AN: okay all my Edward fans, here he is. I'm not pairing them up yet, just introducing him into the story, I hope you enjoy.

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Giving love to, my beta, JigsawRose.

Chapter 10

BPOV

School for Billy, work, and lunch with Scott. I wonder if I should reschedule. Yeah I think I will, Friday afternoon then at the club Friday night he should be happy with that. I need to get some groceries, mom and dad have bought it the last two times and I can do it with the boys. It's something normal, normal that we can do together. I have to bring as much normalcy back as possible. I think I will look for a house too, but to buy not rent I am so sick of renting. Yeah I will.

I get out of the shower and dress, opening the door to the bathroom I come face to face with Seth. Ha, ha you little stink, I see you this time. I avoid the catastrophe of tripping over him.

"Morning, Mama."

"Morning baby"

"You ready for breakfast?"

"Yeah I'll be there in a minute."

He heads downstairs, and I go into my room to call Scott. I reschedule lunch with him for tomorrow during the day and inform him I will see him tomorrow night. He seems understanding. I go downstairs to have breakfast and discuss my day with my family. After all of that I head off with Billy to take him to school and go to work.

I work through lunch to make up some hours, after work I rush home to get Seth, and rush to the school to get Billy. Thankfully there are no run-ins with Jessica; I really don't think I would be able to deal with her. I get Billy in the car and head to the grocery store. When I arrive I park and turn and do my usual speech.

"Now you will be on your best behavior, and pick one thing for a snack to last you all week, one screw up and we leave on the spot and go home, don't get me wrong I will come back but on my own. That means no treats. Am I clear?" they both nod in response.

We get in they each grab a hold of the cart and walk with me. We talk about what we should get for suppers, and what snack ideas they have. Billy prattles on about school and some of his friends as I head to produce.

I am looking at some tomatoes when I hear a voice that I swear couldn't belong to any human. I look up to see the most amazing green angelic eyes. I am lost for a few seconds in those eyes. The butterflies in my stomach pull my attention away and then I notice my heart has stopped, clearly not really but boy I sure don't feel it. What the hell is wrong with me? Then I hear him talk to the child that is with him and that voice completely hypnotizes me.

"Mama, you going to get the tomatoes? We want tacos this week." Seth breaks my ogling. That's when I notice he is looking at me too. I put a few tomatoes in a bag and practically run to the other end of the store, to hide.

"Man, mama why are we going so fast I thought you said we could take our time?" Seth says.

"Uhh… yeah baby, I just thought we would start at this end of the store."

"You okay, mama?"

"Yeah why wouldn't I be?"

"Did that guy scare you?"

"No."

"Then why did you run from him?"

Damn why is my kid so perceptive? "I didn't run"

"Mom you kinda did." He gives me this odd look.

"Well…" I stop and kneel down to be at eye level with him. "That will be our little secret okay? No one needs to know, and I am fine. Let's just do this." I stand back up and hand him my list. "Here cross off what we get please?" Maybe that will get you off my back, little turkey. I smirk at him and he returns that with an angelic 'I know something is up' smile.

Half way through the grocery shopping I see the man with the green eyes again; I pace the aisle a few times just to look at him. Great now I am acting like a high school stalker. Get a grip Bella!

"Mama this is on our list." He holds up some sausages.

"Oh yeah it is, put it in there." I point to the cart and move on; taking one last look at that guy that makes me feel completely incompetent, he sees me and I quick shoot down the next aisle. We are finishing up when I see him again at the check outs. Okay I have to get out of this area before he sees me!

"You know what boys let's go get you guys some extra snacks." I turn the cart around and scurry to the snacks.

"Anything we want?" Billy questions me.

"Yeah… yeah sweetie anything." I bite my thumb nail as they look at all the shelves.

What the hell? Bella you are a grown woman running from some stranger, it's not like he even gave you the hebee-gebees. Yeah but what was that, no one flusters me like that, and in front of the boys, Seth knows something is up, Billy's too little to get it, who the hell is that? He looks good, and has to be…insane he brought a kid to the store alone, but then again I brought two so what's that say about me… my mental rambling is interrupted.

"What's wrong with mama?" Billy asks Seth in a whisper.

"I think it's that guy with the little girl."

"You think she will be okay?"

"Yeah, she just is acting funny, look that's her thinking face. I hope we run into this guy more though, because we get extra stuff. Besides she seems to look for him so he can't be too dangerous."

"Oh, will you stay with me? I don't want him to hurt me."

"Yeah, mama won't let anything happen either, she loves us. Even, me."

What the hell is that supposed to mean? 'Even me?' Oh boy, kids are difficult why would he ever doubt me haven't I shown him time and again I will always love him? Time to get moving, to get home.

"Okay boys did you get what you wanted?"

"Yeah." They respond in unison, they walk up to me with what can only be called junk. I don't think it would even be classified as food, but I gave them free reign while I had a melt- down so now it was time to pay the piper.

I peek around the corner to see if he is gone, before I proceed to checkout. I am a ball of nerves by the time I get home, earning me a strange look from my mother. I put the groceries away and of course my mother notices all the extras for the boys.

"I knew I should have went with you, how bad where their fits?" my mother inquires.

"We didn't have any fits Grandma, mama let us." Seth defended his brother and himself.

"Really? Why? Where you that good?"

"Yes they were." I try to head off where this is going.

"Well we were good but really mama was hiding from this man with a little girl."

"Really?" my mother looks at me with a smirk.

"Snitch." I smile at my son, who just ratted me out I might add. even after i told him this was out little secret.

"Isabella Marie." My mother scolds playfully, and my boys just start laughing.

"What, he totally ratted out his mama?" I joke.

"No, I told the truth." Seth said

The room erupts in laughter, and honestly I have no idea why. This brings my father in.

"What is so funny?" he smiles

"Bella ran from a guy at the store."

"Really," he crosses his arms. "Why, did you get a bad feeling from him, what did he look like?"

A walking fucking God. I bite my lip as I picture him. Why do I feel like a high school kid again? Damn I need to get it together.

"Bella?"

I look at my dad. "I don't know it's not like I talked to him dad."

"Boys, did she?" I drop my jaw at him for not believing me.

"No she didn't." Seth shakes his head. "She just stared at him than ran away."

Damn it no more shopping with the kids.

"Okay that's enough, stop the interrogation dad. Boys homework now." I point at the bags on the floor.

I start helping mom with supper, discussing the trip to the store with her in hushed quiet tones. All she does is smile and giggle at almost the whole thing, telling me I'm so funny, and she told me to keep myself open. Did I forget to mention she is a cryptic woman?

We serve supper, and while cleaning up the mess my mother discusses Billy being in my bed. I know did I call that one or what? I tell her the same thing I told my dad and she just warns me to watch out he will start just going in there and when that happens he is fine and will need to be taught to be in his own bed. I nod to pacify her and get the kids ready for bed.

I can't fall asleep because I am thinking about the bronze haired god that I saw today, so when Billy wakes up I go get him pull him into bed with me and let him fall back asleep as I daydream about that guy again.

EPOV

I lay in bed, my alarm has gone of already and really I should be in the shower, but it's just so comfortable here.

"Daddy, daddy, daddy." Amanda, my angel, comes running in.

My name is Edward Cullen. I am a divorced father of the most gorgeous little girl ever. I am twenty seven and she is six. No, she was so not planned but let me tell you now that she is here I don't think I could ever imagine life without her. Her mother decided to leave us when Amanda was a baby, she sees her once in a while but I think it mostly when she is feeling motherly. She just wasn't ready for the family life. Tanya is a diva through and through, high class clothing designer. We married for the sake of Amanda and found that to be a huge mistake. Long story short Tanya found the love of her life and left, not that I blame her she deserves happiness just as much as the next person and it's not like I still am or ever was in love with her, I will always love her, she gave me this perfect angel I have now. I on the other hand am doing an internship and raising her with the help of my parents. I live with my mother and father, who is a doctor himself, and my mother well she is an angel she stays here with Mandy during the day and most nights as well as takes her to school when I can't. Let me tell you it saves so much on daycare. I help out with bills and food not because they need it but because it's right. When I am here I take complete care of my girl, I love her more than life itself.

I have tried the whole dating thing and most women I have met took one look at her and ran. How sad is that? Others, stick around for a bit but when I can't go out because I have her and suggest the park or a zoo, or a night in with Ariel, her favorite Disney character, they tend to walk away. So I have resolved to just growing old with my daughter, who is now bouncing on my bed.

"What, what, what." I ask grabbing her and kissing her till she runs out of air from giggling.

"Grandma says she heard your clock, and it's time get up." I smile at her frilliness.

"Okay, well tell Grandma I'm on my way." She hops down and is gone I hear her little bare feet slap on the floor. I smile and shake my head and roll out of bed to start the day.

"Morning Mama." I say as I enter the kitchen where Amanda is already eating.

"Well sleepy head, how are you?"

"Ugh…" I rub my face with my hands and get some coffee. "Give the go-go juice time to work and I will be great." My mother laughs and sips her own coffee too.

"Well son, welcome to the living, you are aware it's Friday not Saturday right?" My dad jokes with me.

Clearly you have had enough go-go juice!

"Well considering I have to work this weekend, I don't think it matters much."

"Poor sap." My dad mocks a pout at me.

"Well we can't all fix a kid's head dad; some of us have to fix the body too." I smirk over my cup. We joke about being different types of doctors. My dad is a child physiatrist, and I am doing and internship, trying to open up my own clinic. Our playful banter always gets us both a complement from my mom.

"Alright you two, you are both wonderful doctors."

"No, Grandpa's a shrink." I laugh at my daughter; I have taught her the fact that my dad is a shrink, so every time the doctor subject comes up. It always makes my mom giggle and my dad poke her in the side playfully. Then my dad will go over pick up Amanda and lift her up till she cries for him to stop, taking a deep breath for air from all the laughter.

"Hmm." I almost choke on my coffee when I look at the time. "Amanda honey, daddy has to go, come here and give me kiss. Mom you can take her to school right?" My mom nods as Mandy hops down and scurries over to kiss me goodbye. "Remember you and me; we have a date to get groceries."

I hug her one more time and tell my parents bye, kissing my mom on the cheek and running to my car.

Work in the E.R is normal kids with broken bones, fevers, and adults that think they have polio or are dying. The kids hit home the most, especially when they are hurting; I have a huge soft spot for kids since Amanda. They are the most fun to work on too, I think of all kinds of games and cool things to help them relax.

After work though I dart out the door and rush home, I need to see my girl. I don't think a person looks forward to grocery shopping as much as I do. On our way hear how her day at school was. We park and she hurries to unbuckle and is waiting for me as I open the back door.

"My lady." I wave my arm and bow a little, as I allow her to get out, only she jumps at me. "Oomph." Man she is getting heavy.

We wonder around for a little getting the things my mother had written down, she crosses off the things I point out to her.

We get to the produce section and I am looking at the fruit when my daughter asks, "Daddy who's that pretty lady?"

"I don't know baby." I answer as I look. I see a beautiful dark haired woman with the most enchanting brown eyes staring at me. I can't seem to look away, my stomach seems to flip I almost feel like I might vomit all over the fruit.

Wow, Amanda is right what a beautiful woman. I hear my daughter say something but I'm not sure what so ask, "What baby?"

"I want apples." I can't take my eyes from the woman before me to look though. Before I can say anything she put tomatoes in and darts away like a deer in the headlights.

"Daddy, I want apples." Amanda pokes me to get my attention; I shake my head and look at her.

"I'm sorry baby, what do you want?"

"Apples." She says again getting frustrated by my odd state.

"Okay here you go." I hand them to her and she puts them in the bag.

"Who was that lady daddy?"

"I don't know baby, I don't know." But I sure would like to find out. Wait a second where did that come from? I shake my head to clear it.

"She was pretty." Amanda says off-handedly.

"That she was, baby that she was." I start to wonder around the store, mostly to see if I can spot her again, don't ask me why because I have no clue she just intrigued me tremendously.

I spot her a while later, as I hear one of the boys that is with her say they needed something she agreed, and then she is gone again. What the hell does the have some kind of magical disappearing powers? Who the hell is she; damn I wish I was from this town now. I finish up the shopping, pay at the checkout and leave.

In the car on the way home I think about the woman at the store, my daughter must have been to because she breaks the silence.

"Daddy will we see the pretty woman again?"

"Uhh…I don't know."

"Oh okay." She sounds disappointed.

We walk in with the groceries and my mother is in the kitchen.

"How was shopping?"

"Fine."

"There was a pretty lady there."

"Really?" My mother now looks intrigued.

"It's nothing." I wave my hand in dismissal.

She looks to Amanda, "What did she look like?"

"She had brown hair and two boys with her." She pauses to think. "She didn't say anything she just grabbed some tomatoes and left. But she was real pretty Grandma."

"Disappeared is more like it." I mutter.

"What was that dear?"

"I…I said she had brown eyes too." My mother smiles at me.

"That sounds like the chief's daughter …Uhhh…Bella, I think, is her name."

"Who?"

"The chief's daughter…She must be back I guess. I don't know I have never met her personally but I have met her mother, we are friends sort of. It's not like we sit and have coffee but we see each other at the market and visit often. She mentioned a while ago her daughter is home and she has two sons."

"Hmmm… whatever." I walk away leaving her and Mandy to talk.

This woman is on my mind until dinner. At dinner my mother and Amanda tell my father about the woman at the store and he agrees with my mother about her being the chief's daughter. I roll my eyes. You know, guys, I have enough trouble getting her out of my mind as it is, you three aren't helping!

That night I lay in bed, after Amanda is bathed and asleep, unable to sleep myself because she is on my mind.

Who is she? Where did she come from? How can she look like such an angel? It's not just me either. Amanda is even wondering about her-she has never done that before, she has talked and been nice to my past girlfriends but never has she asked about a woman let alone ask if she would see her again. Will I see her again, man I freaking hope so. What is it about her?

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