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Soundtrack: Hicktown by Jason Aldean
Chapter 2: Hicktown
(Edward's POV)
As I drove past the sign that said Welcome to Greenville, the City of Smiles, I laughed at the irony of it. I definitely wasn't in the mood for smiling. I had been driving through nothing but forest and farmland for almost an hour now and mood was slowly getting worse and worse with every cow I saw.
I had no idea where I was and the directions that I had gotten from one of the locals down here weren't helping much at all. He had told me to drive past the white farmhouse, but there was a slight problem with that.
All of the farmhouses were white.
I sighed and just continued driving, hoping to find some sort of civilization in this deserted place. I drove for another twenty minutes before I actually ran across what looked like a small town. There was a small country diner on one side of the road and there were some other small shops lining both sides of the road. It looked like one of those quaint little towns in the old country movies.
I was about to just drive through the town and look for a different place to stop, but when I saw a small, pixie-like girl coming out of the diner with a tall, blond guy, I pulled over and got out of my car (which happened to look like the most expensive thing in this town).
"Alice?" I called after the girl.
She turned around, looking for the person who had called her name. When she saw me, a smile lit up her face and she came running down the road and flung herself at me. "You're here! I can't believe it!"
I had to smile at her enthusiasm and hugged her back. "Yeah, I'm here," I said, my voice sounding flat.
She wasn't fazed by it though. She continued smiling at me and she grabbed my hand and pulled me away from my car and towards the blond guy that she had been with. "There's someone I want you to meet," she said, smiling at me.
The guy looked like he was just slightly taller than my six feet two inches and he a sun streaked blond hair with blue eyes and his skinned looked tanned. He actually looked like he belonged in this place. He had an unsure look on his face as we approached.
"Edward," Alice said to me. "This is my boyfriend Jasper." She turned to Jasper and said, "And Jasper, this is my big brother Edward."
So this was the famous Jasper. I stuck my hand out for him to shake. "It's nice to finally meet you. You're all Alice talks about."
He shook my hand and smiled a bit and said with a southern accent, "Well, you're all that Alice talks about while she's down here, so I guess we're even."
I laughed a bit. "I guess so," I said before Alice attacked me with questions.
"Have you eaten yet? Have you been to the house yet? Do you need help with anything? Do you---" I cut her off.
"Alice, slow down. And yes, I've eaten. No, I haven't been to the house. I just got here. And yes, I need to know where the house is," I answered all of her questions.
"Okay, we'll take you there. You can follow us," she said, pointing at her car that was parked down the street.
"Alright," I said. "Let's go. I need to get unpacked before dinner." She nodded and grabbed Jasper's hand and pulled him towards the car. I made my way to my car and then I pulled out of the parking spot and followed Alice to go to the house.
We drove for about fifteen minutes through some more green fields and pastures before we pulled up in front of a large white plantation house. I looked around and saw that my parents' cars were sitting in the dirt driveway on the side of the house (pic on website).
I got out of my car and walked around the car to grab my luggage from the trunk. I pulled my duffels from the back and threw them over my shoulders and carried them into the house, Alice skipping front of me.
"Hey, Mom!" she called excitedly down the hall. "Guess who I found?"
"Oh, dear. Please tell you didn't bring Emmett home again," I heard my mother's voice come floating from down the hall. She sounded slightly amused when she said Emmett's name. Emmett? Who's Emmett? I heard my mother's footsteps coming from the next room.
"No, Mom," Alice said, rolling her eyes and smirking in my direction. "I didn't bring home Emmett. You remember what happened last time."
I heard my mother laugh and then she stepped out of the next room and then she smiled brightly as soon as she saw me. "Hey, Mom," I said, smiling back at her shyly.
She walked over to me and pulled me into a hug and then smiled up at me. "It's good to have you here, Edward. And trust me, you might find that you like it down here."
I gave her a suspicious look. "And what is that supposed to mean?" I asked.
"You'll just have to find out for yourself," she said as a sly smile spread across her lips and she winked at Alice, who winked back. What were they up to?
I just shook my head and changed the subject. "I haven't slept in forty-eight hours, everyone on that plane snored very loudly, and I've been driving around lost for almost two hours. I need to lay down for a little while."
"Oh, of course, dear. Why didn't I think of that first? Alice, show Edward to his room," my mother said. Alice nodded and led me up the stairs and into a brightly lit bedroom. I smiled slightly when I saw the very large bed in the center of the room. Ahh, bed.
I threw my duffels onto the couch that was placed against one of the walls of the room and fell onto the bed. Alice laughed at my actions and then said, "There's some other people I want you to meet when you get up, so we're going down to the local bar when you're ready."
"Aren't you a little young to be going to a bar?" I asked her, my eyebrow cocking.
"Not down here," she said with a smile. "Everyone here goes to Tim's. It's no big deal." And with that she skipped out of the room, calling Jasper's name.
Something told me that I should be worried about that fact, but I knew that Jasper wouldn't let Alice get into any trouble, so there was no need to worry. And now that I had the room to myself, I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
When I woke up a few hours later, I changed closes and headed downstairs and was greeted by a very excited Alice and a very amused looking Jasper.
"Alright, Alice. Let's go before you have a heart attack," I said as she started to bounce excitedly.
"Okay, let's go," she chirped as she grabbed Jasper's hand and pulled him towards the door.
We drove back into town (if you could call it a town, it was more of a street) and all of the lights from the buildings lit the street up in the night. We pulled up in front of a building that had a red neon sign that read Tim's Bar and you could hear country music blaring through the walls.
We got out of the car and headed towards the entrance of the bar. We walked in the door and I was greeted by the smell of alcohol and smoke and the sight of what seemed like the whole town's younger population. There were a few older men sitting in one corner, ignoring all of the noise around them and enjoying their drinks.
As we walked through the bar, everyone in bar decided that it would be a good idea to stare a me as I walked by. That made me feel a little bit more that uncomfortable and I was thankful when Alice and Jasper stopped in front of a table that was occupied by a very large guy with dimples and a mop of dark curly hair and a girl with long wavy blond hair and bright blue eyes. They both appeared to be about a year older than me.
"Hey, guys!" Alice said as she sat down next to the blond girl. "I want you to meet my big brother Edward. He's visiting for a little while from up north. Edward, this is Emmett Swan and his girlfriend, oh wait, fiancée Rosalie Hale."
"It's nice to meet you," I said, sticking my hand out for Emmett to shake, but instead of a hand shake, he pulled me into a rather large bear hug. So this was the Emmett that my mother and Alice were talking about.
"Eddie-boy! Glad you finally made it!" Emmett's very loud and very southern voice boomed.
When Emmett let go, Rosalie smiled sheepishly and said, "You really must excuse him. He doesn't always know how to control himself. I'm Rose, by the way." She stuck out her hand and I shook it gently. Rose had a slight southern accent and fit her perfectly.
"Edward," I said as she nodded in response. "And I'm used to things like that. I used to live with Alice." I smirked in my little sister's direction. She stuck her tongue out at me in return.
"Has anyone seen Bella?" Alice asked.
"Who's Bella?" I asked her.
"Bella's Emmett's little sister. She's nineteen like me. You'll like her. She works here, you know." she said with a smile.
I sat back in my chair and talked with everyone at the table, getting to know them and all. Emmett was the prankster of the group and Rose, who looked like she was an angel, was his partner-in-crime. She, Emmett, Jasper, and Bella grew up together here.
"So Edward, you got a girlfriend?" Emmett asked.
I froze. I was hoping that we wouldn't bring this subject up, but it was inevitable. "Um, no, not at the moment."
Alice looked confused. "But what about Tanya?"
"We broke it off right before I left," I said. "It just wasn't working out." I didn't want to have to think about this right now.
"Well, you better watch yourself while your down here. If some of these girls find out you're single, then ooo boy. Well, more specifically your butt," Emmett said, looking around at some of the girls that were eyeing our table. "See what I mean?" he asked, motioning towards the girls.
"Yeah, thanks for the warning," I said trying to avoiding any eye contact with the people around me.
After we had gotten to know each other, we all ordered some drinks (I gave Alice a look telling her that there better not be any alcohol in hers) and everyone else started there own conversations. I let my eyes wander around the room and then my eyes fell on an angel.
She was standing behind the bar, mixing and serving drinks. She had shiny, silky-looking mahogany hair that fell in waves around her shoulders and ended a little below them. She had the face of an angel with her delicate facial features and her full deep red lips. She had a petite figure with curves in all the right places that you could see through her tight white tank top and blue jeans. She couldn't be more than five foot four or so.
Then she looked up and met my eyes with hers. Her eyes were a chocolate brown color and they glittered even in the dim lighting of the bar. She smiled a small smile at me and fluttered her fingers at me in a small wave. My breathe hitched when she did that.
I finally got myself to breathe normally again and smiled slightly at her and winked, not wanting everyone around me to notice our little exchange.
She raised her hand to cover her mouth and she looked like she was trying to hold in a giggle.
For the rest of the night, the girl and I kept sneaking glances at each other and I was completely mesmerized my her.
When Alice and Jasper decided that they were going to leave, I got up with them and with one last wink at the girl, I left the bar.
We got back to the house and I walked up to my room in a trance-like state. I collapsed on my bed and smiled when the girl's face popped into my head.
And then I sat up so quickly that my head started to spin. How could I have so stupid? God, I'm an idiot!
And I bet you're wondering why I'm an idiot. Well, I'll tell you.
I forgot to get her name.
We let it rip when we got the money
Let it roll if we got the gas
Its buck wild yeah but that's the way we get down
In a hicktown
Hicktown - Jason Aldean
A/N: Hope you guys liked that. Thanks again for all of the reviews and alerts! Song for this chapter is on my website. And just to make sure that none of you are confused about the ages in this story, they are:
Edward: 21
Bella: 19
Alice: 19
Jasper: 22
Emmett: 22
Rosalie: 22
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