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*EPOV*

Alice was acting weird and now I was going to be over analyzing her message to me for the next few hours. I hated when they had celebrities in the shop, Alice always ended up sending me a message or calling me and do the whole 20 questions thing about whoever it was that had come in that day.

I walked into the patient's room that I had been standing outside of while my sister who was more of a pain than anything else sent me today's round of 20 questions.

"Doctor Cullen, will you sign my cast?" I looked to my 8 year old patient with her long brunette curls, and chocolate brown eyes and my thoughts were drawn to Bella. I hated when I had patients that reminded me of her. It had been so many years, so many and still I couldn't let her go. Sadly that was the irony of things, because I had let her go instead of telling her to stay. I smiled at the tiny look alike and took the marker she offered me. I signed my name and drew a smiley face next to it.

"How is my favorite patient doing today?" I asked that of all my patients, I loved working in pediatrics though at times it could be very hard to watch a sick child not get well. But each time I had a patient who looked like Bella I found myself spending more time with them than others. The little girl smiled at me and blushed. "I'm okay. When do I get to go home? Mom said that Parker came by with a card for me."

"How does tomorrow morning sound to you?" I said looking at her chart and seeing that everything looked well enough. "Who is Parker? Oh wait your mom and dad said you were playing with a friend when you fell out of the tree. Is that who Parker is?" I didn't need a verbal answer from her, but she nodded anyways. I chuckled, "Don't worry kiddo; I am sure the card will be there, and by the time you get home he will be there with another card as well."

I remembered every time Bella got hurt, I did the same thing. Usually I had been with her when it happened so I felt responsible for not protecting her. I sat with Abbey for almost an hour playing a game of chess with her. As we were finishing the game, her parents came in the room followed by another woman and young boy who looked to be 8 or 9 years old. I assumed this was Parker. He ran right to her side and was looking at the cast. "Abbey are you okay? Does it hurt? Can I sign your cast? When are you going home?" The concern in the young boy's voice was apparent. I spoke with Abbey's parents and updated them, and then exited the room. I headed to my office to check my messages and fill out the paper work for the day. I sat behind my desk and looked at the pictures on my filing cabinet most of them were of my family, with a few of friends and me. In the center was my favorite picture, it was of the group of us getting ready to go to the prom. We stood outside my parent's home, my brother Emmett stood with his girlfriend Rose, Alice my sister stood with Jasper who was Rose's twin and between the four of them were Bella and I. We had both opted to go solo to the prom. I wanted to ask her so many times to be my date, but I was so afraid she would tell me no.

(Flashback)

"Edward!" Bella yelled my name from up in the spare bedroom "Edward! Make her stop!" I went down the hall from my room to where Rose and Alice were helping Bella get ready. I hadn't finished getting ready but I felt the need to protect Bella from the two of them and their torture. I knocked on the door it was open enough that I could see in before entering. The three of them were dressed so I pushed the door open and entered. "Edward!" she ran into me and sounded like she was crying. I wrapped my arms around her and breathed in her scent. I wanted to hold her like this for the rest of the night, well minus the crying. "Hey, you okay? What were you two doing to her?" I asked hoping someone would answer me. Bella pulled away, and I finally got a look at her. She was amazing. My heart was exploding from my chest, hammering away in response to her beauty that she didn't know she had. Without removing my eyes from her I told Rose and Alice to ease up and that they had about 15 minutes to finish because we would be leaving soon. Twenty minutes after that we took that picture, and even then my eyes were only for Bella. She just never looked at me.

My phone buzzing on my desk brought me back from the day dream about a past that I was never going to be able to change. Alice again, I looked at the time, damn I should have been home by now, how long had I been sitting and thinking about the past?

"Yes Mary Alice?" I rarely called her by her first name unless I was truly annoyed with her. "What is so important that you are calling me while I am still at the hospital?"

"Are you on your way home?" Her voice sounded rushed.

"I am about to leave my office, why?" I was feeling impatient that she had interrupted my quiet time alone.

"Um, do you have plans for tonight? Rose and I are taking a friend out to Club 7 tonight. Do you want to meet us for a drink or something?" Alice rarely asked me to go anywhere because of my rotations at the hospital, so having her ask made me suspicious.

"Alice if you are trying to set me up with some new pet of yours? Because I am tired of telling you I am not interested." I said as I was heading to the elevator and smiling while recalling the many attempts Alice and Rose had made at setting me up since high school.

I'm trying to decide if I want to have Edward and Bella meet up right away, or not. I have an situation ready for them coming up.