"1000 dollars!"
I could hear everyone in the room gasp and look at me. I could only imagine what they were thinking. 'Why would anybody pay thousand dollars for her?' I knew I wasn't special. I had long dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes, a slim figure and a pale skin. I wasn't bad to look at, but nothing extraordinary. Certainly not worth a thousand bucks.
I felt my cheeks burn with a blush that had suddenly crept upon me, out of nowhere.
'I'm going to kill Alice' I thought to myself.
Alice was the reason I was standing there, on a stage in front of a room full of people. I had made it perfectly clear to my best friend that I didn't want to, but Alice had convinced me anyway.
My thoughts went back to the conversation I and Alice had had a week ago.
' Come on Bella… It's for a good cause! Will you be able to forgive yourself if the evening turns out bad?'
' Forget it Alice… I know it's a good cause, but there is no way you will get me to go stand on a stage and sell myself! Have you gone mad? You know me, I'll probably fall down or knock someone else to the ground… and besides, it's not like anybody will spend a lot of money on me.'
'Bella… that's not the point. Every dollar counts. If anyone should know that, it would be you!'
At that point I had given in. The good cause we were talking about was a charity event to raise funds for women with breast cancer. My own mother Renee had died 2 years before of breast cancer, and it was a subject close to my heart.
How wrong I had been about nobody willing to spend money on me. ' A thousand dollars? Who would pay a thousand dollars to buy me for two weeks?'
I tried to find the person who had shouted the bid, but there where to many people in the room.
"We have a bid of a 1000 dollars! Would anybody be willing to pay more?" the auctioneer asked.
'As if!' I thought.
"Nobody? A thousand dollars it is then! Will the person who bought Miss Swan please come forward to collect his prize?"
'Please let it be someone nice. I don't want to spend two weeks with someone mean, not even for a good cause!'
Then my mouth fell open with surprise. Out of the crowd walked one of the most beautiful people I had ever seen. 'Edward Cullen'.
Epov
I couldn't believe I had just done that. I paid a thousand dollars for a girl on a charity auction. I shouldn't have even been here, but Emmett and Jasper had made me come.
Emmett, my best friend, had overheard that one of the people being auctioned this night was Rosalie Hale, a girl Emmett had drooled over since the beginning of the year. She was extremely beautiful, but I didn't get the obsession. Rosalie didn't even seem to notice that Emmett existed, which was not easy because he was one of the biggest guys I had ever met.
Jasper just wanted to buy his own girlfriend, Alice. He was scared she might be bought by some other guy and fall in love with him. Not that that was going to happen off course. Alice and Jasper where a dream couple. Alice had noticed Jasper on the first day of school and decided she wanted him. And what Alice wants, Alice gets.
So here I was, with my two best friends. I hadn't been planning on buying anyone myself, but then I had seen her. 'Bella Swan' I thought.
I had seen Bella before obviously, since she was rooming with Alice and Rosalie but had never given her much thought. That is, until I saw her standing on the stage tonight. She had looked so fragile, and I had immediately felt protective over her.
Still, it was never my intention to buy her, but then the bidding had started. It began slow, with 4 or 5 people bidding against each other, but when the sum got over a hundred only two people were left. Mike Newton and some other guy named James I vaguely knew of.
I wasn't worried about the first one. Mike was an okay guy. But this James character was something completely different. There were some rumours going around that he was very aggressive and easily triggered. The idea of James buying Bella made me feel uncomfortable.
So I was rooting for Mike. I kept a close eye on both men, and it seemed James was getting annoyed that Mike wasn't giving up. James suddenly raised the bid to 200 dollar and a look of disappointment crept over Mike's face.
I acted on an impulse.
"1000 dollars" I yelled.
Both Emmett and Jasper looked at me in surprise.
"What are you doing?" Jasper asked. He looked confused, but there was something else in his eyes I could not determine.
"I won't let that creep buy Bella!" I answered.
Emmett just started laughing.
"What's so funny about that?" I growled at him.
Emmett looked like he was trying to stifle his laugh but it wasn't working.
"Nothing… I was just about to do the same thing, with a lower bid off course, but you beat me to it."
I glared at him. "Why would you want to buy Bella? I thought you wanted Rosalie?" I asked, slightly angry, yet I didn't know why
"Relax man! No need to be jealous… It's just that Bella is a really nice girl and I didn't want her to have to spend the next two weeks with that James guy…"
I relaxed a little. 'Guess I'm not the only one getting protective over the girl…'
"Sorry Emmett… I don't know why I snapped at you like that…"
Then I heard the auctioneer ask the person who bought Bella to step towards the stage.
"That's my cue." I smiled to both Emmett and Jasper and headed towards the front of the room.
I looked up at Bella's face when he approached the stage and saw her eyes widen with surprise. Then a small smile broke across her face and I felt my heartbeat quicken.
'This will be interesting' I thought to myself.
I walked up the stairs and stopped right in front of her.
"So… I guess you're mine for the next two weeks?" I asked and I felt a grin sliding across my face.
At first she just looked at me, eyes still wide open. Then she started to speak.
"I guess so…" and she smiled back.
Bpov
"So… I guess you're mine for the next two weeks?".
I couldn't believe he actually said those words. It sounded so… sexual. Not that that would be his intention off course. He was Edward Cullen! The hottest guy on campus.
'Why did he buy me?' I couldn't help but wonder. He probably had some nasty chores that he himself didn't want to do or something like that. And he was rich… but still a thousand dollars for her?
Suddenly I remembered that he had asked her something and she had to answer him.
"I guess so.." was all I could say and then her cheeks grew even more red.
'I hope I will stop blushing in front of him… I don't want t spend the next two weeks red as a tomato.'
Then it hit me… I was going to spend two weeks with Edward Cullen. I didn't even mind what he would make me do. Clean his toilet, put out his garbage,…. I was going to enjoy every minute of time I had with him.
"So how will this work?" I heard him ask out loud.
I looked back his direction and saw that he was talking to me.
'Damn, what should I say?'
I was still thing for an answer when I heard a familiar voice answering for me.
"Well, I just bought Rosalie here, and Jasper has bought Alice. I am going to make Rosalie live with me for the next two weeks… if that's alright with you Edward? I know it's your apartment, but since I am living there as well…"
I was still looking at Edward and saw the laugh in his eyes.
"Sure Emmett. You can have the place to yourself… I will just stay with Bella then for the time being."
"Uhm…. Edward…. Actually I am going to stay with Alice at her place…. You're welcome to stay as well but…" Jasper said quickly.
Now Edward was really laughing.
"I will have to rent a hotel room then…." He chuckled. "What hotel do you like Bella?"
'A hotel room?'
Epov
Since I wasn't planning on being in close proximity of either Emmett (who would be trying to get Rosalie in his bed) and Jasper (who would be in bed with Alice) a hotel room was the only solution. And somehow the idea of being in a hotel room with Bella didn't seem so bad.
'It's not that I'm attracted to her or anything… it's just that she seems nice' I tried to convince myself.
"What hotel do you like Bella?"
She didn't answer me, she just kept staring. I walked closer to her and leaned in so I could whisper in her ear.
"I'm not taking you there to seduce you… I just don't want to disturb the happy couples…"
"Okay … how about the Hilton then?" she whispered back.
I leaned back to look at her and saw a little smile in her eyes.
'Yes, this would definitely be interesting.'
A/N : This is my first Twilight fanfic… I only just discovered the books a month ago so I'm still getting to know the characters. I also want to make clear that English is not my native language (not even my second language actually), so if I make some grammar or spelling mistakes, please forgive me for that. I hope you enjoy!!
I'm still working on chapter 2, but I'll try to update as soon as possible. Please let me know how I've done so far….