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*BPOV*

I heard the familiar voice stop talking for a moment and when it started again, it was by saying my name. "Bella?!"

A flood of emotions came over me; I wanted to crawl into a hole. Anything to not have anyone else see what I had so carefully hidden for so long. Charlie had an idea based on what I had told him, but he had not actually seen the scars. Why did this have to happen? Why here, now? I braced myself for impact.

The curtain furled around Sue and I as a small pixie like woman yelled my name out loud in disbelief. "BELLA SWAN! Oh my goooood! What are you doing here?!" The pixie attacked me wrapping me in a tight hug. I hugged her back, and as I did I turned us both so that my back was to the solid wall and not the mirror anymore. I could see the hurt in Sue's eyes, I could imagine the shortened version that Charlie had given her.

"Hey Alice," I squeezed her back, wincing a bit. "How are you? What are you doing here? Why don't I get dressed and then we can catch up with each other?" I tried to get it out as quick as I could, remembering how Alice could monopolize a conversation if you weren't as quick as her some times.

"I should be asking you those questions, and you better believe it. I will let Rose know you are here, and we're going for coffee! And I am not taking no for an answer!" Alice was already bouncing away from the dressing room as she spoke. "I see you out front, oh and anything you like is yours. A welcome home gift from Rose and me!"

I looked at Sue after I pulled my shirt back over my head, "Um, so I guess you want to talk about…" I didn't get to finish before you raised her hand to me. "When you are ready Bella, I will be here for you. I will not pry, it isn't my business. But I will always be here for you."

Sue and I headed back towards the front of the store, and behind the counter where the register was stood Alice in all her pixie like glory tinkering with her phone and Rose who was still the most beautiful creature to grace the town of Forks. They smiled at me when I approached the register. I had decided on a couple of the items I had brought with me to the dressing room. "Put your wallet away, I refuse to take any money from you!" Rose said as she came around the counter to hug me. Though, we had been friends in school, Rose and I were never as close as she and Alice were, or Alice and I. But when Rose embraced me for the hug, it was as if she could read me and my stance.

"Actually I was treating Bella; she is getting a fresh start here. We have a few other errands to run while Charlie is unpacking her and babysitting the little ones at the house. Maybe you three should meet up after supper." Sue said to Alice as she opened her purse. Alice smiled at her and replied in a manner that could make anyone do what she wanted. "Sue, I will not take your money. We have never gotten to take Bella shopping. So Rose and I will treat her this time, and I think we will take a look at what else we have. I mean really Bella; we have got to work on your style." She gave a scrutinizing look at the items on the counter.

I wrote down my address for Alice before we left. And the two of them promised to see me later. As I waved good bye my heart was heavy. Part of me was excited about seeing the two of them, knowing that they were still in town and that created the hope that Edward might still be in town. Then there was the little voice that wanted to squash that hope, because if he was still here he was sure to have married someone by now. It was such a long time. But the hope was there, and I am sure that Alice would fill me in when I saw her again.

*APOV*

I can't believe that Bella is back, oh man wait until I tell Edward! I ran from the dressing room find Rose working in the office at the computer. "Guess who is in the dressing room as we speak?" I asked her as I burst through the door.

"Some amazingly fake celebrity who is doing a movie in Seattle or up in Vancouver?" Rose was unimpressed with some of the clients we had, our shop started out small and expanded to online sales and because of one actress coming into town to get away from her set while filming up in Vancouver word about us spread like wildfire. Sometimes it seemed like that was all we got, actors or actresses that came in talking about how it was nice to shop where people didn't know who they were. Rose informed some of them that she did know who they were, she just didn't feel their skill on the movie screen was all that great and so she wasn't going to bother making a big deal out of them being in the shop. "I don't make a big deal about the town's chief of medicine's wife coming in here, why should I make a big deal about you?" Rose always made it sound like Esme was someone of great importance, when she was really, well just our mom. But someone like Angelina didn't know that. The next thing we knew we were listed in a Vanity Fair article about how she "could shop there and be treated like anyone else who might walk in, even the wife of the chief of medicine". Rose and I laughed when the magazine arrived signed and wishing us the best.

"No, come on take a serious guess. Oh never mind you will never guess. Bella's here. She is in our dressing room trying on clothes as we speak. I think she is here with Sue Clearwater. Hey isn't her dad dating Sue?" I was getting annoyed that Rose wasn't listening to me. And then all of a sudden her eyes widened.

"Wait a minute; did you just say that Bella is here?" Rose jumped out of the chair and was ready to head to the dressing room. I grabbed her arm and dragged her back in the office. "She'll be out in a minute, before you go attacking her in the dressing room like I did. I mean really that is my job. Also, I think something is up, when I hugged her; the way she responded seemed off. I'm not sure." Rose nodded in understanding. "Do you think I should let Edward know she is back in town?" I remembered how my brother reacted to her leaving Forks, how eager she was to get out of town, as her best friend I knew how much she cared about him and I always wanted to knock some sense into him and make him realize that he was overlooking the best thing in his life. The two of them were closer to each other than she and I had been, and she was my best friend since kindergarten.

Rose raised an eyebrow, "Are you going to let him know?" She walked out of the office and stood by the register, as I followed her I pulled out my phone and send a text message to my brother.

Are you sitting down?

No I am about to walk into a patient's room, why do I need to sit down?

I have something to tell you, and I don't want you to fall over.

Okay, well this patient is kind of a priority right now, so either tell and get it over with, or if you really need to have the tension hanging for the dramatic effect then tell me later when I get home.

Um…never mind, I will tell you later.

Wait a minute; this was so important a moment ago that I needed to be sitting down for you to tell me. And now you are going to tell me later. Alice just get it off your chest, because we both know that you are going to be driving everyone around you nuts until you get to tell me.

Um she just came out of the dressing room, so I will have to wait to tell you. Laters!

What do you mean she? Who is she?

Alice?

Okay, avoid me now. I will be with a patient for the next few minutes; I get off my shift in about two hours. I will see you at home.

Eward is introduced...more to come obviously. Please review.