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Bella reached in her messenger bag pulling out her phone as it rang.

"Alice, how are you?" she said in a light, breezy voice.

"Don't you Alice me you Benedict Arnold." She replied

"Now, Alice, don't you think that's a bit much." She asked as she rolled her eyes looking at Angela.

"I told you she would be upset with you if she found out." Angela whispered so Alice wouldn't hear on the line. She wasn't close friends with Alice, but she knew her well enough to know that Alice loved nothing more than shopping.

"NO! Why didn't you tell me? I would have come with you." Alice pouted over the line.

"First, you never asked where I was going.-"

"Minor technicality; you knew you were going to the mall when I called and you didn't say a word." She protested.

Bella ignored her comment, "Second, I'm only meeting Angela for lunch, nothing more. Third, I do not want to spend the rest of my day in the mall being dragged around to an endless amount of stores." Bella finished as she Angela reached the food court.

"How does she always know anyway?"

"She's the Great and Powerful Alice." Bella snickered as she covered the receiver.

"I heard that, Missy!" Bella just laughed. "But, Bella." she whined dragging out the syllables of her name, "There is a sale and I wanted to go."

"You can still go, Alice." Bella said as she pointed out what she wanted from Golden Buddha.

"Really?" she asked. Bella could only imagine Alice bouncing up and down.

"Yes, really Alice." She said with a small chuckle, "But without me." She finished seriously.

"Bella you're no fun."

"No, I'm plenty fun, Alice, contrary to what you believe. I just don't find shopping fun. I'll call you later."

"Fine, bye." She hung up.

"Is she very mad?" Angela asked as they sat down at a table to eat.

"You know Alice. She's probably forgotten about it by now. Thinking about my next big makeover." Bella laughed and Angela joined in.

"Mike was looking for you today." Angela announced as she peaked up from her plate with a smirk.

"I don't know what for; he knows I work from home." Bella said annoyed. "Why he can't seem to take a hint, I'll never understand."

Angela just laughed at Bella as she became further annoyed. She always found it funny how Mike was relentless at getting Bella to go out with him. When she was in the office he basically followed her around instead of doing his work.

"Maybe you should just give him a chance. He seems nice enough." She commented as they got up from the table to dump their trays.

"You know I don't date. And if I did, he would be the la-" Bella stopped mid sentence as she felt two sets of small iron grips around her legs.

Bella looked down to see two small bronze haired boys gripping onto her legs tightly. She bent down and ran her fingers through their hair, but they didn't respond.

"Do you know them, Bella?" Angela asked curiously.

"No. I've never seen them before. Look, I know you have to get back to work, so I'll find their parents and call you later, okay?"

"Sure. Later, Bella." Angela said as she walked away.

After Angela walked away, Bella looked back down to the boys holding her legs in an iron vice. She ran her hands through their hair again studying them a little. She didn't know what to say as they held onto her for dear life.

"Hey there. What are your names?" she asked in a soothing tone. When they didn't answer she looked around to see if she could see anybody looking for the two small boys.

She didn't see anyone that looked like they lost their children.

"Can you tell me how old you are?" she coaxed rubbing their heads softly. She got no answer from either of them they just gripped her tighter.

"Did you lose your mommy?"

"We don't have a mommy." The one on the left said.

Their grips around her legs loosened as they both looked up at her. Their bright green eyes shinning up at her. She thought that they were the most adorable boys she had ever seen. She was instantly taken with just one look.

Bella reached down to take one of them in her arms, but all he did was hugged her tighter and start to cry. After a couple tries she finally pried him off her and picked him up into her arms; he stopped crying realizing she wasn't going to leave him.

After she got the first little boy settled she reached her free hand down for the other one. With a little coaxing, she finally had both boys in her arms.

"Where are you taking us?" Asked the one in her left arm. Bella thought he seemed to be the least shy.

"To find your daddy."

"Please don't leave us." Cried the shy on the right.

Bella sighed. She gazed at their faces for a moment. They looked to be about three or four years old and had messy bronze hair. When she looked into their eyes, she saw hope staring back at her through vibrant emerald eyes. But she also saw sadness; sadness that she might leave them. She couldn't bear to see either one of them so sad and crying.

"How about some ice cream, hmmm?" their faces brightened up and she could see that they each had one adorable little dimple and the cutest crooked smiles she'd ever seen.

She went inside Brusters and got the boys each a scoop of ice cream. After she paid for it, she sat with the boys at a table in the front of the ice cream parlor. She figured that if anyone was looking for them, at least they'd be able to see them out front.

"What's your name?"

"Bella." she replied sweetly. She was surprised he had been so bold as to ask because he was the quietest out of the two, "What's yours?"

"I'm Kyle and he's Kevin. We're twins." Answered the more out going one, she assumed.

"Well it's very nice to meet you both. Where is your daddy?"

"We don't know. We were looking at the toys then he wasn't there anymore. We looked everywhere, but we couldn't find him." Kyle answered as a tear escaped his eyes.

Bella leaned forward to wrap her arms around both of them, "Don't cry, we will find your daddy when you finish. Why don't we sing a song. Would you like that?" they both nodded eagerly still eating their ice cream.

"Pick a number."

"Seven!" They said at the same time.

"Okay, seven little monkeys jumping on a bed, one fell off and bumped his head. Momma called the doctor and the doctor said," The boys joined in with her, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

Just as they got to two little monkey, Bella heard a distressed and relieved velvet voice call out to the boys.

"Kyle, Kevin. Where have you been?"

When Bella looked up she saw the most beautiful and angry man she had ever seen. He was Adonis, alive and in front of her. His height had he craning her neck to see his beautifully concerned and angry face capped under a wild mound of fiery hair that matched the boys. Relieved emeralds frantically searched his childrens body's for harm. His muscles flexed as he shifted. Standing high above her. Towering.

He was built nicely.

"Hi, daddy." The boys said in unison not moving.

"You." He said looking at Bella. "You took my boys. Arrest her or something," he demanded turning to the mall rent-a-cop standing next to him. Bella just looked at him incredulously.

"First place you went wrong, I didn't kidnap your boys. They grabbed me about an hour ago and wouldn't let go. If I had taken them, would I be so stupid as to do so, then sit in the front of and ice cream store with them?" she asked expectantly. He just looked at her for a moment, when he didn't answer she continued.

"Second, it's not my fault you can't keep up with them and I looked around this area," she said gesturing slightly with her hand, "for you, but I was not going to go traipsing up and down the mall looking for you. And when a place as large as this doesn't have a lost child center, stay in one place and they'll find you."

"She's right you know?" the rent-a-cop said. Edward just looked at him incredulously.

"My dad was a cop," She paused to look at his name tag, "Frank."

"Was?" Frank asked

"Died a few years ago." She said simply

"Sorry, Bella." the boys both said

"It's okay. He saved a lot of lives that day. He's a hero." She said reaching over to clean their faces.

"Anyway, I bought them an ice cream and waited. I don't know what you do at home so I got them sugar free to be on the safe side."

"Excuse me a moment." Bella said as she retrieved the phone that was ringing in her messenger bag,

"Hello."

"No. That goes to Newport…Yes I know…No, I'm not done…It's not due for six more days…I received it yesterday…Well, I can't help you I'm sorry…You'll have to take that up with Johnson. Call HR...Okay good bye then!"

Bella took a deep breath, "Unbelievable."

"Is everything okay?"

"Yes, everything is fine Mr.…"she trailed off

"Cullen, Edward Cullen." He replied

"Well, 007, it was nice to meet you. Your boys are darling, keep up with them." She leaned over and kissed the boys on the forehead and left. Edward turned and watched as she walked out the mall.

Never in his life had he met such a woman, and he let her wall right out of it. He thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met as he looked after her. She was short, a little over five feet he guessed, deep brown eyes set in her heart shaped face surrounded by luscious mahogany hair that reached passed the middle of he back.

But what got him the most was how she was with his boys. She seemed to have a magical ness about herself that his boy, nor himself for that matter, could resist. His boys had never taken to someone so quickly.

She was a mystery to him and he hoped that he would see her again.

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