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Hello my beauties,
Here's Chapter 6 I hope you like it

Fuck you

Fuck you very, very much

Cause your words don't translate

And it's getting quite late

So please don't stay in touch

I hope he crashes. Who does he think he is? Or rather who does he think I am? I'm not some gullible, shallow little girl who'll jump in his flashy car while he completely disrespects me. I reach my Volvo and sit in it willing myself not to cry. Out of anger? Sadness? Disappointment? Possibly all three, I won't do it; I won't give him the satisfaction. I've made it this far on my own; I don't need him to do anything for me. I get out of the car and pay the ticket machine and get back in and turn the ignition on and carefully back out of the car lot onto the main road.

That was not the man I met last Friday, that…beast was someone entirely different. How could I get it so wrong? I think back to last Friday, how sweet he was. How kind and charming. I've been completely blindsided in every way possible. We'd been texting throughout the week, he told me that he was looking forward to tonight and so was I. I'm completely perplexed as to what has just happened. I carry on driving, staring out into the dark empty road before me.

Once back at the apartment I make way inside and up to the third floor. I let myself in and find Alice on the sofa watching that Scandal show. She pauses it as she hears me enter, and turns with a big smile on her face, but once she sees me, her face drops.

"Oh no Bella, what happened?" she asks with a regretful tone. I walk over to the three seater sofa take my heels off and flop down.

"He was late, like over 2 hours late Alice" she gasps out loud "and then just as I'm leaving he arrives in some flashy car without so much as an apology. Instead he tries to convince me to go back to his place. Which I doubt would've been for polite conversation."

"Oh no Bella, but I don't understand he seemed so nice" she says as she remembers all the nice things I told her about him.

"He is without a shadow of doubt, the most self-absorbed, rude, arrogant, chauvinistic man I have ever met" I say as my voice gets louder with each passing word.

With that being said I take my phone out and delete every text, his number and block it from my phone.

"Would you like a cup of my famous hot coco?" she asks gently. I nod my head slowly and she gets up and heads into the kitchen.

I can't believe I let stupid fairy tales cloud my judgement. Spirit Light ha yea right, more like Spirit Shit-head. I think back again to the Edward I met last Friday and wonder what happened to that Edward. Instead I get this conceited clone of him who makes my whole body feel dirty, like I need 80 showers to feel normal again.

"Here you go Bella" Alice says bringing me out of my Edward infused musings. I take the hot coco from her and look inside the cup. It's hot coco with whip cream and tiny marshmallows arranged into a smiley face. I look over at her and smile weakly.

"Thank you, Alice" I say genuinely

"No problem, kiddo. Don't stress you head out over him either, he obviously has no idea how a real woman should be treated" she affirms.

"Your right Alice, no clue whatsoever" I sip my hot coco and suddenly remember "Ahh shit, I swapped shifts for tonight and now I've got a weeks' worth of post op notes to do, as well as my own"

"Who did you trade with?"

"Newton"

"Yea, there's no way he'll let that go"

"I think I'm just going to call it a night" I say, standing up and picking up my heels.

"OK Bella, see you in the morning. Oh and Bella..."

"Yea"

"Remember there are three things you should never have low standards about: men, coffee and shoes" she chirps out.

"I wouldn't ever dream of it." I say with a grin "Goodnight hun"

I take my hot coco and heels and plod off into my bedroom. Once in my bedroom I turn on the light and lean back against the door. What a complete waste of time. I put my things away and peel out if my dress tossing it into the dirty clothes basket. I head back out towards the bathroom to wash my face and clean my teeth before bed.

I wash off my makeup and clean my teeth and look into the mirror at my reflection. My dark brown eyes appraise my reflected image carefully. My skin is quite clear with a few fine dark freckles across the top of my nose. My unlined heart shaped brown face looks sad and I breathe in deeply watching my chest rise and then fall. I refuse to let what happened tonight get to me. My mission in life is now to keep busy and rise like the phoenix out the ashes. With that, I mentally straighten my crown and walk out the bathroom like a boss. Once in my bedroom I turn off the light and get into bed resolved in my own self-worth, falling to sleep feeling reconciled.

I awake the next day to the alarm clock blaring, I shut it off quickly and get out of bed slowly. I walk into the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for work, feeling quite happy to get back to the hospital and distract my mind from wondering off to. That man.

I get dressed and have some breakfast, just then Barney wakes up and jumps up on the counter beside me. I scoop him up and put him back on the floor not feeling in the mood for fussing him today. I make some coffee in my travel mug and head back into my bedroom to collect my things. I leave the apartment and get into my car driving towards the hospital for my 14 hour shift.

The day is a complete blur of surgeries, patient assessments, charts and paperwork. I move my head to the side as my neck creaks loudly. I sit in one of the offices finishing up Newton's post op notes when Angela walks in and sit in the chair next to me.

"Hey Bella, are you OK?" she asks

"I'm fine" I say a little too harshly. Angela looks at me startled and furrows her brows behind her black frames.

"I'm sorry Ang, ignore me I'm just feeling a little run down" I back track feeling a little guilty, she was only being concerned

"It's OK I think everybody's feeling like it, it's that time of year" she says smiling. I smile back at her knowing full well she's the last person I should be snapping at.

"Yea, there must be something going around" I glance at the time and see it's almost time for me to go home.

"So you got any plans for Thanksgiving?" she asks.

"Nope I'll probably be working"

"Well, if you want after your done here you can come round to my house. We have a bit of a party on Thanksgiving, some food and drinks. It's not a huge thing, just some friends and family, I've invited Alice too." I look at Angela surprised and humbled that she's invited me to her house. I take a quick look into her thoughts "…Alice will be there so she'll know someone; she's the kindest doctor at this place. I hope she comes, it will be so good to see her outside of the hospital, in a different setting." I smile at her glad there's no ulterior motives.

"I'd love to Ang, thank you. I could bring a bottle of wine or some pie" I say trying to think of things people bring when invited to someone's home.

"That'll be great Bella, I'll text you my address later" she says as she gets up and leaves.

I've never been the type to have a lot of friends as being able to hear their thoughts you're able see the scowl behind the smile. But I'm happy that I seem to be making some genuine friends here. I sign out of the computer and collect the post op notes putting them back in the filing draw and start getting ready to go home.

I pull up to the apartment and park my car, turning everything off, I open the car door and get out shutting and locking it behind me. I walk up to the building when all of a sudden I'm overcome with the sensation that I'm being watched. I drop my mental shield and look around but I don't hear anything that would suggest someone is watching me. I shake off the feeling and head inside, I'm probably just tired, and it has been a long day.

I reach the apartment door and unlock it stepping in, glad to be home. I breathe in the smell of oregano and melted cheese and look over towards the kitchen, where a huge bouquet of red roses and white lilies stand. I walk over to find Alice bent down taking an oven dish out with what looks like lasagne. My stomach growls very loudly.

"Was that you stomach?" asks Alice looking at me with wide eyes as she puts the dish on the counter.

"Yea sorry, it smells delicious in here" I turn towards the flowers and smell them "These are lovely by the way, where did you get them from?"

"I didn't get them from anywhere, they got delivered this afternoon for you" she says.

"For me?" I ask her looking confused; no one ever sends me flowers.

"There's a note attached to the vase" I look underneath the huge bouquet to see a small envelope with my name on it, attached. I pull it off the vase and open it up and taking the card out I turn it over and read the message.

I'm sorry, please call me

E

Xxxx

"What does it say Bella?" Alice asks. I hand her the note and swiftly pick up the huge heavy bouquet and walk over to the trash can in the corner. I take off the lid and drop the bouquet and vase in it with a resounding 'thud' as it hits the bottom. I place the lid back on and turn towards Alice.

"Any of that lasagne going spare?" I ask her

"Bella…" but I already know what she's going to say I can hear her mind "those flowers were really pretty, he must have pulled some strings to get them sent out on a Sunday, damn he must have really upset her"

"If thinks he can buy me a flowers and I'll just forget about the way he treated me last night, he can thing again" I tell her. God damn it. I've managed to go the whole day, the whole day without thinking about him, not once. Then as soon as I get home. Boom. He back in my mind.

Alice screws up the card and throws it on the counter and starts sharing out the lasagne. She brings the plates to the table and I take a seat.

"Thank you" I say, as my sudden temper tantrum subsides.

"If you want we could make a doll out of him and stick pins into it" she spurts out randomly. I look at her and we both cackle like a pair of witches.

"I'll think about it" I say finally, with that in mind we tuck into our tasty lasagne and conversation quickly moves turns to Angela's party.

After dinner I help Alice clear up and we watch some TV together. After a while I excuse myself and head to bed telling her I'll see her tomorrow at work as she doesn't start as early as me. I get myself ready for bed then slide into it under the covers, switching off the lamp, I rest my back against the pillows willing my mind not to analyse why he would be sending me flowers. I don't care either way, he had his chance. With that I fall asleep the events of my long day catching up with me.

Monday morning and I'm up dressed, showered and standing in the kitchen making some coffee in my travel mug. I notice some rubbish in the counter so I pick up and head over to the trash can. I lift the lid and look to see the bouquet of flowers in there. I let out a huff and quickly remove the bag out of the trash can and tie it up. I grab my coat and bag and travel mug and carry the trash bag out of the apartment.

Once outside I head over to the dumpster and dispose of the trash bag. I walk over to the car unlock it and get inside. I put my bag and travel mug down and start the engine. I back out of the car lot and reverse into the main road. As I drive toward the hospital I notice that I'm still clutching the bit of rubbish I found on the counter. I open it up to see that it is the note from, Him.

"Oh for fucksake" I say loudly as I wind down the car window and throw the note out forcefully, only for it to blow back into the car and land on the passenger seat. "You've got to be kidding me right now?" I slow the car down to a stop as I approach some traffic lights on red. I pick up the note and rip it up into small pieces and throw it out the open window. They land on the floor as the lights turn green and I carry on driving to work.

Once at the hospital I head up to the doctors suite and get changed into my dark blue scrubs and put on my white lab coat which has words Dr Swan MD embroidered on one side and Chicago Memorial hospital on the other. I grab my stethoscope and place them behind my neck. Now I'm a Doctor. I put my clothes away in my locker and leave the suite to go and find one of the night shift residents to give me handover.

Four hours into my shift I get a page from Dr Morgan. I head up into his office to see him sat behind his desk looking through some paperwork. I knock on the door to get his attention. He looks at me and motions for me to sit down. I walk over to his desk and take a seat; I've got no idea why his called me up here so I decide to take a peek into his mind "…two million dollars, the amount of things we'll be able to buy for the hospital with that kind of money".

"You wanted to see me Sir" I say still wondering why I'm here.

"Yes Bella, I have some very exciting news. A benefactor is looking to donate two million dollars to the hospital, with a significant amount being given to the cardio-thoracic unit" he exclaims excitedly

"Oh my god Sir, that's amazing" I say feeling his excitement. That is such a generous amount of money. We'd be able to get that 3D printer now, which could help us in diagnosing hundreds of patients. Dr Morgan gets up and walks around the desk towards me.

"The benefactor is up in the boardroom with the Chief of Surgery, I think he wants to become a member of the board. Chief Willis wants us to introduce ourselves" I stand up and we walk to the door and out of his office and down the hall towards the boardroom.

"Who is the benefactor, do you know him or her? I ask Dr Morgan as we approach the boardroom door.

"Nope, I have no idea. But I know we are going to need to impress whoever it is, butter them up a little" he says. He pushes the door open and beckons me to enter first. I step into the large room, that has a huge mahogany table in the center, big enough to fit 14 people around it. At the head of the table I see Chief Willis talking to someone to his right, the chair is facing with its back towards us, so we're not able to see who it is. Chief Willis looks over at us as Dr Morgan enters and closes the door behind him.

"Here they are" Chief Willis says standing up and gesturing towards us, as we make our way down to meet them.

The benefactor gets up and turns around and my heart stops.

I would recognize those blazing emerald green eyes anywhere.

I carry on walking towards him even though every fiber of my being wants to run in the opposite direction. His wearing a light navy blue tailored suit and his blonzy blonde hair is perfectly fashioned as it was on Saturday night. In the natural daylight coming in from the windows I can see his cuts on his face has healed up a bit more with the bruising around his eye and cheek only being a light purple color. He smiles that crooked smile at him which I return with a scowl.

"Dr Swan, Dr Morgan I'd like to introduce to you, Mr Edward Cullen" Chief Willis exclaims proudly once we're in front of them.

"It's a pleasure to meet you" Dr Morgan says eagerly shaking his hand.

"Likewise" Edward replies in a voice as smooth as silk. He lets go of Dr Morgan's hand and turns towards me with his hand outstretched, staring intensely into my eyes. What I wouldn't give to hear his thoughts right now. Keeping with the charade I quickly shake his hand to which we both receive and electric shock. I'm the first to let go as Edward looks down at his now empty hand a little surprised.

"Mr Cullen would like to donate a large sum of money towards the hospital, in particular the cardio thoracic unit" Chief Willis explains.

"Why?" I snap looking straight at him. Dr Morgan and Chief Willis turn to look at me with wide eyes. Edward just smirks at me his eyes shining and crinkling in the corners.

"I've recently taken a particular interest in the cardio thoracic specialty and in the hospital itself, I think you have fine establishment here and I wish to not only to donate some money, but to become a part of it" he says gracefully.

"Yes and we're so grateful that you choose Chicago Memorial Hospital as we would love for you to become a member of our board" Chief Willis proclaims to Edward, shooting me a stern look.

"Why us? What makes us so special?" I spit out before I have time to stop myself.

I listen in on the thoughts of the Chief and Morgan.

"What is she doing? Is she deliberately trying to ruin this?" the Chief thinks with an expression that says just as much on his face.

"What's the matter with her? Don't provoke him" Dr Morgan says mentally.

"Well Dr Swan, why don't you give me a tour? Show me how special this hospital is?" his emerald eyes never leaving mine

"I'll be able to do that with you Mr Cullen" interjects Chief Willis desperately

"I'd be most humbled if you, Dr Swan could show me around" Edward says dismissing Chief Willis's offer.

"I'm busy" I say simply

"Don't worry, 'I'll push back your surgeries and see to your patients" Dr Morgan chimes in placing a hand on my shoulder and giving it a steady squeeze. Edward looks at Dr Morgan's hand on my shoulder with a stone cold expression, visibly see his jaw clench down. I look at Dr Morgan, trying to communicate with my eyes how much I really don't want to do this, he squeezes my shoulder a little harder and I see out of the corner of my eye Edward steps forward a little.

"Fine, I'd be happy too" I lie and Dr Morgan lets go of my shoulder and beams at me.

I turn round back out the office and can hear Edward behind following me, his stare practically boring a hole in the back of my head.

"See you soon, Mr Cullen" Chief Willis calls to him as I open the door and walk out of the boardroom into the hall Edward following close behind. Once the door is shut I round on Edward.

"What are you doing here?" I say with as much venom as I can muster.

"Did he hurt you?" he asks with harsh expression on his face completely derailing me.

"Who?"

"That guy" he motions with his thumb to the door "your shoulder, did he hurt you?"

"What? No. What are you doing here?" I ask again placing both hands on my hips

"I wanted to donate some money to the hospital and to see you" he states as though it's the most obvious thing in the world.

I start walking down the hall completely exasperated, Edward follows keeping in stride.

"I've been trying to call you" he admits "I want to apologize for Saturday the way I spoke to you it was… unacceptable I realize that now. I'm sorry" I look over at him trying to make out if his being sincere. I try looking into his mind in vain but nothing, not a thing.

"Whatever Edward" I say, as we make our way to the elevators. I press the button and we wait in silence for it to arrive.

As usually it's full but there's just enough room for us. I get in and squeeze into the corner with my back against the side of the elevator. Edward gets in and stands in front of me his body flush against mine. He puts his arm around my waist holding me close between him and the side of the elevator. I lift my head up to look at him, his face mere inches away from mine. My heart beats quicken as I'm transfixed upon his emerald eyes, watching as his pupils dilate. The ding of the elevator sounds out and I'm brought back to reality.

"This is us" I say even though this is not the floor I had intended to get off on, but I needed to put some space between me and him before my mind turns to complete mush. I make to head out spurring Edward to release me and get off the elevator before the doors close. He removes his hand and backs out of the elevator and for some reason I'm left feeling empty.

I get out of the elevator and start making my way down the hall towards the pediatric unit.

"Did you get my flowers?" Edward probes beside me.

"Yes, the trash can loved them" I deadpan, scanning my ID badge on the box on the wall and opening the double doors. He follows behind me smiling and shaking his head.

"You are a challenge Dr Swan"

"I'm not a game Mr Cullen, I'm a person with feelings"

We carry on down the hall till we get to the NI-CU, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

"Wait here" I tell him and enter the unit to find him a long sleeved hospital gown. I find one and head back out.

"I'm going to have to ask you to put this on" I say to him holding up the gown. He looks at me for a moment but something in my face must have told him that I'm serious. He puts it on and I tie up the strings on the back.

We enter the unit with over a dozen incubators each one holding a very sick baby. I find some alcohol gel and squirt two pumps into mine and Edwards' hands.

"This is the Neonatal Intensive Care unit, where we keep all the new born babies who are sick or born with some sort of birth defect who need to be monitored" I see him looking around at the unit and incubators. "Your money would be able to provide the hospital with more incubators, like these so we would be able to treat more sick babies" I say moving towards an incubator with a baby inside.

"Bella" I hear my name being called from behind me and see Alice walking up to me. I smile at her as she approaches. "Come to check on baby Joseph? His been doing great since you operated on him yesterday"

"You operated on him" Edward pipes up looking at me then to the tiny infant in the incubator.

"Yes, Joseph was born with a hole in his heart, stopping him from being able to circulate blood properly on his own. I mended it yesterday" I told him. He looked at me in awe

"She's amazing isn't she?" Alice tells him

"Yes she is" he replies

"Mr Cullen, this is Alice Brandon one of our most valuable pediatric nurses here at Chicago Memorial" I say introducing her.

"Aww she's only saying that because I'm the best roommate ever and I make a mean hot coco" she say winking at me, I smile back at her as she outstretches her hand to shake with his; he takes it and shakes it, smiling politely.

"Alice, this is Mr Cullen, Mr Edward Cullen" recognition dawns on her face.

"Oh" she says quickly dropping his hand.

"Mr Cullen wants to donate some money to the hospital, I'm just giving him a tour" I tell her

"Yea I bet he does" Alice replies cocking her eyebrow at him and folding her arm.

"It's really nice to meet you Alice, how's your cat doing?" he asks sneakily

"Oh his great, I bought him this really cute Santa outfit, you know for the holidays" she gushes excitedly.

"Ahem" I sound pointedly, never mind your cat Alice, this guys in the dog house remember. She looks over at me and I give the look.

"But yea his alright" she says bored. Just then baby Joseph starts stirring so I put my hand through the hole in his incubator and with my fore finger very gently touch his tiny little fingers. His hand opens up and latches on to it and suddenly calms.

"Hey little man, you did so well yesterday. You can grow up now to big and strong" I whisper to him smiling at him, I glance over at Edward who is staring down at me with an unreadable expression on his face.

"Bella I…."

I know, I'm bad...
So there we have it Chapter 6
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xxxxx