AN: OKay, so theres the thrid chapter. I just want to say sorry in advance for certain spelling problems. I didn't know how to spell scwaked...you know like the noise a bird makes? And the spell check on OpenOffice didn't know....so I guessed. Hope yall dont mind!
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight.
Chapter 3: Enrique
BPOV
"Come with me, senorita." He purred, holding his hand out for me to take. I hesitantly took it, marveling at how soft his russet color skin was.
"Enrique, where are you taking me?" I asked softly, following him down a dimly lit side walk. It was around sunset, and the streets were glowing a soft orange color.
"To the beach, my love." He replied, gently kissing my hand that he still held. He started to walk a little faster down the street and I struggled to keep up with his long strides.
"But we are in the city." I replied. For a moment I let my gaze wander to the tall buildings around me, I soon realized it was the same street my apartment was on. I scrunched my eyebrows in confusion, remembering that there was no beach in Seattle, Washington. When I looked back to ask him what beach he planned to take me to, I was surprised to see he was gone. Enrique was nowhere to be found, along with his beautifully white smile and long black hair. All that was left was me and the big deserted city.
"Enrique!" I shouted, spinning around in circles looking for him.
"Bella! Bella!" I heard a hight pitched voice scream. I opened my eyes to see Alice jumping up and down on my bed, staring down at me with excited eyes.
"Enrique?" I murmured, rubbing my eyes to clear my vision. Unfortunately it didn't help, it was still Alice standing over me instead of the handsome Enrique. Only the worse part was that Alice had an evil look on her pixie little face now. I groaned and fell back onto the pillow, letting a few curse words fly from my mouth.
Alice burst into fits of giggles and resumed her bouncing. "Rose! Rose! Bella is dreaming about a guy named Enrique!" She screamed.
"I'm never going to live this down, am I?" I asked gloomily, looking up at her little body and large gray wings bouncing up and down in the air.
"Nope!" She giggled, jumping off the bed and running to my closet. "Hurry up and go take a shower, missy! We have a long day ahead of us and I want to start early!"
I groaned, pulling myself up at a sitting position. I stretched my arms over head and my wings out as wide as they could go. "What time is it?" I yawned.
"Seven!" Alice sang, throwing various articles of clothing on the bed near my feet.
"I don't even get to pick out my own outfit?" I asked, walking to the my bathroom.
"Nope, I don't trust you." She replied.
"Oh, yeah. You don't trust me. Because what I wear affects you so much!" I snapped, slamming the door behind me and turning on the shower.
"Well isn't someone grumpy." Alice mumbled in response. Even though the water was running in the shower and she was in the other room, I could still hear her clearly. Sometimes the excellent hearing is convenient to continue conversations, but other times its just embarrassing. Like when you use the bathroom or something along those lines.
After I was squeaky clean, I changed into the clothes Alice allowed me to wear and pulled my wet hair into a messy pony tail. I looked at myself in the mirror and instantly rolled my eyes. Alice was making me wear a plain green tank top underneath a white sleeveless sweater that had a brown belt across the waist, along with my dark skinny jeans. Sometimes I wondered where my free will went. I missed the days when I got to choose what Bella wore. Boy, weren't those the good days... I thought to myself, sighing mentally at my misfortune.
"So who is Enrique?" Rosalie laughed as I walked into her apartment (which was three apartments down from mine). She was in the kitchen cooking breakfast which consisted ofeggs, bacon and toast. Another perk of ours is that we eat a lot. Probably as much as a teenage boy, which isn't really attractive. But at the same time, we can eat whatever we want and not gain a pound.
"Shut it!" I snapped, pouring myself a cup of coffee. I took my cup of coffee and my plate full of food and sat next to Alice who was already inhaling her food.
"What time is Bingo's appointment?" I asked, biting into my toast.
"We have to leave in like five minutes." Alice replied, it was a little muffled since her mouth was full of food.
"Well thanks for giving me plenty of time to eat." I laughed, chewing my food a little quicker.
"Sorry! Just thought you might want some more time to dream about Enrique!" Alice teased.
I shot a glare her way and attempted to push her off her stool, but she beat me to it by jumping off and heading for the kitchen sink. She stuck her tongue out at me and ran out of Rosalie's apartment.
Once we were done with breakfast, we all met up at the elevator. Alice already having Bingo perched on her shoulder, with a small black leash with metal spikes attached to his ankle (Alice's doing of course). (AN: I hate doing this in the middle of the story, but I thought I would say I'm sorry if this part is wrong or stupid. I have never had a bird so I don't know exactly what you do when taking it places..)
"Alice, does he really have to wear that thing?" I asked, pressing the elevator button.
"Yes!" She replied, looking at me like I was crazy for asking. "Its for safety!"
"I don't mean the leash. Why the spikes?" I asked.
"They are manly!" She replied, glaring up at me for defying her.
I rolled my eyes at her as the elevator doors opened.
We piled in, all three of us lined against the far wall, Alice in between Rosalie and I. She made us look like giants compared to her pixie self. The elevator started to descend but stopped at the 24th floor, the floor right below ours.
"Please tell me we aren't going to stop at every floor!" Rosalie complained as three guys entered the elevator.
I couldn't help but notice how gorgeous they all were. The first was a tall blond with blue eyes. His hair was messy and hung down in his face. The second was tall and very muscular, with dark curly brown hair. His dimples showed as he grinned widely at us. Or should I say at Rosalie. The last was a tall skinny, (but still muscular) guy with bronze colored hair. It was messy and flew out in different direction. He had the most gorgeous green eyes that I had ever seen. Honestly, I didn't know it was possible for anyone's eyes to be that bright a green. I couldn't help from staring like an idiot.
"Well hello there." The muscular guy purred, grinning at Rosalie. "Where have you been all my life?"
Alice giggled while I just rolled my eyes at him. Rosalie, however, snorted and replied, "Hiding from you."
The tall guy with bronze hair and the blond laughed at their friend that was being shot down by an annoyed Rosalie.
"Well fine." The muscular guy grumbled, folding his arms over his chest and pouting.
It got silent as the elevator dinged, displaying that we had stopped at the 23rd floor. The door opened to reveal an empty hallway. I rolled my eyes and tapped the 'close doors' button a few times. Once the door shut I looked up and caught the gaze of the bronze haired god standing in front of me. He smiled crookedly at me and looked away. I felt all the blood rush to my cheeks as I smiled back. I hated my tendency to blush; it was a curse! Its so embarrassing to know that your face is as red as a tomato, which causes me to blush even more!
"I see dead people!" Bingo scwaked, bobbing his head up and down. I laughed and looked up at him to see he was staring intently at the muscular guy.
All three of the guys laughed at Bingo, causing him to talk more. "Carnage!" He said, dragging our his word to sound eerie like Alice had taught him.
I sighed, burring my face in my hands. I couldn't believe Alice did that! It was embarrassing enough to have a parrot perched on her shoulder but to add to it the bird was saying stupid stuff like 'I see dead people' and 'carnage'.
"Alice, I can't believe you taught him that word!" I said quietly into my hands. She giggled and started to pet Bingo.
"What floor do y'all live on?" The blond asked, smiling at Alice who was standing directly across from him.
"The twenty-fifth floor." She replied, returning his smile. I looked over at the top of the elevator door to see that we were only at the 21st floor. We had now stopped at every floor with no extra passengers.
"What!" The muscular guy boomed, shooting a look of disbelief at all of us. "They told us there was no twenty-fifth floor!"
I laughed at him. "That's because there isn't." I said, smiling innocently at them, "We own the whole floor."
They all gaped at us, shocked at my statement.
"Well isn't that greedy!" He replied, looking at Rosalie for the millionth time in the past two minutes. She just grinned smugly at him.
"We like our heights." She said to him.
"So you need the whole floor!?" He asked.
"We also need our privacy." Alice answered this time.
"You need that much privacy!?" He said loudly.
"Yep!" Alice said, smiling at the blond even though she wasn't even talking to him. Emmet huffed and resumed his pouting.
The elevator stopped at the 19th floor, no one was standing there again! I angrily elbowed the 'close doors' button for the fifth time. I looked over at Alice to see she had moved Bingo to her arm. She was happily petting him.
"You're so pretty, Bingo." She whispered to him.
"You named your bird Bingo?" The bronze haired guy laughed. He didn't say it in a rude way, he just sounded amused and disbelieving. I could help the smile that spread across my face as I heard his glorious voice.
"His name was Bingo when we got him." I said, reaching over to pet him.
Alice smiled at the boys before returning to Bingo. "Such pretty wings." She cooed, running her tiny hand over his colorful wings. "Not as pretty as yours though, Bella." She whispered, turning her head to smile sweetly at me. She said it quiet enough that a normal person couldn't hear.
I smiled widely back at her, shaking my head at her remark. She always hated that my wings were pure white and hers were gray. I honestly didn't think it was that big of a deal. We all had wings for goodness sakes! They were pretty no matter what, and its not like anyone could actually see them but ourselves.
I looked up from Alice's face to see all the boys looking from each other and back to us. They all looked confused and shocked, staring straight at me. I felt my cheeks burned from all the eyes staring at me. I couldn't help but wonder what they were thinking and why they were so confused all of a sudden. Had they somehow heard what Alice said?
"I still can't believe we are getting his wings clipped." Rosalie sighed bitterly, folding her arms across her chest. I sighed in relief as she took all the unwanted attention away from me.
"You're what!?" The muscular guy shouted, causing everyone to jump in surprise. "That's preposterous!"
"I know!" Rosalie replied, nodding her head in agreement.
"If someone clipped my wings I would be pissed!" He continued. I whipped my head up to look at him, completely taken by surprise. His wings?
"I know! That's what I told them!" Rosalie said. A moment later she realized what they both said and looked around at everyone awkwardly.
There was a few more moments of awkward silence, then everyone burst out in laughter. Although, I couldn't help but notice that it wasn't honest laughter, just awkward and fake.
"Well, I'm Jasper." The blond spoke up, extending his hand out to Alice.
She giggled and placed her tiny hand in his. "Alice." She replied.
"Rosalie." Rose said, putting her hand out to shake Jasper's as well.
He smiled at her and turned to me. "Bella." I said quietly, shaking his hand.
"This meat head over here is Emmet." Jasper laughed, pointing to the muscular guy. "And this is Edward." He finished, pointing at the bronze haired god. Edward smiled at us, nodding his head in a greeting.
The elevator dinged again, opening to the thirteenth floor. Although this time there was a tall white haired man standing there. His hair was buzzed and thin, balding at the top. His pale, wrinkly skin brought out his eerily dark brown eyes. For some reason he looked familiar. Like I had seen him before. So familiar that I could help from staring at him, waiting for some memory to come to me.
The elevator doors closed behind him, he stood in the middle between the boys and us. I continued to stare at him in curiosity, but no names came to mind.
It was silent for the whole elevator ride as I raked my brain for hints or ideas as to where I had seen him before. Every minute passed was just as unsuccessful as the next. I sighed in defeat as the elevator doors opened up to the lobby.
"It's about time!" Rosalie huffed, quickly exiting the elevator.
"Bye guys." Alice sang, smiling sweetly at Jasper. They all mumbled their goodbyes.
I waved at them shyly, trying to keep from just staring at Edward, but failed miserably. He grinned crookedly at me. "Bye, Bella." He whispered.
A shiver ran up my spine as I walked through the lobby to catch up to Alice and Rose. I couldn't help but love the way he said my name. My god, he was gorgeous, and on top of his amazingly handsome facial features his voice was that of an angel! Could he have gotten any more perfect?
"Hey, you know that old guy that got in the elevator?" I asked Alice and Rose as we stood on the end of the street waiting for a taxi.
"Yeah, what about him?" Rosalie asked while lifting her hand into the air, trying to get the attention of a taxi.
"Did he look familiar to y'all?" I asked, trying to keep my voice as casual as possible. I didn't want them to know how weird I felt about the guy.
"No, never seen him before." Alice replied, looking at me sceptically.
"Okay." I smiled.
A taxi came to a stop directly in front of us. Rosalie slid in first, followed by Alice and then me last. Rose gave the driver the address to the vet's office.
"Why?" Alice asked after the taxi started to cruise down the busy street.
"Just wondering. He looked familiar to me." I replied, looking out the window to show that it was no big deal to me.
"Well that's good, I thought you were staring at him because you were attracted to him. I never thought you were an older men type of girl, Bella." Rosalie laughed.
I glared and stuck my tongue out at her like a little child. When I rested back into the seat, for some strange reason my mind wandered to Edward. I had only just met him and he was already invading my thoughts. I really needed to get out more!
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