Double Trouble
BPOV
Song: A-Punk by Vampire Weekend
The rest of the torturous day was spent being followed by a mass of flashes and pushes as we tried to walk down a single street looking for something to do before Edward introduced us all to his best friend Mike. Even though I had only met Edward, Alice and Rosalie yesterday it seemed as though I had known them for a lifetime as we shared pasts; laughing and even crying at each other's previous predicaments. We were currently sat in a small, yet comfy cafe after running away from the array of followers we seemed to have gathered on our tour around London, all sipping our different types of tea. I was about to break the silence that had seemed to envelope us when Rosalie's phone started to go off.
As Rosalie spoke to her manager in a high, very prestigious voice that I presumed she only used when talking business I realised that as well as I have gotten on with Rosalie it seemed that she couldn't stretch her likeness of us past Jasper and I towards Emmett. I personally believe the stealing of the phone might have been a point in which forgiveness wasn't an option as even on the phone the woman in which Emmett had pinned over from the last year was sending him glares over the table as he sat staring longingly at her in his Armani shirt and jeans. Which sadly hadn't seemed to impress Rose enough to get her to actually talk to him.
I felt Emmett lean over towards me and his words slowly engulfed my hearing and I suppose even in his quietest voice could be heard across the whole table, "This is getting beyond ridiculous," using the most terrible Scottish accent ever after he decided we had to stay in the hotel and watch something called 'Dragons Den' before going anywhere. I believe his new idol is Duncan Bannatyne.
"What do you expect me to do about it?" I muttered back trying to at least take Emmett's shouting down to a whisper, "Beg her to talk to you?" As I turned my head to face the huge man I realised that was exactly what he wanted me to do. Everything... as always.
"Fine. I'll try but I can't promise anything," I whispered back trying not to let Rosalie hear me in case I was added to her growing hit list because to be perfectly honest... she scared me.
While we all waited for Rose to finish her conversation with Eric about a new shoot she was doing in London Edward was telling us more about his oldest friend, Mike, "He's a great guy. I've been friends with him since we were about 5 and I haven't seen him in ages so it should be fun. I can't wait for you all to meet him though. It should be a great laugh!" Rosalie got off the phone and we all rose up from the table after seeing we had 10 minutes to get to wherever it was we were meeting Mike.
Once out onto the street we all realised that we obviously hadn't ditched the paparazzi for long since they were in a huddle outside the door as soon as we left. I shot a look to my left to Emmett to try and buy myself more time before he inevitably threw me in front of Rosalie. I was shitting myself.
"Hiya Rose," I started trying to buy myself more time however a quick look at the side proved that my big bear was really depending on me right now... oh, the joys of friendship.
Rosalie laughed and shook her head, "Bella, Bella, Bella, why don't you just cut to the chase and tell me why I should talk to Emmett. I know that's why your here, you wouldn't try and start a conversation with me about shoes or clothes of any description," I giggled. That's how nervous I was... I was giggling. This woman, despite her figure, could probably kill me with one punch if I got her angry enough. But hopefully that wouldn't happen.
"Okay I'm just going to say it. For everyone sakes here please just go have a conversation with him and break the ice before he starts crying... and I do," I smiled at her ready to flinch away from any object that came flying at me. Naomi Campbell and a phone, anyone?
Rosalie set the full force of her piercing blue iris' onto me and I thought in that moment... I would defiantly turn lesbian for this girl. After my mind had shook off this weird revelation Rose sighed and shook her head before turning around, and to my happiness, said her first hello ever to my big bear.
Feeling very proud of myself and my amazing job well done I skipped forward and jumped onto Jaspers back letting him carry my genius.
"And for what do I get this honour oh holy one," he beamed at me over his shoulder. I just stuck out my tongue in reply and lightly kicked his leg, but he winced anyway, "Why am I your friend anyway?" he asked and I just pulled his hair in reply leaning onto his shoulder realising how suddenly tired I was becoming. A yawn escaped me but I quickly looked round hoping no one saw it. Luck was on my side today as everyone was engaged in their own conversations; Jasper, Alice and Edward and even Rosalie and Emmett looked as though they were making some sort of weird version ofprogress.
Suddenly, I was flung forward and I screamed as I kicked Jasper even harder in the leg, "WHAT THE HELL JASPER!" he didn't try to defend himself he just laughed along with Alice and Edward as I huffed on his back.
"That wasn't funny," I muttered to anyone that was listening but this time I did get a reply.
"Edward asked you a question and you weren't answering then I saw you were asleep and thought I'd wake you up," Jasper looked back at me with those innocent blue eyes but I wasn't falling for it this time.
"I wasn't asleep," I muttered again trying to fully wake myself up but before Jasper could make a snide comment I turned to Edward, "Since I am now apparently awake, what did you want to ask?"
Suddenly his emerald eyes rose up from their new found home of the floor and looked up at me from beneath his mop of bronze hair to meet my own and it was then that I remembered why the hell I hadn't talked to him all day... because this morning I had a more than friendly dream about him and his little Eddie, or if papers and my dream were true a very big little Eddie. A deep blush rose to my cheeks at the thought and I threw my head back into Jasper's neck trying to hide as much of my reddening cheeks as possible.
"I was just wondering what you were studying at Seattle?" I turned my eyes to the side trying not to show too much of my boiling face but trying to be polite at the same time and not ignore the poor guy too much.
"I'm majoring in English Literature but it's not that exciting compared to what you do. When did you realise you wanted to be an actor anyway?" I asked realising the more I talked the less red I became.
"I didn't even want to be an actor until about 3 years ago, my parents had paid for Mike and I to come to England as a congratulations for something trivial that I can't remember now for the life of me. Anyways, Mike and I bought a beat up truck and drove up and down the country but when we went to Newcastle I got asked if I wanted to have a part in this indie film randomly and I enjoyed filming it so much I knew that's what I wanted to do," a thick blush rose across his cheeks and I could hardly imagine what had caused it, actually I could... I just didn't want to think about it.
Obviously Jasper wasn't hidden in his curiosity because he let go of one of my knees and punched Edward in the arm laughing, "Dude, who was she?"
They exchanged a quick one eye browed look which I could only describe as 'the man look', when they are obviously having some weird battle in their heads using only their eyes, and even after years of Emmett and Jasper I still hadn't mastered the reading of the look.
Suddenly Edward sighed and muttered something quietly below his breath that I didn't hear a word of but of course Jasper heard every word and gave a nod of respect, "So was it your first time?"
The blush on Edward's face just grew more as I stared between them in amazement, "I'm not going to talk about this with you!" Edward's whole face had turned the colour of a fire engine and the flush had flooded down his neck.
"Ha! It totally was! You were 17 when you first got laid that's disgraceful!" Jaspers whole body shook with laughter but I continued to listen like an outsider on this conversation wanting nosily to listen to the end knowing if I but in now I will never find out what happened. Even though my knowledge at the moment was particularly limited.
"What's wrong with 17 I think that that's a very reasonable age, How old were you 14?" Edward retorted his face still burning like hellfire.
"I was 15 actually but you were close enough," I had heard this story only ever once because Jasper refuses to talk about it so was the battle continued between them I sat in amazement realising how much Jasper, one of the most untrusting people in the world, actually trusted a group of people he had just met.
"How could you have sex when you were 15 you probably hadn't even gone through puberty yet!"
"I was a very early bloomer," They both laughed but Edward just shook his head.
"Jesus, at 15 I was still wearing braces and had acne covering every orifice of my face!" it seemed at this point the conversation was finally over as Jasper started to complain about how long it was taking to get to where ever we were going.
As if by magic as soon as Jasper, who was soon joined by Emmett and surprisingly Rosalie, had finished their rant we were stood at the bottom of some stone steps with a huge, burly man belting down the stairs and picking up tiny Alice from the floor and flinging her over his shoulder before giving Rose a huge Emmett style hug.
'Emmett style' certainly was what he was as well, he seemed about the same height as Emmett if not smaller and seemed to have just a few less muscles but still looked ripped also instead of a head of curly brown hair there was straight blonde hair that dangled over his chestnut brown eyes. Mike wasn't at all like the scrawny, nerdy guy I imagined him to be from Alice and Rose's descriptions but I suppose they just wanted to see my face when I saw a very handsome man stood 'man hugging' Edward.
"Well, hello there, you three must be the people that have had Eddikins here in more magazines than usual this week my flats basically flooded with all your faces," as he spoke you could hear a faint American accent between the British accent so I presumed he had been living in England for a while.
With Alice still over his shoulder, her arms and lags flailing and kicking, I got pulled into a softer version of an Emmett bear death hug and Jasper was followed in suit. But when Mike got to Emmett he looked him up and down and said, "I can officially say, with my pride intact, I am no longer the manliest man here," he shook Emmett's hand before they both nodded at each other and burst out laughing, within this time Alice had flung herself of Mikes shoulders and walked with as much dignity as she could muster over to Jasper.
Following the long period of time of Emmett and Mike laughing about something no one else understood we all got invited back into Mike's flat which he shared with someone called Laurent who apparently looked and acted scary but he was a real softy beneath it all.
After sitting down and deciding what we were going to do we headed outside to walk down to the London eye however on the way down we had to be stopped by both Mike and Emmett at the same time as we passed a huge lingerie store. Between themselves Mike and Emmett concocted a way to find out who was the most manliest by trying on the lingerie and then asking for numbers of the women inside the shop wearing lingerie.
As Emmett and Mike ran into the shop trying to find the perfect piece of garment I turned to Edward and quickly asked, "Why the hell did you think it would be good to bring dumb and dumber together to create the ultimate idiot squad?"
Alice, Rose and Jasper all mumbled along with me as we started the descent into the store via escalators when all our phones buzzed at once with the simple texts, We're ready in the first floor changing rooms...
OH my god, i'm so sorry! I can't express how sorry i am but there is a number of pleading emails a girl can get that forces her to write another chapter so MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'm sorry again :D PLease review because i will update quicker then (how cheeky was that?!) :P Thanks for reading edward(.)x(.)cullen(.)x(.)forever
