I would first off like to take a little bit of time to thank everyone that has stuck with this story. I love reading everyone's reviews and comments about it so far. It makes me feel so good that I can write something that so many people enjoy....I'd like to thank you all for being such wonderful readers.

This story has just begun, it still has a very long way to go. But to spice things up here a little bit, and to relieve a little bit of confusion from the actions of people such as Edward in the previous chapter, I'm going to try something new. The first part of this chapter will be written in Carlisle's POV. Comment to me in the reviews if you like it, because I'm planning on including his POV in future chapters.

So here's Chapter 6, I hope you enjoy it. :)

Chapter 6

Carlisle's POV

She was so beautiful. I had never in my 300 plus years, ever known someone as wonderful as her. And that was saying a lot, considering the fact I had spent a lot of my life around other vampires, who just seemed to have some sort of a natural charm.

As I got into my Mercedes to drive away from the bowling alley, however, I thought of one particular vampire I knew of that hadn't seemed so charming.

I myself had noticed Edward's behavior that night, the way he would stare angrily at Brooke, and then at me. I knew he was hearing something, but I wasn't sure what it was. I knew that I had been keeping my thoughts towards Brooke hidden to Edward, so that he wouldn't suspect that I was up to anything. In all truth I wasn't, but it doesn't look good to your children when you're already dating someone and you like someone else, even if the person you're dating doesn't love you in the first place.

So maybe Edward had been troubled by something Brooke had been thinking. This was quite likely, as I knew that Brooke had to have developed a crush on me by now. Edward never really did like the fact that everyone I employed, met, or even walked by, thought about me and how they would love to spend their entire lives at my side. He thought one of these days I'd find one of these crazy girls actually interesting, and that I'd leave the kids and Viviene and run away to some foreign country, never to return.

Regardless of his reasoning for acting the way he did, he simply shouldn't have acted that way. Especially in front of Brooke. I became more aggravated with him as I quickly maneuvered through the driveway leading up to the house. It would truly be great if I could tell him everything that I had kept hidden for quite some time. But I wasn't sure if it would be that easy.

I pulled into the garage and walked into the house. Rosalie and Emmett were sitting on the couch with Edward, watching TV.

I looked at Edward, "We need to talk." I thought

He rose and walked with me into the kitchen. As if we had to go to a separate room to have a conversation, everyone in the house could hear us even if we talked in whispers.

"Look, Carlisle...."

"Edward, what was wrong with you tonight?" I demanded. I didn't get angry very often, so this new authoritative voice was unfamiliar to me.

"Carlisle, if you were me you would have acted the same way." Edward said, not seeming at all too pleased with me.

"What caused you to act the way you did though? What was she thinking? It couldn't have been that bad."

"It was." Edward said plainly.

"Well what, she wants to kill us, she thought Bella's hair looked bad, she..."

"No Carlisle, none of that."

"Then what? Out of all things to be thinking about, what was she thinking about that disturbed you so much?"

"You."

"Me? She was thinking about me?"

"Yes, she was thinking about you."

"Edward." I said, actually laughing, "Don't you know by now that almost everyone associated with me thinks about me?"

"Not the way she does." Was all he said.

"What do you mean by not the way she does?"

"She was playing with the idea of whether or not she was falling in love with you."

This came as a shock to me. Edward couldn't be right. Just weeks ago Brooke herself had told me she didn't get crushes, let alone fall in love.

I actually thought this, and Edward laughed and looked me in the eye. "Well it doesn't matter what she told you, she thinks that your pretty special."

I was so overwhelmed, excited beyond belief. I couldn't see why this was a problem to Edward, but I saw it in his face when he apparently read how excited I was about this news in my thoughts.

"And that's what bothered me. She's falling for you, and you like her back!" He yelled, actually sounding quite angry with me.

"Why is that a problem?" I asked him, trying to remain calm myself.

"Well gosh Carlisle, I don't know....perhaps the fact that you already have a girlfriend...a girlfriend that you and all of us care about a lot in fact."

"I do not love Viviene anymore Edward! I haven't loved her in over two and a half years. She doesn't even love me! She pretends to be perfect when she's truly not, she's evil Edward. She won't let me leave her....or else...she'll..."

Edward starred at me intensively as I continued telling him everything I had kept hidden in my thoughts. When I finally finished, he looked so shocked.

"Why did you keep that hidden for so long?" He asked.

"I tried to tell you before, but you wouldn't believe me."

"Well, I guess I do now."

It was silent for a moment.

"I'm sorry Carlisle...I, " He sighed, "I overreacted, please forgive me."

"You're forgiven Edward. Just don't tell the others okay? Don't even tell Bella. Keep this to yourself."

He nodded. "I will Carlisle."

"Good, I'm glad we got that settled." I turned to leave the room when the sound of Edward's voice stopped me.

"Carlisle. She's pretty good for you."

"Who? Viviene?"

"No, that Brooke girl. I...see the way you act when you're around her. You seem so much more full of life when you're around her."

I laughed at that. As if I could be full of life.

"After all this time, I think you finally deserve to have your happy ending."

I smiled. "Me too Edward, Me too."

Brooke's POV

June passed, and July followed it. In the small town of Forks, Washington there was now actually the occasional day when the sun when come out and grace us with her presence for a few hours time. On these days Dr. Cullen would call me and tell me I could have the day off. On sunny days he took his children hiking.

Over the past month or so, I had been spending almost all of my free time with Dr. Cullen and his family. I had been over to his amazingly gorgeous house over a thousand times already.

Edward never did look at me again in the same way that he did the very first night I met him. I knew that Dr. Cullen talked to him, he told me he did, the only thing is, he never told me what exactly had caused Edward to act the way he did.

Bella and I were already becoming close friends. Alice, Bella, and I would sometimes even go shopping together, an activity that was boring to Bella, exciting to Alice, and neither one nor the other to me. Rosalie didn't like to partake in our outings. She still hated me.

Emmett always liked to challenge me to random games, or tell me dirty jokes. I normally preferred the first activity over the second, even if he did beat me almost every time. I beat him at a game of checkers once, and we've never played that again. Emmett likes to win.

As time was passing I kept falling for Dr. Cullen even more. I had no idea how that was even possible, but apparently...it was.

We had taken the wonderfully amazing (Ha ha, sarcasm) night shift one stormy Monday night at Forks hospital. It was probably somewhere around the time of 4 in the morning, close to time for us to leave and head home. Thank goodness Dr. Cullen is a smart man, because he had scheduled the next day off for us so we could rest.

I knew I loved him for a reason.

Dr. Cullen had grown even more flirtatious with me lately, now he would frequently hug me goodbye, walk me to my car, kiss my forehead, and he even kissed me on the cheek once. This man was desperate to get me to like him. What was he going to do next...kiss me?

I sure hoped he would.

The halls were fairly dark (probably because the light bulbs needed replaced two weeks ago) and Dr. Cullen and I were making our way back to his private office to get our stuff and get out of the hospital so that we could go home and fall asleep upon the impact of our heads hitting our pillows.

Gertrude had been in with us too. Gertrude and night shifts do not mix very well. She gets even crazier than usual.

That day however, she was extra crazy. She had been chasing Dr. Cullen down with this candy that one of her granddaughters was selling for some fundraiser. Dr. Cullen had given Gertrude a very generous donation to put towards her granddaughter's fundraiser, but she insisted upon giving him the candy he had "bought" even though he told her at least half a million times that he didn't like chocolate very well.

As we were walking down the hallway just making casual conversation, he shushed me.

"Wait a second." He whispered.

We were quiet, and we could faintly hear the click of heels and Gertrude saying "Dr. Cullen! Don't you dare leave until you take your chocolate!"

He looked at me and smiled. "Come on Brooke, we have got to get out of here."

He took my hand and we started running through the halls, we could still hear Gertrude, but her voice wasn't near as loud. Dr. Cullen quickly pulled me into an adjacent hallway and gently pushed me against the wall, leaning over me.

I could have died.

He smiled at me when he saw the look on my face.

"Relax." He whispered into my ear. "Don't move, don't make any noise.

He still was close to me, mere inches away. I couldn't calm down. I was breathing at quite an erratic pace. I could hear my own heart beating so loudly that I was sure the patients on the top floor could hear it.

He laughed. "And stop breathing so hard."

"It's your fault that I'm breathing so hard." I whispered.

He laughed as silently as he could. "How is it my fault?" He whispered, still in my ear.

"Oh I don't know, perhaps the fact that you're pretty much attempting to seduce me right now."

"Is it working?" He asked.

I sighed. "Yes."

"Good."

Just then we heard Gertrude attempt to run right past us, without even knowing we were there.

Dr. Cullen moved and placed both his hands on my face, resting his head on mine.

We didn't say anything for the longest time, we just stood there, both of us waiting to see what the other would do.

And then he started leaning in towards me, and I closed my eyes, totally prepared to kiss him. I could feel his cool breath fan across my face.

This was it, the moment that I had only dreamed of...the...

Dr. Cullen, please report to the lobby. A voice called over the loudspeaker.

He sighed, and before I could even blink he was gone.

I remained where I was, hypnotized, trying to debate if any of this had just happened to me.

When I finally recovered and realized it had, I made my way to his office, where he was already preparing to leave.

"What was that about?" I asked, surprised I could still speak.

"What was what about?"

"The announcement over the loudspeaker?"

"Oh, that. They just wanted me to look over some paperwork real quick before I had to leave."

I put on my raincoat. "I see."

He walked over to me and placed a hand on my shoulder. "What are you doing on Friday?"

Friday...that was the other day I had off this week.

"Probably bowling, watching a movie, or hanging out with you and your kids, like I always do when I have a day off."

"How would you like to try something different?" He asked, moving a stray piece of hair out of my face.

"Like what."

"It's a surprise. But it'll be just you and me....no one else."

Just me and him? This sounded to date like for me. But after what just occurred in the hallway five minutes ago, did I really care about dates anymore?

"Yeah...sure...I'm always up for trying something new."

He kissed me gently on the forehead. "Great. Once I get everything arranged I'll let you know when I'll pick you up and what not."

"Super." I said, I was truly at a loss for words.

We walked out of his office and he locked the door. We braced the rainstorm as he walked me over to my car.

"Goodnight Brooke." He said, "Have sweet dreams."

"Thanks, you too." I said.

He laughed and I heard him whisper, "I wish I could." As I closed my door and drove away.

When I finally arrived back at my apartment, I was exhausted. I didn't even bother changing. I laid down on the couch and fell fast asleep, and I did dream sweet dreams, just liked he had asked me to.

In my dream, loudspeakers didn't exist.

Ahh sorry for the somewhat stinky chapter, I can guarantee the next chapter will be great though!

Thanks again for taking the time to read my story! Please shoot me a review letting me know what you think so far. I'm always open to suggestions as well! Thanks!

~Hazl~