For Abbey-flan, because if I didn't write anything she promised trouble D:
It's my first time, so be gentle with me .
It was originally going to be a one shot but it just kept going...so it will probably be two possibly three. Who knows?
DISCLAIMER: I do not own twilight or any of the characters, they belong to Stephanie Meyer.
Three missed calls: Alice B
One New Message:
From: Alice B
Bellaaaaa, where are you! He is AMAZING! You should have come with us! What is more important than watching this God live! Tell me, tell me right now! Hugs and kisses xx
To:Alice B
From: Bella S
Well one of us has to earn money, the rent is due on Wednesday remember! I wanted to be there! And if Tanya sees me texting on the job I'm screwed! Just leave me to wallow in self pity! Xxx
One New Message :
From: Alice B
THE RENT! The rent pales in comparison to this! I would sell the flat to see this man again! Hs voice = goosebumps! Hugs and kisses Xx
To: Alice B
From: Bella S
And that is why I am in control of the money. I told you to leave me alone! You can gush to me about it later okay, but I might be back late I think Tanya's putting me on the late shift again, man I hate that woman! Xx
One New Message:
From: Alice B
HE TOUCHED ME! Bella he TOUCHED MEEEE! I am never washing this hand again! Me and Rosalie managed to get to the front and he held my hand Omg he's looking at me! I think I just died and went to heaven. Hugs and Kisses xx
"Bella, what are you doing?" I snapped my head up and hid the phone behind my back.
"Nothing, nothing at all, swear"
Tanya looked at me for a few seconds, studying me like a bug under a microscope."Good, because you know the policy about using your phone at work and I would hate to catch you again. You're on lock up tonight, remember to turn off the all the lights." With that she sauntered out of the doors and into the car park.
God I hated that woman, she ran a tiny coffee shop on the outskirts of town not a five star hotel, yet she flounced around here like it was the Ritz and we were her terribly underpaid slaves. I looked up at the clock above me, quarter to eleven. I wasn't allowed to leave until either the last customer had left or it had passed one in the morning. Then once they had left I had to clean up. There were currently four customers in the shop, at one table a young couple around my age were sat sipping coffee lost in their own romantic world, the man in the next booth was Tim, he came here every night and usually didn't leave until at least one. When we asked he said he was escaping the wife. The last was a businessman shouting rapidly into his phone.
Just as I was getting into self wallowing and depressing thoughts my phone vibrated heavily in my pocket. I looked at the screen, Alice was calling. Well Tanya was gone and no one needed serving. I flipped the phone open to be hit by the sound of screaming and a loud guitar.
"Alice? Alice can you hear me?" there was more screaming,
"Bella! Bella! You have to listen to this!" There was a rustling sound, more screaming and then a voice. I guessed that Alice had thrust her phone in the air for me to listen. His voice, although muffled by the screaming fans still sounded like heaven. It was the most perfect thing I had ever heard, and as cheesy as it was tears sprang to my eyes. No one should be gifted with that voice and look as perfect as he did.
All of a sudden the music stopped and there was more fumbling with the phone.
"Helloo, Alice? Hello?" I covered my ear so that I could hear clearer. "Alice? Hello?"
"Hello" Okay, that wasn't Alice...unless Alice had become a man in the past minute.
"Um, hello?"
"Hello, and who is this?" Huh? Where had Alice gone?
"Bella, and this is?"What if she had been kidnapped! I told her not to go off with strangers!
"This is Edward Cullen. And how are you tonight Bella?" I stopped breathing, the Edward Cullen was on the phone to me, oh god, and what had he asked me again? Breathe Bella, think, quick say something!
"Um, I'm good thanks. You?" I heard his laughter through the phone, I had thought his singing was the most beautiful thing I had heard, but I was wrong, it paled in comparison to his laughter. I felt the need to cry again.
"I'm doing fine thank you, it's rather hot on this stage but other than that I'm doing just fine." I heard laughter, but not one person, thousands of people laughing. "What I am wondering though is why this little lady in the crowd is focusing more on her phone then on me, do you know why that is?"
"She was texting me?" My voice rose in pitch.
"And why would she be doing that?"
"To tell me about the concert" I heard him hum in agreement and I could practically feel him nodding his head.
"I see, and why are you not here?"
"I had to, um, well I'm working" Great no I sounded like a twit.
"You're working! Bad times Bella. Can we have an aww for Bella!" Suddenly there was a massive awwwwww. How many people were there! Had he put me on speaker, oh god he had hadn't he! Suddenly I had the urge to strangle him. Him and Alice, oh yes Alice was going to pay.
"So where do you work Bella?" Please let this end, I could feel my cheeks burning as I thought of how many people were waiting for my reply.
"Um, Cafe Coffee, it's a coffee shop" I heard him laugh again, man I was never going to live this down.
"Is it now, well if I ever need coffee I know the place to go." He chuckled "As much as I am enjoying this stimulating conversation I do have a concert to finish"
"Oh, sure, yeah"
"Goodbye Bella" The line went dead and I was left staring in amazement at the phone. Had that actually happened? I turned back around to see that both the businessman and the couple had left. How long had I been on the phone?
Just then the devil started to ring again. Alice. Now I had to decide whether to pick it up. I was almost afraid to answer it. What if some other person was going to answer it or if I did pick it up there would be a hysterical Alice on the other end? Thankfully the bell chimed above the door to signal a customer's arrival. I shoved the offending item into my pocket and looked up to see Emmett and Jasper standing in front of me.
Emmett leaned over to ruffle my hair "Heya squirt!" I hated it when he did that, however that fact that he towered over me meant that it happened often.
"Hello to you too" I tried to sort out the haystack that was now my hair whilst glaring over at him, I may be little but I used what I had.
"Hey no need to look at me like that, I'm trying to cheer you up!" He held his hands up in surrender whilst moving to stand behind Jasper.
"We have to go pick up the girls in half an hour so we thought we would grab a coffee first. Also I have a feeling we will need it to handle the girls tonight, I fear they won't go to bed until early morning. However it's you I feel sorry for." Emmett and Rosalie shared a flat a few blocks from here with Jasper.
"Seriously! Jasper you can't leave me alone with her tonight! Take her with you!" Now I had an extra reason to get rid of her, I feared that if I got my hands on her tonight she wouldn't see tomorrow.
"As much as I love her, I think she can stay with you tonight" I had never wanted to beg someone so much in my life, but right now I was willing to fall to my knees.
"Pleaaasssseeee Jasper, she's your girlfriend! Don't you wanna see her!"
"And listen to her go on about the concert and how much she loves Edward Cullen, no thanks. I shall leave that to you." Was it me or was everything closing in on me. I couldn't escape Alice and the oncoming storm that she would bring. Also I needed time to plan how I would make her pay and so far all my plans involved blenders and precious items of clothing. She defiantly needed to stay with Jasper tonight. I pouted towards them and grabbed two cups for their coffee.
"You want it in or out?" I sighed.
"Excuse me!" I rolled my eyes, men and their dirty minds.
"Are you drinking in or taking out?"
"Well we have time to waste, we shall drink in I do believe, fair Bella"
"Emmett, shut up"
"Fine, grumpy guts! Who stole your ice cream?" I sighed. It really wasn't my night.
"Nothing, I just have to lock up and I know I won't get home until late and "
They both looked at me dumbfounded. "Huh?"
I turned around to collect their coffees. "I might have spoken to Edward Cullen"
"Wait what? How?" I sighed and placed their coffee in front of them.
"Well Alice phoned me from the concert and then next thing I know I'm on the phone to Edward Cullen. She must have been at the front or something. To be honest I don't even know what happened, I'm still in a state of shock."
Emmett whistled in agreement and Jasper took a long sip of coffee before looking at me. "Well that explains the whole wanting Alice to stay with me, she is going to be hell to deal with now."
"See, so that's why I was trying to lug her onto you! I don't want to deal with her gushing and also I do need to kill her for humiliating me like that! But I like the outside way too much to go to prison for murder. I sounded like such an idiot on the phone." I sighed for what felt like the thousandth time that night, and it was only just beginning. It was only half past eleven. Hang on. Half Eleven? I turned to the boys, "Doesn't the concert end at half eleven?"
"Yeah, well you have to take into account the queues for merchandise, which they will buy and the whole drink after a concert they won't be finished until at least twelve. We'll go get them in fifteen"
Exactly fifteen minutes later after ruining my hair again and leaving me a lovely tip, bless them, they left to pick up the girls with Jasper promising to take Alice back with him, leaving me with the flat to myself. If I ever left here that is.
I placed their mugs in the back room for me to sort out later and turned to face Tim, the only customer left. He hadn't touched his coffee since he ordered it three hours ago, but was just staring into the cup like it held the answers to his questions. I walked over to his table and sat down opposite him. He didn't even look up.
"Tim, it's time to go home" He slowly looked up at me, his eyes glazed and unfocused. He nodded and let go of the coffee mug sliding it across the table to me. I smiled and went to place the coffee mug with the rest. When I returned he was gone.
Poor man, he must really hate going home to whatever awaited him there. I hated dealing with Tim, it wasn't that he was the problem it was the fact that he came here to get away from his supposed 'true love'. For someone who had never been in love and whose last boyfriend believed that girls had cooties it really was a downer.
I sighed again and grabbed the cleaning equipment from the cupboard. I started with the basics and wiped all the tables down straightening the sugars and napkins. I wiped down the counters and placed all the unused cups back on the shelves to be brought out tomorrow.
I decided that I might as well get into it and plugged my headphones in, luckily a good song started to play as I decided to mop the floors. I turned it up and started to move with the music, I started to 'whip my hair' as the song suggested and moved around the cafe moping as I went. There is something about throwing yourself around a room and knowing that you look like an idiot that just brings a smile to your face. Of course that is until you realize that someone is watching you. And who that someone is.
I have decided that that one voice, that one voice will be the end of me. It still oozed confidence and I could feel the smug smile on his face.
"Nice dancing" I spun round to be face to face with the devil himself. On reflection it was a bit strange how I had gone from being his biggest fangirl, drooling over the image of him to hating the very thought of his existence. Most people would have been ecstatic at the very thought of speaking to Edward Cullen, however I was humiliated at the thought that he had done that to me. The thought of so many people hearing my voice and listen to me stammer through answers made my cheeks heat again, but now anger was mixed with the embarrassment. Anger at both him and me for getting this worked up over it.
"We're closed I'm afraid" I narrowed my eyes at him. He sat down at one of the stools,
"I just want a cup of coffee. One little cup. "He narrowed his fingers together as if to emphasise how little he was asking for.
"Why are you even here?"
"I just told you, I want a coffee" I moved to the counter and stood in front of him, thankful for the counter between us.
"And you just happened to stumble in here?" I raised my eyebrow at him. He smiled his breathtaking smile at me and for a second I completely forgot my anger at him or the fact that he was the focus of many teenage hearts and had to fight the urge to drag him across the counter and see if his lips were as soft as they looked. I gripped the edge of the counter to stop myself.
"Yes, Hello again Bella"
"How do you know I'm Bella huh, I could be anyone" He pointed at my name tag and read 'Isabella' to me like I was a small child.
"What would you like?"
He looked disappointed. "What that's it? A world famous singer walks into your coffee shop after speaking to you only an hour ago and instead of screaming and all that, you shout at me and ask me what coffee I would like. Well you're no fun." He crossed his arm and pouted over at me. His pout was adorable, shame it didn't cancel out the smugness.
"Way to blow your own horn. And no I will not scream and beg you for your autograph. I have had a crap day okay, I have been here since one in the afternoon making this the longest shift I have ever worked, then I am publicly humiliated by you and when I finally think it's all over you appear again! So please let me know what coffee you would like so I can just go home." He had the decency to look ashamed.
"Could I have a Latte please?" I turned to the machine desperate for this night to end. All I wanted to do was cruel under my covers and never come out again. Lost in my own thought I didn't realize he had started talking.
"It's your friends fault actually, there she was stood not five feet from me and yet she was spent the whole time staring at her phone, I couldn't figure out who as more important to her at that moment than me! So when she held her phone out I just acted on impulse and grabbed it. Trust me I expected it to be a guy on the end of the phone not you."
"Yes what a shame that one out of thousands of females did not have their full attention on you, your ego must have taken a big hit." It was his turn to sigh. He placed his folded arms on the counter and looked directly at me. I looked away finding it hard to look directly into his eyes.
"Look I'm just trying to say sorry for humiliating you like that, I didn't mean to" My eyes flashed to his, immediately every doubt that he was joking left me as I saw the look on his face. He looked genuinely upset.
"What did you just say?"
"I'm sorry, I thought it was going to be her boyfriend or something so I was just gonna joke around with him a bit, but then it was you and you were being all nervous and shy. I really didn't mean to offend you." I turned back to the machine whilst trying to take in what he said. Edward was in my coffee shop apologizing for something. I hadn't really had experience in this area before so I decided to go with the flow.
I turned to face him with a smile and placed his coffee in front of him. "Don't worry about it, I probably won't be able to go out in public again but hey who needs sunlight." He chuckled and took a sip from the steaming mug.
"Do you need a hand?" I looked at him confused.
"With what?"
"Cleaning this up" He gestured to the half washed floor and I thought of the pile of cups that were waiting to be cleaned.
"Oh no, no I'm okay. Anyway don't you have a big tour bus to get back to or something. Screaming girls and all that" He sipped the coffee again.
"No, I'm staying in a hotel a few minutes from here. I'm playing here for another two nights."
"Oh, well, I'm fine anyway I only have a little left to do." I sighed wishing that was reality.
"I used to work in a cafe you know, I hated the night shift because it meant hours of cleaning up everyone else's mess." I laughed at the image of him in a cafe mopping floors. It made him more human, more reachable, more mine.
He hopped off his stool and into the back room, me trailing beyond him like a puppy. He looked around for a few seconds and then started to open the large machine made to wash the mugs and dishes. I had always hated this machine; it looked like something out of Back To The Future. It was large and silver and held nearly a hundred cups at one time and then when it was finished you would slide out all these shiny new looking cups. Did I mention the water was nearly three hundred degrees? He started to place the mugs in the trays to be placed in the machine, with him bent over like that it was very easy to remember why so many girls liked him. His t-shirt allowed me to see every movement of his muscles and did I mention the jeans. He really did have a nice...
"Are you gonna stand there or just stare at me, I don't mind either way it's just more productive if you helped." I felt the blush infect my face as I moved alongside him and started to place the mugs into the machine. The silence was defiantly awkward.
"You're different to what I expected you know." I turned in surprise to find him watching me.
"What do you mean different, we've only spoken on the phone anyway"
He lent back against the table and crossed his arms over his chest. "Well on the phone you sounded so nervous I thought you might pass out, so when I walked in here and you started shouting at me I thought for a second I had the wrong place!" I glared over at him.
"Yes well I don't exactly do well under pressure and I hate being the centre of attention so when you put the two together things never go well."
He smirked and went back to placing the mugs into the racks. I spun placing my hands on my hips and increased my glare in his direction.
"What, what does that face mean exactly?" He laughed, the sound doing funny things to my heartbeat. He didn't turn to face me but carried on working.
"It's just that I was hoping to find this nervous waitress who would faint upon seeing me and then I would sign a napkin or something, kiss her cheek and leave knowing that she probably thought it was the best thing to happen to her and now here I am helping you to clean up."
"You know you're wrong a lot right?" I smiled over at him.
He sighed smiling and shook his head to himself "And the strangest thing is I'm having fun. I could be at a massive party with flocks of girls drinking and having a good time yet here I am in a small cafe helping you and I keep thinking that I would much rather be here"
"Well, that's good to know. Your company isn't too bad either" He laughed and placed another rack of mugs in the machine. Only another million to go. I sighed and looked over at him.
"So um, what's it like being famous?"
"Oh you know money, fast cars, big parties, the usual." He placed the last rack of mugs in the machine whilst I set it to fast wash. "Of course there is the downside; I'm away from home almost constantly so I rarely see family or friends." We returned to the front of the shop and he returned to his now cool coffee. I didn't get it. Why was he here, helping me clean up a coffee shop when he could be doing what he just said attending big parties, driving fast cars and being with hot girls? I sighed.
"Why, anyway?" I looked up.
"Why what"
"Why did you wanna know what it's like to be famous, I highly doubt you dream of becoming a star." I ignored the last comment.
"I'm just trying to figure it all out. This night has been so surreal. Why would someone like you come here when you could be sat at a party with flocks of girls at your disposal like you said. I know where I would rather be." He placed his mug down and looked through his lashes at me.
"Maybe I'm the kinda guy that prefers to spend his time with a cute waitress, drinking coffee and mopping floors."
"So you've done this before then. Seducing poor tired waitresses into making you coffee."
His raised his eyebrows and smiled a crocked smile at me. "This is a first actually, but if you believe I was being seductive just wait until I actually try." His smirk grew as he watched the red crawl up my face.
"Yeah, well that makes it sound like you might try to"
"Well I might"
"I'd like to see that" I scoffed and turned to place his cup in the sink. I could hand wash this and just leave it to go in the machine tomorrow. Next thing I knew there was a chest extremely close to my back. He traced his hands along my arms until they too were in the water holding his hands over mine. I stopped breathing waiting to see what he would do next, excitement taking hold of me.
He leaned his mouth down to my ear "If I wanted to seduce you Bella, I could have you eating out of my hands in seconds." I was in such a state of shock that I couldn't even form a response. He took the mug slowly out of my hands and turned away to dry it. I still couldn't move, I started to breathe again and heard him chuckle from next to me.
I don't know where the desire came from but I decided that I needed to wipe that smirk from his face. I moved until I was stood flush behind him and ran my hands slowly up his back feeling his muscle tense as I went. I leaned up on my tiptoes until I reached his ear and gripped it lightly between my teeth slowly dragging them across. "I don't eat out of anyone's hands I have them eating out of mine" I stepped away taking the mug out of his frozen hands and moving to place it with the rest of the mugs.
Just as I had placed the mug on the shelf I felt him spin me around by the shoulders and his mouth crash into mine. He attacked my senses taking complete control of my mouth sucking and biting the right places. I had never been kissed like this before, this was pure need, our noses bashing together as we moved.
I really didn't want to end this but you could only stand on your tiptoes for so long and my toes were starting to hurt. As if sensing my problem he lifted me up and placed me on the counter top. This was a love better. I wove my fingers into his hair and wrapped my legs around his waist whilst his hands explored my back gripping so hard I was sure I would have bruises tomorrow but I didn't care. He licked my bottom lip demanding entrance and gave a small growl when I denied him. We broke apart to breathe and his mouth attacked my neck kissing his way down and along my collarbone. He bit the cord of my neck, payback for me denying him but then he sucked the sensitive skin and all rational thoughts left my mind and I pulled his mouth back to mine attacking it with more passion then before, granting him immediate access this time. He tasted of mint and coffee and something else, something entirely him, my new favourite flavour. We broke apart to breathe leaning against each other's forehead trying to catch our breath. I opened my eyes not remembering when they had closed
"That was defiantly better than going to a party" He smiled at me. I sat back with my arms still around him; it was hard to take him seriously when he appeared to have only one eye.
"Totally" Was the only response that I could form. I was still in a state of shock. That and I was resisting the urge to attack him again. He seemed to be having the same idea but before things got out of hands I slid off the counter and placed my hands onto his chest. That hadn't worked as I had hoped as this new position now made me closer to him then before and I was now eye level with his chest, a chest covered with a tight t-shirt leaving little to my imagination. I stared at his chest in amazement already lost in a daze. I heard him chuckle above me and remove his arms from around me stepping back.
"We need to stop for a second and sort this out before things get out of hand." I looked up at him still in a daze.
"Only for a second right?" Wow, did I actually just say that out loud, when had I become so desperate? Who was I kidding, this was Edward Cullen, smug, helpful, gorgeous Edward Cullen who was an amazing kisser, of course I would need more, always need more, never have enough. I stepped back, he was right we needed to sort this out first, whatever had just happened needed to be discussed. Never had I wanted a discussion to end so quickly and it hadn't even begun.
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