Stephenie Meyer owns all things Twilight. Some of the events that will occur are real life events and they will be listed down at the bottom with the Authors Note so make sure you have a read. And please do not criticise those events. This story is also unbeta'd. All mistakes are mine.
Full Summary:
"Forks Cinema, Bella speaking," Bella works at small Forks Cinema and hates it immensely. Edward and his twin sister have just moved to town, what happens when they meet and become colleagues and classmates?
This story is rated M. As of right now it is purely rated M for extra protection, like using condoms when you're on birth control. However, in the future there will be foul language and possibly some citrus.
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Chapter 1: Introduction & Work Pains
I groaned as I heard the phone ring for the third time. I was able to avoid the first two rings as I was sweeping the mess off of the carpet stairs. I was on the bottom stairs and now that I had witnesses next door watching me, I couldn't ignore the phone. I slowly walked over to the ticket box where the phone was held and prayed that it would stop ringing. Luck wasn't on my side today as it was still ringing asI got closer.
"Forks Cinema, Bella speaking," I said in a voice that I hope sounded professional.
"Is Damien there?" the man on the other end said in a thick accent I wasn't aware of. He calls nearly every time I'm working so today was no different.
"Yeah, I'll transfer you through to him," I put the phone on hold and put him through to Damien. Once I did so I picked up the phone once again just to check if I had transferred him through successfully. I mentally fist pumped as it was silent through the other end. Considering I'd only been shown once how to do that, I was quite proud of myself.
I've been working here at Forks Cinema since early January; it's now September. The school year started back up a few weeks back so the cinema wasn't that busy. It never really got that busy, it was Forks after all. However, the place is really cheap so that's where we get most of our customers.
I moved to Forks when I was 13, Renée, my mother lived in Jacksonville with her husband Phil. They married when I was 12. They liked to travel a lot and they were never stable in one place, so I put my foot down at 13 and said I was going to live in Forks with my dad; Charlie. Living in Forks with Charlie, was the best decision I ever made. Charlie and Renée had me young and their marriage didn't last long, but Charlie and I have a strange but sturdy relationship and we were pretty close. It wasn't until early this year that Charlie suggested I get a job, I immediately agreed and went job hunting. The first place I dropped my résumé to, was here, Forks Cinema and my boss Damien said he'd call me that night and give me the details. So that night, he called and offered me the job which I accepted graciously unaware of how crap this job really was.
"Bella, the toilets are filthy! Give them a clean," Sarah- Damien's wife- ordered me. She's never liked me but I didn't let her know I knew that. Instead I was polite to her, like Charlie raised me to be. Sarah walked from the top of the stairs down to me as she ordered her commands. Sarah was your average business woman, grumpy and most likely sexually frustrated. She had dark, curly, frizzy hair that needed to be tamed. She also goes to the gym to much which resulted in an amazing body.
"Yeah, sure okay," I mumbled. Cleaning the toilets here was in one word disgusting. The male toilets always reeked of urine and for once, I was upset that I didn't have a blocked nose. The female toilets weren't so bad, but it was still gross. I didn't like having my face so close to a toilet; I mean who knows what's been in there or whose ass had sat there.
I walked over towards the candy bar- ironic name isn't it? It sells all the food you could think of a cinema to have but they come up with the corniest name. Behind the candy bar were rows of cupboards located low towards the ground. I walked over towards the furthest one near the sink that was there and pulled out all the things I would need to clean the crap boxes. Bleach, disinfectant, window cleaner, rags and rubber gloves. I sigh loudly as I push the door open towards the female toilets and set down all the products on the vanity. I cautiously check all the toilets one by one to see what I was dealing with. Two out of the five toilets were dirty. Not bad. But as usual, it always amazed me how popcorn always ended up in here.
What felt like hours, which in reality was only 20 minutes, the female and male toilets were finally semi-clean. The mirrors were finger print free, the toilets weren't sparkling- but I wasn't going any closer to those nasty bowls than what I need to- and the floors were popcorn free. I walked back towards the candy bar and put all the products away and pulled of my rubber gloves. I then proceeded to clean my hand viciously as I normally do after wearing them.
With my hands all clean and dry, I made my way over towards the ticket box- another cheesy name. The ticket box is obviously where the tickets were sold but it's also where a laptop was held that kept track of the entire movie playing and the times. Forks Cinema only consisted of two lonesome cinemas so it wasn't hard to keep track of everything. Cinema one had 22 minutes to go and cinema two had 47 minutes. I sighed heavily annoyed that I had nothing to do. I still had another hour and a bit until my shift finished and I couldn't wait for it to come any quicker.
I lugged my body back towards the candy bar so that the people at the café next door can just stare at me doing nothing, but Frank in particular. Frank, who was also Damien and Sarah's older, overweight son, owned the café next door, Cherry Lodge. It linked directly into the cinema so that the only way you could get into the café was to literally walk through the cinema's entrance. Frank was a cunt to say the least.
Behind the candy bar, I checked to see if there was anything for me to do. The cups and the lids looked a bit low so I stocked them up. I checked the popcorn boxes were a little low so I stocked them up to. I transferred some popcorn from the actual machine to the warmer and once I was done I went and washed the saltiness of the popcorn off of my hands. The whole stocking process seemed like it took a while so I went back to check the times left on the movies. I groaned aloud as I realised a whole five minutes passed. Ugh.
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What honestly seems like forever, the first movie finally finishes and people start buying tickets for the next movie. When I say people I mean like five of them. It's weird how people from out of town come here when there's a cinema in Port again, the prices here are a lot cheaper. I serve for not even five minutes when Mike arrives. Mike was Damien's and Sarah's youngest child, and Frank's little brother. He was the same age as me, same grade and we went to the same high school which was the only high school in Forks. He was a tool so I tried my best not to talk to him.
As usual, Mike kicks me out of the ticket box and over to the candy bar. The only reason I like the ticket box is because I don't have to move around much and if I'm lucky I get to sit down which is heaven for my throbbing feet. But when you're at the candy bar, you're moving around like a headless chicken. After everyone has been seated into the cinema after Damien has vacuumed, I lean against the register and pull out my phone to see if I have any messages. At the time, I had completely forgotten about the security camera directly above me but it didn't matter anway.
"Is that your phone Bella?" I hear Damien ask me from across the room.
Of course it is you crack head.
"Yeah, just checking the time," I lied. Damien hated when you used your phone at work but I was seriously bored. Damien just shook his head and turned towards the café.
As soon as Damien's in the café seated down with Sarah, Mike does his usual thing, which is nothing except boss me around. I of course oblige since he is my bosses son.
After cleaning every surface of this place, Sarah walks in. "You can go now Bella, did you right your hours down?"
"Yeah I did," I reply as I pick up my bag from the floor.
"Okay, Damien will message you your hours for tomorrow," Sarah says as she's walks back into the café. That's right, my boss texts me my hours.
How professional.
I walk pass the café and out the cinema door with a quick bye from Mike and start the dreaded walk back to Charlie's. I don't have a car to drive and I refuse to drive with Charlie in his cruiser so walking and bludging is my only other option. I pull out my iPhone, courtesy of Renée, plug in my headphones and start up some music for the next half hour walk. Renée is always buying me things, Phil's rich, they're married, and therefore she is rich also. But I can't really complain, she's always keeping me up to date with the new stuff. For example, she got me a 3DS for my birthday- which was a week back- among some other cool things. I must admit, me being 17 now, I thought the 3DS was lame, but I was wrong. It's amazing, a life saver for those lonely Saturday nights.
I'm about 10 minutes away from Charlie's. These next 10 minutes are the worse. There's a hill that I've nick named Mount Everest simply because it's the steepest hill I've ever come across. But what I hate most about it is that my body didn't react to it. When I first came back to Forks, I thought this hill would give me the nicest legs ever; wrong again. Don't get me wrong, i had the most toned calves in Forks but that was it. Rock solid calves but fat thighs. It was miserable.
I exhale loudly as I finally make it to the top of the hill. I look back to see what I've accomplish and shake my head.
Bastard never gets easier.
I round the corner and sigh as I see Charlie's house and his cruiser wasn't there. I unlock the front door and drop my bag at the door as soon as I get inside. I make a run up the stairs and into my room. I belly flop on my bed and there isn't a better feeling. I kick of my worn out, black- now brown- converse and feel the pain from my feet ease away. Standing on your feet for as long as I do can't be healthy.
After lying down in the same position on my stomach, my body starts to cramp up. I take that as a sign that I need something to eat. Once I'm back downstairs, I grab a punnet of strawberries that I'd bought earlier last week and take them back up with me into my bedroom. I check the time after I've sat back down.
4:57PM.
I think over on what I'm going to cook for dinner tonight. Charlie or Renée in that matter didn't know how to cook, so it became my chore to do all the cooking and that was no different in Forks. But Charlie was weird in his ways that he liked dinner early. Early as in 5ish.
Steak and mash tonight because I'm feeling lazy.
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With the steak cooking under the grill and the mash done and ready, I sit down at Charlie's small dining table and cuss silently as I hear Charlie's cruiser pull in.
"Hey dad," I call out as I hear him close the door.
"Hey Bells," he replies as he walks into the kitchen. Typically, Charlie would look intimidating in his cop attire and moustache, but not now standing in his cramped little kitchen.
"How's the crime?" Charlie chuckled.
"Calm,"
Conversation flowed like this for the rest of the night. By the time we finished eating it was just past 7 o'clock. Charlie offered to clean up the dishes while I showered.
"Thanks dad," I said loud enough for Charlie to hear as I raced upstairs to have a well needed shower. After spending a day around popcorn, I start to think I smell like it.
Not even cool in the slightest.
I went into my room and picked up my toiletries off of the dresser closest to the door. When I moved back in with Charlie, my room looked the exact the same as it did when I left a few years before. It used to be a pale lilac colour but now it was a cream colour.
I walked back across the hall and started my shower. After 20 minutes of quality time with the warm water and clean hair, I walked back across into my room with only a towel wrapped around me. I pulled out my oversized shirt, a pair of black cotton boy shorts and a pair of baggy, grey shorts. I quickly brushed out my hair and picked up my phone to see if I had any texts and to see what the time was.
7:33PM.
It was too early for me to go to bed; I had no homework so I decided to go back downstairs to see what Charlie was up to. I took my phone and hung up my towel along the way on the top of my door and groaned as I heard the baseball game from the stop of the staircase. Looks like I'm watching the game for an hour.
I overdramatically slouched and sighed on the lounge and smirked as I noticed Charlie didn't even notice from over on his lounge chair. I jumped as I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket but grinned as I now had a texting buddy for an hour. The message was from one of my best friends Rosalie Hale.
Want a ride monday? –R
OMG yes! I don't want 2 walk let alone stand on my feet 4 a while after 2day! –B
Tough day? –R
Yea, i'll tell u monday x –B
Ok, as long as everythings fine? –R
Yea everything's good:) x –B
Kay, night hun xx –R
Well so much for an hour.
I met Rosalie in freshman year and at first, I was petrified of her. She was a beautiful blonde hair, blue eyed girl that all the guys at Forks High would drool over. Of course Rosalie being herself knew what she did to them but she had standards to say the least. Rosalie and I had gym together and that's where we clicked. We were paired up in a game of badminton and we both sucked me more so than her. We laughed majority of that lesson and she joined me for lunch in the cafeteria. It was great, she was blunt and crude, and we balanced each other. Ever since then, she's been there for me, stuck up for me and been a great friend.
For the rest of the game, I mostly sat fiddling with my phone, downloading some apps and just browsing the web. When the game finished, Charlie left and I went off back into my room. As I collapse onto my bed I figure I should go to sleep but just can't force myself to so instead I decide to play my 3DS. I laughed as I started up Nintendogs + Cats and was assaulted with a heap of barking. I messed around with that game for a while when I decided to switch it up for Mario Kart 7. I did four grand prix races before I had enough and started up my laptop that I had gotten also from Renée. I log into Skype and I'm almost immediately assaulted with a message from another one of my best friends Alice Cullen.
AliceC: Vid chat?
BellaS: Sure u set it up.
Alice was a newer friend, she moved to Forks at the beginning of the school year from Chicago. Alice is the complete opposite of me, she's bubbly, graceful, pixie-like and loves to shop. The only thing we really have in common is that we're both short, but she's a hell of a lot shorter than me. Oh and she loves to shop, did I mention that? That girl lived and breathed shopping. All in all, Alice was another great friend I had. She could also be greatly hysterical.
I accepted the video chat that Alice had sent me and the first thing I noticed was that Alice looked her happy bubbly self.
"Hey Bells!" She had accustomed to my nickname quicker than I expected but it didn't really bother me.
"Hey Alice," we talked for about an hour until Charlie stuck his head in and said that he was off to bed. I took that as my queue that I should probably go to bed as well.
"I'll text you tomorrow or something Al?"
"Yeah, do that but not to early!" I laughed and clicked "end conversation".
After I pack up my laptop and get ready for bed. I groan as I see I have a text message from Damein.
Your hours are 10AM- 3PM tomorrow.
Please confirm.
I groaned knowing I wouldn't be able to sleep in tomorrow like I had hoped.
Sure, thanks.
I set an alarm for 9 knowing I'd have to leave at 9:30 to get there on time. I put my phone on my small bed side table beside my bed and snuggled under the quilts on my small single bed and dreamed of happy things.
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Hi again!
A/N: Okay, so I thought I'd start this AN by telling you a bit about myself so you will be able to perhaps understand the story a bit better. To start off, I'm like Bella; I worked at a Cinema pretty much identical to Bella's. It consists of 2 cinemas (I live in a small town) and the candy bar and ticket box is actually what they call those places, lame huh? So every chapter I thought I would list the real life events that have occurred within the chapter. So I'll (obviously) start off with this chapter. Also, I will not list the people's real names for identity purposes so I will just call them the same names that are used within the story.
RL:
Okay so my Charlie suggested that I get a job, so the cinema is where I started and my boss actually called me the same day and I started the next one.
I really hate cleaning the toilets, they really are sick and they're always dirty and yes, male toilets do smell of piss.
I only work weekends except if it's holidays.
I really do not like my RL Frank; yes he is really fat and really doesn't like me.
I really dislike Damien and Sarah more than I should.
Don't even get me started on Mike.
Sarah really does tell me the toilets are filthy like every hour.
I really do walk back and forth from the laptop to stocking up to see that only 5 minutes have passed.
Mike really does kick me out of the ticket box like all the effing time.
I did get busted by Damien looking at my phone and said I was looking at the time.
I actually do have a hill that I have to walk up around the corner from me. It's the biggest bitch.
I do own a 3DS.
Last but not least is that Damien really does text me my hours...
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Also, as of right now, I do not have a posting schedule... I'll have to figure that out soon.
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