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Ch3 Staterooms and Suites

BPOV

"So, he was nice about it, huh?" Rose asked as I filled them in on the conversation they'd missed.

"Really nice." I said in a matter-of-fact way.

"Wow! All three of them were hot! And you said they're brothers? What were the odds? We could've at least walked a little with them on our way back up here, you know. You didn't even ask his name or anything. How am I supposed to find him again?" Alice pouted, her arms across her chest as she took long strides to keep up with me and Rose.

I knew that by "him" she meant the blond guy who'd waved back at her. "If it's meant to be then we'll see them again. Walking with them just wasn't practical. Their rooms might be way down on the second floor for all we know. That wouldn't have given us any more walking time than just to the elevators, anyway." I answered. Alice continued to frown, probably thinking the same thing I was. At least that would've been something.

"They're not on the second floor!" Rose said as if it was an absolute truth. She didn't meet my gaze.

"And how can you possibly know that? Unless you picked up on something that I missed?" I asked, thinking back to the brief conversation I'd had with the good looking bronze haired one.

She smiled and nodded. "Yeah. The designer labels. They've got money. They are at least on this floor, if not higher up." Alice stared open mouthed at Rose, surprised she hadn't thought of it first and then grinned and I knew that she was right. The lower decks on the cruise ships were always the least expensive and were small, economy rooms that mostly had no outside view at all. Every now and then Rose's intellect resurfaced, proving that she was more than just a blond bombshell, after all.

"Hey look. The rest of our luggage is here!" Alice said instantly excited again as we reached our room. She picked up her suitcase and stepped over mine and Rose's as she made her way to the bed and began opening it like it was a present.

I helped Rose grab the other suitcases and flung them at the small closet. I didn't have time to go through my clothes now. There would be plenty of time to unpack later. Now, I just wanted to get my lifevest on and find our muster station. I figured the sooner we got this started, the sooner it'd be done and we could really start enjoying the cruise.

"Do that later, Alice! I want to get this over with!" I said snatching the green strapless dress out of her hands and puting it on top of her little pile of clothing on the bed.

"What do you guys think? Does this look better with this shirt pulled down under it, like a layered look, or should I just try to find a different lowcut top to go underneath it?" I couldn't believe it. Rose was actually turning and modeling her lifevest.

I laughed. "I'm sorry, but not even you in all your glory could make that thing look sexy. Just leave it the way it is and help Alice cinch the belt tighter on hers while I get mine on, please. Besides, it's not like you're going to find anyone good looking on this cruise so it doesn't really matter, anyway, remember?" I looked slyly at Rose who was doing her best not to show emotion.

She just shrugged and helped Alice wrap the belt around her waist a second time.

JPOV

I tried to find a way to ease onto the subject of the girls, again, but had to be very careful with everything I said. My brothers already thought I wore my heart on my sleeve and expressed emotions too easily and I knew I'd never hear the end of it if they thought I already had a slight crush on her after seeing her for less than thirty seconds.

"Look at this suite!" I called out, innocently, as I walked around admiring the decor. "The private balcony is awesome! I did a good job with these accomodations, if I do say so myself!"

"Yep. Nice big beds!" Emmett snickered playfully as he ran his hands over the matress and then bounced it up and down a little, to check for give.

Edward simply rolled his eyes at that while he flipped on the t.v. and sprawled out across the other king size bed. We hadn't even looked at the adjoining room next door, yet. I assumed it would probably be very similar in layout to this suite. We had kept up our tradition of always having a second spare room ready when we travelled, on the odd chance that one of us might require some privacy on any given night. Emmett's idea. So far he was the only one to ever see any benefit from it.

I still hadn't come up with a good segway, and I was becoming impatient waiting for them to bring it up, so I just blurted out.

"Well, I think we should try to find them, again! After all- you pretty much screwed up our chance, Edward. You offered them drinks and then, afterward, remembered you should've asked for their names. What? All I'm saying is if we rectify the situation before they realize how messed up it is, they could still constitute as the "fun" I promised we'd get on the cruise. Besides, if the other two sisters are as nice as the one Edward talked to..."

There!! Let's turn the attention back to the one Edward obviously liked to take any suspicion off of me. I hoped the guys would buy my macho bullshit speech. Honestly, I just wanted another chance to talk to that dark haired angel, without giving Edward and Emmett any ammo to use on me. Once they got started, it was darn near impossible to stop them.

I definitely wanted to see her smile again. She looked so sweet, and yet I could swear I caught a glimpse of underlying mischief in her eyes, during those few brief seconds. I had a hunch that she was the kind of person I could have a connection with.

"The blond is pretty hot." Emmett agreed, making the hourglass shape with his hands. "I wouldn't mind seeing more of her. Ok, I'm in, Jasper! Let's hunt them down!"

Yes!! One down..!!. Now if I could just convince Mr. Sensible...

I was shocked as hell when I didn't have to do much convincing.

"I'm actually interested in this one, myself. Ok, we'll try to find them. Let's buy them the drinks I promised, and see where it goes from there. But you two had better start playing it cool. No more freezing up and staring at them like imbeciles. We also don't need them knowing we were out looking for them. It needs to be a "coincidental meeting"!! That is -if we can even find them again. This ship is pretty big!! " Edward exclaimed.

"Come on, Edward. How hard can it possibly be to find them if we want to?! We're on a ship! It's not like they can go very far. In fact, we'll probably see them at this mustard cutting thing we have to do, anyway.." Emmett said in true Emmett fashion. It was hard to tell when Emmett was joking, but I had a difficult time believing anyone was that dense.

"Just so there's no misunderstanding, are we all in agreement on which girl we want to get to know better, then?" Edward asked while Emmett and I both smiled and nodded.

APOV

The announcements for the muster drill had been blaring for the past few minutes, explaining to everyone where they were supposed to go and what to do once they got there. We were all set to go and were somewhat anxious.

"Ok. So, it looks like our group will line up out on deck 3. We just need to look for the signs saying number eight for our group, once we get there."

Suddenly, I had a brilliant idea! Common sense said that if this ship was anything like the others we had been on, the groups for the decks would all be lining up in chronological order by deck. If the guys we ran into were on any of the upper decks, they would most likely be standing in a line not too far from ours. All I needed to do was find a way to scan the other nearby groups.

"Come on. I thought you wanted to get down there right away, Bella!" I said, tugging at her hand to try and make her move faster.

People were pouring out of rooms everywhere, and making their way to the staircases and elevators. It was hard to distinguish between them from the back. Everything was one big sea of orange. What a disgusting color! I tried to get a good look at the faces that passed by. No sign of them!

"Are you looking for something in particular, Alice?" I heard Bella ask and turned to see her and Rose both snickering at me.

I needed to think of something, quick!! "Yes!!! For your information, I'm trying to take note of my surroundings so if I'm drinking heavily later I can remember something to remind me where the room is."

I was so proud of myself and my clever cover up until Rose walked behind me and asked "Oh, really? And do you already have someone in mind that you plan on getting that drunk with?"

Dammit! Well, if she thought I was going to blush as easily as Bella would have at that, she had another thing coming.

"Well,.. there was this tall, very muscular, dark haired guy by the bar earlier..." I stressed the 'dark haired' and 'muscular' parts and tried to keep a straigt face, knowing how it would get to her. There! Let her try to pretend she doesn't care NOW!

"What!?!? The dark, muscled one?!?! No! I thought you were looking at the blond one!" she screeched!

"Ha! I knew it!!" I shouted and waited. The glaring look on Rose's face told me she just realized she'd been played.

"So, I guess I'm not the only one hoping we'll see them again." I smiled as we all instantly quickened our pace and headed to the elevators.

A/N: Sorry about the chapter being so short. I kinda wanted to cut it there so it doesn't run into the next couple of chapters, which I'm pleased to say are almost done, too. They just need some editing and a little more filler..But since I'm going to spend the day with family, you'll have to be a little patient for those ones.

Thanks to everyone who gave this new story a chance and reviewed. Everyone has been sending me ideas and suggestions about how & where they should all meet again. I appreciate the creativity, but I actually am going to with my original plan the way it played out in my dream. No offense, but it's just so fun! You'll hopefully like it. And yeah - I'm ready to go back on a cruise now, too. A lot of the info about ship layout & etc. for this story was taken from my own cruise experience, last year. I'm missing it.

One of my favorite reviewers had asked where the destination is for the cruise. Same place I went to - Eastern Caribbean! Very beautiful..!! But more about that, later.