Chapter 9 {Edwards PointOfView}
Right after the show I was so exhausted but really happy that Bella seemed to like the songs. Right now I really like Bella. I like the way she looks, her feisty personality, the way she doesn't care what she eats and that she actually has a sense of humor. It's kind of hard these days to find a girl who is pretty with brains and knows when you're joking. Knowing she had a good time made me happy and I couldn't part with her. So I took her warm hand and brought her along with me towards my dressing room and said for her to relax. Apparently she really listened to me because after my shower I came back and saw her lightly snoring on the couch with her feet propped up on the table in front of her and her hair scattered everywhere. Even asleep she looked beautiful. Smiling, I looked out of my dressing room and saw that everyone was about to load onto the bus.
Going back in I went next to her and tried to wake her up. With no luck I picked her up bridal style and laid her head on my shoulder. Emmett seeing me, he asked me if I was okay and suggested him taking her. Not wanting to leave her I denied and carefully set her down on the couch in the bus. As soon as my arms left her body, they seemed to feel empty and not wanting to feel that, I was going to do something but just then Bella started to say something. "Edward…" she mumbled. Not sure if she was awake I answered her anyway. "Yeah?" "stay with me" Smiling I lifted her back up and slid in behind her and set her head on my chest and my arms around her and slowly let sleep take me and have dreams of Bella take over.
A flash of light danced behind my eyes which woke me up from my wonderful dream about this awesome, beautiful girl and she fell asleep in my arms. Opening my eyes I saw Rose holding a camera in front of me and smiling at a picture. Suddenly, something moved in my arms. Looking down I saw the beautiful girl I dreamt about laying on my chest. Smiling, I held onto her more tightly when she started to move around. She moved her head to where my heart was and sighed contently with her ear there and listening to my heart thump. Looking back up I saw Emmett in his corner, which is in the kitchen, eating a sandwich.
Jasper in his music writing chair with Alice in his lap and they had their heads together still sleeping. A yawn came to me and trying to not disturb the angel on my chest I turned my head and opened my mouth wide. Feeling the movement change on my chest she slowly opened her eyes. Sitting up she started stretching and looked around and saw me under her with wide, surprised eyes. Smiling as she got her bearings she smiled back at me and snuggled back to me. "Good morning" I said in my groggy voice. "Good Morning to you too" she whispered back. Realizing she was still in the clothes she had yesterday I asked her if she wanted to use some of my clothes and then we can go out for breakfast. Nodding, she got up and put her arms above her head and helped me up. Stretching also, I held her hand and led her towards the cabinets in the back and pulled out a t-shirt and jogging pants for her to wear and lightly pushed her towards the bathroom and said she could take a shower and use the stuff that said 'Edward' on them.
Going back to the main bus area I kicked Jasper's chair and woke him and Alice up and then went towards the kitchen to get some juice. Alice came skipping in looking like a raccoon from sleeping in her make-up; she lifted herself onto the counter and faced me. Putting the juice down, I looked right back at her. "Something you need short stuff?" "Yes actually, I have some questions." Nodding at her telling her she can proceeded she asked question after question. She asked if Jasper was single which I said yes to, where I was staying {The Luxor hotel}, how long we were going to be in Las Vegas {a shrug} and lastly. When I thought she was done she fired another one at me. How you did and Bella meet? I froze. I thought Bella told her how.
Right on time, Bella came walking in with her wet hair and my shirt that came down towards her thighs and swimming in my pants even though she looked like she was drowning in it she still looked cute and hot in my clothes. Going up to her I put my arm around her and we walked towards the TV and sat with the others watching 'SpongeBob Square-pants'. Getting up I asked the driver to pull over to a diner and for him to take a nap afterwards. I could drive.
Soon, we pulled into a small diner on the corner of a street called 'Grandma's kitchen'. Helping Bella out and holding her hand I waited for the others. Rose came out with a new set of clothes and our emergency bag along with Emmett and Jasper. Alice came out with her face clean and wearing Jaspers shirt with a rubber band holding it in the back. Holding hands with our partners we walked in the diner and waited for a table. A nice looking old lady came and helped us to a six seated table and handed us our menus and said that our waitress would come shortly. As we were talking and trying to wake up a teenage girl came and made her way towards the table, my eyes bugged out. It wasn't that she was ugly or anything. It was that she was wearing an 'ATL' shirt.
Looking at Rose I whispered "code red!" to her and she quickly grabbed the bag and threw out four beanies and sunglasses. Throwing them on we all looked at our menus and tried not to look at the waitress. I was too caught up in keeping my cool that I forgot Bella and Alice didn't know what was happening. Glancing up I saw the teenager at another table refilling coffee and whispered in Bella's ear "Code red means a fan of All Time Low and so we try to hide and not cause a scene." Understanding she scooted her chair closer to mine and ducked under my arm and put her face right next to mine. Her hair was kind of hiding my face and the menu helped too. Just then the waitress came over.
"Hi, welcome to 'Grandma's Kitchen' my name's Dana, what would you like to drink?" Saying our mumbled answers she left. Letting out a breath I fixed my beanie and sat back and put an arm around the back of Bella's chair. "Well that was close, I really didn't want to face a fan this early in the morning" said Emmett holding Rose's hand on the table. Agreeing I looked at Bella who had her head on my shoulder.
"So we never really got to talk. I have some questions for you guys". I said to Alice and Bella. Alice looked up from fixing jasper's beanie. "Shoot". "Where are you guys from?" I asked. Bella lifted her head from my shoulder. "I lived in Missouri for a while but moved with my parents to Washington and met Alice who has lived there her whole life." This time Jasper asked the question "So why did you guys come to Vegas?" "We were celebrating Bella's twenty-second birthday!" "oh thanks for calling out my age, Alice" Bella commented."Hold on a minute, when was your birthday?" I asked her. Looking down she said "Sunday" Today was Monday. "Wait. Yesterday was your birthday?" said Emmett. Nodding, Bella said "it was a very interesting birthday" Feeling bad that she woke up in my bed naked on her birthday I pulled her closer to me and said in her ear that I was sorry. Confused she looked up at me. I whispered in her ear "for waking up in my room". Realization got to her and she smiled and said "it's ok". Still feeling bad, I kept her close to me. I had to make it up to her somehow.
Talking more I found out that Bella was 22 {I'm 24, not bad}, had her own book store in Washington, no boyfriend {I was beaming at that}, and that she could stay in Vegas as long as she liked because she had her mom working there for a month as a birthday present. The more I found out about her the more she intrigued me and the more I liked her. Soon the food came and we fell into nice chatter when Bella excused herself to go to the bathroom. Once she left the waitress came over and refilled my mountain dew. She really couldn't see my face but that didn't stop her from flirting with me.
Rolling my eyes I went back to my food when Emmett made the stupidest mistake. He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes then called Dena back over to get more syrup on his pancakes. Seeing his face her eyes got huge. She ran over to him and said really loudly "Your Emmett Jonson! Right!" not even giving him time to answer she turned towards me and looked at my face. "No, no, no this is unreal! Edward Mason is where I work! And I'm his waitress!" she looked like she was going to pass out because she was wobbling and then her eyes rolled into the back of her head.
Luckily, I caught her before she hit the ground. I picked her up and set her on one of the empty booths and felt her pulse. She seemed to just have fainted. Thank god! Then all of a sudden she opened her eyes and saw me and started screaming. Everyone stared at us and Bella came running out of the bathroom.
{BPOV}
I was washing my hands when I heard a scream. It scared me out of my wits! I jumped then lunged towards the door and threw it open. I saw Edward trying to silence the waitress while Emmett was being smacked by Rose and Alice ran towards the kitchen. Soon Alice came back with the lady who sat us. She saw the girl and walked fast towards her. She put her arms around her and asked her what was wrong. She apparently couldn't speak because she only said "e-e-e-d-d a-a-l-l" then pointed towards her shirt. Looking at her shirt, I saw she was wearing an All Time Low shirt. So that's why Edward called a 'code red'. When Dena could finally move she attacked Edward.
