Heeeeeeeeeeeeere's Eddie! *smirks*

EPOV
I walked in the back door of Sgt. Pecker's a little after 9 PM. I played drums and guitar and sang in the house band at the club...it was a cheesy gig, but it paid well and I got to watch hot chicks dance around naked or very nearly in those ridiculous yet weirdly hot outfits they wore. I looked into Emmett's office as I passed but didn't see him there so I continued making my way up front and found him sitting at the bar, talking to Jasper and Alice. Alice is my cousin, as well as Jasper's girlfriend. I love the girl like a sister, but she freaks me out sometimes 'cuz she just seems to be this tiny ball of energy. I never quite figured out how someone so tiny could expend as much energy as she did and not pass out...ah well. I made my way over to the bar, stopping to tickle Alice's sides as I greeted Jazz and Em.

"Hey guys, what's shakin?" I asked as I dodged the slap Alice was trying to land and settled on the stool next to Em.

"We got a new girl starting tonight, and just in time too since we lost Jessica," said Emmett, sipping on what I knew would be his first, last, and only beer of the night. Yeah, the club had bouncers but Em never got wasted at work, he stayed on top of things and made sure nobody tried anything funny with the girls. We had a strict 3-drink maximum, and only served beer, but that didn't stop guys from leaving another club or bar and coming in here already shit-faced and thinking they could manhandle the girls.

"Ah. Cool," I responded, motioning to Jasper for a beer. And that was where my interest was focused- we only served beers from local breweries, and we had just gotten a new one in the other night that I hadn't tried yet. I had zero interest in dating a stripper...other dudes seeing my woman naked? Hell no, thank you very much. I finished my beer and went to change into my costume and warm up with the guys.

10 PM rolled around and we started playing "Eight Days a Week" and the girls came out, being acknowledged by cheers and catcalls. We played a few more songs, and around 10:30 the lights dimmed and Em came over the loudspeaker.

"Sgt. Pecker's is proud to present the newest addition to our team, the lovely Olivia!"

A petite but curvy brunette in the green outfit walked onstage and struck a pose at the center pole. I saw Rose, in blue, take the pole to her right and Leah, in orange, was on the other one. Jazz gave us the signal to play "Yellow Submarine", which of course we knew but had never seen anyone dance to, we just played it during breaks to keep the guys in the audience entertained while the girls took a breather.

Eric, who was singing that night, looked at the rest of us and shrugged, then began singing. I was on drums tonight and because of all the different instrument sounds in this song I used an electric keyboard that was specially programmed with the tambourine, and the ocean sounds, etc. I pulled the keyboard closer to me and picked up my sticks and gave Eric the signal to begin singing. The other two guys in the band, Jacob and Seth from the rez, were on guitar. Eric, Seth, and I started right on cue but Jacob was standing still as a stone, staring at Olivia.

We repeated the first few bars of the song a couple times, and Jacob was still zoned out. I reached over with one of my sticks and poked him in the back, hissing at him to start playing. He jumped and spun around to say a few extremely colorful phrases not commonly heard outside the docks of Seattle. He wasn't holding on to his guitar when he turned, so it went swinging out, coming right towards me. All of a sudden, I felt something heavy hit me in the head and everything went black.

When I came to, I was lying on a couch in the break room and I could hear Em, Jazz, Rose, and Alice, as well as the other girls, talking quietly throughout the room. I opened my eyes and blinked a few times, and felt a cool hand on my forehead and a soft, almost musical voice spoke from somewhere very close above me.

"Oh you're awake!" she exclaimed. "He's awake, Em, Jazz, I think he'll be fine," she said, and I was finally able to focus on her...well, the back of her head anyway, since she was turned to talk to the guys.

"Wha...what the hell happened?" I asked...or croaked...fuck my life. I sounded like my uncle George, who was a pack-a-day smoker for some 50-odd years, but had somehow never gotten cancer and was still alive and kicking at 60, happily married to my aunt Abbey for nearly 40 years.

"You got hit in the head by his guitar," the girl said, turning back to me as she motioned toward Jacob. I finally realized who she was...it was Olivia, the new girl. "You took a pretty good thwap, and it looks like you have a minor concussion and will have a major headache but I think you'll be fine," she finished with a smile.

"Shit...I need to go to the hospital..somebody call 911 or something, shit!" I said, trying to sit up, but my efforts were thwarted by Olivia's hand on my chest.

"Shhh, you're fine. I'm a nurse..well, I will be in a few months anyway. My name is Bella, by the way, I'm a nursing student down at Forks CC," she told me.

I took a moment to process that information, finally figuring that she didn't want to use her real name at the strip club. Once my brain had worked all that out, the rest of my body suddenly woke up...in more ways than one! I'd always thought the outfits us guys in the band wore were goofy, but the getups the girls wore were just plain silly...but not on Oliv...Bella...Hell, she looked better in the stupid polyester outfit than any other girl ever had, or probably ever would. I took a few seconds to let my eyes roam over her gorgeous body, while Alice asked her something and her attention was elsewhere.

But even as I appreciated the scenery, I felt something more, something deeper...like I'd known her for years instead of just a few minutes. Something inside me, and it wasn't my cock speaking to me like it normally would be with a scantily-clad woman so near, was screaming at me to get her alone..so I asked everyone to leave, that I just needed some peace and quiet. As Bella also got up to leave, I reached out and grabbed her wrist, and asked her to stay, adding "just in case I need your help" as the reasoning. She turned and looked down at me and I could have sworn I felt something...fuck I can't even describe what it felt like.

She nodded at me, said a few words to the others, and pulled over a beanbag and made herself comfortable. I had this insane need to know everything about her so I started making small talk with her...where are you from, what do you do for fun, that sort of mundane shit.

Next thing I knew it was midnight, and Bella and I had shifted positions to the point that we were both sitting on the couch...we reached a lull in conversation and I decided it was time to man up and say what was on my mind...now or never!

"Bella...I know we just met, but...ah, fuck..." I mumbled, running my hand through my hair.

She smiled, and said to me, "I know, Edward. I feel it too."

We left the break room, changed into our regular clothes, bid our friends goodbye and found an IHOP a few miles outside town that was open 24 hours. We stayed up the rest of the night talking, laughing, and getting to know one another.

Well...that's it :) that's all I've got! I was originally gonna make this a one-shot but it was too long so I decided I'd better split it up haha...if you guys want some more of Beatlella and SgtPeckerward (too cheesy? just right? let me know what you think!)

As ever, my eternal gratitude to my wonderful beta Fran for making this pretty :)

If the mood strikes, I may post more but for now I'm marking this as complete. Be sure to put the story on alert, or me on author alert, so you'll know if/when more comes :)