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APOV

A soul mate is the other part of your soul that was separated from you the moment you died in your previous life, or at least that was what I believe wholeheartedly. One look in the eye and that is all it takes for both souls to recognize that they were once one. The moment my eyes met Jasper's, I knew that he was my soul mate. My entire being hummed with the recognition of my other half. The same thing had happened to Emmet almost a year earlier, although he would never admit just how profound that first encounter had been.

The moment that Edward told me that he had met his soul mate, I knew he meant it. He might have not realized exactly what he was saying that day, but that only added to the sincerity of his words. His entire being knew that he had met his soul mate before his mind had a chance to register that fact, and I believed that he still had not realized what he had told me that day back in Acapulco. It broke my heart to think that he might never see his other half again, and that he was now doomed to live his life without his one true love.

Edward had been keeping to himself ever since we came back from Acapulco. It almost seemed as he was making every effort to avoid us. Unfortunately, we were all in Washington DC, and Baltimore was not that close, so it made it impossible for us to drag him out for at least some fun. He had also refused to talk about what happened in Acapulco and he was concentrating very hard in being the best, and most dedicated attending neurosurgeon in the history of John Hopkins. I needed to figure out a way to help him, this Bella person must be somewhere and I needed to find her, but how?

While Edward kept his distance from us, we had added a new fifth wheel to our group (although I hated that she thought of it that way), Isabella. She had become our best friend. We all loved her sense of humor and liked to poke fun at the shy person that hid within. It was almost too easy to embarrass her even when she tried her hardest to portrait self confidence. She was one of those people that could never lie, and that could never hide anything, and we all found that refreshing.

Isabella had indeed become my project, but no matter how hard I would try to find her someone, she would refuse to go on a single date. After several months of trying to change her mind, I finally gave up and I asked her why. She told me that she had already met who she felt was her soul mate, and that no one would ever measure up to him. Now this sounded a little too familiar, but as much as I wanted to push for details, I felt that this was not the right time, so I decided to file my questions for a later time.

Although I had promised myself that I would give Isabella some space, it had been a year since we met and I could not help being worried that deep inside she was hurting for someone. It pained me to see her keep her guard up every time a guy took the slightest interest in her. I almost felt like she was saving herself for someone. Only if I knew who that someone was.

BPOV

Today was exactly one year since my "make over day", and what a year this had been. I had gained four new friends, I had gained independence, and I had completely gotten over Mike. I had a job that I liked, and things to look forward to every day.

Alice and Rose had become my confidants and we were inseparable. Alice had helped me find the fashionista in me and Rose had helped me find my confidence. Emmet was like a big brother, always ready to protect, and Jasper had become my go to person every time I wanted to have an insightful conversation about different life experiences. Along with Angela and Ben, I truly felt as if I had a new family and I was almost completely happy.

I no longer felt like I was playing dress up with my current wardrobe, I really felt like I had been reborn. I was a new woman. My hair was no longer short, it had grown to half way down my back, and I felt that it completed my look better. I had decided to keep it black because I loved the contrast it made with my brown eyes.

I really loved living in Bethesda too. It was close to the heart of DC, but far enough to allow me for some quiet strolls down the street, as I people watched. My work was definitely keeping me busy, and when I was not working, I was following my group of friends around to some new adventure.

This year had also been the hardest. I was still avoiding Renee due to her action on my wedding day and that was proving to be a difficult task. She had somehow tricked poor Ben in giving her my phone number, and she would leave at least one message in my answering machine every other day. Although I had already patched things up with Charlie, I was not ready to confront my mother just yet. It was not that I could not forgive her, I had already done that, it was the fact that she still thought that Mike and I were meant to be together and that I was wasting my life by not being with him. How could she be so blind?

Mike had no way of contacting me, so it had also been a peaceful year. I was glad that he was completely out of my life and that I had not seen him or Jessica in a long time. I did hear from Angela that Mike blamed Jessica for everything that happened and that he had refused to speak to her ever again. Angela also decided to break all contact with Jessica as she could not bring herself to forgive her for what she had done to me.

Then there was the void in my soul that had only grown deeper as the months trickled by. No matter how hard I tried to forget about Edward, I just could not help the aching feeling I had every moment that I thought of him. I felt truly ridiculous for holding on to someone that I had only met briefly, someone that was definitely not meant to be in my life it seemed. This void was stopping me from being completely happy and I felt that I needed to do one more thing in order for me to be who I wanted to be: I needed to let someone back into my life, I needed to find love.

Mondays were our busiest days of the week. We had to go through all the articles generated from the weekend about movie premiers, fashion shows, and anything to do with celebrities. We also had to look at what was coming the next weekend and make sure that we had enough articles to provide a guide for every Washington DC fashionista of what was going on in the world of fashion.

I made my way to the office after buying two triple Venti lattes from Starbucks - one for me, and one for Alice. She was already in her office and I could already tell this was going to be a long day. "Isabella, my savior!" she exclaimed as I made my way to her. She eagerly grabbed the coffee from my hand and sat down.

"We have a crazy day ahead of us, there is just so much going on, and summer is definitely one of our busiest seasons. Did you know that there are twelve weddings happening this weekend?" she continued to ramble as she started handing me my assignments.

I had come into her office this morning with a mission. I needed to tell her that I was ready to date someone and that I needed her help. I knew if I did not tell her now, I would not get another chance until tomorrow. "Alice," I said trying to get her attention. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" I asked.

"Yes of course. What's going on? Are you ok?" she asked. "Yes, I just need your help with something," I said as I felt a wave of panic hit me. What if she went overboard with this? What was I getting myself into?

I told her that I finally felt ready to start dating again. At first she seemed a little shocked, but then started to jump around her office in excitement, and I truly regretted giving her so much caffeine this morning. "Isabella that is excellent! We need to go to the mall, and I need to figure out where we should take you… Rose and I will definitely help you find someone, and then we can all go out as a group, and maybe we could plan our wedding together…."

"Alice, STOP IT!! You are going too fast, I just want to meet someone, not get married and have 3 kids by the time Thanksgiving rolls around." I told her as I could feel the blush on my face. "I am sorry Isabella, I am just so excited. I have been waiting for you to say that for a whole year," she said sheepishly. I could not help but immediately forgive her for her outburst as she made her way to where I was standing and hugged me.

We spent a good twenty minutes discussing my new "man hunting" strategy. We made plans to go to the mall, and we were going to be discussing the rest of the plan later with Rosalie at our favorite hangout spot in Bethesda, Austin Grill. In true Alice fashion, she already had a list of potential candidates and I could not help my excitement as she proceeded to discuss the prospects with me.

EPOV

It had been exactly four hundred and seven days since the day I met the woman that had moved my heart. At first I was so frustrated by the fact that I did not have a single clue of where to find this woman, that the simple thought of never seeing her again, would shoot daggers into my heart. What if she forgave her husband and was now happily married? I was such an idiot.

Fortunately, time seem to be passing by at an incredible speed these days and I kept myself as busy as possible trying to avoid any free time, so that I would not have to think about her. I was starting to resent her and to resent myself for going into that trip, for meeting this mystery woman, and for not having the guts of stopping her before she left.

Alice and the rest of my family had tried to no avail to invite me down to Washington DC, but I knew that probably meant another blind date, or a shopping trip, or clubbing, and I was definitely not up for any of that. I was very glad that I lived in Baltimore and I was not too close to them as at this moment that I could not even tolerate myself.

I did meet some new friends and we would hang out any time we had some time off from the hospital. I met Angela as she made her surgery rotation at the hospital and she introduced me to her husband, Ben. I also met Tanya, one of the nurses on the surgery department, and the four of us had become fairly close. I could tell that Tanya wanted more than to just be my friend, and don't get me wrong she was very attractive, but I had made it clear that I was not interested in dating anyone. She would always end that conversation with "I can wait for you Eddie boy!" Gah, I hated that stupid nick name.

Lately though, Tanya had really stepped up her game. She always managed to be in my surgeries, and she even managed to have a similar schedule than mine. The woman must have good connections at the hospital. Last night, I found her naked in the doctor's lounge area waiting for me.

"Hello Eddie, do you fancy something in here?" she purred as she stood up from one of the couches. "Tanya, please put some clothes on, we are at the hospital and you know we could both get fired if someone were to walk through that door" I told her, trying my hardest not to sound like I was being rude.

"Eddie, don't be like that!" she scolded. "We could just lock the door. Please don't deny that you are attracted to me too."

"Please stop, this is really not the time or the place for this," I told her. I looked frantically around the room to see if I could spot her clothes but I could not find anything. This woman was crazy and damn she was hot, but never as hot as my Angel. Shit! I really need to get her out of my head… maybe Tanya could help me… hmm.

"Eddie, I will be a good girl and put all of my clothes on if you promise me that you will take me out on a date tomorrow." Damn she was sneaky. However, this is what I needed, someone to take off my mind from that woman I met in Acapulco. "Alright, it's a date then," I said suddenly hoping I wouldn't regret this. Tanya jumped in excitement, what a freaking sight, and ran toward me planting a kiss on my lips. "I'll see you tomorrow then, hunk," she purred as she winked her eye and me and turned around to get dressed.

So I was going out on a date with Tanya. This was my chance to maybe start something new in my life, a chance to forget the impossible. I wonder what Alice would think of that. Perhaps I should call her and tell her the news, but perhaps I should wait and see if we go pass the first date, she could turn out to be a total psycho.

The date with Tanya went well. We definitely had a lot of things in common and there were no awkward moments at least during our meal. I decided to take her to the Cheese Cake Factory at the Harbor place, and she seemed a little disappointed at the lack of privacy. After we finished out dinner, she decided that we should sleep together because apparently I was exuding so much sexual tension that she felt that I would explode into a million little pieces.

We went to her apartment and we had quite the night, she was definitely good in bed and I was not complaining, but I was a little freaked out. Tanya had started to make plans for me to meet her sisters, her parents had died when she was young, and she wanted to meet my parents, and she had all these plans. She was definitely eager to be with me. Did I want to be with her?

As much as I tried to have a good time, every time I kissed Tanya, I would imagine that I was kissing my angel. I would imagine that she was the one in my arms and that I was making love to her. Tanya was so immersed in her own thoughts that she did not notice when I mumbled "Bella," as I spilled into Tanya.

If only I had the smallest of hopes of ever finding her again, but since that was not possible, I decided to go along with Tanya, maybe along the way I would feel something for her, and she was a nice person, maybe I could fall in love with her.

Mike POV

Bella, Bella, Bella… MY BELLA. It was amazing how oblivious she was to the fact that I had been following her home every night for the last 3 months. I had to hire a private investigator to find her, but it had not been hard at all. Did she really think she would get rid of me so easily? Fool!

For a year I have been planning my revenge. Bella had made a fool out of me on our wedding day, the day that was supposed to make me the envy of every single man in the planet, and she had ruined it all. Bitch! She would pay, and I was patiently waiting for the moment when she would have to surrender to me and finally give me what she denied me off all these years.

I would follow her every single time, as she took her last train connection from China Town and made her way to Bethesda on the Red line of the Metro. I would always seat a few rows behind, always keeping an eye on her.

She had changed. She now dressed like a freaking whore, and I could not wait for my turn at her pussy, she was going to be mine in all the sense of the word, and then she would beg me to marry her once again; but this time I would not do such thing. I had other plans for my Bella. I let Jessica off the hook easily… she barely felt any pain.

It was just the rehearsal for Bella, she deserved more and here I was ready to service her.