Bella meets a total stranger at the hottest club in Seattle... Edward.  What happens when he takes her home?

Tired of her mundane lifestyle, Isabella Swan casts aside her insecurities and lets her inner Siren free for one night... Edward Cullen never thought love was for him until he met a woman he could not forget or cease hungering for... One night changes the course of their lives and together they begin to forge a new path but will Edward's secret tear them apart?

After spending years in love with her best friend, Bella deals with heartache and learns to grow when he chooses another. 

My winning entry for the FanFicAholics Anon's 100 Pictures Contest.

Bella goes through the motions in life and finds herself always thinking about her past, her lost chance at love. Forces begin to compel her, but is she finally strong enough to go after the only thing she has ever truly wanted… even when that dream is farther out of reach than ever?

Excerpt:

“I don’t have any reason to break things off with you.  I know this must seem crazy.  I mean,” Edward had paused and jangled the keys he was staring at apparently hoping that they would give him some guidance, “we get along great.  I always knew we would..."

Edward had reached over as though he’d meant to tuck a lock of hair behind my ear, but I felt myself shift toward the side window. Lit in an olive hue from the latest Volvo’s dashboard glow, I couldn’t avoid his face, which was now mutely reflected on the glass of every window. It was the first time I hadn’t wanted to look at him. Ever.

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Edward and Bella have been best friends and roommates for four years, but now Edward is the only one in the apartment they used to share. What happened that made Bella leave and is she ever coming back? AU/AH Dirty Edward One Shot

When Jasper walks into her photography classroom, Bella knows nothing of his broken past. All she knows is what she feels: an immediate connection to a beautiful stranger. AH

Twenty-five year old obsessive compulsive Bella Swan agrees, rather reluctantly, to seek therapy for her habits as well as her sporadic bouts of depression after her father welcomes her into his home in Forks when her problems become too much for her mother to handle. But will her sudden attraction to a greasy, dirty, car mechanic intensify her already obvious phobias or will he be able to break down the barriers she has formed around herself?

Bella is in her first job for a Seattle magazine but her writing career isn't going to plan. In fact, nothing her life is exactly going to plan-including her relationship with Jacob. She's so busy trying to be what other people-and maybe ever she herself-expects that she has trouble dealing with who she actually is. A chance meeting with Edward on the one day she's set aside to be herself starts to change things.

An abusive relationship will make Bella get her second chance, with a second life.

*MATURE CONTENT*

Bella has to say goodbye to her husband, who has been sent to Iraq. Story is written from Bella's point of view with possibly a few chapters from EPOV.

Canon pairings, All Human.

Rated for mature themes.  

Forks, Washington is a simple town with two simple certainties; change sucks and Jasper Whitlock is cool.

Follow the gossip rings and rumor mills as a pervy-mined, fast talking, shoe store smelling hurricane whirls into Forks and demolishes one boy's - as well as the whole town's - preconceived notions.

*Originially an entry into "The Many Faces Of Jasper Contest" hosted by Jasper's Darlins*

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Edward and Bella are friends who have known each other since they were kids. When Edward finds out about a "pesky little secret" of hers, of course he wants to help. Isn't he just the man for the job?

A father. A daughter. An incurable disease.

When life hands you an impossible path, what can you do other than follow and live through it?

A story about the cruelty of terminal illness, determination and will, and ultimately triumph and inspiration.

Told from Bella's POV.

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