Chances

Chapter 1: Light

This story is not related to Blue it is a separate twific. It was just an idea I had that I wanted to get down. I hope you like it. Please read and review so that I can see if its worth continuing! This story is rated M and there will be adult content.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters they belong to Stephanie Meyers


EPOV

I looked around my office trying to find my stapler for five minutes. I knew I had it yesterday, but as usual, things on my desk tended to sprout legs and walk off. I needed to get these requisitions filed with purchasing today before I went to lunch or I would have to wait till next week. I still think it's absurd that the company hasn't made it possible to do online purchase requisitions yet. I have been with the Pattinson Distribution Company for five years now and it never seems like they make any effort to modernize. I guess I should just be grateful that I have a computer and a printer to type the reqs instead of a type writer. I debated adding a stapler to my purchase reqs before walking into the hall to use Alice's. She always knew that I couldn't keep track of anything, so as a good assistant she kept a lot of extra things around. She would pretend that she just liked to have multiple hole punches and several tape dispensers just in case, but I knew better. The first time I came out of my office to borrow her yellow highlighter and never returned it, she showed up the next day with an obscene amount of office supplies. Alice had been working for me for three years and I honestly don't know how I survived without her.

I walked over to Alice's desk to ask her to borrow her stapler, but she wasn't there. Well, that was a first. She brought me my morning coffee only an hour ago and told me she was going on break. She must be back by now. I scanned the room looking for her, but it was hard to see anything through the wall of cubicles. I didn't not miss my old cubicle one bit. When I got promoted to vice president in charge of shipping and receiving, I wanted to celebrate by burning my cubicle to the ground. They are so small and claustrophobic. Of course I couldn't do that because it was attached to others that were still being used. Not to mention that I would probably go to jail and would definitely get fired. I still fantasize about burning them all and I know I am not alone in my fantasy. I think the only person here who likes her cubicle is Jessica. That crazy ass chick does some kinky shit in her little cubbyhole from what I hear. I try to stay as far away from there as I can. It made me sick just thinking about her doing that. Actually, it made me sick just thinking about her at all.

I walked around the corner to try to find Alice who was still MIA and I heard a bunch of whispering and paper shuffling. Alice and some brown haired woman I had never seen before, finished picking up some papers off of the floor. "Everything alright Alice," I asked as I walked over. They finished gathering the papers and they both stood up. The brunette seemed to freeze for a moment then quietly told Alice sorry and thank-you while taking the papers and hurrying away. I was pretty sure that I hadn't seen her before, but it was hard to tell because her hair was hiding her face from me. I could barely hear when she talked to Alice but she had the most beautiful sounding voice it was so melodic. I was tempted to have Alice call her back and thought better of it.

"Oh Mr. Cullen everything is fine, I was just helping her pick up her papers. I really felt bad someone else ran into her and then left without even trying to clean up their mess. It was so disrepectful and rude. How could anyone just run smack into someone else without even looking back or saying sorry. I don't care how big of a hurry you are in, you don't do that." Alice would ramble on and on if I let her. I cleared my throat a couple times before she stopped. "I am sorry Mr. Cullen were you looking for me?"

I held my stack of papers up to her, "Well, Alice today it was my stapler." She laughed already knowing that I meant I couldn't find my stapler. It seems that everyday I lose something. Alice and I walked back over to her desk and she reached into the bottom drawer of her desk and held out a new stapler. That drawer was like Mary Poppins bag or something. There never seemed to be in end to all the office supplies she pulled out of it for me.

"Here you can take my extra stapler," she said handing it to me and I smiled as she always said that they were her extras even though I knew she bought them to replace the stuff I lost. "If your old one turns up then you can give it back to me, but I don't need it." That was true because I would bet money that tomorrow she would have another 'extra' stapler back in that bottom drawer. "Is there anything else? Would you like me to take that over to purchasing for you?"

"Sure, Alice that would be very helpful and thank-you for the stapler. As usual you are a life-saver." She gave me a huge smile and as routine told me to remember that when it was time for Christmas bonuses. I always remembered to be generous with Alice. I needed her here and other VP's have tried to steal her away, so I made sure she was very happy. She was pretty easy to please and that also made my life easier. I am old enough to admit that men, including myself, can be pretty damn forgetful and also pretty damn insensitive. I forgot about secretaries day one time and that will be the last time. Alice didn't come to work for a week and I had some really shitty temp who never had extra anything and I didn't get much done. I sent her flowers everyday that week and then a box of steaks and theater tickets too by Friday. On Monday she was back to work as if she never left and I vowed never to make that mistake again, it was much too expensive. She never said anything about my forgetfulness but after seeing flowers on another assistant's desk, and then her sudden disappearance I knew what I had done. Alice deserved better and I was determined to make sure she got it. I was very dependent on her and I would do anything for her. She was very loyal and very good at her job. We had even become friends over the last year. Her fiance, Jasper was a roommate of mine when we were in college and I set them up. It was a Christmas bonus of sorts. I brought him to the Christmas party last year and insisted that they danced. They hit it off instantly and I knew they would. I knew what kind of girls Jazz liked and Alice was perfect for him. "I am going to lunch now so you are free to go also after you drop that off and I will see you in an hour?"

"Sounds great! Jasper is meeting me at the sandwich shop around the corner if you want to join us?"

"No thank-you Alice, I brought a lunch today so I am just going to go to the park and eat. Maybe feed some birds with my leftovers." I couldn't spend too much time with her and Jazz together. I was glad they were happy but they were still really lovey dovey and it was too hard for me to watch. I have been alone for a long time and it was going to be a lot longer so I would rather not torture myself. "Tell Jazz I said what's up and that I will see him this weekend." She nodded and grabbed her purse in the hand that wasn't carrying my reqs and danced away. I always thought she was in the wrong job. Alice was so graceful she should be a ballerina or something. I told her that in passing once when we were hanging out with Jazz and she said that she couldn't because her boobs were too big. I was stunned and Jasper spit soda out all over both of us. He was drinking when she said it and I guess because she was so nonchalant talking about her chest that it shocked both of us. She did have good sized breasts though.

After I grabbed my lunch from my briefcase, I locked up my office and headed to the elevator. I got in and hit G so I could go down to the park behind the office building. The office always smelled very strongly of pine, the cleaning people probably use pinesol or something and a lot of it. Right now though, the elevator smelled like lavender and vanilla. It was so nice, not just the fact that I wasn't smelling the same piney odor, but it was just relaxing. It made me a little hungry too. Someone must have sprayed their perfume on in here. Normally that would bother me a lot because most perfumes make my eyes burn and water. This was pleasant and nice, but too soon I was at the bottom floor and there were several people waiting to get in.

Outside in the park, there is a huge fountain with several holes that water spouts up from in regular intervals. During the summer I like to come out here to watch the kids running in and out of it screaming every time the water touches them. It was late September now so it would be too cold for that, plus school is back in session. I like to watch the ducks swimming in the fountain too. Whenever the kids aren't around to chase them off, there will be whole duck families swimming in it. I usually gave them a little bread after I finished my sandwiches. I never liked crust and there was no point in throwing it away when the ducks would eat it. The security guards used to get mad at me for doing it, they said that if the ducks didn't eat it, the bread would clog the filter. I became really close friends with one of the guards, Emmett and since then no one has bothered me about it. Emmett doesn't work on Mondays so I will be hanging out on the grass eating and just watching the ducks. It was peaceful and it helped me unwind.

I sat down on a little hill on the side of the grass. The park was huge and rectangular, their was a soccer field and baseball field on the end farthest from me and then the fountain and a playground on my side of it. The park was surrounded by a berm of grass all the way around. From above it would look like someone cut a big rectangle into a grass field. The rumor is that hundreds of years ago it used to be a lake but it dried out. It looks for like a man made park to me but I wouldn't argue with all those crazy townies. There are a lot of people in this little town who have lived here their whole life and then their parents and grandparents all lived here their whole lives too. Twilight was such a small town, that the building that I worked in was the only one over three stories. Alice told me that a lot of money was given to the town by Pattinson Distribution to have the a special permit to build it 5 stories high. Apparently, the CEO and owner of PD was very wealthy and preferred small town life to the hustle and bustle of city life. He didn't live in town but he came to stay on occasion when checking on the company and liked the comfort it brought him. In the time I had worked here, he had never come to town.

I finished my roast beef sandwiches, all but the crust, and looked in my bad to see what else there was to eat. I found my daily note, read it and then fished out the grapes and a brownie. Brownies were always a nice surprise in my lunch. I ate quickly and then walked over to the fountain to feed my crust to the duck family. There were 5 of them. One big one and 4 little ones. Every year there was a new little family. Sometimes there would be more big ducks and sometimes less little ones. I wanted to think that they were the same ducks every year. As if the kids grew up and came back with their own family, but after winter it was impossible to know. They usually leave in November and don't come back till April. I usually spend a lot more time eating out during that time of year. No kids and no ducks so there isn't really anything to watch.

I broke off a piece and handed it to Squint, he was the smallest one. Yeah so it's lame that I am a grown man naming ducks but I didn't care. I also didn't go around telling everyone either. I walked around to the other side looking for Sam, when I caught a whiff of that lavender and vanilla again. I glanced around looking for whoever wore that smell and was surprised to see that brunette from upstairs sitting on the grass eating and fiddling with her phone. I still couldn't see her face because of her curtain of hair. I was starting to think that the company needed a mandatory ponytail policy just so I could look at this girl. That was really pathetic, I can't believe I just thought that. She was eating some cheese puffs and drinking a cherry pepsi. I was amused because at times she seemed torn between eating the cheese puffs and playing with her phone. She was trying very hard, it seemed, to keep from getting the cheese powder all over her iphone. The woman kept wiping her fingers off and then using the phone, but would occasionally forget and have to wipe off her phone. I laughed out loud once when she looked like she was getting angry. Not because she was angry but because she was pulling out all the grass and throwing it and then it would blow back in her face. She heard me laugh and turned around. I felt a little bad that I had been staring at her and quickly turned to the duck that was trying to steal of the bread out of my hand. I pretended to laugh at the duck instead but I was still smiling. She was just so cute.

When it had been a little bit and I was sure it was safe to turn around, I looked for her but she was gone. I was really disappointed by that. Watching her was even more interesting then the ducks on their best day. That is saying a lot because their was a day last year when someone had put a little fish in the fountain. I don't know why or what happened to it but the ducks were so funny first trying to avoid it and then pecking at it. I was late getting back to work that day and Alice had to call me to snap me out of my little show. I am sure she thinks I am a loser but I don't care. I looked at my watch and realized I wasn't too far from being late this time.

I headed back towards the front of the building and this time I seem to almost be following the lavender and vanilla scent. I felt like a blood hound on the hunt for my prey and I started to wonder or maybe even fantasize that the smell came from the brunette. I followed it into the building and elevator but when someone else got into it on the second floor the scent was lost. I was pretty sure I was glaring at the old lady who got in. She had on some really strong perfume and then had the old lady smell too so there was no way I was going to recover the brunette's aroma. I walked back to my office, nodding to Alice on my way and closed myself inside. I plopped down at my desk and for the first time in years, I wished I had been available to date and the reason I wanted to didn't even have a name or a face. Wow this girl was under my skin.


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