"Ok come on Swan." He said as he hopped out of the car. Hesitantly she followed him, why she had no idea.
They reached a large metal door with a lock on it and pulled out a key. Ok so he had a key so this was legal. At least she hoped it was. The door swung open and revealed a big pitch black room. A few seconds later the brightest lights she had ever seen in her life almost burned out her retinas.
"Oh holy hell." She could not even begin to believe what she was seeing.
In front of her was a room filled with what looked like every arcade game imaginable. There were blinking machines every where. Her eyes landed on an original pac man game and she almost wet her pants.
"How the hell do you know about this?" She paused for a second and then looked at him with eyes that must have been the size of dinner plates. "Do you own these?" He looked at for a second before bursting out laughing.
"I wish. These are actually George's." He answered once he stopped laughing.
"George?"
"A man that comes into the place that I work all the time. He likes me." She smiled and then looked over at him with a look that clearly asked if she could play them.
"Play anything you want. Break it and Im forced to sell you into Chinese slavery to pay off the damages."
"Why Chinese slavery?"
"It seems like it might be slightly less terrible than Russian slavery. Plus all of our stuff comes from China lets give back for once."
"Ok that's reasonable. To pac man!" With that she took off running and skidded to a stop in front of the pac man game she had spotted earlier.
"Of course. A classic." He spoke fro behind her. He watched her as she demolished the levels.
"I see that you have played this a lot." She smiled remembering back to Pheonix when her mother had had time to spend with her and all the things that they had done together.
"Oh yes." Eventually they moved on to a two player racing game which surprisingly he didn't let her win like most guys did. He actually beat her pretty badly too.
After a few zombie shooting games, another racing game, and a few claw machine rounds they decided to go get something to eat. "Ok Swan where are we going? Tacos, Chinese, or pancakes?"
"Most definately pancakes." She paused for a second and game him a weird look. "Is that even a question?"
"Nope I guess not."
They arrived and found a booth to sit in to wait for their waitress to come over. She didn't even have to look at the menu to know what she wanted. A dew minutes later their waitress walked over with a smile on her face ready to take their order. Unfortunately her eyes seemed to be permanently glued to Edward.
"Sir what would you like to eat today?" She said in a voice that was clearly higher pitched than usual.
"Chocolate chip pancakes with bacon and toast." He turned and looked at her over the table completely ignoring the waitresses attempts at flirting.
"I would like blueberry pancakes with bacon on top and a side of sugar dusted strawberries." The waitress walked away looking slightly annoyed that she had been so blatantly ignored.
"Why did you ignore her like that? I mean she was pretty." He shrugged and started t play with the bottle of ketchup that was on the table.
"Why did you leave Pheonix?" That surprised her. She wasn't expecting him to ask her that and especially not in a pancake place.
"Long story." He nodded and looked up at her, he seemed to be studying her face.
"Why are you never in school?"
"Long story." They sat for a second in a somewhat awkward silence before she broke it.
"Maybe one day I'll tell you. You know when I haven't only known you for like four hours." She gave him a smile and he laughed a little.
"I sort of forgot about that part momentarily." The food came and they talked about different things like the weather, bears, Forks, people, and odd restaurant goers. Some people just should not wear neon pink leggings.
When they were finished eating they paid and headed back out to his car. "Its getting close to the time that I should get you back to get your car." She didn't know why but the idea of having to go home already bothered her but she knew that she had to because Esme was already going to be freaking out.
"Ok."
They talked some more about random things and he learned that she could play the guitar and she learned that he can play the piano. Soon they were pulling back into the parking lot just as kids started to file out of the school.
"Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yeah I'll be that kid that's sitting next to you hating life in Biology."
"I'll be the one hating life just as much." She opened the door to get out of the car after they smiled at each other again but was stopped when he grabbed the back of her shirt.
"Did you enjoy our adventure Swan?"
"Definately."
"Good. There will be more." He smirked at her one last time before she climbed out and walked over to her car. She didn't seem to notice four people staring at her from different parts of the parking lot.
He couldn't believe what he had done. Just going outside and helping her hadn't been intentional at all but he hadn't known that he was walking until he pushed his way through the doors. She drew him to her and he didn't understand it. When he had seen her that first day he couldn't keep his eyes off of her and when she had collided with him all he could think about was whether or not she was ok.
It was the same reaction that he had felt when he saw her face when Mike had grabbed her. The look of fear that had crossed her face made him want to beat Mike a breath away from death. Even from a distance he could see the panic attack coming he had had enough of them to know the signs by now.
He sat there in his car watching her as she walked away toward her own car and thought about their day. He hadn't even shown that warehouse to Alice or Jasper and they were his best friends. It hadn't been something that he had wanted to share with anyone but he wanted to share it with her. That was his safe haven, the one place that no one could find him because no one knew that it existed.
He was glad that he had shown her though. The look of excitement that had crossed her face when she saw the games and the wonder as she took them all in made him just as happy. By the time that they had made it to the pancake place he had felt that he had known her for years instead of four hours.
He was interrupted from his thoughts when his car door opened and he was looking into the face of his best friend. Jasper sat in the passenger seat looking at him like he had grown five heads spontaneously.
"Dude why did the new girl just get out of your car? and why are you smiling like an idiot?" He hadn't realized that he was smiling but he didn't care.
"Man did you get some from the new girl?" His friend laughed from the seat next to him until he shot him a death glare and shook his head.
"No I didn't do anything like that with her Jasper." Though the thought had happened to cross his mind more than once that day. "We just hung out and ate pancakes."
"Ok the more I sit in this car the more bizarre life is getting. Your smiling because you ate pancakes with a girl today?" His friend sat in the seat looking highly confused. A few seconds later the back door of the car opened and Alice fell into the backseat.
"Hey guys whats going on?" Sh said looking back and forth from his confused friend to him. "Clearly I missed something."
"Edward here is smiling like an idiot because he ate pancakes with a girl." She scrunched her forehead.
"Please tell me eating pancakes mean something dirty because I need something to explain that creepy smile on his face." Oh he was still smiling. Oh well whatever.
"Guys this conversation is over." Alice and Jasper talked for most of the car ride home and he was ok with that because it gave him time to think about his day. He hadn't had that much fun in a long time. For the rest of the day his thoughts revolved around his day and the girl that he had spent it with.
For once in his life he went to bed looking forward to the next day and to seeing the girl that had occupied his mind almost constantly.