A/N: This chapter is being posted rather late today. I'm on the west coast so technically for me it is still within the day. Today has been rather stressful since I just took in my cousin's four kids and they will be staying with me and my husband indefinitely. If you don't already know from my previous stories that means I now have nine kids all under the age of ten. Yeah, I'm still trying to get used to it. We'll see what tomorrow, next week or even next month bring. I will try to keep up on updates and still continue to work on my WIP stories but please understand if I can't update there is probably a very good reason or nine good reasons.

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or the characters. No copyright infringement intended.

"Holy shit!" Alice whispered but as exaggerated as she possibly could make it. "He's hot!"

I shrugged my shoulders trying to act as if I hadn't noticed. "He's alright. He seems a little arrogant."

"How?" she argued.

"I don't know. He just comes off that way."

Alice rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You think you can read people so well but you really can't."

I nodded my head feeling a little down by her comment. "Which is why I can't seem to get my book right," I said changing the subject. "I'm not good with reading other's emotions so I can't write them."

"You'll get it right someday," Alice encouraged.

"Maybe." I'd been working on writing a book for years and it really wasn't coming together like I wanted it to. I'd had a little success in getting short stories published in magazines but the novel I was working on was my real passion. I just didn't think I was ever going to get it finished.

"He seems like a nice guy and he's not from around here. Maybe you should go for him," Alice suggested.

"Are you kidding?" I said. "Why would someone like him want someone like me?"

"That's another part of your problem. You always think you aren't good enough. The correct wording would be why wouldn't a guy like him want someone like you?"

"Are you sure you aren't the one who got hit in the head? You are definitely talking crazy."

Alice rolled her eyes and scoffed at my comment. "You never know, Bella. There has to be someone out there for you and maybe he's the lucky guy. It wouldn't hurt to try."

"You must have forgotten I'm very unlucky in every way possible including love."

Doctor Cullen walked in a couple minutes later with a tray of supplies, thankfully shutting Alice up for the time being. "Angela is busy with another patient so I'll have to handle this on my own," he said placing the tray on a rolling cart and pulling up the stool in front of me.

"I'm going to go down to the vending machine and get something to snack on," Alice announced. My heart jumped at the thought of being left alone with him. I pleaded with my eyes for her to stay. "Bella, do you want anything?"

"No," I said sharply. She smiled and gave me that overly sweet look.

"I'll be back."

Edward busied himself with preparing the tools he would need to clean the wound while I watched him.

"How do you know Carlisle?" I asked, breaking the silence.

He stopped for only a moment and looked up at me. "He's my uncle."

"Really?" I said skeptically. "He's never mentioned you before."

"Do you know every relative of your doctor?" he asked with a smirk on his face. "Don't you think that might be a little personal?"

"In this town you know everyone personally. I've known Carlisle and his wife on a personal level for years. Carlisle is good friends with my dad," I explained. "It just seems odd to me that they've never mentioned having a nephew or even that Doctor Cullen had a brother."

"I'm not surprised. I haven't talked to them or seen them since I was a little kid." His reply seemed odd to me. Why would you not talk to a relative for so long?

"Can I get you to lie down?" he asked. I did as he requested and turned my head towards him so he could get started at cleaning the cut on my head. He put on a pair of gloves and moved the stool to the top of the bed as close to my head as possible.

"I feel weird calling you Doctor Cullen. You aren't my Doctor Cullen," I said while he worked at cleaning out the glass in the cut with a pair of tweezers.

"You can just call me Edward if you want," he offered.

"I can't do that. How about Doctor Edward?" I suggested.

He chuckled and nodded his head. "Whatever works for you."

"What brought you to Forks?" I wondered. "Are you only here for a short time or are you staying permanently?"

"It looks like I'm here for good."

"Why do I get the impression you don't really want to be here for good?" I asked noticing the way he said for good like it was a bad thing.

He chuckled again and leaned back to look in my eyes. "On the contrary, Isabella, I'm actually glad I'm here."

"Bella," I said.

"Excuse me?"

"I don't like being called Isabella. I go by Bella."

"My apologies, Bella."

He went back to working on the cut cleaning out all the glass then giving me a shot of something that made it a little numb and finishing off with a few stitches. Alice conveniently stayed gone the entire time. A few times I heard her laughing out in the hall and was quite certain she was chatting with Angela instead of being the supportive friend to me.

"Alright, you're all done," Edward said standing up and offering me a hand to help me into a sitting position. "I would like you to take it easy for a couple of days. If you have any pain you can take Ibuprofen or Tylenol. If you start to have any swelling around the cut or if you have any unusual pain, please come back in as soon as possible."

"I will. Thank you," I said standing from the bed a little too fast. I got a sudden rush of dizziness and stumbled forward. Edward caught me in his arms and held me up while I tried to regain my balance.

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FWI: As of right now I don't have any plans to do an EPOV in this story but you never know, in the future of this story it is possible.