A/N: This is just a silly little thing I had in my head. There won't be much background on the characters other than what is in the beginning. This will be a back and forth between EPOV and BPOV. There may be some other characters sharing a POV here or there. Very short chapters. Rated M for language. There are no lemons is this story. Thanks brownidgrl ;-)

Stephenie Meyer owns the characters…. but it's my plot.

Chapter 1

EPOV

I'm so tired. Today was a long day. I usually have Thursdays off but I had to meet with my financial advisor today. It took most of the morning but everything is all figured out.

I'm in my sophomore year of college at the University of Seattle and the costs of living here are kicking my ass. I didn't want to live in a dorm like last year, so I decided to rent a place off campus with a few guys I met towards the end of freshman year. Jasper and Emmett are pretty cool but complete opposites. Emmett is a big guy and looks like a linebacker, and at first meeting him, he seems as dumb as a box of rocks. He's pretty smart though. He's going to school to be an architect. He is just a huge jokester and can be a slob. Jasper is quiet and extremely easy going. He is going to school for accounting. He is a whiz with numbers. I'm going to school for business management. I hope to own my own business one day... maybe a hotel or restaurant... or both.

I'm from Chicago, Emmett is from Portland, and Jasper is from a small dinky town called Forks... in Washington. I never knew it existed until I met Jasper.

We are all single as our classes have been keeping us busy. I'm pretty sure Jasper is seeing someone now but he's really private about it. We go out usually on the weekends to parties and such and may hook up with someone once in a while but not often. I think we are all over that scene and looking for something more concrete. I'm tired today as we went to a poker party at a frat house last night and stayed out way too late. We didn't even play poker, but Jasper won $100 when he placed a bet with some guy on Emmett winning an arm wrestling contest against some burly scary frat mother fucker. He split it with Emmet, of course.

We all have hectic class schedules but we lucked out this year and managed to get Thursdays off... along with the weekends. Jasper's uncle in Forks is best friends with the boss over at the Public Works Department here in Seattle and has given us a route to do on Thursdays for garbage pickup. It's a route that takes about four hours and we each make two hundred bucks... not bad if you ask me and it will help out tremendously with rent. We live in a three bedroom spacious condo about two blocks from school and it runs us $1,200 a month. The job started today but I had to miss it due to my meeting at school. It's a little after noon. I walked in the door and saw Jasper on the couch playing Xbox.

"Hey Edward." Jasper said.

"Hey... Where's Emmett... and how did that route go today?" I asked.

"He's in his room and doesn't want to be disturbed... and the route was good." Jasper smirked.

"What's going on?" I asked.

Jasper informs me that Emmett saw the woman of his dreams on the garbage route. We waste no time before sneaking down the hallway towards Emmett's bedroom. I put my ear up to the door but all I hear is some paper rustling around. Jasper looks at me like he's in on a joke. I decide to knock.

"Yeah?" Emmett yells, followed by the sound of rustling paper again.

"It's me and Jasper... can we come in?" I said.

:::: Silence... then a thumping sound and possibly a door shutting ::::

"Yo, Emmett... you okay in there?" Jasper says.

Another 10 seconds pass.

"Come in." Emmett says.

We walk in and Emmett is sitting on his bed with his headphones on bobbing his head to music. He pulls one side of the headphones off one ear and then keeps bobbing his head.

"What's up guys?" Emmett says, still bobbing his head.

Jasper walks over and picks up the cord attached to Emmett's headphones that aren't even plugged into his stereo and waves it at me.

"What ya listening to?" Jasper asks Emmett, holding up the cord.

Emmett doesn't answer.

"Busted!" I said.

"I suppose you told him." Emmett says to Jasper.

"Oh no... I thought I would let you tell him." Jasper said.

"Tell me what?" I said.

Emmett hops off his bed, opens his closet, and pulls out a black garbage bag and tosses it on his bed.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Dude, I met my dream girl." Emmett replied.

"And she's in that bag?" I asked.

"No! Geez Edward... this is her trash." Emmett replies like it's no big deal.

Jasper breaks out laughing... holding his stomach and keeling over on Emmett's bed.

"Why do you have some girl's trash?" I asked.

"Because I want to get to know her... what better way than to go through her trash." Emmett replies.

"That's just gross, man. How do you even know it's 'her' garbage." I replied making air quotes.

"Well, she ran outside before we drove off saying that she forgot a bag and mentioned that she recently cleaned out her bedroom." Emmett said.

"Ooooookay." I reply.

"I was just getting the nerve to go through it, but you boneheads knocked on my door and freaked me out." Emmett said.

"Do you think maybe you're freaked out because going through a stranger's garbage is rather creepy?" Jasper asked Emmett.

"You're just jealous cause I saw her first." Emmett replied.

Jasper looked at me and rolled his eyes. We quietly left Emmett's room and shut the door.