wasn't quite sure of why I was dreaming of my last few months in New York, but I was sure it was a dream because the outside of the dream was cloudy. It started the day I had my interview with the publishing company. One thing that didn't make sense then was the Address. How did I receive the wrong address from Kurt? He didn't seem like the type to make a mistake like that.

And also how coincidentally that I would end up working for Alice's brother. Too be such a big place, the city sure was small.

Something dinged in my head at that moment and I sat up, awake. It was light outside.

"She knew,"

I didn't understand how I hadn't seen it before now. Alice had set the whole thing up. Some how she got in contact with Kurt and manipulated so that I would end up at Cullen Corp. I remember the many times the smile that Alice wore as she watch me. The smile she used when she was planning something and everything was going her way. And who could forget that every time Edward was around, she would disappear. I wondered if she knew that I wouldn't have made to her opening before hand. Had it planned. Knowing Alice she did. That's why she'd forgiven me so easily, well not easily but… I couldn't believe this. I had been played with from the beginning, both Edward and I. I was positive that he was in dark as much as I was, well use too be. He probably figured it out when we first meet at the bar.

I stopped what I was doing and the empty mug dropped to the floor as the other hand poured coffee into the now invisible cup.

Oh my god! What happened last night? It was vague, a few memories here and there. I remembered riding back to my place with Edward. I also remembered the feeling of cool air and his voice in the background as my eyes closed slowly. I woke up with a major headache but other than that, it was blank.

I snapped out of if when the hot coffee splashed on my bare feet, after flowing from the counter. I jumped back.

All I could do was pray that I had had enough control to not attack him. Alcohol made me weak towards the opposite sex and I hadn't been with anyone in ages. I closed my eyes for a moment. My sex life or lack of one wasn't important right now. Right now I had to see Alice. Maybe she'd heard something. I cleaned up the coffee as fast as I could and went to get ready, called Alice to meet me for breakfast, well lunch seeing as it was well past one in the afternoon. She wasn't awake yet, but Jasper answered and promised that she would be there.

I was late leaving for and arriving at the small bistro that was near Jasper's studio.

Alice was there when I arrived. She didn't look too good. Her short hair was brushed down and she wore a jogging suit and sun glasses inside.

"Sorry I'm late," I stated taking my seat. My head was pounding in my skull but some how I was able to endure it.

"I knew you would be." She said leaning forward one hand holding her forehead.

I didn't argue. She was some crazy witch lady anyways.

"You had fun last night," It was both a question and a statement.

She nodded. "And I'm paying for it now." She groaned. The waiter joined us then and I ordered.

"And what about you? You left with my brother? What happened?" she tried to smile but it never fully formed. She must be suffering from a handover bigger than even mine. Alice didn't understand that she couldn't drink as much I could simply because she had the body of middle schooler.

"I was hoping you could tell me. I don't remember a thing," I admitted. The fact that I couldn't recall anything made my heart pound. What if… What if something happened last night? What if… How would this change our relationship? And if something did happen, why did he leave without saying anything? Did he regret it…if something happened?

"You don't remember anything," Alice muttered stirring her spoon in her tea as she added way too much sugar. I shook my head.

"Well," She sat back. She really did look like a child in the chair. "Why don't you just ask him." She suggested. I was expecting to see her smile, but was surprised when she didn't. That meant she was serious, she really wanted me to waltz up to my boss who was also her brother and ask him if we'd slept together. Yes, not embarrassing in the least. But since she was of no help to me, I guess I had no choice.

On Monday I would have to ask. Which meant I got to think about it, over and over till then. I remembered then what it was that I really called her here for.

"You knew," I stated staring her down. "About everything,"

She looked up at me and smiled. "About time Bella," She sipped her tea. She was turning back into the little Alice I knew.

"Why? Why didn't you tell me?" I asked. Why hadn't she? It wouldn't have changed much had I known that Edward was her brother and she had set up the whole thing. Well maybe? But still...

"Because where's the fun in that," She grinned. There she was, the Alice that was evil and sneaky. A deadly little thing.

"Beside's my plans are not complete." She added. I didn't understand.

"What do you mean." I questioned. "Can I have another one of these," she pointed to the tea packets just as the waiter happened to be walk by. I knew that she was avoiding my question but I wouldn't let it go. What did she mean her plans weren't complete.

"What plans, Alice." She ignored me.

"Alice," I hissed. She only laughed.

So, what do you think? Please review! And i'm sorry that I posted the same chapter like five times last week. I never recieved an update in my email so I wasn't sure that everyone could tell I had posted. I'll only do it once this time and hope that everyone gets it. But please please let me know what you think because it only gets better from here. And it's going to go pretty fast from here on out so stay tuned...