The Twilight Twenty-Five

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Prompt: #14

Pen Name: EveryDayBella

Pairing/Character(s): Edward/Bella

Rating: T

Word Count: 309

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I was in love with this prompt the moment I saw it. I love my records (yes I own every record mentioned here) and I need to met a handsome, jazz loving man over the stacks of records.

Much love to GeekChic12 for her help. Mwah!

I am in my own world when I go looking for records.

My favorite place is this little used bookstore down the street from my apartment. The back corner of this store is devoted to records. The slim, cardboard cases are lined up in cubby holes just waiting for my curious little fingers to discover them.

They know my name at the front desk so they greet me when I walked in. Tuesday mornings are fairly quiet and not many people are in the store. There's no one in my corner and it's just the way I like it. No one's there to bother me and I can't be happier.

Today I find a treasure trove. There's a Whitesnake album, Frank Sinatra's The September of My Years, a much more resent The Decemberists EP, and—the jewel of this dig—a Louis Armstrong recording from 1940. My fingers shake as they brush the paper sleeve. Armstrong is rare enough, but an original from 1940? It's almost unheard of.

Tears are stinging my eyes when his voice distracts me. "That's a great album. I got to listen to one in my uncle's collection. It's unbelievable. No one did it like Armstrong, huh?"

There he is—a hot guy, in my used record heaven, expounding on the virtues of a dying genre. I had no idea what to say so I let the first thing I think of pop out of my mouth. "Have you ever listened to his and Count Basie's Great Reunion? Their rendition of I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good never fails to make me cry."

His lips twist up in a secret smile and he holds out his hand. "I'm Edward."

Normally I wouldn't have taken it, but we had bonded over records and jazz. I couldn't say no to that. "I'm Bella. Nice to meet you."