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Love at first sight always felt like a myth to me. I read about it in books, saw it in movies, but never did I think it was true. I never thought someone could see a guy or girl and your heart would start beating uncontrolably, your brain would stop functioning and you would catch your breath. I thought it just an old wives tale. That was until July 19th 2007.
My step-brother Jasper had a role in a movie called 'Stop and Stare' which was premiereing at Las Vegas Film Festival. It was the first big movie he was a part of and he was ecstatic. My step-mother, Esme, was adament that I was to go to the festival, to the premiere with him. "It's his first big movie, he wants you to go with him, to support him! Look at him, he's so excited and so... proud of himself. Remember how you were when you got the call about 'Little Spies'?" she had said. I laughed.
"Mom, I was nine. It was thirteen years ago!" I replied.
"And it was your first major job! You ran around the house, never letting go of the script. You learned your lines in your lunch breaks at school and could recite the whole thing within a week! Jasper was basically the exact same when he found out, except he's twenty one and he didn't get peanut butter stains on it!" she giggled. After another round of convincing, Jazz and I were in Nevada, meeting our brother Emmett at the airport. Emmett had flown in the day before from England, where he played football for Liverpool in the world famous Premiereship football league. We only ever saw eachother a few times a year, unless we were back home.
After our usual ritual of getting Burger King after the airport, we arrived at the hotel. We were up on the 30th floor, in one of the penthouses. There were four on the floor: the Monroe suite, the Sinatra suite, the Hepburn suite, and our suite, the Brando suite. We got settled and got suited and booted for the premiere. Jasper broke the news that we would be walking the red carpet. I groaned. I hadn't been on a red carpet in six months and I was enjoying the absence. But as I had done since becoming an actor, I sucked it up and walked it. Thankfully, we were slightly late and were one of the last groups to walk it. I was hounded by the tv station reporters, asking what my next project was. I didn't have a "next project" yet, so I told them that I had a few things up my sleeve. I almost ran the rest of the carpet, avoiding any chance of public embarassment. I heard a gaggle of girls at the other end, and wanted to look to see who it was, but I kept moving to the theatre. The audience was fully seated, including the cast, reviewer and the big-time acting scouts. The movie began and ended, and it was above my expectations. I was so proud of my brother's performance, hoping that one of those acting scouts would approach him. Once he was finished some press, the three of us went to the after-party in a club in our hotel.
We sat down at the table with the rest of the cast and had drinks. Over the music, I could hear the same girls from the red carpet. I peered round and saw them, quickly looking away as one of them looked at our table. I rejoined the rest of the table and I ended up talking, well more listening than talking, to Jasper's love interest in the film, Jessica Stanley. She saw me look over at the group of girls. "You know them?" she asked. I shook my head.
"Well, the small one with the long black hair, that's Alice Brandon. You know, the rock godess? Her album is A-MAZ-ING. And every single guy I know wants to jump her bones. I can see why, she's stunning, but whatever. The darker skinned girl with the brown hair is Angela Weber, Alice's agent. She's like, married to Ben Cheney, the record producer guy. Then the blonde girl, the skinnier one, her name is Lauren Mallory. She dances in Lady Gaga's show here, has done since like, 2005 or something. Went out with that guy who plays Liam on 90210 for years but he dumped her for that bitch from Vampire Diaries. The other blonde is Rosalie Hale, she's a publicist. Organises a few of the huge premieres, represented Britney before she went crazy. Then the other girl is Bella Swan. Actress, played Alicia Greene in that shitty movie about witches. Total asshole aparently. If you're gonna try and screw any of them, I'd go for little Alice, you could so sell a story about her to Us Weekly." she explained. I was a little worried about why she was telling me which one to fuck, but ignored it.
A little while later, the blonde called Lauren, and Angela made their way over to us to introduce themselves. Angela was very drunk and slurred her way through a conversation with Jazz and Mike Newton, who was also in the movie. After fifteen minutes, they explained that they were going to get their friends and bring them over. I got myself another drink, and returned to find that the girls had returned with their friends. Alice was already talking to Jasper, and Rosalie was on her way to talk to Emmett. The other girl was talking to Jessica. I couldn't see her face properly, until Jessica turned around for a second. Suddenly my brain stopped functioning, my breathing altered and my heart was racing. Butterflies filled my stomach and I could feel myself start to break out in a sweat.
She had strawberry blonde hair, wrapped up in a bun and a large braid across her head. Her eyes were an intense green colour which I could see glowing in the dimly lit room. Her black dress showed off her skinny figure, but had visible curves. Her legs were miles long, and she was barefoot, with a pair of black strappy shoes in her hands. I couldn't take my eyes off her. She was beautiful, more beautiful than any girl in the room, any girl I had ever seen in my twenty-two years, two months and six days. Our eyes locked. She walked over and sat down. I introduced myself and she did too. She was so good looking it nearly distracted me from actually talking to her but thankfully I didn't stare at her. We talked for what seemed like hours. It turns out she knew my step-mother and grandmother, they were from the same town in Washington. After a while, I looked over my shoulder and saw my brother and Alice leaving. I was happy for him, he had a schoolboy crush on her.
Bella and I continued our conversation, talking about our careers. When I asked her about hers, she seemed distant and quickly changed the subject. I knew something was up and I told her she could trust me and she should get whatever was bugging her off her chest. To my surprise, she opened up. She told me about how she wasn't getting any good work as of late, and how she was scared she wouldn't get another good role for the rest of her career. I gave her the best advice I could, telling her that one day a script will fall into her lap, and everything would turn around. I was so content with myself. I had known the girl an hour and she was opening up to me. I was really falling for her. She was charasmatic, funny, beautiful, different to any other girl I had ever met. Maybe love at first sight maybe was a myth. Or maybe it was infatuation. I hoped it was the first.
We were pulled away from conversation as Angela was drunker than I've ever seen anyone. I helped her up to the room, along with Rosalie, Lauren and Bella. Alice and Jasper were making out outside the room, but once they heard us coming they organised a date and said goodbye. They were so cute, Jasper had the biggest grin on his face as he walked away. Once everyone was safe back in the Sinatra suite, Bella and I hung about outside to say our goodbyes. We organised to meet on Monday night, where she would pick me up from the airport. I scrolled my number on her arm, noticing she had goosebumps as the Sharpie hit her arm. I walked back delighted.
I forgot my room key, so I had to bang on the door sevral times before my brothers would let me in. They finally let me in after five minutes. "Stuck in, Jazz!" I teased, looking at Jasper who was still grinning.
"Says you sir!" he laughed. I rolled my eyes.
"We just talked!"
"You looked at eachother as if you were gonna run off to the chapel across the street!" he said matter-of-factly.
"Did she look at me like that?" I said, surprised. Emmett laughed, the sound stretching across our suite.
"You're like a teenage girl Edward! Or should I say Edwina?" he smiled. "Fuck off Em! How'd things with Rosalie go?" I asked.
"Got her number, seeing her Tuesday, made out a bit, all peachy!" "Is this gonna be a booty call this time?" said Jasper, sounding serious.
"I really do like her though, it's different this time!" Em looked hurt. Back home, Emmett was known as a player, always dating the girls you'd see in Zoo or Nuts, the UK's Playboy. It was good to see that he was defending Rosalie. "But anyway, you and Bella?" He turned to me and waggled his eyebrows.
"I don't know..." I said. I did like her, and fuck, if she offered to jump my bones I wouldn't refuse but I didn't think it was like that.
"Ah come on, you know you wanna - "
"Emmett it's not like that!" I snapped.
"Woah, chill E, I was just joking!" "Sorry, I don't know what happened!" I said slowly.
I couldn't sleep that night, which was quite normal, but after I finally fell asleep, I woke up refreshed. I had dreamt of Bella. We walked hand in hand down a beach near my Grandparents' house in the east of Ireland. She was in a long white maxi-dress, I was in jeans and a white button down shirt. We went to my Grandparents' house and settled in by the fire and she fell asleep on my shoulder, cuddled in my arms. "God E, such a little girl!" I sighed, getting out of bed. I pulled on a pair of jeans and a cream long sleeve shirt from my suitcase, slipped on my socks, shoes and a grey beanie hat, and went downstairs for breakfast. It was July, but an overcast day. Jasper and Emmett were waiting for me at a table in the hotel restaurant, where they had a breakfast buffet. I took some pancakes, two slices of bacon and a glass of apple juice and sat down. The conversation was pretty general, filling Em in on what Jasper and I had been up to since we last saw him. When we were done, we went back to the suite. As Emmett was leaving Vegas today, we helped him pack up, making sure he wouldn't be leaving anything behind. Once we were finished, we went out to the lobby to say our goodbyes. We would be seeing him again next month thankfully, so the goodbyes wouldn't be for long.
The lift pinged, notifying us that we had reached our floor. We walked down the hall, both of us deep in thought. I was thinking about the events of last night, no doubt that Jasper was too. We reached our door when we heard a familiar music-like voice chime from down the hall. "Jazz! Edward" squealed Alice. We waved and she ran down to us. She kissed Jasper on the lips and hugged me. "Are you guys joining us for lunch?" she asked.
"Well is this an official invitation?" smiled Jasper.
"Of course, now are you or aren't you? Edward, I know Bella is excited to see you again!" she grinned. I heard a mutter from their suite, but couldn't comprehend who it was. I smirked at Alice's statement. "Yeah, sure, alright!" said Jasper. "Awesome, lemme just go and tell the girls that we have guests!" she said, running down the hall and into the room.
I was seeing Bella sooner than I thought. This was gonna be a good day.
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