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"Stewed, Screwed, and Tattooed"

I was nudged out of a dreamless sleep by a nearly vibrating Alice, she was so excited. I opened my eyes and slowly noticed we were parked in front of a nice looking hotel. I rolled my head around trying to work out the kinks anyone get's from sleeping in a car.

While rolling my head around I notice I still had my ear buds in and I focused more on the music. I groaned, please let this not be a sign of what was to come, All American Rejects, "Gives you hell" was playing in my ears. Quickly I ripped them out of my ears, oww that hurt, but it was worth it. The last thing I needed was for this trip to be like hell.

This was going to be the first time I've spent a substantial amount of time away from Jackson, and I was determined to have a good time. Mentally I needed to have a goodtime.

We made our way out of the van and stretched as soon as our feet hit the ground. I looked around to see we had drawn a small crowd, nothing unusual. A older couple by there family van, the husband was starring wide eyed while his wife dragged him into the van. A small group of college guys plastic cups in hand were walking across the parking lot, basically drooling with every step.

By that time Rose had noticed as well, we'd have to get inside or else fend off a small platoon of drunk horny frat boys. "Alright bitches get your asses inside. I need to sleep and we still have to figure out where the hell we are all doing it."

I turned to Rose chuckling at her statement, Alice clapped, and Heidi and Jane simultaneously rolled there eyes and huffed, immature girls.

I started towards the door and looked over my shoulder one last time, I noticed the frat platoon turned more into a army. The original guy's were pointing in our direction and enthusiastically recalling our arrival. I rolled my eyes, they were the stereotypical frats loud and obnoxious. Right as I was about to turn my head back around I swear I saw a tuft of copper, moving around among the guys.

I shook my head, I was now officially loosing my mind, mention just a few things about him to my girls and now I'm picturing him everywhere. And really Edward Cullen in Miami, jeez I should get my eyes checked when we get back to Jacksonville.

I always figured him as a Beverly hills vacationer anyway, someone who would go to the country club and pop the collar to his polo shirt. Well isn't that the pot calling the kettle black. Who would have ever pictured goody quiet Bella Swan, Forks' police chief's daughter, in Miami on a 'business trip' with her fellow strippers, oh and a three year old boy to tote, with no father in sight, ha yah I'm the perfect person to be stereotyping.

I stumbled my way into the lobby tripping in the doorway. Looking around I saw James give me another shit eating grin and a wink. That was defiantly not something I wanted to see, again at that.

Aro motioned us over to a little sitting area on the other side of the lobby. It was a modern looking hotel, everything was white, or a pale color of wood here and there. There was hints of bright blue throughout, it was in vases, a throw on the back of the chair, not oppressive. It seemed light and refreshing.

Aro cleared his throat " All right my girls" I involuntarily shuddered. I still can't stand being called upon as if I'm owned, ever since Edward said my Bella that night. "I have gotten four rooms, my room is on the floor above you all. James I got you a single bed room, you room is 304. Jane and Heidi you'll be rooming next to him, I got you a two bed room, your room is 306. Alice, Rosie, Isabella you'll be across from them in room 305, there is only two beds so you'll have to share, two of you." he said pointing between us with a grin like the Cheshire cat on his face. Rosalie scuffed, Alice giggled, and I could have shit less, we all live together it wasn't a big deal to me.

We made our way to the elevator after we grabbed our luggage, to my excitement the frat army had disbanded. James opted to take the stairs and Heidi and Jane wanted to check out the pool and then go to there room. Alice hit the up button and the elevator slid open with a ding. We all climbed in and Rose pushed the three button.

Once we made it into our room I took notice of how it was decorated. It reminded me a lot of the lobby. It was white, bright, and airy. When you first walked into the room there was a few chairs and a table then next to that was the flat screen T.V and a full sized bed across from that. There were two doorways off of the main room, one was at the end of the room by the windows and it led into a room with a closet and a huge king sized bed. The other doorway was closer to the door out to the hallway and was near the sitting area, it was the bathroom.

Alice chuckled and said that we should take bets and see how many nights we all ended up in the king bed, instead of splitting up.

I walked over to the windows, pulling back the curtain. Finding we had an amazing view of the parking lot, lovely. Heidi and Jane must have gotten rooms on the side that faced the pool, bitches.

I told the girls I was going to go outside and sit by the pool for a little while before I went to sleep. They gave me a slight wave over their shoulders, they were too occupied with sorting and hanging up our clothes so that they weren't wrinkled when we decided to wear them.

As I made my way through the halls I could tell the hotel was buzzing with life and packed, even for a Thursday. I could almost guarantee it's going to be a mad house this weekend, I felt bad for any family trying to vacation here with their kids.

I shuffled my way through the lobby and made my way out to the pool, once out there I decided to plop myself on one of the lounging chairs there. I fished my phone out of my pocket and made sure I didn't have any missed calls. I didn't, and I sat there debating between calling Jackson or waiting until tomorrow. I finally resolved to just call him tomorrow, he prolly didn't even notice I was gone yet, he was to busy playing and having fun.

Sitting in silence my mind started to wander.. Bronze, copper hair is common, right? I mean out of all my time at the club I could remember at least one time someone had came in with similar hair color, couldn't I? Oh, Jesus this trip is suppose to be about letting go, forgetting, moving on from him. I didn't need to sit by a pool in Miami wasting time on his worthless ass, debating whether he was here or not. The chances of us actually being in the same city was very unlikely, and I was letting my imagination run wild.

I heard some people approaching from the other entrance and I took that as my exit queue, I needed to sleep anyways.

Once I made my way back into the room I noticed Alice and Rosalie passed out in the king sized bed. I didn't mind sleeping in the full sized bed it was as big as the one I had at home. I looked back out of the room to where the full bed was and noticed it was covered in hangers on one end, shoes sprawled everywhere on the other.

Chuckling I climbed into bed with Rose and Alice, clicking off the light I decided I'm never betting against Alice.

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I woke up groaning covering my eyes from the bright sun shining through, I rolled over and noticed I was the only one left in the bed. Sitting up I could hear the shower running, which covered for one of them. I stood up and made my way out of the room and saw Rose downing some coffee and fruit salad there was a whole spread of breakfast food on the table.

I stood up on the balls of my feet and stretched, then made my way toward Rosalie and the table full of breakfast food. Looking over towards the TV I noticed the cable box was saying that it was 11:30, it felt good to sleep in once. Running my hands through my hair I sat down with Rose.

"So what's on the agenda for today?" I asked while grabbing a cheese danish from the table and pulling pieces from it to eat.

"Well let's see, we are suppose to go by the pool this afternoon around one and 'relax'", her air quotes around relax made me laugh, we both knew what Aro meant when he'd told us to do that, he wanted to see how many guys we could attract and possibly talk into coming up to Jacksonville to be future customers. "Oh, and then he said something about taking us out to eat at some sushi restaurant and meeting his brother," shaking her head and laughing, we knew this trip was turning into a big joke. Aro basically wanted to see how we compared to his brother and his girls, but his brother was unwilling to go up to Volterra so we had to go to him.

"AndAlicehasclaimedstakeingettingyoureadyforbothtoday," she tried to breath all that out after laughing because she knew how I usually took to Alice and her making me into a Barbie. I usually freaked, I didn't like be made up all nice, especially considering I had no one to look nice for. But I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and why not add this to the list of things to make for a better, newer Bella, Bella 2.0.

"Ok, when is she starting? I might have a few recommendations" Rose stared at me wide eyed like I had sprouted a new head " What? Why is it so hard to believe I might actually want to get girly-uped for once, I'm starting over, why not start there?" I heard the bathroom door squeak open and saw Alice standing there with a towel wrapped around her and her right hand clasped over her mouth.

"Well, I think you just made Tinkerbell's year with that statement, Izzy." Rose motioned with her thumb over towards Alice and held up for her hand for me to high five, I did.

"Please, please for the love of all that we hold holy, tell me I didn't misunderstand you." ahhh finally the stunned pixie speaks.

I looked over to her chuckling "Nope" I said popping the p when I said it. I backed up towards the bed and flopped down with theatrics "Have you way with me Alice, I'm dying to see how I end up."

A hour and half later we were closing in rapidly on one. I looked myself over in the mirror one last time before deciding, I really didn't look half bad. I'd talked Alice into letting me wear a pink Ed Hardy bikini, and she paired it with a black hoodie. It had a tattoo flash pattern all over it, it matched the bathing suit perfectly. I had on a pair of black heels, and my hair was done in loose long curls. Alice even managed to talk me into clipping in a few hot pink and blond streak extensions into my hair. She did my makeup in a very dark smoky black on my eyes and a pale pink sheen on my lips. She and Rose coined how I looked as "feminine rocker".

I looked across the room and found Alice in a adorable one piece suit that was bright blue, it looked like a old vintage suit, she even had a huge cream colored flower head band to go with it. She was wearing an awesome pair of peep toe sandals that had a wedge heel. She was twirling her oversized matching blue sunglasses in her hand.

Rose had decided to wear a black bathing suit that was one piece but had a huge slit down the front and from the back it looked as if she was wearing a two piece suit. Her golden locks were down and she was mulling over shoes when I glanced at the clock, crap, after one.

I went to the table and grabbed my cell and aviator sunglasses. I popped my phone and room key in the pocket of the hoodie, and slid my sunglasses on, I didn't care if we were inside or not, I had a bad ass persona to fill today.

There was a impatient knock at the door and I smirked, marching over to open it. I liked feeling bad ass, kicking ass and taken names woo me! I thought as I swung the door open.

Heidi was standing there in a black t-shirt with white writing that said, "Real Men Date Strippers" and a pair of cut-off shorts and flip flops, I rolled my eyes. She didn't look like she belonged here at all. I noticed mini Jane poking her head around trying to look in the door, she was wearing a basic boring purple string bikini with flip flops and a towel slung over her arm.

Ha, these newbies actually thought that Aro wanted us to 'relax', I wonder what they had thought when he said "business trip" not come on ladies we are all going on vacation.

"Aro said you guy's have five minutes, he called our room and told us he's in the lobby waiting" Heidi looked down and pointed at her wrist, like there was a freaking watch there, these girls were turning out to be a joke.

"Fine, fine" I mumbled before turning in the doorway to see how the other two were coming along. "You guys ready to go? We've got five minutes, Aro's waiting" I said laughing.

"Ya I found the shoes I wanted to wear, we are coming let me grab my room key" Rose said while rummaging through the disaster zone that was our room, when it got to that state I'd never know.

"Dude, Rose I've got mine, and furthermore where u ganna keep it in that suit?" I said mocking her as she looked up and stuck her tongue out "And anyway we don't want to make Aro mad" I exclaimed mocking horror and what not, he would most likely be more pissed off at the way the fresh meat dressed not at us for being a few minutes late.

Rose and Alice appeared behind me in the doorway "Well lets go bitches boss man is not ganna wait much longer" quipped Rose. Alice and I chuckled we loved when she called us bitches, we knew it was solely to get a rise out of Jane and Heidi.

Frick and frack made there way down the hall in a huff, flip flopping there way to the elevator. Alice just about had a coronary when she saw what they were wearing. We got into the elevator and she leaned over to me and whispered "And I thought you were bad, holy shit!"

I had to put up my hood to try to stop from laughing out loud. Alice moved herself in front of me and started to un-tuck my curls from my hood mumbling something about how she was surprised I thought to put it up and how much better it looked up. I whispered in her ear "I love you" she responded by chuckling back, "I know" . Just then the elevator dinged and the doors opened.

Heidi and Jane rushed over to Aro, who was in the lounge area, while we strolled over. We had a pretty good idea what his 'talk' would include it'd be a pep talking reminding us who owned who and what we were to do.

Once we made our way over to the three of them we could make out what sounded like Aro chastising them for there choice of outfits, even though he found Heidi's shirt 'cute', it was still considered inappropriate.

"Alright ladies, since we are all here now I'd like to discuss what I hope for you to achieve this afternoon" I elbowed Rose as we both noticed the now defeated and slouched shoulders of Jane and Heidi. "I expect you all to go out there and have fun, maybe get a few guys interested, tell them where your from and see if you can make them make a road trip."

I felt like freaking saluting and yelling out aye sir. "There is a large group of what I assume to be frat boys out there, they might be your best first shot, James will check on you all periodically and make sure that you all are safe, I unfortunately won't be joining you I have some things to work out before dinner tonight. Ciao beauties, do me proud!" he went towards us and placed chaste kisses on our cheeks before parting ways.

We made our way out to the pool, we wanted to make sure we walked past the frat crowd, and see if we could get any people interested. We sauntered our way over to where they had taken residence on some pool chairs and lounge chairs we were almost to them.

The pool was on the left side and the herd of frat boys to the right. Heidi and Jane were in front of Alice and Rose. And they were walking side by side behind them and I was bringing up the rear.

We heard a few cat calls and hoots and hollers from the crowd I smirked, gotcha boys right where we wanted ya. Heidi and Jane kept on walking and then two of the guys stepped out in front of them, effectively stopping our train.

"ah, ah, ahhhh, what's the magic word to let you passss?" the blond one menaced, making it sound like he was the troll from under a bridge in a fairy tale. I looked over to my right and saw about eight frat boys flung over chairs, and on the ground on towels. There were a few of them standing in a semi circle chanting and pumping their fists. I looked to see what all the commotion was about and almost fell into the pool.

There stood a guy, with dark black hair, blue swim trunks and huge muscles. His right hand grasping onto a plastic hose jammed into a funnel. I followed my eyes up the tube to see a slightly shorter blond with crazy messy hair wearing green and white trunks holding the funnel and pouring beer after beer in.

I was snapped out of my déjà vu moment when a sharp little elbow, belonging to Alice, broke a few of my ribs. I saw the dark hair kid standing next to the 'troll wannabe' who was our blockade reach up and tug at Heidi's shirt, yup I'm going to be committing murder today. "Soooo, you girls 'dancers'? " his air quotes made me want to puke. It was also official that once I could get my hands on Heidi I planned on hanging her with that trailer park shirt.

Now because of the dark haired ones comments all eyes were on us. The guy who was part bear, and originally chugging from the beer bong made his way towards us, god he looks familiar, way way too familiar. And then I heard the slight southern drawl from the blond, and I knew exactly who they were Jasper and Emmett.

"What the fuck are you doing Crowley, Newton, let the ladies pass" Jasper told his goons off, and then turned to wink at us. I swear I saw Alice's knees quake.

Emmett and Jasper took over the spots that Crowley and Newton had held and moved there arms to the side like they were ushering us to some ball. I rolled my eyes as I walked by, this was all becoming a little too freaking ironic.

Of course the girls with the given mission of mingle with the frat decided to take up the seats right next to them. I plopped my pissed off ass down in the seat furthest away from them and closest to the bar, liquid courage, I could do this. I turned to see Emmett and Jasper making there way over to the lounge that Rose and Alice were sharing. Heidi and Jane decided to swim.

"Hello ladies my name is Emmett and this is my side kick for all intents and purposes Jasper" that little comment earned him a swift punch in the arm by Jasper. "Come on man you know you are so the Robin to my Batman" ugh yep, I'm ganna puke … so much for bad ass Bella.

"Dude, shut the hell up!" drawled an exasperated Jasper, he looked over to the three of us. " Look, we just wanted to apologize for our retarded bros, they don't know how to handle there alcohol."

"or the ladies for that matter" quipped a wiggling eye brow Emmett.

Alice and Rose giggled, I was to busy trying to keep down the danish I had for breakfast to do anything other than swallow.

"I'm Alice and this is Rose" she said shoving her finger towards Rosalie, damn you pixie damn you to hell. "oh and our little rocker over there is B.."

"Izzy" I said quickly shoving my hand in the air and looking for the quickest escape. The last thing I need was for Alice to say Bella and for them to potentially remember me, they looked damn near the same, bigger but that was about it.

"So where ya'll from darling?" Jasper asked looking straight at Alice.

"Uh, we are from ah Jacksonville, it's ah it's um upstate from here." I looked over to see she was blushing, the unsinkable miss molly was blushing!

"Where are you guys from? Florida?" Rose asked, saving Alice from seeming dumb, but kept the conversation going, a negative for me.

"Georgia state, I play ball up there and this fucker studies old shit or something like that" Emmett added, punching Jasper in the arm.

"Are you originally from Georgia? I mean you don't sound it, but stranger things have happened." oh Rose you have no clue how fucking true that statement is and with that question she opened the can of worms.

"Ha, no we are originally from a iddy biddy town named Forks. It's in Washington on the other side of the country" thank you Emmett would you like to tell us the longitude and latitude as well or maybe pull out a map and point out where my FATHER'S freaking house is!

"Oh that's cute! Hey wait a minute" no no no no, Alice don't put it together don't, please. I have to run, think of something come on… "Aren't you from Spoon's or something? I thought I remembered you telling us you were from some sort of utensil named town like that too." Alice looked at me deep in thought her finger on her chin, trying to remember where I told her I was from, I had to think fast.

"Haha, yup your right Alice! I'm from spoons, and now if you don't mind me I need a freaking drink. Forks boys it was nice to meet you maybe next time we can bump into each other at a town named Napkin or something like that" I quickly hopped up and spun on my heel stalking towards the bar, I reached in my pocket and grabbed my phone, I needed to call little man, he was my last shred of sanity in this fucked up twilight zone. I found a nice quiet corner adjacent to the bar.

Right as I was about to dial my phone a long finger gently reached towards me and glided their finger tip across the J pendant hanging from my neck. A smooth as glass voice whispered in my ear "Hmmm from this I'd like to guess your name is Jessica?"

I was left in a puddle, trying to soak myself back into a human life form. The voice had completely melted me. And then I looked up and locked eyes with the most brilliant green orbs I've seen in three years.

It was official I was unconditionally and irrevocably screwed.

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