BPOV

BPOV

What was I thinking? Giving some random guy my schedule just because he let me escape Mike for the day and helped me so I didn't fall? How dumb could I be? I didn't even know this guy. I was acting just like Alice. But, he was really cute, Rose would be proud. I laughed to myself walking out of work thinking about that.

I walked into the house and saw Alice sitting next to the computer no doubt talking to her little online man. I looked up at the clock and saw that it was only 2 pm so I knew Rose would still be at work. "Hey Alice, talking to your little cyber buddy?"

"Ha ha, you're funny. As a matter of fact yes I am. Better then you're doing I might add." Oh yeah, she thought she was so cute.

"Actually I did meet someone today. Well, sort of anyways."

"What do you mean 'sort of'?"

"Well, there was this guy at work this morning who thankfully saved me from Mike but I didn't really get a chance to talk to him much after I almost fell." Yeah, I stung just thinking about that little fact.

"Cute?"

"No, gorgeous. You don't even know how hot this guy was."

"Please Bella, tell me you gave him your number or got his, something."

"Well, I gave him my work schedule, does that count?" I really hope I didn't just screw that one up. Maybe I should have talked more or tried to flirt or something. This guy was just too hot but maybe he wouldn't have liked me. That's why I just gave him my schedule instead of my number. That's just a little too weird.

"My dear, you must learn some skills."

"Hey, at least he's real." I couldn't let Alice win this one when she was probably talking to some stalker online.

"Yes, that may be true but did he look like a good guy, cause you know, some people look normal and then chop your head off in the middle of the night."

"Oh yes, you would be one to know Miss.-online-dating-is-the-only-way-to-actually-meet-people."

Alice was quite the person. She could probably date who ever she wanted with how pretty she is but she was so hung up about this guy she had been talking to the last couple months. I was really worried about her though, I didn't want her to just go out and meet some creep in person and get killed or something. I know Rose felt the same way but Alice is the type of person that just won't listen to anyone when she has her heart set on something. I walked over to the couch to lay down when Rosalie walked in the house.

"Oh my god, you guys will never believe what I have to tell you about my first day at work." Rosalie had just started working at some new garage not too far away from our house.

"It's probably not as big as the news as Bella has about her day," Alice put in.

"Whatever, it's going to have to wait. So there's this guy that works there and he is such a hottie. I can't believe I get to work with his fine self everyday."

She sat down next to me looking like she was in complete bliss. As she sat there daydreaming I was thinking about the hot guy that came into Blue Café. As we sat around daydreaming Alice suddenly screeched.

"Oh my god! Jasper wants to meet me this weekend!" She was practically bouncing in the chair. "Oh I can't wait to finally meet him. We're going to get dinner together Friday night. I can't wait!"

"Hold on Alice," I said sitting up. "You can't just go out and meet some guy you don't even know and be alone with him."

"Oh I wont be, don't worry. You're coming with me!"

"Hold on, what? What the hell do you mean that I'm going with you?"

"Well," she started finally calming down enough to stop screaming, "He knows about how you guys feel about me going alone so he told me to bring someone and he's going to bring someone too."

"So why not take Rose? Why do you have to take me?"

"Bella, please, you know you need to get out and meet people too. This is as much for you as it is for me and there's no way you're getting out of this, cute guy at the café or not."

And so just like that, it looks like I had a date Friday. I knew this was going to end one of a few ways though. Either we're both going to get killed or I'm going to sit there all night thinking about the guy from my work. If only it would be him I was meeting Friday but no such luck when Alice got excited like this.

"So Bella, I guess it's time to go do your favorite thing."

"And that is?"

"Shopping of course!"

Oh, shopping, what fun, not really.

I decided to go upstairs to take a shower. I didn't really need one but I had such a rough day at work and knew it would help me relax a little bit. I climbed up to the top floor of our house and crossed my room to my bathroom. We were so lucky to have such a beautiful house to call our own with all the luxury one could expect to find in San Francisco. If it wasn't for Alice's dad coming into money after opening up his own successful restaurant we would have been stuck in some small apartment or something.

After helping out Alice when her family was going threw a rough time when we were still in high school her dad decided to repay her and me by helping us get this place. I would have normally felt bad about accepting help buying a home if it was coming from anyone but Alice's family. We were practically sisters anyways so it seemed almost normal that her dad wanted to help out his daughter and someone that was basically a daughter that just wasn't blood.

With the money Alice got from her dad, the money I was left in my grandmother's will, and the money Rosalie always had growing up, we really didn't need to work. We just did it so we wouldn't sit around being bored all the time outside of school. Except for Alice that is. She couldn't be happier coming home from school everyday to jump online to talk to her little play thing.

I stepped into my shower turning the water on hot as I could without burning myself with it and stepped in. I started thinking about the boy from the café. I don't know why he had been on my mind all day. I mean I saw guys walk into the coffee shop everyday but none of them ever seemed to catch my eye.

It was something about his cool domineer and those piercing green eyes. He seemed so mysterious but still oddly familiar at the same time. He seemed like someone I could have walked past everyday and never noticed, I mean really noticed unless I had a moment of my usual clumsy self and walked straight into him. There was something about him I just couldn't seem to shake. If I kept up this kind of thinking I was probably going to lose my mind. To just daydream about a guy I don't even know, it's a little bit more then crazy if you asked me but I just couldn't stop for some reason.

That only brought me to the fact that I had a date Friday with a guy I didn't know. I hate blind dates. They always end badly, or on a really weird note with a guy that keeps trying to call you because 'he had a wonderful time with you.' I just didn't want to go threw with it. I knew this mysterious guy would be on my mind the entire time and I didn't want to look rude and create a bad impression on a guy that Alice seemed so interested in. I guess I'm just going to have to suck it up and deal with it.

A little while later after more thinking I realized the water was starting to get cold. I hadn't realized I'd been in there so long. I stepped out and dried off and changed into some sweat pants and a tank top and decided to read a book. That however, didn't go over so well so I decided I was probably better off just taking a short nap but I quickly found myself thinking about the guy from the café until I fell asleep.

EPOV

I was walking back to the apartment that Emmett, Jasper and I all shared thinking about the piece of paper in my hand. I couldn't believe that she had given me her work schedule. Was that supposed to mean she wanted to see me again or when to avoid going there? I had only met her briefly but for her to make such a bold move kind of shocked me. Normally girls weren't very straight forward but I still couldn't figure out why she had looked at me the way she had. Almost as if she was in awe or something.

I knew I could ask Emmett and Jasper about what this could mean but I really don't know what they would say about it. Knowing Emmett he'd probably go there himself to scope this girl out and maybe try to get a date out of it. Even though he's a great guy, and I can honestly say that since I've known him since we were still in high school, he didn't want a relationship and Bella just didn't seem like the hook up type.

Bella, it felt good just thinking her name. I can't imagine what it'd be like to say it out loud. I didn't even want to try it though as I stepped into the apartment. I walked in and set down my bag with my books in it and walked over to the kitchen where Jasper was sitting on his laptop. He was so engrossed in what he was doing he didn't even hear me walk in until I touched his shoulder to look at the screen.

"Oh my god Edward. Are you trying to give me a heart attack?" he asked.

I laughed a little, "No, just trying to see what you're up to."

"Oh, I'm just talking to some girl. The normal," he said with a shrug.

"Oh, that's classy Jasper," I replied sarcastically.

"Well actually, it might be more then just 'some girl.' I'm supposed to be meeting her for dinner Friday night."

The way he meets girls. It's almost kind of sad when you really think about it, resorting to the internet… "Uhh, is that such a good idea? I mean, doesn't she think it's a little odd that some guy randomly wants to meet her in a dimly lighted area with no one she knows around?"

"Well, she won't be alone," he said with a sideways glance to me. I could just feel bad news coming. "And neither will I, you're coming with me and she's bringing a friend with her too."

I could almost hear the bad news music in the background. A blind date. This is going to end badly and I know it. They always do, every single blind date Emmett ever tried to put me on ended badly. There was no way I was going. "Jasper, please don't do this to me. Why don't you take Emmett? Someone from work? Anyone? Just please don't make me go, you know how these things end for me," like Emmett I had pretty much grown up together with Jasper and had been there laughing all the while as I told him about whatever had happened on the dates Emmett made me go on.

"It's not really for you. It's more so she'll be comfortable with it. The girls she lives with don't want her going alone so she's bringing one of them with her and I told her that I'd do the same, so you're going and that's the end of it!"

"No, really Jasper, I cannot and will not go with you on this date."

"Like hell, you'll go if I have to gag you, drag you down the stairs and throw you in the car myself. But I'm sure if you want this the hard way Emmett would have no problem helping me with this," he said with an evil glint in his eye.

"Fine!" I nearly roared at him. I had such a long day with class and with this Bella girl on my mind all day I was pretty on edge. I felt so drained from thinking about this morning that I had seriously considered that I'd lost my mind. All this over a girl I didn't even know… maybe I was starting to lose it.

Who knows though, maybe this date would help me get her off my mind. At this point that's all I wanted. Before I had thought about stopping by the coffee shop tomorrow when I knew Bella would be working but now I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be happening. If she was this stuck in my mind from just seeing her at a coffee shop there was no way I was going to provoke the matter by going to see her again. I leaned against the counter thinking about this when we heard Emmett walk into the apartment.

"Guys, you will never guess what happened at work today!" he shouted walking threw the door.

"Let me try, a person came in with a car problem and you fixed it?" Jasper retorted over his shoulder.

"Nope. Do you guys remember me telling you about the new person we were getting?"

"Sure," I said.

"Well they came in toady. Let me tell you, I wouldn't mind getting with that hot piece of ass," he said shaking his head walking into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water out of the refrigerator.

"Emmett, I know that you like to try new things, but guys?" Jasper asked eyeing him.

"It's okay if you're into a guy dude, we won't tell, promise," I said with a chuckle.

"No, you guys don't understand. It's a chick! And my god is she hot as hell!"

We both snapped to attention when he said that and looked directly at him. "What?" we both said in union.

"You heard me. There's a new chick working at the garage and she is totally fine. Her name is Rosalie or something like that and she knows all about different makes of cars and stuff. Not only is she hot as hell she knows all about how to fix cars and it's fucking hot if you ask me," he said nodding his head at his own approval of her.

"Sounds like it," Jasper said turning back to his laptop obviously losing interest in what Emmett was talking about. "So Edward, you're coming. It's at 7 so you better be home and ready," he said shooting me a look that said if I did otherwise that he'd probably hunt me down and kill me.

"What are you guys talking about?" Emmett said going threw the cupboards probably looking for something to eat.

"Nothing," I quickly said.

"It's not 'nothing,'" Jasper interjected. "I have a date Friday and Edward's coming too."

"A date? Please don't say it's with each other," Emmett snickered.

"No, I'm meeting up with a girl I met online and she's bringing a friend and I'm bringing Edward with me," he said coolly.

"Why not take me?" Emmett asked.

"No offence Em, but I kind of want to make a good impression on this girl and I think if you go she might just go running for the hills."

"Oh come on, I'm not that bad," Emmett said, not looking the least bit hurt.

"Humph," was all Jasper had to say to that one.

"Okay, maybe I am. Whatever, I'm going to try to see what that chick is up to anyways, maybe she'll want to have some fun if you know what I mean," he said throwing us a knowing glance. "Plus, it might be good for Eddie to get out and meet some real people."

"Hey, I know real people, obviously other then you two since I'm still not sure if you're people, and don't call me Eddie," I replied.

"Okay chill, it was a joke Ed-ward," he chuckled again.

"Whatever. I got homework to do so I'll just talk to you two later."

I walked out of the room thinking about Friday night again. My mind was basically a whirlwind between Friday night, the girl from the coffee shop, Emmett's lame jokes, Bella, school work, the way Bella's hair looked so soft, the way my professor looked when I walked in late, and back to Bella and how she almost slipped but looked so cute doing it. Okay, I defiantly had a problem.