A/N: Finally I have time to update. Sorry it took so long however I'm happy that I could get it up before I go on vacation next week. I really hope you guys like this chapter. I did.

Chapter Thirty-Two

APOV

Not many things excited me like the notion of a well-thought out plan turning out perfectly. And since I'd met Bella and realized that Edward and her belonged together I knew that tonight would be the start of their long and happy lives together. And no day was better than tonight, New Year's Eve to confess ones love for their boss or assistant even. I'd leave that up to them, who would be the first to admit their feelings to the other. Really who would be able to resist the other with great music, friendly atmosphere and a few shots of liquor? Oh and a traditional midnight kiss.

I only had a few more things to prepare and what was best was that neither my idiot of a brother nor my sometimes absent minded best friend knew about any of it. I was sure that they both believed that everything till now had been coincidence or even fate.

They were wrong.

My amazing gift and I were the only fate they had. Bella and Edward would have never even met if I had walked away from Bella that fateful day in the Coffee house. And Bella most definitely wouldn't have the job that she had if it wasn't for me and perhaps a little luck when Edwards' old assistant suddenly moved to Florida. I did feel bad quite often that it wasn't exactly the job that she'd wanted but hey, I wasn't Burger King. I can't always make it her way.

However, don't make any mistake about it, tonight I was going to make Edward and Bella's dream come true.

BPOV

"Are you sure about this?" I asked seated behind his desk waiting for the computer to boot. "I mean, isn't this some sort of privacy invasion." My hands were shaking and it had grown equator hot the moment I'd stepped into his office.

"For the last time Bella, relax." He laughed. "It's not like I'm asking you to hack into the pentagon. I just need you to email me a file, a file that I can't access from home." When he said it like that I felt silly making such a huge deal about this. I took a deep breath and shifted my cell phone from my right shoulder to my left.

There was a short beep from the computer letting me know that it was ready just as the login screen loaded.

"Okay it's asking for your password." I stated placing both hand on the black keyboard.

"Edward,"

"Huh," I asked confused not sure if I had misheard him.

He laughed briefly and for a moment I'd forgotten why I was here. "I'm sorry, my passwords EDWARD, all caps."

I began to type the letters to his name then stopped before I could add the A and burst into laughter.

"What's so funny?" He asked. I couldn't stop laughing to answer him but it surprised me that he even had to ask.

"Bella?" He probed.

I tried to control myself by cupping my mouth with my hand to muffle the chuckle slipping through my lips.

"I'm sorry," I voiced still shaking. "But don't you think that your password is a little weak. I mean isn't your name the first thing that a hacker would try." I continued to giggle at my boss.

He was silent for a moment and I almost believed he was going to scold me, after all I'd come here to complete a task not laugh shamelessly in his face by his lack of password creativity. It was this thought that sobered me just in time to hear his whisper come through the phone.

"I know that it's not the best but it's the only one I can remember so." I noted how boyish he sounded and it made realize that he could be cute too.

Cute. A word I would have never used to describe Edward. I comprehended then that he'd again shown me a different side to him.

I smiled to myself and without another word I finished typing in his name and pressed enter. The screen immediately switched to his desktop. It had a million little icons and a large photo in the background; it was a picture of a little boy and slightly younger looking girl hugging in a pool. They were smiling up at the person holding the camera and they didn't look any older than nine or ten.

My first thought was that the black haired child looked rather familiar before my eyes widen with understanding. The little girl was Alice. The pixie faced girl mirrored Alice right down to her big round eyes and bright smile. The only difference was that Alice's hair was longer then, it reached way past her waist and tumbled over her small- well smaller shoulders. Another little snicker slipped out when I thought about Alice now.

"What's funny now?" He let out a breath.

"Sorry, I was just looking at the picture of Alice," I voiced.

"Oh, I keep forgetting to change that but she switches it back every time so it's really pointless." Yeah, I could see her doing that. My eyes then flickered to a small boy.

"And is that Emmett next to her. He was so cute. Look at those cheeks." I grinned trying picture the little boy in front of me as the large Texas Cowboy he was today.

"Actually that me," Edward corrected quietly.

My face flushed with embarrassment but my jaw dropped open with surprise.

This adorable child with huge green eyes and a small right cheek dimple was Edward.

"Really?" I stuttered.

"Is it so hard to believe that I was once a child?"

"That's not what I mea-"

"I know, just teasing." He laughed and I sighed. I stared at the photo a little more and began to notice the resemblance. The more I thought about it was actually easy to picture the little boy as Edward today. I blinked a couple of times when I realized that I had gone off into my own world.

"Sorry," my face turned hot. "I'm getting off track."

I heard him chuckle before steering me through his desktop of icons. "So what you're looking for is a file labeled IDS-1050."

I navigated through his computer led by his precise instructions and eventually found what we were looking for.

"Found it," I beamed opening the link. After a second an excel spread sheet popped open.

"Now right click on the chart and email to me."

I voiced my understanding and went to work.

"Okay," I stated just as I clicked the send button, almost immediately confirmation that the email had been sent popped up on the screen.

"Thanks Bella, I owe you one." I smiled despite myself. I wanted to say, "Damn right," but I refrained myself with a smile.

"It's no problem. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"Not at the moment. You are a life saver, you know that."

"I have been known to save a few lives," I laughed then caught myself. What was I doing?

Flirting?

I should stop.

It was weird.

I was weird.

I had never been good at it. I closed my eyes horrified at what Edward was thinking of me at this very moment. I suddenly wanted to crawl under a rock.

"Well if there isn't anything else then," I tried to rush him off.

"Uh wait. I was wondering, am I going to see you tonight?"

I had to think for a moment unaware of what he was going on about but then I caught on.

Still wanting to run and hide I answered."Do you honestly think that Alice would let me miss her party?"

I sighed. Alice probably already had it all planned out for me, my hair, my dress.

"I guess I should have known." He joined in on my chuckle. "But let me know if she becomes too much for you. I've learned that it's easier to take Alice in segments."

Again I laughed unintentionally, "I'll keep that in mind, but it would have been nice to know that earlier. Still thanks for the advice."

"Anytime. I'll see you later Isabella." My jaw dropped open and all I could hear before the phone went dead was the laughter coming from my boss. Had I heard him right?

I was frozen in his chair unable to come to the fact that Edward had just called me by my full name. The very name I despised more than anything in the world. And Edward was more than aware of how I felt about my name.

Regaining my compose I sighed. I could almost see him laughing, quiet and smugly to himself just this second and before I notice I was smiling too. It turned immediately to a frown when I caught myself. He'd pay for that, I thought as I processed to shut down his computer. Surprisingly I was looking forward to when he would.

*Earlier that day*

Still BPOV

In less than 24 hours it was going to be a new year. And I was hoping for new me as well. I'd been thinking a lot the last few days about my not so new life here in New York and how happy I was now. The beginning had been rough, the endless nights of ramen, the dead end job searches, the loneness I felt from leaving behind every friend I knew.

But it was different now, a complete 180. I had a great circle of friends here, a great job and boss. I was finally okay with the fact that it wasn't totally what I hadn't wanted to do but honestly I couldn't see myself doing anything else. Truthfully I just couldn't see me working for anyone else. But with the New Year approaching there was something that I was hoping for the most.

I wanted more than anything to tell Edward how I felt, at least move a little closer to finally making him mine. I wanted to enter the year with the confidence that only Edward gave to me every time his eyes met mine. And even though the thought of tonight made me nervous I had made up my mind, and I was happy about that. There was no self-doubt, no hesitation. Finally, Alice stated when I told her about my plans. Yet she wasn't the only one who felt that way. I had been waiting patiently for me to get to this point.

I smiled to myself as I took the pot from the stand and poured myself a cup of coffee. I added hazelnut creamer and five packets of sugar and walked across the room to the open window. It was freezing outside, but the sun was out and it was gorgeous. I sipped the hot liquid and it immediately warmed me.

I loved this city. Now at least. I loved the sound of honking traffic, the yellow sea of cabs during rush hour and even the sound of hordes of people heading in and out of the subway.

The sudden ring on the phone made me twitch. I gasped when the hot coffee splashed up and burned my hand. I rushed the phone as I blew at my burns in the hopes of cooling it.

"Hello," I breathed still tense from the pain in my right hand.

"Bella!"

I was surprised to hear my mother's voice on the other line.

"Mom,"

"Morning sweetheart. Why are you up so earlier?" She asked. I wanted to tell her that 9:36 wasn't really that early. I wasn't going to mention I'd been up for some time though.

"I could be asking you the same question." I took phone with me into the kitchen where I washed my hands under warm water.

"Well you know I'm not really sure." She laughed. It was good to hear her familiar laugh. I hadn't spoken with her since I had been home for Christmas.

She called to tell me that my cousin Rita was pregnant. We talked briefly about that and she left me with her number and a command to call and congratulate my cousin. I promised that I would and I did.

I sighed when I finally hung up the phone with Rita and I hadn't even placed the phone properly back in the stand when it rang again. Again I jumped and thank fully I had finished the coffee while on the phone with my mother.

This time it was Angela. She wanted to meet up for lunch. I glanced at the clock on my stove. It read 11:26. I hadn't even realized that I had been on the phone that long. Just then my stomach made a growling noise stating that Angela's invitation was just in time.

I met Angela and Kate at the restaurant located in a highend hotel. Kate and Angela had hit it off wonderfully the first time they had been introduced.

"There she is," I heard Kate say when she spotted me come in. They waved me over.

"Sorry I'm late. Traffic," I stated taking the empty seat across from the two women.

"Don't worry about it. We only just got here." Kate stated. I glanced around. The restaurant was on the nicer side of town and I had never been. Pretty sure neither had Kate.

"Wow, this place is nice." I voiced. Waiter in black floated around tending to every guest.

"Yeah, Tyler and I came here the other day and I really wanted you guys to try it out." Angela spoke, her voice soft as always.

"Tyler, huh?" I winked at Kate. Angela's face turned red.

"How long has it been?" Kate asked nudging her friend in the shoulder.

"It'll be a month in January." She blushed trying to use the large menu to hide her face. She was so shy about it but it was so cute.

"So I'm really excited about tonight," Kate said taking a sip of her water. Oh right, tonight was Alice's party. Only Alice could pull this off and I had to admit I was excited about it as well. She wouldn't let us help her, stating that she wanted it to be a surprise, which only made us even more eager.

"Me too." Angie announced just as the waiter came to our table. I focused on the menu for the first time since I sat down.

In the middle of Kate telling us about this guy at that comes every Morning to her job my phone buzzed in my purse.

"Did you invite him out tonight," Angela asked as I fumbled in my purse for my phone.

I glanced at it and saw who it was. We'd been talking more and more recently that it wasn't strange anymore seeing his name pop up on my screen. But it still made my heart beat a little faster.

"Hello," I answered.

"Afternoon Bella,"

"Hey Edward," I smiled unconsciously. I just could control myself when I heard his voice.

"Edward," I saw Kate mutter to Angela then glance back at me suspiciously. I rolled my eyes at them and got up from the table.

He must have heard them. "I'm sorry, are you in the middle of something?"

"Not really, just having lunch with some friends." I walked towards the bathroom. The place was packed so I wanted to go somewhere a little quieter.

"I'm really sorry to bother you but I have a huge favor to ask of you. Normally I wouldn't even think to bother you with this but I just can't do this myself. Can you help me?"

"Sure," I voiced quite happy that I could be of use to him for a change.

"What do you need?"

Short I know. I really hope that you guys noted to progression of Edward and Bella's relationship. It actually seems like thing are going to move instead being stuck like it has been. Still not sure which way going to go, but I assure you it will be great. Please read and review. Thanks for all your support!