Serendipitous Summers

Chapter 1: Past Comes Back to Grin at You

Disclaimer: I sadly do not take any credit for Ms. Stephanie Meyer's characters. They are all from her brilliant mind and not mine (screams with tears) – I hate to remind myself. However, I will still be borrowing them... muhahaha!

BPOV

I stood at the bar drinking a margarita with my brothers girlfriend and my best friend, Alice waiting for my brother and his new best friends to arrive.

Jasper had just started a new job designing cars for Volvo, and that's where he had met this mysterious guy named "Eddie". Jasper had befriended "Eddie" and soon befriended his brother Emmet, who happens to work for one of their rival car designers, Jeep.

Alice was bouncing in her new ruby heels, excited to see Jasper, who she just happened to see at lunch earlier today. I gave her my famous look, that said "Your looking for a bitch slap". Noticing this, Alice immediately stuck her tongue out at me, took a long sip from her margarita and then gave me her evil pixie grin.

As much as I didn't want to admit it, my best friend could drive me crazy and still make me love her even more.

Jasper planned to come straight from work to meet us, which very soon changed course after finding the perfect necklace for Alice. No particular reason for buying her the necklace, but just because he wanted to. Knowing Alice she would be screaming and jumping for at least five minutes when he gave it to her. I hoped and prayed that he would save it for later, when no one else, especially me, was in the same building, never mind the same room as Alice! No one deserves such a painful punishment, no matter what they did.

I didn't notice Jasper had arrived until after the high-pitched scream pierced through my thoughts, dragging the attention of everyone in the bar to us. I pretended not to know them and downed the last of my margarita. Just as I was about to order another, cutting me off, someone came up behind me and spoke in a deep, velvety voice to the barman, "Two beers and another two margarita's for these lovely ladies gracing us with their presence tonight" … Was that a English accent?? NO! Couldn't be!!

I slowly turned to the voice to thank him… And finally understood the meaning of "cat got your tongue?"…