The weeks slowly passed and Carlisle was too busy to think about anything. He was in the middle of the term at school, the students had to be tested and so he spent every evening grading their essays, quizzes, exams and it seemed never-ending. So many times he was playing with the cell phone and wanted to call Bella, but he didn´t do it.

Last time he already had the number in the phone and wanted to click on the green button. Suddenly, he heard a ring at the door. His neighbour´s TV went wrong and the old man came to ask Carlisle whether he could help him. He didn´t refuse.

When he came back an hour later, it was already too late to call her. He didn´t want her to feel uncomfortable because of his phone calls around 11pm. Some people regard it as impolite.

He often thought about her, but he was really busy these days. From Monday till Friday he was usually at school, those students who didn´t pass the written exams were coming to his office to answer additional questions.

During the weekends he was constantly on the phone with Edward and helped him with organisation of his concerts and necessary promotion.

Edward didn´t want any big shows as it used to be 10 years ago.

He preferred small cosy clubs instead just with piano and few musicians together.

Finally the last Friday full of exams and consultations were over and Carlisle was looking forward to the upcoming weekend.

It has been few days since he last saw Isabella and he began missing her really much. He knew it wasn´t fair from him not to call her and presumed that she would be angry. He planned to call as soon as possible, still held the idea in his mind.

On Friday afternoon he opened the internet and logged in his account on Facebook.

He didn´t go there very often, after the break up with his ex he almost refused to use the FB at all. Carlisle and Claire had many common friends and he was not willing to explain anything to each of them.

When he looked at the screen he could see the message window blinking at him like crazy.

Ten messages from Claire and two from their friends. He didn´t want to read them at all. He went finally over the first one and deleted all of them. Claire begged him to come back, she wanted to talk about everything. But he didn´t want to do that. Not anymore.

Claire worked as a PR manager for one recording company.

Carlisle met her while he did some business concerning Edward´s new CD many years ago. Now, almost 10 months after their break up and his escape from Chicago, he hoped to organise his own life again with no more Claire in it.

Another message came from their common friend Tom.

He liked the guy, they had gone to various restaurants with him and his wife.

In the message Tom was curious about Carlisle´s new position and so he decided to reply. Tom was online at the same time and they had a pretty long online chat.

Isabella was also busy at work. On Monday she came to work in a very nice mood.

She spent the Saturday lunch with a very nice guy, she liked his looks. The blond hair seemed to fit him very much and she hoped they would meet again and perhaps go out. She smiled as Bianca came in the office in the morning.

She remembered that Bianca´s oldest daughter Lucia came home for the weekend and was curious about her impressions from university.

"How is your daughter doing at the university?" She expected an exciting reaction but Bianca frowned a bit. That surprised her and asked: "What happened? I thought you said last week that she was satisfied with her studies."

Bianca nodded: "Yes, she is….. but would you believe this? They have a new professor for this term for anatomy I think and all I heard the whole weekend was…Dr. Cullen here…Dr. Cullen there…..Dr. Cullen this…..I had the feeling that all she cares for is some handsome blond Dr. Cullen…My daughter never had a crush on her teacher and this is too much even for me." Bella stared at her and couldn´t believe her own eyes.

Bianca´s daughter was a student of the guy that she adores too…First, she wanted to say everything to her colleague but now it was clear she would rather be silent. After the weekend spent with Lucia, Bianca wouldn´t surely understand her feelings for Dr. Cullen.

Bianca opened the window and asked: "What about your weekend? You smiled when I entered the room so it must have been something really cool…."

Bella waved the hand: "No, nothing special…I talked to my parents, my dad stays for few days with my mother and my older sister… so he didn´t pick up the phone. I spent the Saturday sunbathing on the beach and in the evening David phoned. We worked the whole Sunday preparing some materials for today´s meeting."

Bianca sat back on her chair: "sooo…away with the weird Dr. Cullen…. let´s get into some work…. I´ll give you my part to look at..."

Few more days passed. She hoped he would contact her. Every afternoon she was walking home from work imagining of how they would go out. She knew deep inside that these "dreams" would never become reality because he has no interest. He just wanted to have fun.

When nothing happened, she lost the hope. She was disappointed because she really liked him but on the other hand she was happy that they had gone just to one lunch. If they did 'something more, it would be much harder to forget. And if he doesn´t want to see her, it´s his problem.

On Saturday she was sitting at her laptop logged in Skype and talking to Leanne. And because Leanne knew her little sister too well, she could see that something happened: "Come on, Bella, tell me….you know that I will get it out of you anyway…"

Bella smiled sadly: "Yes, I know….I just…." she wanted to finish but suddenly she could hear noise next to Leanne. On the laptop screen in the web camera she saw her mum and dad sitting on the sofa next to Leanne. She got excited: "Mum? Dad? It is so great to see you again…I miss you all…"

Her mother wiped the tear out of her face: "Hi sweetie, we miss you too….so much.. How are you? How is work? Tell us everything….." Bella began talking about her colleagues and about the life close to the beach. She tried to sound as persuasive as possible. She didn´t want her parents to think that she is unhappy when this is what she had always wanted.

"I like it here really, everything is so nice. People are so warm-hearted and my boss is a very nice guy. I like the way he talks to us and he makes us a good team. I like it, belive me…."

Charlie added: "We do believe you, sweetie….Just…. we miss you all here." Bella´s mother suddenly held his hand and Bella wondered.

She could see Leanne´s expression and hoped that her assumptions are correct. Charlie continued: "Bells, we wanted to tell you…that me and your mum have just decided….that we will try it again…..second chance….."

Bella felt an immediate happiness: "Wow, that is wonderful news…..congratulations…..I´m so happy for you both…..I wish I could see you soon…"

Her mum commented: "We´ll figure out something sweetie….. It´s gonna be your birthday soon…."

Bella replied: "Yes, mum, I know …."

They were talking for few minutes more and then Leanne remained alone at her laptop: "So Bella….come on…..tell me…..what´s wrong?"

Bella started slowly: "Well, I met somebody…he is a doctor… and you know him…we met him many years ago at ER. You fell on the ground after you got the inline – skates…remember?"

Leanne was lost in her thoughts but then she realised what Bella had just said and stared: "What? You do not mean that arrogant blond mentoring doctor, do you?"

Bella nodded silently. Leanne still couldn´t get it:

"I thought you had some good taste to guys…."

Bella defended herself: "Yes, I do….he is very handsome. He has grown older and looks really good….."

Leanne began smiling: "I see…..so what has the moron done this time?"

Bella frowned: "Don´t talk about him like that… he was very kind…..he helped me and invited me for lunch…"

Leanne grinned: "So where is the problem?"

Bella hesitated: "He promised to call and it´s been more than two weeks…." And wanted to continue.

Leanne seemed to understand and finished: "But he hasn´t called since then and you feel sad…." Bella nodded and a single tear has fallen over her face.

Leanne wanted to make her sister smile again and asked: "And what if you…. contact him?"

Bella replied: "What?...No, no way…I´m not going anywhere…"

Leanne disagreed: "Look, you have nothing to lose; you will know if he means it after you both talk…..come on, it´s just up to you…."

Bella was uncertain about it but Leanne could always persuade her: "Bella, just go to him, you said he was a doctor. So you know where to go….. go there... or I swear, I´ll buy a plane ticket and go to his private practice a tell him what I think. It wouldn´t be for the first time since we have already had a very "nice" talk…."

Bella giggled when she imagined Leanne´s threat: "OK, I will go there….I´ll try to do it….and I´ll let you know the result."

This caused a real smile on her sister´s face: „ All right, sister, take your time….I´ll be waiting for your report….And I´m sure it is going to be fine…" Bella just shrugged.

In the evening when she went to bed, she was still hesitating about it. The "former" Bella would not be able to do such thing. But Leanne was right, she had to try to know what happened. She had better mood also because of the news the parents told her. She was so happy for them. Both girls were suffering because of the divorce even though their parents still got on very well.

In the morning she took out her diary, checked the necessary meetings. On Thursday she could go to the university to find his office and talk. She planned to take the afternoon free and was looking forward to that. She was sure there would be no relationship. But she was just curious what she had done wrong. And at the end of the sisters´ talk Leanne mentioned one important piece of advice. What if he lost her number and couldn´t find it?

Carlisle was on the way to his work on Thursday. He had one class and then two hours full of consultations. After them he was already decided to call Bella. He hoped she would forgive for not calling her for two weeks. The class was over and the way to his office he met the head of the department who wanted to discuss some topic. Therefore he didn´t get to his office in time.

His friend Tom met his ex girlfriend Claire and revealed her the information about the university at which Carlisle teaches. She immediately decided to go there and gain him back no matter what. Right from the airport she travelled to the medical university. She found the office pretty easily and the colleague of Carlisle who was just coming out of the office let her in. She told him about their engagement and showed him the diamond ring.

He saw no reasons in suspecting her, he just wondered why Carlisle hadn´t told his colleagues earlier. She sat down on the sofa and waited for him to come.

Meanwhile Bella was standing in front of the university building and with the help of few students she managed to find out where his office was. She came closer to the door and saw his name on the door label.

She felt the excitement and hoped it all would turn out positively for both of them. She knocked and expected him to open. Instead of Carlisle she could see a tall thin black hair woman with heavy make up watching her from head to toe.

She wanted to say something but the woman replied: "I apologise, but Dr. Cullen won´t be doing any consultation hours today… Please come tomorrow or after weekend. I would like to take my fianceé out to the restaurant for some nice diner." And she closed the door immediately.

Bella was stumped, she would expect anything but that. That is certainly the reason he hasn´t called. He is engaged to this "Queen" She was so beautiful, so sexy and attractive. Bella knew she had no chance against such woman. She walked home slowly and wrote down a message for Leanne. She desperately needed to talk to her.

Carlisle was heading towards his office and hoped that finally he would go to see Bella soon.

He was missing her smile and blushing every time he said something nice to her. He was hesitating about the restaurant they would go to and got completely lost in his thoughts which were all connected only to one brown-haired young woman.

When he took the handle of the door, he was surprised that it was unlocked. As soon as he opened, he was shocked from seeing his Claire on his sofa. He closed the door and said with anger in his voice: "What are you doing here? It is over….."

She stood up and went closer to him: "Carlisle, please….. I thought we could talk…."

She went closer to him and touched his arm: "Honey, please…..let me explain….Ok, I did a very big mistake, I admit…..But I love you still so much….. please….let´s go for a diner and talk about us?"

She slowly moved in front of him and waited for his reaction. He moved her hand away and said with disgust: "Claire, it´s over, if you had loved me, you would have never cheated on me. Sorry, it doesn´t work like this in the world of love. For me cheating is simply unacceptable…." He turned around and opened her the door: "Please go now…." She wanted to move to him and hugged him but he refused with the hand: "It´s over….go now….bye".

He didn´t wait for her reaction and closed the door immediately.

It was too much for him, he sat down on the chair. He put the head in his hands and had to recuperate from the sudden situation.

He could expect something like that, when he told Tom the place where he teaches.

But on the other hand he was happy that it was over. Claire was away from his life. It was time to begin something new, finally.

Leanne logged to Skype and was shocked when she saw her sister: "Bella, come on…"

She wiped the tears: "Yes, I know, I shouldn´t cry, he isn´t worth it… I should have expected that something was wrong."

Leanne was silent and so Bella continued: "Look, I have almost believed somebody who is engaged…. And the woman was really beautiful, so glamorous, and foremost sexy..., how could I ever compare to somebody like that?"

Leanne disagreed: "Look, sister, I don´t know what you think of yourself, but stop talking like that. You´re beautiful as you are. And... those who cannot see it, are idiots."

Bella smiled: "Thanks. But you know, I don´t want to be just the mistress of somebody."

Leanne nodded: "I know, sweetie, I know…."

Bella replied: "At least I don´t have to worry anymore what I did wrong."

Leanne agreed: "Exactly, because you did nothing wrong… He did….He lied to you…So don´t make any remorse. It was his fault. Not yours…"

Bella agreed but she was still sad. She was angry with him for not telling her the truth. The feeling was growing inside her and she was angry at herself that again she trusted Carlisle. In the end he was the same as other guys she met.

Later at night Bella went to bed and was thinking about it all. She never expected he could be engaged, she still hoped that….

When she arrived to Barcelona few weeks ago, she made a promise that she would be happy even single. She should return to this phase and keep it in her heart.

Then nothing can hurt her as this man who she really liked even though they spent together just one afternoon.

In the morning she was doing some paperwork for Monday´s presentation.

As soon as she finished after lunch, she took her cell phone and planned to text her sister. She wanted to thank her for yesterday´s talk, they finished really late at night. No matter what she was so grateful to have her best friend in her sister.

She always understood her or at least tired. She was playing with the phone and suddenly she saw an uknown number. She immediately accepted: "Isabella Swan, speaking…"

As soon as she heard the voice, she felt deep shock: "Hi, Bella, this is Carlisle….I hope you still remember me." She couldn´t say anything, she was just stuck. She cried because of him few times, met his fiancée and he just calls her like that. She didn´t understand this at all.

When she didn´t say anything, he continued:"I apologise for not calling earlier, I was busy, sorry….would you accept my invitation for diner? Could we meet on the beach in thirty minutes?"

She was still in shock: "What? Yes, I mean…diner? Ok…. I´ll be there…."

And he smiled: "Ok, you won´t regret…so see ya…." And hang up. She was still looking confused at her cell phone. Could it be him? What game is he playing with her? She didn´t get it but her curiosity pushed her to the beach for the meeting.

On the way to the beach she was hesitating. Should she really go? She promised, yes, but he wasn´t telling the truth either.

Now he calls after two weeks, invites her for a date and her? She goes there…..She should tell him immediately what she thinks about him, turn around and leave home.

But these strong resolutions slowly disappeared as she was coming closer to the meeting point.

As she was coming closer, she could see a large blanket, a basket with meal and Carlisle sitting in the middle of the blanket. When he could see her, he stood up and headed to her. He looked absolutely georgeous.

She couldn´t suddenly move her eyes of him. She had to smile when she saw his beautiful face.

He greeted her with the kiss on her hand and smiled: "So you came…."

He led her to sit down and began taking out things out of the basket. He was really charming, she was so fascinated. He was so gentle, giving her a piece of grapes to taste as the appetizer.

She felt wonderfully as she was watching him. She took another piece from the plate and put also one to his mouth. He looked her deep in the eyes and couldn´t resist to move closer to taste her sweet lips.

They touched and she loved it completely, he was so adorable. She loved being hugged around her waist.

His hands felt so good and she was feeling incredible in the arms of this man.

Despite how angry she was at him, he really could kiss perfectly.

She moved a bit away from him and he understood that she needs some time.

They finished meal by feeding each other and she admitted that she had never done anything so beautiful.

After the meal it was getting cold and so they stood up. He helped her up to her feet, packed everything into the basket and they headed for walk along the beach way. He was telling her about the students and their midterms because he wanted her to understand the reason why he didn´t call.

She felt sad because she knew that he wasn´t sincere. He didn´t mention his fiancée at all and that made her sad.

She didn´t know where they were going, she has never been in this part of the city.

She could see it was just close to the beach and she knew that probably she will need to call for a cab to take her home.

She didn´t want to get lost. Suddenly he stopped and looked into her eyes: "Would you like to go for a drink? We could have some wine.." She looked into his eyes and felt so fascinated by them.

She knew she shouldn´t go into his place but couldn´t help it.

She followed him into the house. He opened a bottle of wine and gave Bella a glass with the drink.

She tasted and it was really good. She was looking into his collection of CDs and noticed her favourite one from Shakira. She looked at him and he asked: "Have you found anything interesting?"

She handed him the CD, he looked closed and opened the lid. He gave the CD into the player and in few moments she could hear beautiful lyrics of her favourite song Underneath your clothes.

He came closer to Bella, took her glass away and looked at her: "Great choice of the song. I wouldn´t choose better myself. Wanna dance?" She looked at him and wondered, he had the ability to fool her completely.

She didn´t know how it happened but suddenly she had her hands around his neck and he put his on her hips.

He moved her closer to him and she didn´t protest. She had to must have made some spell on her to charm her, he made her do what he wanted. They moved slowly to the rhythm of the ballad and both enjoyed it completely.

This was something different from what she knew.

She had already danced with Jason in some club, but this was something else.

She felt so attracted to him, she wasn´t able to think clearly. Suddenly he gently pressed his lips on hers and moved her yet closer to him.

The music kept on playing and they were enjoying each other´s proximity. She felt completely breathless: "I must have fallen out of my mind" She thought inside her head and caressed his back.

He was also enjoying it as much as she did. He hoped that she could be the right one for a new relationship.

He wished she would be. He loved the way she reacted to his kisses, to his touch. It all felt just so natural.

He knew this was their second date and he should stop. But he couldn´t help it. He wanted her now. However, he wanted to wait for her impulse that she also wants more. He didn´t want to push her into something.

During the music he was moving with her to his bed not stopping their kisses.

She didn´t protest. He sat down on the bed looked at her with question in his eyes.

She didn´t hesitate too long, kissed him again and moved to the bed closer to him. He couldn´t resist and his fingers moved to her dress. He began opening it and revealed the beautiful soft skin. He moved his lips on her neck and began kissing the every inch of her young adorable body. Bella couldn´t help but moan. Somehow he knew where to touch her and it felt just so good. She didn´t stop him despite knowing this wasn´t right. She couldn´t stop him. This was really addictive and she never felt such passion with him. In the meantime she was holding him around the back touching gently every place moving slowly to his nipples. When all pieces of the clothes were down on the ground, she wanted to remind him about the protection. She didn´t want to do another silly thing. But as if he could hear her mind, he moved to the night table for the small box. The whole experience of their first lovemaking was so breathtaking for Bella. He was creating in her waves of passion she had never known and his every move was causing her indescribable feelings. She loved this. She could get used to this. This was definitely the best sexual experience in her life. He must have be an expert.

When she fell asleep, he was watching her. He fell in love with her and wanted them to be together.

He hoped that she feels the same for him, she seemed so pleased.

She might have forgiven him the delay in the phone call.

Perhaps from now on everything is going to be better. She was so beautiful, wonderful long brown hair, beautiful warm brown eyes and an adoring smile. He could watch her for days.

While falling asleep, he felt so nice, finally content with his life again after many months of loneliness. He hoped this princess could fulfil his life with happiness again.

Bella woke up in the early morning first not knowing where she was.

Then she remembered whose bed she spent the night in and also realised what happened.

She was angry at herself. So she did it, she slept with an engaged guy.

He is certainly going to get married soon and she let herself be fooled and she had sex with him. How could she be that stupid?

She should have kicked his ass at the beach and not spent the night with him. She must have gone completely crazy. She was disgusted with her own behaviour.

It was pretty early and she wanted to leave this place immediately. She sneaked out of the bed silently and began searching for her own clothing.

At that moment he woke up and looked at her yet a bit sleepy: "Sweetie, where are you going? I thought we could have breakfast together, talk and then go outside….."

He watched her with confused look and saw that she wanted to disappear immediately. She confirmed it when she said: "Look, it was a very nice night, but it was a mistake, it cannot happen again."

He wondered: "I had a feeling you liked it, I didn´t push you into anything."

She said, with anger in her voice: "It was a mistake, I should have never gone to your flat. It was a wrong, considering the fact that….we cannot be together because you have your commitments…."

He looked at her shocked with her tone of speech and reacted: "What are you talking about? I´m as perfectly single as you are…."

He nervously took his hand through his hair and in any other situation Bella would have seen this as very cute.

But now her anger prevailed inside her and she thought: "I must end this immediately and leave."

She was just putting on her jacket: "Look, I know that you are engaged so don´t lie to me….I hate that…"

He stood up and said louder: "I have no clue what you are talking about….I… I have no commitments at all; my last relationship ended almost 10 months ago when I lived in Chicago. You are the first woman in Europe I have been with…."

Bella looked at him and frowned.

His angry tone surprised her and she was sure that leaving is the best solution.

She decided to tell him about her experience: "You could be at least sincere to me, I came to talk to you to your office and there I spoke to your fiancée. She told me you are engaged…and she had the ring…she was tall, thin, sexy, black hair woman…. And she wore red dress." She added…

He was looking at her with anger and desperate.

He felt bad because she didn´t trust his words.

That disappointed him a lot. He already thought that they could have nice relationship but now he knew that was over. But as the last attempt to save the situation he wanted to explain his version.

If she accepts it, that was a question but he felt he needed to do that: "Look, Bella, I don´t know what she told you or not, but Claire was in my office few days ago. I don´t know how she got inside but our engagement was cancelled when I broke up with her. We broke up because she was having an affair with her boss…."

He was angry but also felt sad. Relationship without mutual trust is no relationship.

He wanted to be sincere in all ways. But she really hurt him too. What did she think? That he just went to bed with her just to enjoy himself?

From the expression of her face he could guess that she didn´t want to hear his defence, she had already decided.

For her it was just one terrible mistake and now searching for the way to get out.

Bella watched him but couldn´t do anything, her mind didn´t allow her.

She didn´t trust him, she saw the beautiful woman and couldn´t forget about her. He told her that he is not engaged but her mind didn´t accept it. She saw the woman, she spoke to her.

Why would she lie? No, this was just mistake.

She picked her purse and said: "Carlisle, I´m sorry…. I knew what I saw…. You just wanted to get me and you did… victory….but I won´t be going on in this.."

He stared at her: "Bella? How can you say something like that?"

She just shrugged: "Sorry, I need to go now, it will be the best for both of us."

She opened the door, didn´t wait for him as he wanted to run to her.

She left immediately and run away. He opened the door and shouted at her: "When you get calmer, you´ll realise that I was right. I´m not engaged. When you realise this, you know where you can find me...

And he closed the door with anger in his voice and sorrow in his eyes.

This wasn´t supposed to happen this way.