Chapter One:

"OMG I can't believe how long this day has been! My feet are killing me!" I complained as I picked at my dinner in front of me. My friend Jenny and I had been talking while we took our dinner break together about the first part of our shift. The restaurant we both worked at had been working us to the bone lately after losing two employees the week before. "Seriously I think between this, school and breaking up with Jon and my home life struggles my head is going to explode!"

"I feel you dude but there is an upside to all this slave labor," Jenny said as she took a big bite out of her burger; "overtime!" I started laughing at my friend and shaking my head as I shoveled my own burger down. We'd been working together for about a month or two now and even though we attended different schools she and her "brother" Zach and I had become pretty close. Suddenly the door opened and in walked two guys around our age. Jenny immediately jumped up and went to talk to them as I sat in our booth continuing to Hoover my sandwich. "Bella? Come here a sec, I wanna introduce you to someone real quick."

Begrudgingly leaving my lunch I stood and walked over to her adjusting my stupid work hat, ya that's how lame this place was but a paycheck is a paycheck. When I got to her side I got a better look at the two guys she was talking to. The first one who I'm pretty sure she called Bob stuck his hand out and shook mine smiling widely at me. I told him it was nice to meet him as well and chuckled to myself at such a young guy with an old man's name. Bob was about 6 foot and had dark hair combed neatly to the side, nice smile and friendly eyes hiding just a hint of mischief. I instantly liked Bob, he seemed to be someone anyone would like.

I shifted my gaze to the other guy at his side and felt my heart skip a couple beats. He had his head down but even then I just knew he was beautiful. He wore a black Cradle of Filth band shirt and a blue and white flannel over it with a pair of torn blue jeans and black flip flops and had a black hat turned backwards on covering his long shaggy copper hair. I instantly wanted to rip the cap off and run my fingers through his hair; I bet it felt like silk. Jenny introduced him as Edward and upon hearing his name he shot his emerald eyes up to mine and looked at me through long black lashes. I instantly couldn't breathe, my heart stopped and everything seemed to be still around me.

Stuttering I looked at Edward and said, "Um hi, it's nice to meet you both... How are you?" God way to be original, I thought to myself. I'm pretty sure if we weren't face to face I'd of developed a full blown case of facepalm.

Bob just smiled and nodded but Edwards head shot up at the sound of my voice and he replied simply with, "fine" before immediately looking back down on the ground. Great Bella your greeting has bored him so much you're barely a blip on the radar awesome, I thought.

Jenny and Bob continued to talk, Edward stared at the floor and I pretended to actually be listening to the conversation at hand while trying to sneak peeks at the silent and mysterious god to my left. Every now and then I thought I'd see him looking at me out of the corner of my eye but when I tried to look at him to confirm it he continued to stare at the floor. Ya, cause a god would be interested in plain old Bella, I snorted.

At the sound of my snort everyone's eyes shot to me and I could feel the heat of my blush fill my cheeks. From the corner of my eye I could see Edward smirk and look at Bob and tilt his head towards the door and raise an eyebrow, signaling their need to leave. Bob shook my hand again, hugged Jenny and then proceeded to walk towards the door. Edward mumbled a quick goodbye to me and hugged Jenny as well. My heart immediately ached a little and longed to be in his arms or at least near him as he turned and walked away. Sighing, I turned and walked back to our abandoned dinner trying to figure out what it was about this stranger that caused such an odd reaction in me.

"Crap! Bella I'll be right back I forgot something," Jenny said as she rushed out after the guys. I simply nodded and sat down in our booth and played with my food completely caught up in emerald green eyes. About twenty minutes later Jenny came running in smiling and slid into our booth. I couldn't stand it any longer and had to ask.

"SO….who was that?" I tried to be nonchalant but as soon as the words escaped my lips Jenny started laughing. I cocked one eyebrow and tilted my head at her, "what?"

"OMG Bella, I was just out there and as soon as I walked out Edward asked who you were and how I know you. You guys wouldn't even look at each other directly but both Bob and I saw you checking each other out!" Jenny laughed as she ate her fries. I must have looked shocked because Jenny just laughed harder and finished her meal. "Are you ready to clock back in?"

I quickly picked up my trash and gulped down my food as we threw everything away and headed back to clock in. For the rest of the night I was preoccupied and every time Jenny saw me spacing out she would shake her head and laugh before snapping her fingers in front of my face bringing me out of my own head. Finally when it was time to go home she came up to me and placed her hand on my shoulder.

"Don't worry Bells; I'm sure you'll see him again." Jenny told me with a sly look on her face as she clocked out and walked towards her car. I smiled and waved at her as I got into my mother's car to head home.

"So how was work?" my mother Renee asked me as I climbed in and laid my head back on the headrest.

Closing my eyes, "work was good. I'm tired but work was good." The whole ride home I thought about my brief encounter with Edward and when I got home, showered and got in bed I fell asleep to visions of bright green eyes and slept better than I had in years.