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AN: So I think this may be my longest chapter yet. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed, followed, or favorited this story. I appreciate it a lot. I didn't think I was going to get as many as I have, so thank you.

Chapter 5

BPOV

As I pull up to Rosalie's home, I take a deep breath and try to relax for a minute. That was the main reason that I wanted to be a little early. I look over at the passenger seat and grab the flowers so I can head upstairs. Once I reach her door I almost chicken out of knocking, but I take another deep breath and knock. I hear something that sounds like someone tripping and stumbling and try to contain a small chuckle. Soon after a nervous looking Rosalie opens the door.

"Hey" She says to me.

"Hi. These are for you." I hand her the flower, which are stargazer lilies.

"They are beautiful and they are my favorite type of flower. How did you know?" she asked me.

"It was just a lucky guess. Are you ready to go?" I ask.

"Yeah, just let me double check with the sitter really fast." She tells me as she turns around. "You can come inside; you don't have to stand in the doorway."

After she tells me that, I step fully into her apartment and close the door behind me. I follow the sound of her voice and see she is in the kitchen. Her apartment is small but at least it is in a safe part of town; I was worried about that.

"Hey I remember you." I hear a voice say to me. I look down and see Sophie looking up at me.

"And I remember you. How are you sweetheart?" I ask her as I squat down to her level.

"I'm okay. Did you bring the baby with you?"

"You mean Stevie?" I asked her. She nodded her head at me. "He's with his mommies. I was just watching him." I tell her.

"Oh." She looked a little sad not to see Stevie with me. "What's your name?" she asked me.

"I'm Bella. What is your name?"

"Sophie."

"Well Sophie, maybe the next time I watch Stevie you and your mom can meet us at the park and you two can play together, but it's up to your mom ok?" I tell her. As soon as the words leave my mouth she brightens up and surprises me by giving me a hug.

While Sophie is hugging me, Rosalie walks in with a smile on her face.

"Are you ready to go?" She asks me.

"Yeah, whenever you are." I said as I stood up.

"Okay, I want you to behave for Sarah like you always are." Rosalie said to Sophie as she got down to her level.

"Why can't I come with you Mommy?" Sophie asked Rosalie.

"Because this time is just for Mommy; so maybe the next time we see Bella she will have Stevie and we can go on that play date that Bella was talking about, is that okay?"

"Okay. I love you Mommy."

"I love you too sweetie. I'll see in the morning okay and when I get home I'll come check on you." Rosalie tells Sophie. She gives her a hug and kiss and stands up.

"Bye Bella." I hear Sophie yell as she runs off. All I do I laugh as we turn to leave the apartment. We walk silently down the stairs and to my car. When we reach it I can see the look of awe on Rosalie's face.

"How did you find a car like this?" She asked me. I just looked over at her and smirked.

"What do you mean find it? I restored it myself." I informed her. "Come on, I know you don't want to be away from Sophie for too long." I tell her as I grab her hand a pull her closer to my car. There goes that weird tingle again. When we got to the car I opened the door for her and helped her inside. Once she was seated, I shut the door and ran around to the driver's side and got in myself. The drive to the Galleria didn't take too long and was made in mostly silence, though it was not uncomfortable or awkward. Rosalie looked like she was still in shock over my car, which I thought was funny.

When we pulled up to the Galleria, I headed towards the Cheesecake Factory. Instead of fighting for a spot, I just let valet park my car, but tell the guy that I'll throw in some extra money if he takes extra special care of my baby. What can I say, I love my car.

I walk over to the other side of the car, take Rosalie's hand and we head inside.

"Reservation for Swan please." I tell the hostess when we reach the stand. I can see her running her eyes up and down my form. I look over at Rosalie to try to see her reaction and I can see her scowling at the hostess.

"Okay, right this way." The hostess says trying to sound seductive.

We follow her to the table and whole way there, the girl is swaying her hips back and forth.

"Your waiter will be with you shortly." She says with a smirk and a wink my way.

"Well that was rude." Rosalie states as soon as the hostess walks away.

"Yeah, but let's not let her ruin the night, okay?" I ask her.

"Alright."

"Have you ever been here before?" I ask her.

"No, but I've been wanting to try it." She tells me.

"Hi, my name is Tyler and I'll be you server. What can I get you to drink?" the waiter pops up out of nowhere and is staring awfully hard at Rosalie. Okay I don't like this. I think to myself.

"I want a sweet tea." I say kinda rudely. Rosalie just gives me a weird look.

"Can I have a root beer please?" she asks kindly.

"I can give you whatever you like." The waiter states towards Rosalie. This is going to be a long night.

"Do you know what you want to eat, any appetizers or anything?" he says still staring at Rosalie and I see him slowly checking her out. Does he not see me sitting right here!

"No we need a few minutes." I tell him while glaring at him. Rosalie agrees that she needs a few minutes and tells the waiter so. When he is gone she just shakes her head at me and starts looking over the menu.

"What's wrong?" I ask her.

"Why were you rude to him? He was just trying to be nice." She says to me.

"He was checking you out and I'm sitting right here."

"No he wasn't."

"Yes he was and then on top of that he wouldn't stop looking at you like you were something to eat, even when I was ordering."

"So you were jealous then." She states while smirking at me.

"And you were too when the hostess was doing the same thing. I saw the look on your face." I tell her smirking right back at her.

"Okay, so we were both jealous of something and we will leave it at that. So do you bring all your dates here?" she tries to say jokingly, but I can see it in her eyes that she seriously wants to know.

"No. I don't date too often. She has to catch my eye somehow and not many women have." I tell her. "How often do you date?" I ask.

"Um…this is actually my first date since Sophie was born." She tells me looking embarrassed.

"You shou-"

"Here are your drinks and are you ready to order?" the waiter interrupts me.

I look at Rosalie and ask if she's ready. When she nods her head I decide to start ordering.

"Can I have the Spicy Crispy Chicken Sandwich?" I try to say as politely as I could.

"Okay and what can I get for you sweetheart?" he asks Rosalie.

"Can I get the California Cheesesteak please?" Rosalie orders.

"Okay, I'll get this out to as soon as possible." The waiter says with another wink at Rosalie. I think she saw it this time because she just had a look of disbelief on her face. I wanted to say I told you so really badly, but I hold back and just smirk at her.

"Alright I see what you mean now." Rosalie smiles at me.

"So as I was saying, you shouldn't be embarrassed about not dating after Sophie was born. May I ask why you didn't?"

"I just never felt a connection with anyone before now." She tells me.

"Well I feel honored now. Have you ever dated a woman before?"

"Yeah, I dated a couple in secret. I knew I was attracted to women, but I also knew that my parents wouldn't approve so I kept it a secret. When I was dating Sophie's father, everyone was happy until I got pregnant. When that happened my life kind of came crashing down on me."

"Does the father know about Sophie?" I wanted to ask about this yesterday but held back. Now that we are actually on a date, I hope that it is okay to ask.

"Yea he does. His parents had him transfer schools soon after and I haven't heard from him since."

"Are you scared that he may try to come after her?" I ask her to try to find where she is with all this. If this all works out and I am part of their lives I need to know what I'm up against here.

"Sometimes. I mean I'm more worried that they are going to use my stripping against me." She replies sadly.

"So from what I'm understanding here is that you come from a family that abandoned you when you found out that you were pregnant and you have a baby daddy out there that isn't and hasn't helped you at all. Because of all this, you had to drop out of school and wound up in Houston. At least since some time after Sophie was born, you have been stripping to help pay your bills right?"

"Pretty much yeah. It's not like I enjoy have men touch and grab me. That's why I really wanted to get into your club. You have guys that actually take care of us and watch out for us."

"Yeah we had visited clubs that were to lacking and we wanted to have a nice place where everyone can have a good time but not at the expense of the girls working. Have you tried contacting your family?" I asked.

When she is about to answer, the waiter comes over with our food.

"Here is your food. Is there anything else you need?" the waiter asks while laying his and on Rosalie's shoulder and leaning a little too close to her. I see her lean away from him and I'm about to say something to him when Rosalie beats me to it.

"Yes, you can remove your hand from me to begin with. Secondly, can't you see I'm on a date here. It's just rude to be trying to hit on me when you can clearly see we are here together." She snaps at him. I'm just sitting there in shock through this. I knew she could stand up for herself but she just being more forceful than I was expecting.

"I just thought that you would like to know that you had a chance with a real man." He smirks at her. I can see her face turn red and decide to step in before this gets any worse. I stand up and realize that I'm taller than he is. I can't help but chuckle at this and when he hears me he turns to try to glare at me.

"Listen, as you can clearly see she is a beautiful woman and if she wanted to go on a date with a man, she could but she is here with me and I don't need you ruining our night. Now you can either get me another waiter over here and not disturb us again or you can get your manager over here and we can talk it out with him." I tell him. I see him gulp when he really looks at me, but I can see in his eyes that he is going to try to stand his ground.

"You don't scare me and I'm going to leave you alone. She needs to know what she is missing." Wow! I haven't run into an asshole like this in loooong time. I think to myself. At this point though, I am beyond pissed off. I uncross my arms and my hands curl into fists. All I wanted was a perfect night so that she will see me again but I can't even have that.

Before I know it I'm really in the guy's face and I know I'm about to explode when two things happen at once. I feel Rosalie grab my arm to try and calm me down and I see the manager come up to us. I start to calm as soon as I feel Rosalie and I smirk when I see who the manager is.

"Hey Bella! What's going on here?" Carlisle asks. See Carlisle is not only a good friend of mine, but his wife Esme is also one of my dancers.

"Nothing much Carlisle, just trying to set your employee here straight." I tell him while I shake his hand.

"What was he doing this time?" From the way Carlisle said this, it isn't the first time that he has had trouble with Tyler.

"Oh you know, apparently my date here needs to know that she has a chance with a real man and doesn't need to be on a date with me." I inform him. The whole time Tyler looks scared.

"Well this is definitely not the first complaint that I have had about him. Tyler go wait in my office for me." Carlisle tells the waiter. Tyler looks like he wants to argue, but one look at Carlisle lets him know not to argue.

"I'm sorry about that Bella. I'll give you your meal for free if you want." He tells me, but I just shake my head.

"Don't worry about it man. I don't want you to get in trouble with your boss over this." I tell him.

"Are you sure? At least let me give you some free desert. It will make me feel better." He says to me with his puppy dog face. For as long as I've known Carlisle he has known that I can't say no to that face.

"Alright desert for free." I laugh with him.

"Well I'm going to get you a new waiter over here and deal with the mess sitting in my office. I've been waiting a good reason to fire him. If you guys need anything else just let me know."

"Alright, see you later." I tell him.

"So back to my question, have you tried contacting your family?" I ask Rosalie once we have sat down and started eating.

"No, I haven't. I've wanted to but I just don't have the courage to do so." She tells me sadly.

"Well maybe we can work on that later." I reply with a small smile hoping to cheer her up some.

Once we are done with dinner we get our free cheesecake and talk some more. She tells me what it was like growing up in California and I tell her about how much of a difference living in a big city was for me compared to Forks.

After a little while longer I decide that it's time to take to the next part of the date.

"Where are we going?" she asks when I tell there is another part.

"It's a surprise." I tell her.

"Can you at least give me a hint?"

"Nope just enjoy the walk there." I smile at her hoping that she likes the next part.

AN 2: Yeah, I decided to split the date into two parts. We will get to know more about Bella in the next chapter though.