"Look How You Turned Out" by counselor

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"You asked me... if there was something between us. I thought you meant bad feelings. Then you asked if I'm attracted. I tried to be so careful about it," he says.

"Why did you let me go?" I say, and his hand moves from my arm to my face.

"I never let you go."

When Bella Swan arrives back home after months of living in Chicago, everyone - including her father Charlie and his good friend and neighbor Edward - thinks that she is simply there to spend Thanksgiving with her family. However, the real reason for her return to Forks is as simple as it is embarrassing: she has nowhere else to go. After she turned down the proposal of her boyfriend and boss Jacob Black and was subsequently fired from her job at Black Enterprises, she had to give up her apartment in Chicago and saw no other way but to drive right back home. There, in her old room, surrounded by the green woods and with her father's cruiser in the driveway, she completely indulges in her shame... and her love for Edward Cullen. For years, Bella has lusted and longed for her father's deputy - even though he is twelve years her senior, divorced, and has a kid. For her, Edward is everything she'd ever want, yet terribly out of reach. He doesn't seem to see her as anything but Charlie's young daughter, the girl who babysat for Juney every once in a while...

What Bella doesn't know is that Edward has battled with his "inappropriate" feelings for her ever since he saw her at her High School graduation. It was then that something "clicked" in his head and for the first time, he saw her for the beautiful and intriguing woman that she is. Always careful not to outright show his all-consuming feelings for her in her presence or that of her father, Edward struggles for years to keep his sanity. And the little hope he had for having a future with Bella disappears the moment she left town for Chicago, seemingly without looking back. So instead of doing what he wants, Edward does what he thinks is right and starts dating. In Jessica he hopes to have found the woman, who will bring some consistency into his' and Juney's lives. Yet when Bella returns to her hometown, his carefully suppressed feelings come back to the surface and turn his life upside down...

This is the first story by counselor that I've read and I have to admit, when I started it, I expected tons of angst and drama. I couldn't have been more wrong. Instead of disaster waiting around every corner, Look How You Turned Out is full of humor, wit, and lots of love! Yes, there is drama, especially in the beginning when Edward cannot seem to get his head out of his a**, but the majority of the fic is full of sweet and captivating moments. The story is completely written from BPOV, except for two or three times, when Edward takes over for a few paragraphs. Bella really is a one-of-a-kind, the way she thinks is exactly the way she talks and her snappy remarks and hilarious pop culture references will leave no eye dry. Yet she is also insecure and vulnerable, especially when it comes to her dad and Edward. The latter is adorable and, based on the way Bella describes him, a walking wet dream. Though the unique writing style counselor adopted for this story might not be for everyone (you have fragmented sentences, some jumps, repetitions - remember, Bella talks the way she thinks), it fits Bella and the story perfectly. Don't miss out on this brilliant fanfiction!

Look How You Turned Out consists of 80 chapters and 110,223 words. The story is rated M for lemons and profanities.

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