A/N This is my next chapter!!! Hope you like. I know it is shorter. My next one will be longer!
Chapter 4 New Job
I woke up this morning excited for the first time since we moved here. I was going to see Bella today. I jumped out of bed, but maybe a little too fast, my feet got tangled within the sheets and I fell on the floor. I grunted while I moved my legs back and forth until I got my legs untangled from the sheets. I stood up quickly and went to my bathroom to take a shower.
After my shower I got out and put a towel around my waist and combed my hair. I looked at myself in the mirror and noticed that I didn't sleep well because I had dark circles under my eyes. I rubbed my finger over them and almost decided to go back to sleep again. But I decided against it. I was way to excited to go back to sleep now.
I walked down stairs and headed for the kitchen to get something quick to eat. I grabbed a bowl from the cabinet and laid it on the table. I went and grabbed some cereal and milk and poured the cereal in the bowl and poured milk on top of it. I had to admit, for being only cereal it looked pretty good. I sat on top of the kitchen counter holding my cereal bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other and started to eat it. I was almost done when I saw Alice enter the kitchen.
"Hey, good morning Edward. What are you up so early for?" she asked being her cheerful self.
"I should be asking you the same question." I said swallowing a mouth full of cereal and raising an eyebrow, she rolled her eyes at me.
"No, really. What are you up so early for?" she asked again.
"Um, I just wanted to go drive around Forks, you know, look around. And to get ahead of the traffic." I said making it up as I went along. I thought it was a pretty good explanation. But Alice did not agree.
"Oh, yeah. Because you know how much traffic there is here. You really should get a move on." she said sarcastically flinging around her hands for unknown reasons.
"Okay." I said simply and shrugged.
I took one last big bit of my cereal shoving it in my mouth and hopped off the counter. I walked my way to the stairs passing the sink and putting my dish in it and flashing one last smile at Alice. She rolled her eyes and me and tried not to smile back.
I went to my bedroom and changed into blue jeans and a dark blue long sleeved shirt. I went into my bathroom and brushed my hair again then I brushed my teeth. I went back into my bedroom and put on some shoes and pulled on my light beige leather jacket. I headed out my door grabbing my keys and my cell phone on the way. I went down stairs and grabbed a pen and a piece of paper from the kitchen and wrote a note to Esme and Carlisle telling them where I was going to be.
Woke up early and decided to drive around Forks again. Need anything just call.
Love,
Edward
I laid it on top of the grand piano where they could clearly see it and went out the door and to my car.
I drove around trying to remember where exactly the store was. I found it in a short time. I was a little brown brick building with a sign on the building that said Olympic Outfitters. A sign in a window caught my eye.
'Sorry We're Closed'
CLOSED! How could that be! I drove a little closer to the side of the building and it said not open on Sundays till 9:00. I looked at the clock and it was 8:30. Only a half an hour to waste. I groaned and stared at the sign for a few more seconds before I pulled into a parking spot in front of the store. And decide to just wait here until it open. I hit play on my CD player and leaned my head back on my head rest and listened to the song humming along with the music.
I sat outside the store for about five minutes until I saw Mike's Suburban drive up behind me and park right next to me. I got out of my car at the same time he did and walk up to him.
"Hey Edward. Come on in." Mike said at he motioned his head to the door.
"Okay."
He closed his car door and grabbed his keys and unlocked the front door to the store. I follow him up to the front of the store and waited as he put on his vest on in the back room. He came out from the back room and looked at me.
"So what brings you here, Edward?"
Oh crap. I haven't even come up with an excuse why I was here. Of course I wasn't going to tell him the truth. Oh, yeah Mike, I just came here to stalk Bella. How weird would that be? He would think I was nuts and would probably have a restraining order put on me so I could come within two hundred feet of his store. So I said the first thing that came to my mind.
"Ohhhhh……ummmm…well…..I wanted to come and see if I could get a job here?" I asked.
I thought it was a pretty reasonable excuse to why I was here besides the truth. Mike looked at me with big golden eyes with a stupid blank expression on his face.
"You…..what to get a job……here?" He asked a little perplexed.
"Yes." I said a little confused by my question myself. But if I wanted to see Bella everyday I would have to do something and working with her would do just that. So I was pretty happy. I smile to myself.
"Okay. Well let me go get you an application. I will be right back." Mike said and turning slowly and walking into the back room.
"Thanks Mike." I said as he reappeared with a paper and a pen in his right hand. He placed it in front of me on the counter.
"Okay just fill this out. I am going to get ready for opening. This shouldn't take you too long." He said as he left to go to the front of the store.
Mike was right, it wouldn't take too long. There were only ten things to fill in at the most. Nothing exciting, name, age, number, emergency number …just little things like that. I filled it all out and set my pen down next to the paper. I looked at the paper for a long time making sure that I really wanted to do this. Then Bella flash up in my mine and that was it, I was hooked on getting this job. I decide to tell Mike I was done.
"Mike?" I yelled, not loud but loud enough for him to hear me.
"Yeah Edward. Over here," he yelled. I turned to the left and down the next aisle and he was standing there with stickers in his hand marking items down to half price.
"I'm done with my application."
"Oh good. Well when do you want to start?" he asked glancing at me and back to what he was doing.
"What? I can just start like that?" I asked.
"Well, yeah sure. You are my friend and my parents did say that we did need a little extra help. So yeah, I would say you could start." he said with a shrugging of his shoulders.
"Okay well, how about now?" I asked. It was pretty early in the morning and I could work and wait until she arrived.
"Sure sounds good, here follow me and I will get you a vest to wear and show you what you can do." he said walking out of the asle and into the back room. I follow close behind him.
The backroom was a fairly small room. It had a little place to eat with a fridge and a microwave. It also had a square wooden table and four folding chairs around it. I followed him to a closet and stopped right outside the door. He grabbed a vest from a shelf and through it at me.
"Here, I am pretty sure that will be good."
I took off my leather jacket and put on the vest.
"Yup, and where can I put this?" I asked motioning to my jacket.
"Right over here," he said passing by me and walking over to wooden little cubby spaces by the closet with a hook and a smaller storage place above to put a purse or something of that kind.
"This one is yours," he said pointing to one closest to the door. Right beside it was another one that said Bella.
"Thanks." I said and hung my coat on the hook.
"Oh yeah, before I forget, I will make you a name tag for you vest and for this too." he said motioning to the cubby space.
"Okay."
"It is E-D-W-A-R-D C-U-L-L-E-N, right?" he asked, pulling out a pad of paper from his pocket and a pen and waited for me to answer.
"Yeah." I answered nodding. He wrote it down so fast, his hand was a blur. I was stunned for a second wondering if I imagined it. My mouth dropped open a little and I stared at the paper.
"Okay this it what you're going to do. Are you okay Edward?" he asked putting the paper and pen back in his pocket and looked at me.
"Yeah fine. What were you saying." I said looking back up at him.
"Follow me." he said motioning me with his head.
I follow him out of the back room to the same aisle he was in earlier with the stickers. He stopped in the middle of the aisle and picked back up the sticker that were laying on the floor.
"Okay you will be doing what I was just doing. You see these kinds of ropes," He said grabbing a box from a shelf and showing me what kind they were and what kind of package box they were in.
"Yes,"
"Okay, go though this aisle and put the half price stickers on all of this kind of rope, Okay?" He said handing me the bright orange stickers wrapped up and a large roll.
"Okay," I said taking the stickers from him.
"You can see where I stopped so just start from there. I will be back in a little while to see how you are doing." He said disappearing from the aisle.
"Okay." I said with a sigh.
I started to put the orange stickers on what Mike told me to put them on. I was a little over half way finished when Mike came back.
"Hey Edward, how is it going so far?" I whirled around so fast that I almost lost my balance. Mike laughed.
"You scared the crap out of me." He came out of nowhere. I didn't even hear him walk up behind me.
"Oh sorry." He said smiling.
"It is going pretty good." I said. What is really so hard about putting a sticker on a box?
"Okay, well I am going to switch the sign to open so if anyone comes down here just keep on doing what your doing." He said walking to the front of the store still laughing at me.
"Okay." I said.
I was starting to regret taking this job. But I tried to keep my mind on Bella and only Bella. That made me feel a little better. I put the last sticker on the last item and I was done. I turned around and started to walk toward the back of the store guessing that is where Mike was going to be, working the cash register. As I was walking I heard the bell above the front door shake telling us someone has entered the build. I stopped dead my tracks. I froze, my heart froze. Then I heard a voice. I heard her voice.
I know, I know. It is short! But oh well. REVIEW!