Chapter 1
HOPE you love this! I have never worked so hard on a story before. Please review and tell me what you think? c: I can't really say much, the story explains it all. The characters will be much more developed as the story goes on.
More to come!
Rosepov-
Alice was coming around the corner. Looking disappointed, almost sad. I was relaxing on the couch and reading a magazine. I through it on the coffee table beside me and sat up leisurely.
Alice was not usually sad so I could be worried. No one should be sad on the first day of summer, especially Alice. She was the happiest person I knew. I let myself calm down, it was probably nothing. Alice got emotional very easily and had always been a little more sensitive than me.
"Alice?" I finally asked. "What's is it?"
"I just wish we could go to the beach. Wouldn't that be great? But we live so far out..." She sighed dreamily, plopping down beside me.
My face lit up. The beach! First day of summer and that was the perfect idea! We had all summer and that would be a great way to start it off!
We knew this summer would be the best one we had ever had. Uncle Brandon, Alice's dad, said he was hiring a few guys to work on our ranch for at least this summer. He had already picked them out and everything. He was always very careful about who he let on here because of Alice and I. I remember Alice walking up to him asking him to make sure they were cute. He frowned, the corners of his mustache drooping down with it.
"The beach, that's perfect Alice!" But my smile faded when I remembered Alice's last comment.
The problem was it was at least five hours to get to any beach. The closest one was Galveston. Then the idea came to me and my smile returned.
"I have an idea, but only if your up for it."
She looked over curiously. "But what could be better than the beach?"
Jasperpov-
I can't believe Emmett got us lost. I thought sourly.
Our work boots stepped heavily on the dry grass. It was a good thing we knew these woods like the back of our hands. Well at least I did. I glared at Emmett while walking next to him.
"What?" he asked innocently. "Don't get mad at me!"
"How could you possibly get us lost?"
Emmett snorted. "You're the one who thought I could remember how to get there."
We were actually going hunting tomorrow night, or planned too anyway. Things weren't really working out when we tired to find a decent tree stand. This would have been our third one.
"Look, there's a clearing over there." I pointed to the fence we were making are way toward. Emmett grumbled and looked down as if he were a child. It make me smile, and I realized we did take hunting way to seriously, it was almost pathetic. We looked at each other and laughed at our predicament.
"Okay." Emmett said, starting to apologize. "Sorry I got us-"
Emmett never finished that sentence, because in that moment, my summer officially changed plans. Drastically.
We saw two girls wearing bikini's in the bed of a pickup truck.
Are you sure you got that?
Two girls. Bikini's. Pick up bed. Gorgeous.
They heard us coming and looked up. It was hard to believe what I what I was seeing.
The sun was shining over their bodies, which were perfect. I couldn't help but be wide eyed. Man, who thought any girls could be like this. What were they doing anyway?
"Jazz, please tell me you see what I see." Emmett breathed.
"Yeah, don't worry, I can see them just fine."
Did I mention the girls in bikinis part?
"Dibbs on the blonde." Emmett said quickly so they wouldn't hear us.
Was gonna take the brunette any way. She was gorgeous to say the least. Her dark hair was spiked at her cheeks. I could tell she was smaller than the other girl, more petite. She looked at the blonde girl and grinned.
Emmett spoke broke out of our trance first, "Well hello ladies."
The blonde girl giggled. "Hey." obviously flirting, not that Emmett minded. "May I ask what your doing here? This is private property."
That broke me out of my trance pretty quick. Private property. First day on the job and Mr. Brandon has a reason to kill us. We had already gone off property? Perfect.
"Sorry girls, we didn't know. We lost are way around actually." He paused, his eyebrows creasing together, "What are you doing anyway?"
This time the brunette spoke, looking my way. "Well, it's the first day of summer. My dad won't take us to the beach since you probably know it's so far away, and there is no way we have the gas money. This is are substitute."
"I see." Emmett said giving me a wink. I scoffed at the look he was giving me.
"Well, girls it seems since you have a truck, and this is Texas and it's hot. We would appreciate if you gave us a ride?" he asked hopefully.
There bodies tensed immediately. The blonde girl spoke strongly, "No. There is no way I'm letting two guys who walked out of the woods in my truck without me knowing more about you."
There was a pause.
Our friendly conversation was now a interrogation.
"Alright, fair enough. What would you like to know." Emmett was still relaxed.
"Names."
"I'm Emmett and this is-"
"Emmett what?"
He smiled at her confidence. "Emmett Mcartey."
She whistled, gushing dramatically. "A Mcartey boy huh?"
He laughed loud, which he always did and nodded, lightening the mood.
"What about you?" She asked, nodding her head towards me.
I cocked a half grin, finding this whole thing amusing. "Jasper Whitlock."
"Nice place you have, I've seen it. It's down the road isn't it?"
"Yeah, thanks."
The dark haired girl hummed for a moment, trying to come up with another question. "You said you were hunting?
"Right."
"You don't have anything better to do on the first day of summer?" She was obviously not one for sitting in a tree stand for hours, waiting for a deer, and being completely silent at that.
"We're working at the Brandon's ranch during the summer." I gestured toward the direction of it.
They looked at each other and smiled as big as you could imagine. What did I say?
"Brandon's ranch?"
"Yes, just down the rode."
"So what are you doing all the way out here?"
"Looking for dear stands. We need something else to do when we aren't working."
They both looked at each other one last time and blondie spoke one last time. "I suppose we could drop you off there if you want."
I was surprised, that seemed quick. "Wait, that's it? No more questioning?"
"Nope, we heard quite enough. Get in the back." They stood up in the bed of the truck and grabbed there things. Making me look them up and down. Good Lord. They put a t-shirts on and boots and got in the front.
I was still shocked they let us off that easy. If I were them and saw two guys coming out of the woods toward them, I would have a gun out or something. They knew almost nothing about us. I didn't even know there names...
"So you know us but we don't know you."
"That's Alice and I'm Rosalie Hale."
Alice. Just knowing her name made me smile. I tried snapping out of it, looking down so she wouldn't see.
I relaxed a bit more and it made me look at her truck. The large truck must have been off for hours in the hot sun because the heat was unbearable.
We drove up passing the gate that was already opened. "You boys better straighten up. Mr. Brandon doesn't like his gate open."
Emmett and I stared at each other in slight panic. "He doesn't?"
"Nope, he doesn't like his cattle walking right out of it either."
"We didn't leave the gate open did we?" I whispered.
"Yep." Emmett whispered back. It would be hell if we had to spend the afternoon tracking down every head of cattle that his property.
Before I had time to have a heart attack, Alice spoke just before the truck stopped. "Alright, here we are. I'd better walk you so I can make sure you don't get killed." they both giggled yet again.
Okay, I realized they were girls, but they had nothing to be that giddy about. Right?
We all got out and there he was. Standing like a king. His hat covered his brown hair and his mustache seem to be perfect. He took his 80's sunglasses off smooth as always. Mr. Brandon. Who was smiling?
"How are my two favorite girls?" His laughed boomed as they ran up and hugged him. His eyes slowly squinted into narrow slits as he saw us walk up too.
"Hi Daddy!" Alice chirped.
Daddy? Seriously? Well...this makes everything much more complicated.
But really, are you kidding me?
Mr. Brandon had daughters? Okay, we could deal with that. So they were Brandon's kids...
Who was a kidding, I could never date her. He would have my hide up on the wall with the rest of his collection.
But it did make sense that they stopped asking questions about us and let us in their truck. Mr. Brandon pretty much wanted a book about you before he let you set foot on his property, let alone work on his ranch. They simply trusted his judgement.
Smart and beautiful. My kinda girl.
I stopped smiling like an idiot because Emmett sacked the back of my head. He did it just in time too. Alice and Rosalie walked up after saying goodbye to their father.
We heard Mr. Brandon's voice in our direction. "You boys ready to work tomorrow?" Mr. Brandon yelled while walking away.
"Yes sir!" We both yelled at the same time.
"Good! Got a lot to do tomorrow!"
"What have we gotten ourselves into?" Emmett looked at me.
"I have no idea." I said.
Which was true. At the time I didn't know how that summer would go, or how it would become to best one I had ever had. The most important summer I ever had.
But at the time, I was scared like you wouldn't believe. I must have been crazy too believe it would work out.
"Come on. Let us show y'all around the house. I'm sure y'all will be spending a lot of time in here." I sure hope so...I thought, looking at Alice. Trying to be as calm as possible. But Emmett was still totally confused. "Okay! What was that all about? What is your full name?"
"Alice Brandon." She replied nonchalantly.
"But, you both said your last name was Hale!"
"No, I said my last name was Hale!" Rose rolled her eyes. "Alice and I are cousins."
We stood in disbelief. "So Mr. Brandon is.."
"My uncle. I practically live here though, my parents aren't really around that much."
Wow. Mr. Brandon is really going to send us to hell. We liked his precious little girls.
"So, when do y'all start working? Alice asked us, chipper as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
"Tomorrow." I said with a little waryness.
Alice shook her head smiling, laughing lightly as she said. "Well, good luck with that."
Must rest fingers and brain cells. Goodnight all!
Like I said, as I put up more chapters, the characters will be much more developed and show their personality more.
