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TensionBPOVEmmett took in me and Rose's shocked expression, "Do you guys know each other?" Was he a dumbass? Yes, yes he is.
"Emmett you tard! She's my boss, Rosalie Hale! Remember how I got the internship working for Rosalie Hale." I emphasized her name trying to help Emmett make the vital connection.
He tilted his head up and his finger on his chin, thinking deeply, he turned to Rose, "Oh you're that Rosalie Hale, the designer chick!?" His smile grew wide.
She smacked him on the back of his head, "Yes! How could you not have known?"
"I don't know, I don't think about that stuff I guess." His face grew serious, "How come you didn't know that my sister worked for you!?"
"You said her name was Bella, I know her as Isabella."
He shrugged, "Oh well that makes sense." He plopped himself down onto the couch, making himself comfortable and changing the channel to a sports program of some sort.
Alice and Rose were in defensive crouches not saying a word, I was standing in between them, not knowing which side to choose. My best friend or my boss.
Tension was thick in the air before Alice threw her hands up in the air making her point clear to the entire room, "I can't believe Emmett would lower himself into dating you." She stuck out her tongue like a five year old.
"I can't believe Jasper would lower himself into dating you and when I mean lower I mean he actually has to bend down, little midget freak!" I had to hold back a giggle that threatened to bubble through my lips. I coughed to cover it up.
Rosalie looked ready to attack, I stepped in before blood was shed and hair was pulled. "Okay please you two, let's be civilized tonight at least. By the sound of Alice and Jazz's relationship I'd say you two are in for more than one family gathering."
I heard Rose mutter, "Fuckin pixie." Under her breath.
"Now let's all take a deep breath, Alice and Alex would you mind checking on the food and start preparing the salad for me please, I would like to get to know my brother's girlfriend." Rosalie smiled at me.
We sat down in the small dining room because the living room was occupied by Emmett and FiFi.
"So you and my brother huh?" I smiled and giggled a little under my breath trying to imagine Rosalie dealing with Emmett's childish behavior.
"Yeah, do you want to know how we met?"
"Oh gosh this oughta be good."
"Well right after I got a quick facial I had to stop into Starbucks for a caffeine refill, on my way out Emmett practically plowed me over and I spilt my coffee all over myself! He offered to take me shopping to replace the blouse that was ruined and we've been dating ever since."
"That's actually kind of cute, I can't imagine how Emmett would handle shopping with the Queen of the Fashion industry though. He can barely handle me and I'm an in-and-out shopper."
"He actually enjoyed himself thoroughly." Her faced reddened, did I want to know? No I do not. "He's really proud of you Bella. Every time he talks about you he swells with pride. His face lightens up and he could talk about you for hours if I didn't stop him, I can't believe I didn't make the connection sooner. But he does have reason to be proud, to be honest you've surprised me. Impressed me even and there are very few people out there who can do that."
"Thank you, you have no idea how much that means to me actually."
"By the way, your dresses today were stunning, honestly, I was truly jealous that I hadn't thought of those pieces. That's why I didn't have much commentary, I was left speechless, by something that I didn't design. That never happens." She chuckled at her self and my cheeks turned pink, I need to learn how to take compliments without blushing.
"Edward was the genius behind the evening gown so I can't take credit." I paused for a moment and then continued, "Ms. Ha- I mean Rose, I was wondering if, at the office of course, we keep our little 'connection' private. I don't want the others to think that I get special treatment because you are dating my brother."
"Of course Bella. I was thinking the exact same thing." She gave me a genuine smile, who would've thought that Rosalie Hale would be in my dining room and dating my brother, sure as hell not me. "I love that dress by the way. Where is it from?"
"Oh thanks, Bebe I think. Their designs this year are genius!"
After that we were off talking about different designs and designers, the looks of the seasons, the major fashion faux pas of many different celebrities.
Alice burst in with a steaming hot pan of lasagna and Alex was carrying a salad bowl in his right hand and a basket full of garlic bread in the other.
"Emmett dinner is-" He was already in the room before I could say 'served'.
He kissed Rose on the cheek before he sat down. I sat at the head of the table. Alice was on my right and Emmett was on my left. Beside Alice was Alex and of course Rosalie was beside Em.
We passed around the dishes, everyone got seconds on my lasagna which made me happy, it was my specialty after all.
We were all chatting about work and our days today I brought up Eden in Lauren and Jessica's death trap, "Alice you should have seen that dress! You would've had a hernia, but first you would've murder those two for ruining the good name of evening gowns."
Rosalie was in tears remembering the incident, "The poor models face was turning purple and she was waddling like a penguin! I was speechless when she came out, I've never seen anything like it."
"Lauren and Jess were so proud of it though, and they actually thought to bring models in! Poor Eden."
"I know she is an amazing model though, after her little show I made her one of my 'goddesses' now." The Rosalie Hale Goddesses are exactly like the Victoria Secret angels except better looking and they wore more clothing on the runway.
Everything went silent. Everyone's jaw dropped, Rosalie looked at us with a baffled looked, "What?"
Emmett spoke up, "Eden has been trying to land that job for as long as we can remember, well she's been trying to land any job, but never succeeded. We are all speechless because we are so happy for her." Rosalie slowly nodded her head.
Alice's little high-pitched voice piped up, "No I am just shocked that she didn't tell us! Bella remind me to call her later."
"Alice ilikeyourdress." She spit the words out so fast that I barely understood her but I knew by Alice's sly smile that she heard every word.
"What was that Rosalie? I didn't quite hear you."
"I uh, I like your dress." The words were bordering on venomous but I could hear the sweet tone that she was forcing out.
"Why thank you Rosalie, I designed it." That pixie was sneaky, she had somehow gotten Rosalie to compliment one of her designs, I never thought that could happen. Alex was just as shocked but snickered quietly.
I got up from my seat and headed into the kitchen to see if I could salvage anything and make a simple dessert. I opened the stainless steel fridge and looked through it. I found a few random containers of vanilla pudding. I took them all out and dumped the contents into a serving bowl. I looked in the cupboards and found an unopened package of Oreos. I took out about ten and crushed them up and put it all on top of the pudding. Voila! Dirt dessert.
I got out a few bowls and spoons and brought them out with the dessert, "Who wants dirt dessert?"
Emmett threw his hand in the air, "Oh me! Me! Me!"
Everyone else politely asked for a bowl full. Once we all got settled in we started up some casual light chatter.
I finally thought of something that I've been dying to hear ever since I found out that Alice and Rosalie hate each other, "So uhm do you mind explaining why you two despise each other?"
"Rosalie would you like to take this one or shall I?"
"I will, I tell a more accurate version." She cleared her throat. "When Alice started dating Jasper I had no idea that she owned Pixie's. Now keep in mind that this was when her store first opened and she didn't have much experience."
Alice scoffed but Rosalie moved on. "Jasper brought her home for dinner one evening and Alice told me that she worked in fashion. Well she already knew that I did because my company had just hit it big here in the States. Alice and I got around to talking about fashion differences and I might have accidentally trashed her new line. In front of our entire family."
Alex patted Alice's back consolingly, "Aw poor Ali."
Alice got even evil glint in her eye as she scooped up a spoonful of pudding, "Oh yeah that reminds me of something…" Before I could even register what she said Alice's spoonful of pudding was flung across the room and landed right in the middle of Rose's chest. Rosalie's jaw dropped in shock, Alice was dying of laughter.
Emmett took a forkful of his lasagna and flung it across the table to hit Alex right in the forehead, "Score one for Emmett!"
I took a little bit of my pudding and hit Emmett in the shoulder, I really have sucky aim.
Rosalie hit Alice with some lasagna, which in turn ruined Alice's dress and she was not at all happy about that.
I quietly sunk under the table trying to avoid the food warfare. I stealthily crawled out from under the table and into the kitchen. I could help the splats and splatters of the pudding and the wet thuds of leftover lasagna hitting the walls and guests. This was going to be a fun mess to clean up.
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I practically skipped to work the next day. I had missed Edward so much that it physically hurt. I don't even remember what I'm wearing at the moment, I just hope it isn't my pajamas. I looked down, nope. I was wearing an original Alice sleeveless, one shoulder, blue and black color block dress that was skin-tight.
I entered the building and cheerily waved at Angela, who stopped what she was doing to talk to me. "Bella! How have you been doing? I heard about your dresses, I saw them too and wow they are amazing."
"Thanks and I've been doing great, I love the job it's amazing! But how have you been? I heard you got engaged!" I look down at her land hand and saw her half-carat diamond ring. It was quaint and it looked like it belonged on her finger.
"I'm good, yeah Ben proposed this weekend, it was so romantic!" Two strong arms wrapped around my waist and I felt a pair of lips on my neck, "Uhm, I'll talk to you later Bells, bye." She took off down the cement stairwell to the mailroom. I turned around to see Edward.
I met a pair of impossibly dark eyes and russet skin. Okay so that's not Edward. "Hey sexy, are we still on for this weekend?" Hmm… how do I break it to him?
"Uhm no I can't anymore, Alice needs me to work. All day. Sorry. Got to go." I sprinted up the stairs leaving Jacob shocked in my path. I rushed into the office and slammed the door.
A head full of messy bronze hair spun around when he heard the loud banging sound.
He got up out of his chair and walked over to me before I had the chance to breathe and pulled me into a tight hug. Fireworks burst inside me and I felt warm and fuzzy all over. "Hello beautiful, how was your night last night?"
"Uhm interesting, I met Emmett's new girlfriend. And then said girlfriend and my best friend Alice got into a food fight and I spent hours cleaning up the destroyed dining room."
"Bella you should have called me, I would've been able to help you clean up, I would've been more than happy to."
"Hmm, I'll remember that next time there's a huge food fight occurring in my house. But how was your night?" We were now seated at the table waiting for everyone else to come in, but wishing that they wouldn't so we could be alone for just a little bit longer.
"It was painstakingly lonely, I missed you."
"I missed you too. Maybe you should get a dog, they make great companions."
"Thanks I'll keep that in mind."
Leah came in and sat across from us, "Hey lovebirds, have any of you two met Jacob Black yet."
My cheeks turned red, "Yeah, I went on a date with him last weekend, why do you ask?"
"Well just now he's on his way to the hospital."
I gasped, "Why what happened!?" I had only seen him minutes ago.
"Oh, downstairs he grabbed my ass. So I punched him in the nose, he thinks it's broken." She shrugged like it was no big deal and started flipping through Vogue.
The door slammed shut again and I looked over to see who was entering, it was Mitchell.
He looked well, terrible. His usually neat and tidy hair was now sticking up in a million different directions, just like Alice's but it didn't look as great. He had puffy bags under his eyes. And he had red streaks below his eyes from crying.
I got up and ran over to him. "Oh my goodness! Mitchie are you okay?"
I pulled him into a tight hug, he started sniffling before he could say anything, "No! My boyfriend of two years cheated on me. With a woman! Bella I'm so heartbroken. I turned someone straight!" He started sobbing in my arms and I formulated a plan.
"Mitch, I know this might be too soon to go out with someone else but I know someone that would be very interested in you."
He looked at me through tear-plagued eyes and sniffled, "Wh-who?"
"My roommate Alex."
I heard the click clacking of heels on the stairs and pried Mitchell off of me, "I'll call you with the details later." He nodded and sat down in his desk chair.
I resumed my seat by Edward, I hadn't noticed it but Jess and Lauren had entered and were occupying the seats by Leah and Eric.
Rosalie entered wearing a stunning dress suit and took her usually position at the head of the table. I hope no one caught the small grin she threw at me. Edward looked at me and I just shrugged. He was too observant for his own good, should I tell him about Rose and Em?
"Good morning interns. I would like to say congratulations to all of you for not getting fired yesterday even though two of you came dangerously close," She stared at the two ho bags, they gulped, "Now for your next assignment. You and a partner will be designing an outfit of some type whether it be a dress, a pair of pants and a blouse, or a jumpsuit. This will be due on Friday." She stopped for a moment.
Edward whispered in my ear, "I've got a few-"
Rosalie interrupted his thought with her own, "The pairings will not be the same as last the assignment. In this industry you must learn to work with many different people. The pairings are Edward and Jessica, Leah and Lauren and Eric and Bel-cough-Isabella. Get to work people."
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Ughh sorry that took so long I had to rewrite it a few times to get in everything I wanted.
This weekend I have drained myself of all my creative juices. I'm being serious to haha. Make sure you check out devynx3[dot]webs[dot]com
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