Previously

"Great, so we have a date tonight. What do you wanna do?" he asked smiling from ear to ear.

Before I could answer, I heard someone clear their throat behind me. I turned around and saw Edward Cullen standing at the counter talking to Victoria. "Well, Victoria. I see your new employee is very.. let's say.. outgoing." he said throwing a sideway glance at me. "I didn't know you changed your policies."

I couldn't believe my ears.

Did he really just imply I'm hitting on a guest on my second day here?

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Chapter 5

EPOV

Bambi stared at me with wide eyes as if I'd just slapped her face.

Hey, I'm just stating a fact here!

Unlike this morning she didn't say anything but disappeared blushing into the office behind the reception.

"Hey Edward," I heard Jacob Black say. He and I worked for different companies but as he was a frequent guest as myself, we knew each other casually.

"Hey Jacob, what's up?" I asked.

"I wanted to ask if you meant Bella by saying what you just said." he said through gritted teeth.

"Oh, sorry. It's none of my business what you're doing with hotel employees in your free time." I answered dryly and took the invoice Victoria had printed for me.

"Right. Just like it's none of my business what you and your brother are doing with hotel employees in your free time. You should know best about the policies situation." he answered sarcastically.

Just when I wanted to snap back an answer that he should mind his own business, Emmett appeared next to me and handed me a phone.

'Mom' he mouthed.

I rolled my eyes, took the phone, turned my back to Jacob and said: "Hi Mom. Listen, it's not the best moment right now…"

BPOV

I was standing in the back office and tried to compose myself.

Everything's fine, Bella. At least you didn't snap back anything, that's an improvement. And he didn't tattle to Victoria. Let him assume what he wants to, arrogant prick!

I took a deep breath and went back to the reception.

"…You should know best about the policies situation." I heard Jacob say.

Obviously he was talking to Edward Cullen, who was staring at him angrily. Just when Edward Cullen was about to answer, Emmett Cullen handed him a phone.

"Hi Mom. Listen, it's not the best moment right now…" I heard him say.

Mom? I didn't know the devil had a mother.

I looked at Jacob and just like old times we knew without words what the other was thinking. His wide smile showed me he had something similar in his mind and he snorted loudly. I blushed and tried with all my might to make a professional face. I gestured with my hands for Jacob to leave or I would truly loose control.

"See ya, Bella." he said still giggling and went outside through the revolving doors.

The rest of my shift was pretty uneventfull. At about 3.30 p.m. Victoria told me: "You can go home now, Bella. Thank you for your good work today. Tomorrow morning you'll work at the executive floor."

I logged out, said a quick goodbye to Alice and went to change. When I crossed the parking lot to my truck, I could see Jacob standing next to it.

"You still got that old thing?" he laughed, visibly proud I still owned the truck he reconstructed.

"Yeah, and don't you have a job?" I asked.

"I do, but I took the afternoon off so we can spend some time together." he beamed.

"Okay, so jump in." I laughed, his high spirits were just as catching as in our childhood days. "I just have to make a quick stop at home, then we can go grab something to eat, go to the park and wallow in old times' memories."

After leaving my stuff at home and giving Jacob a short tour of our apartment, we went to the sandwich shop around the corner, got some sandwiches and drinks for take-away and went strolling through a nearby park. For once it wasn't raining today and by using your fantasy you could even suspect the sun behind the clouds.

"So Bella, what have you been up to the last six years?" Jacob started.

I told him about how I went back to Phoenix to my mom after graduation, where I did my training in a grand hotel for three years. After my training I kept working there for a few months but went to Spain for a change. I worked two years in a hotel resort. As much as I loved Spain, I kept missing home, especially my dad. We had only seen each other twice a year after I moved to Phoenix and while I was in Spain he only visited once for christmas.

"And so I got back here. The first few months I lived with dad in Forks but when I got the job here, I moved in with Alice to Seattle." I eventually finished my story. It wasn't particularly exciting but that's how my life was. "What about you, Jake?"

He told me that he first jobbed at his friend Sam's garage after his graduation, a year later than my own. He used to work on cars all the time before I left. One day James was their client. He and Jake got talking and he offered him a job in his consulting company. Obviously, this was a kind of business Jake was even better at than cars because within the following two years the company's revenue had almost doubled and James promoted Jacob to be Vice General Manager.

"Wow." I said, deeply impressed. "Who would have known?"

He smiled sheepishly. "And Bells, what about your private life? Now you just rattled down your CV, what else happened? Are you married? 4 kids? 12 cats?" he laughed.

I almost choked on my coke. "No Jake. Nothing like that. A few dates, but.. nothing that's worth mentioning. No kids and by far no cats. You know I hate cats!" I pouted.

"People change, you know?" he grinned.

"Not about cats!"

"If you say so.."

We sat down on one of the park benches and watched the other park visitors. Some went with their dogs, other pushed strollers and there were many joggers.

"And you? Everything still the same?" I asked.

"Yeah.." he sighed. "Embry and I are still happy, but my dad still doesn't have a clue. We're still waiting for the right moment."

By the age of thirteen Jacob already knew he didn't go for girls. He and his best friend Embry have been together since they both were seventeen. As his dad, Billy, was very strict, Jacob never had the guts telling him the truth. Billy still thought, Jacob was very shy and just hadn't met the right girl yet.

"Jake. In six years not one moment, that could have been right?" I asked incredulously.

"Oh Bells, you know how he is. And at the moment he's not that healthy, I don't want to bother him with that." he sighed.

"Bother? You wouldn't bother him by telling him you're happy." I explained.

"Could we just drop the subject?" he muttered. I didn't want to argue with him. We had just met again, there was enough time for arguments in the future. So I just put my hand on his thigh.

"I'm glad I found you again, Bella." he said quietly and hugged me.

"Me, too Jake." I answered and hugged him back. When I looked behind him over the park, I couldn't believe my own eyes.

"Oh fuck." I whispered.

Edward Cullen was jogging towards us. He was wearing dark blue sweatpants, black running shoes and a grey T-Shirt, which already showed dark sweat stains around his collar and under his arms. His reddish brown hair was tousled like usual and his face..

Well, his face looked like always. Pissed. He stared directly at me with his piercing green eyes while he jogged past us without saying a word.

"What's wrong?" Jacob asked but when he turned around to see, he understood my reaction.

"Don't worry about Cullen. He definitely won't say anything like that again. You know what they say about people in glasshouses.." Jacob said confidently.

"What do you mean? I wanted to ask you before. What did you mean by saying he and his brother knew best about the policies?" I remembered Jacob's conversation with Edward Cullen, of which I accidently got to hear the end of.

"Oh, well his brother Emmett obviously got it bad for the blonde girl from the bar." Jacob started.

"Yeah, Rosalie. I know that story." I said annoyed. I wanted to know about the hint he gave about Edward Cullen.

Hey, why do I suddenly want to know about these things?

"Curious much, Bella?" he smiled. I grimaced.

"Edward's story is from a while back. There used to work this girl at the front desk, Tina or something. She clearly had it bad for him. She even went so far as pushing little letters over to him while checking him in and screaming at colleagues who wanted to check him in.

"Well, once after she had escorted him to his room, the door of the elevator openend and they both were found in a pretty clear position. Too bad, it was the general manager who was waiting for the elevator."

I couldn't say anything, I was shocked. This man had implied I would be hitting on a guest in front of everyone's eyes and had something going on with an employee himself!

"Edward received a polite letter from the general manager, explaining the policies that employees are prohibited from having personal relationships to guests and for him to respect these policies." Jacob continued.

"And what happened to the employee?" I asked curiously.

"Well, she had been working for the hotel for quite a long time so she was just transferred to another department. I believe she works at the housekeeping now." Jacob answered.

Tanya.

It was getting darker now and Jacob told me he had some meetings to prepare for the next day. We went back to my apartment, he took a cab back to the hotel, promising to do something similar soon again and I went upstairs.

Edward Cullen and Tanya from housekeeping. Perfect match. No wonder she was pissy towards every new front desk member.

But what the hell was his problem? If he could make out with employees himself, why would he even mind what I did?

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