"Edward, you can't be alone forever. " Sara ran her hands through my hair, my head resting in her lap.

"Yes, I can."

"Edward, I want you to get your happily-ever-after. But you're not going to get it unless you try." She conplained.

"I don't know how to love anyone else but you. I just can't." I confessed.

"That's because you haven't tried."

"I don't want to try." I sighed and closed my eyes.

"Please, try for me." She begged.

"I don't know how."

"You will. Soon enough. Now get up. Your alarm is going off." She kissed my head.

I didn't even get a chance to ask her what she ment. I was awoken by my buzzing alarm, in a cold bed, just as I did every morning for the past year. I missed Sara. I missed her deeply. And I really wished I knew what she ment by "You will. Soon enough." I shook my head, desiding not to uselessly dwell on the fact, and get ready for today.

Since today wasn't my official first day, I dressed in khakis and a button up. There was no need to wear scrubs when I wasn't working untill tomorrow. I grabbed my coffee and climbed into my black Volvo. This thing was my baby. Black shiny paint, black leather interior, tinted windows. I was surprised I hand't gotten pulled over yet being mistaken as a drug lord.

I pulled out of my apartment garage and glanced to my left, noticing a small woman holding a young boy by his hand as she helped him into the car. She was moving rather quickly as she reached across and buckled his seatbelt and closed the door. I took a sip of my coffee as I tried to make my thoughts vanish. That could be Sara. Sara could have loved and had children whom she helping into the car, took to preschool, watched Saturday morning cartoons with. But when the doctors informed us that her brain cancer had spread into her brain stem, it was over. She lost hope in getting well. She died a week later.

I gripped steering wheel and looked at my wedding band. That band hadn't held meaning since last year. I only wore it because it was all I had left of Sara besides my memories and occasional dreams. I needed to remember her. I couln't forget. I was so afraid that if I took off this ring, I would forget. So it still held it's place on my finger.

"Please try for me." Her voice rang through my head as a reminder. She wanted me to try. So for her, I would try.

I parked my car in a space reletivly close to the entrence and turned the key to shut of the humming engine. I let my head rest against the back of my seat as I prepared myself. Taking off a wedding band shouldn't be this hard. In one swift movment, the band was of and sitting my cupholder. Before I could chage my mind, I got out of my car and locked it up.I walked inside quickly so I could get out of the coldness of November in Seattle.

After a quick hello to my father, I took the stairs to head down the cafateria. I needed to start from the ground up. I rounded the corner, not paying a lick of attemtion to where I was gong, I collided into a small fram.

"I'm sorry." We both spoke at the smae time.

I looked up from my feet to meet the young woman I had seen on my drive to work. Unable to get a close look at her then, I could now. Her eyes were brown and doe like, her lips a soft shade of pink. Her hair was brown and up close it had a red tint. It waved as it casscaded down her back and over her shoulder. She was unforgettingly beautiful.

"I'm so sorry." She spoke. "I'm running late, and I have to minutes to get up there." She pointed to a floor above us.

"Where do you work?" I asked.

"Pediactrics."

"Well tell them Edward Cullen kept you..."

"Bella." She held out her hand. "Bella Swan."

"Bella." I smiled and shook. "I'm sure they won't mind."

"If you say so." She smirked. "You new here?"

"Yes." I ran my hand through my hair. A nervous habbit. "I start officially tomorrow but I'm here today checking the place out."

"Does it check out?" She smiled and leaned on the hand rail.

"So far, yes." I nodded and did the same.

"I really should get up there." She sighed and stood straight.

"Yeah." I nodded.

She halfheartedly smiled and waved as she started climbing the stairs again. Try.

"Bella?" I called after her.

She turned around and smiled. "You're going to get me fired Cullen."

I smiled back and ran up a few steps to meet her. "I don't want to look like the new kid on the first day of school eating lunch by myself. Will you at least sit with me? You don't even have to talk to me."

She laughed and nodded. "As long as I don't have to talk to you." I liked the way it was so easy for me to make her laugh. I like the way her head tilted back a bit when she did and the way her eyes sparkled.

"Great." I started to walk back down. "Oh! What time it your lunch break?"

"Eleven!" She called back and dissapeard up the next fight of stairs.

I missed the sound of her voice already. This, I was not prepared for. I decided to change plans and headed up to Carlisle's office. I suddenly had to know everything about Bella.

"Edward. Back so soon?" He looked up from the chart on his desk.

"I need you to tell me everything you know about Bella Swan." I insisted and sat down in one of the leather chairs by his desk.

Bella's POV

"You're late." Alice's sing-song voice echoed in the break room.

I grabbed myself a cup of coffee leaned myself against the counter. "I know. It wasn't my fault. Edward Cullen held me up." I smirked. I don't know why I was smirking. Yeah sure he had the deepest green eyes I had ever seen, the most sexy tousled hair and the greatest body but someone like him, is taken.

She nearly choked on her coffee. "Edward Cullen?"

"Yeah." I wasn't sure wear she was going with this. "And I'm having lunch with him."

This time she did choke. "Damn." She wiped her mouth with a napkin. "Warn a girl. You do remember today is is Wednesday? Mason eats lunch with you today."

"Shoot." I sighed. "I guess he is eating with us." I shrugged.

A sly grin slid across her face.

"What?" I asked, taking a sip from my mug.

"Oh, nothing. It's just, you're having lunch with your son...and your new boss."

Now it was my turn to choke on the cofee.

"Alice. There is a patient in the waiting room. Bella, you too." Angela popped her head in.

"Thank's Ang." I called to her as she left to go back to her station.

"We'll talk more later." Alice winked and left to go meet her new patient. I still couldn't believe our new boss was so sexy...and so young. And probably so taken. I sighed and set my cup in the sink, leaving to go give a checkup to whom ever was waiting on me.