A/N: I am so so so sorry that it took me so long to write this but school was killing me and life just got in the way. I now hope to have more time to write my story. I also I finally found a beta reader who I can count on, she's awesome and I want to give a big thanks to my beta Cattinson. I hope everyone enjoy, now enough talk let's get the show on the road.
Song for this chapter: Don't Fight It- 10 Years
Chapter 10: A Weekend to Remember
It's funny how if you think of someone enough you start to dream about them or you start to see them everywhere you go. A few days after my girls' night out that's exactly what started to happen. After sleeping in for a few hours after clubbin' I don't know how I manager it but I was able to get off the bed without hurting myself. The girls and I thought it would be a good idea to get out of the house; fresh air would do our hangovers some good. Well the fresh air turn out to be not such a good idea because I just wanted to puke so with ended up going to Starbucks where I could have sworn that I saw Edward. I guess I was hallucinating again because when I turned back to see if was really him a young guy with black hair was stand in his place.
I really need to get a life.
That didn't stop my mind from play trick on me, as the week went on I did the same thing I do any other week I went to work, had lunch with Rosalie and Alice, took my parents and brother out to dinner, and still anywhere I went I saw him everywhere. It was getting to the point where I didn't even want to go out anywhere because I would see him somewhere. I tried to keep a busy as possible but sometimes it didn't work and with my parents going back to Forks to pack up their lives to came live in L.A I wouldn't have anyone but my dogs to occupy my time.
When my parent left on Thursday of that week my house never seemed quieter than it was at that moment after that night I don't think I would have been able to handle but I guess I would have to manage.
Friday morning went much like the rest I mostly worked on Rosalie's case, I finally had gotten the information I needed from her so I had to figure out a strategy plan. At lunch today it was only Alice and I, Rose had business to attend to I didn't want to go without her all three of us had become inseparable but I was really hungry and didn't have any food with me so I had to go out and eat.
"Hey Alice where do you want to go eat to today, your chose."
"Um how about some Chinese food I have been curving it lately oh and then we can go to yogurt land or something." Great just what she needs more sugar.
"Yeah that's fine with me; let's go to P.F Chang's in Santa Monica I love that place."
It took us able 20 minutes to get to the restaurant and while in the car I had to make reservation because no matter what time of the day it is the place is always packed. Once we got there we were sited right away and we started off with some chicken lettuce wraps then ordered some fried rice, lo Mein, and some Mongolian beef. Alice actually ordered some wonton soup also saying that she couldn't mess up her diet completely. We talk about really mundane thing just catching up in each other's lives, well catching up on Alice's life she mostly talked since she's the one with a life outside of work and interesting thing always seem to happen to her.
We didn't stay long, we ate then we left back to the office I didn't want to spend too much time out eating lunch I wanted to get back to work.
"Hey Bells what are you doing this weekend?" Alice asked while walking into my office and sat down on my couch.
"Um I'm not sure probably nothing why." I'm doing the best to answer her and pay attention to the paperwork in front of me.
"Well I was wondering if we could do a girls weekend/sleepover or something at your house." Okay if she wanted my attention she now has it.
"Um Alice I don't know if that a good idea I looking forward to a quiet weekend and maybe take my dogs to the beach."
"Well you could still take your dogs to the beach we'll just go with you it will be so much fun." She squealed.
"Yeah it will be so much fun." I tried to make my voice sound like I was actually excited but who was I kidding I really want to have a quiet weekend with no body but my dogs around, I guess that wasn't happening. "I guess we can do a sleepover thing at my house." Alice jumped off the couch she was sitting on and run to me to give me her version of a bear hug.
"YEAH! I can't wait to tell Rosalie, I'm going to go call her right now," and with that she was gone.
I guess there are worst thing in life than having your best friend and new friend come to your house and want to spend time with you. Then again no one has ever since Alice hyped up on Mountain Dew other than me and it's scary, I'll have to tell her that I do not have that kind of soda in my house and I would prefer it that way.
Since Alice had decided that she wanted to spend the weekend at my house I had to go grocery shopping since I hadn't done so and I asked my housekeeper Sarah not to, so now I have to. When I was finished for the day that was the first thing I did, I hate grocery shopping you either buy too little or too much and sometimes when you get home you remember what you forget to buy. I really should probably start making a list of shit I need to buy that way I don't have this problem but I don't.
It took me at least an hour to get food for my house and stuff I think we would need at a sleepover; it mostly crap, junk food the works. Alice had told that she would be at my house as soon as she could, I thought that would at least give me a couple of hours to get the house ready for them like change the sheets, pick whatever mess I may have and maybe shower, but to my utter surprise and disappointment she was right behind me.
"Finally where have you been?" that's the first thing that Alice asked me as we were entering my house. What?
"I was at the grocery store, why?"
"Well it's because I was here half an hour ago and you weren't here." Oh.
"I had to go to buy some food for this sleepover of yours so that we wouldn't starve."
"Oh okay what did you buy anything good," and just like that she forgot what we were talking about.
"Junk food mostly but I also got some other stuff for me to eat next week." For once in my life I didn't buy too much of anything, it's not like I'm ever home so why let the food go to waste.
While Alice was getting the food ready for when Rosalie came I went upstairs to prepare the room for my guests. Since Alice has already claimed a room in my house I decided to give Rosalie my parent's room for the night.
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When Rosalie finally showed up at my house for our little sleepover turned into a mini party including alcohol. I could not believe that Rosalie was able to carry all of the booze she brought. She had about 10 bags filled with bottles of all different kinds. Finally my weekend was starting to turn around.
It took me no time to pour myself a shot of Petron and really start to loosen up. I was never the type to drink, I was such a light weight that just 1 long island iced tea would get me tipsy. So I usually reframed from alcohol, but tonight I didn't give a shit I was in the confine of my home so I could get as fucked up as I wanted to.
After pouring myself a 2nd shot Alice and Rosalie decided to join me in my quest for inebriation. It didn't take long for all of us to become skunk drunk and to start talking shit.
"Why don't youuuuevr go ot?" Alice asked me slurring a bit
"I no know I nev find someone ood enough." I'm pretty sure I wasn't even talking in English.
"At'sgooood, men are allllassoles." Strangely enough I understood what Rosalie was saying maybe it was like our own language. Oh man that bitchin'
"No they ain't you ave to dig epp in there." Wow since when did Alice get all philosophical.
"You're ight, this shotttt are sooooood I think I want anotter." I don't even know how I'm still standing with how many shots and mixed drinks I've had. But like all things what goes up must come down and down I went and hard, and that was the last thing I remember.
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Oh God, my head hurts
This is reason why I never drink alcohol; I always take it too far.
I really don't remember what happened last night or how I managed to fall asleep on the floor of my living room. I can feel the sun on my legs which mean I forgot to close the curtain in the living room. I slowly get up from where I was laying and come to realize that not only does my head hurt but my whole body as well.
When I get myself straighten out and look to see the damage to my house I look over the couch I was behind and see that Rosalie and Alice are both passed out on the couch spooning. Well it more like Rosalie spooning Alice and Alice trying to hug my couch. It was the funniest shit I have ever seen and I intent on taking a lot of pictures and maybe blackmailing them later on, if I ever need to.
I went in search for my phone to take the picture since I wasn't sure at this particular moment where my camera was. I found my phone in the last place I would think to put it, in between Rosalie and Alice. My phone was sticking up from its place in between both of their bodies, so I tip toed as quietly as I could over to them and ever so slowly pulled the phone out.
Yes! I did it without waking them up.
I took a few pictures in different positions and it didn't even wake them. Well not until I tried to get up close and personal did they start to wake up. The first one to stir was Rosalie and when she started to move around, it woke up Alice in process. They both ended up waking up at the same time just in time to see me taking my last picture.
"Bella what the hell are you doing and please stop its creepy?" Rosalie asked.
"Oh nothing just taking some pictures to blackmail you and Alice in the future with, so don't mess with me." I laugh.
"What are you talking about?" Alice questioned.
I go through my phone to show them the picture I just took of them. "Well Alice since you asked so nice here let me show you." I showed the first picture I took of them where I am standing over them for a good distance and Rosalie is in the same the position I found them both in when I first woke up which is Rosalie spooning Alice from behind, her head is right behind Alice's which make it look like Rosalie is smelling Alice's hair. Alice looks happy just hugging my couch.
"OH MY GOD! Delete that picture immediately!" Alice and Rosalie yell at the same time
"Haha you're kidding right there is no way in hell that I am deleting this picture what if I need it in the future." I need this as leverage for when Alice is in one of her shopping mood and I don't feel like tagging along.
"Are you fucking kidding me you better delete that before I kick your ass." Rosalie threatens.
"Ya'll can just kiss my ass because there is no way that I am deleting it, so anyone want breakfast hmm?" They were both glaring at me and didn't say anything. "No one, fine more for me."
I made myself some French toast and I even made some for the girls so they would say that I wasn't a good host. I was already half way through with my breakfast when they came into the kitchen a served themselves. They still weren't talking to me which I guess means that they were giving me the silent treatment.
"Oh would you guys give it a rest it not like I won't do some crazy shit that you can blackmail me with so get over it."
They shared a look then looked back at me, "You're right we forgive you, just remember karma's a bitch." Alice tells me, she is right though every time I do something to her it always finds a way to bite me in the ass.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah now what do we have planned for today?" I wasn't really in the mood to do much today I just wanted to stay in and nurse my hangover. But knowing Alice that was not an option so might as well go with the flow.
"Well I was thinking we might go to the beach like you wanted to with the dogs." Alice suggests; it's not a bad idea I'm pretty sure that my dogs are just aching to go outside.
It took us a few hours to get ready and feel well enough to actually step outside of my house but we did it only because we took really dark sunglasses, really strong pills and coffee. It didn't really take me very long to round up my dogs they're always excited to leave the house.
The 20 minute drive to the beach was very entertaining, I didn't realize that Rosalie doesn't really like dog until all of them were together in the back sit. My German Shepherd Lilo was trying his best to get to Rosalie's face to lick it while my Pitbull Sammy was trying to bite off her fingers but surprisingly my Husky Demon was sitting down watching all of this go down. Rosalie was screaming at the top of her lungs to make them stop, but seriously what could I do while drive Alice was no help either she was too busy laughing.
When I stopped the car Rosalie practically jumped out of my car to get away from my dogs.
"Claim down Rose we're here and the dogs won't torture you any more." I just couldn't stop laughing while Rose was wiping her face of my dogs slim from her body.
"Alice is sitting in the back sit on our way back got it." Rosalie said while pointing at the both of us."
"Sure Rose whatever you say." Alice waved her hand not caring where she sits.
"Okay what are you guys going to do seeing is how I doubt that you would want to go take a walk with me on the beach with my dogs." I asked
"You would be right in that assumption I am not going anywhere near your dogs ever again." Rosalie says glaring at me.
"Well there's a spa not far from here that we could just walk to and on our way to the spa its go through some store that we could definitely shop at." Alice suggests.
"Oh thank God I really need a spa day after what had to endure in that back sit." Rosalie shivers.
"Oh come on claim down it wasn't that bad at least they didn't try to hump you, so count your blessings because if ever happens you will be traumatized for life" I laugh.
Man if looks could kill Rose would have killed me.
While the girls start walk away to go to the spa and shopping (yuck!), I get my dogs ready to take a walk with me by putting on their leashes. The girls and I promised to get together later on in the day to have lunch after they finish with whatever they planned on doing. Knowing Alice she would take 4 hours at the spa and another 4 hours shopping so I wasn't really holding my breath on us getting together for lunch.
I had parked my car somewhat close to the Santa Monica Pier so that I didn't have to walk very far to take the dogs up to the pier and still be able to walk on the beach. The dogs had finally claimed down after the excitement they had inside the car, thank God I would not have been able to handle all of them if they were pulling on the leashes.
Since we are in no hurry I walk as slowly as I can to stretch out this walk and trier my dogs out. They love playing in the sand, Lilo likes to kick sand up in the air and tries to catch it will her mouth while the other dogs just eat it out the floor. Their always good for a chuckle.
I wasn't really playing much attention to where I was going I was letting the dogs lead me, which in reality shouldn't have been a good idea because who knows where they would take me but I didn't seem to care much today I was going with the flow. But I guess I really should have been more attention because as I was starting to daydream of a certain green eyed doctor, I hear one of my dogs growling. Then all of a sudden I see Demon leap up and try to bite someone, luckily the person jumped back before anything could happen.
"Oh my God, I am so sorry he's usually very friendly with people. Bad dog!" I scold Demon still not looking up to see the person that my dog almost bit. But when I do finally look up to see who this person was, to say that I was surprised is an understatement.
"Holy…Dr. Cullen, I mean Edward. I am so sorry about my dog." You know for someone who almost got bitten by a Husky puppy he looked oddly happy. He still looked as sexy as ever even without they lab coat and the dress pants and the bottom down shirt with the tie.
"It's okay really, I was taken aback by something so small trying to bite me but it's fine he was probably protecting you." Wow, man if that would have been me I would have been pissed. Although it is a good thing that he's not upset.
"Yeah I guess you're right but it's weird though he's never done that before, he's usually really friendly with everybody."
"I guess I just give off that vibe to dogs to attack me." Edward chuckles.
"If that's true, that's really sad" I giggle.
There was a bit of awkward silence between I was about ready to just walk away so as not to embarrass myself with stupid questions but Edward had decided to take matters into his own hands.
"So what are you doing out here this sunny Saturday morning at the beach?" Edward asked me.
"Um well other than walking my dogs, I like to come out here to think it's very peaceful and my friend are up the street at some sort of spa place. What are you doing out here?"
"Wow they're all your dogs, I have trouble take care of 1 how do you do it with 3. Anyways I am new in town and a coworker that I had to go visit the Santa Monica Pier he said it was like a rite of passage or something." So he was new to LA will maybe I could be his tour guide.
"Yeah I guess this would be one of the places to go if you were new here but there are plenty of non-touristy places you can go to."
"Really, have you lived in LA for long time that maybe you can show me this non touristy places?" He asked curiously.
Hmmm… if I didn't know any better I would say that he was flirting with me or it might just be the alcohol that was still in my system. I have to play this by ear I don't want to say something stupid.
"Umm actually I have lived here for a couple of years now I went to law school at USC and I'll lived here ever since, I think I like it here so much that I wouldn't want to live anywhere else even my hometown."
"What was your hometown like if I may ask?" I guess he wanted us to get to know each other; I'm totally cool with that I wanted to know everything about this very gorgeous doctor.
"I don't mind but is it okay that we continue walking I was hoping to take the dogs to the pier?"
"Sure no problem," since my dogs had fallen asleep I had to wake them up so that we could continue to walk and make our way to the pier.
"So you want to know what Forks is like, well to tell you the truth it is very I mean very boring there not much to do for fun unless you travel to Port Angeles which the next city over but seriously there nothing to do. Forks is under a constant cover of rain clouds and there is a lot of tree, you would think you were in the forest, and it's such a small town that everybody knows your business and gossips like crazy." As much as I loved living there it wasn't home anymore Los Angeles was.
"That actually sound peaceful well except the knows everyone's business thing that would get annoying really quickly" he giggles.
I also giggle, "Believe me it did when someone's kid did something whether it was good or bad the neighbors had to know about it, which went double for me and my brother since we are the Chief of Police kids."
"You have a brother? Is he older or younger?"
"My brother is older by a couple of years his name is Jasper. Do you have any siblings?"
"Yes actually I have a little brother Emmett he's 4 years younger than me," hmm I wonder what he's brother looks like.
We talked back and forth with each other and learned a lot about him, he talk about growing up in Chicago to why he chose to come all the way to Seattle to complete his residency. Edward said that he wanted to get out on his own and that he had only dreamed of working at Harborview Medical Center. I told him that my coming to LA to attention USC had but my dream since I was a little girl and becoming a divorce attorney was my way of helping people, even if all I was doing was helping certain people get out of a horrible marriage.
"You know what I don't understand if you wanted to work at Harborview so bad how you ended up at Kaiser Permanente here in California?" I asked Edward.
"That's a good question and it a long story but to sum it up there was something that had happened and I was trying to run away from the bad memories." He looked so sad for a minute he looked out to the ocean and stared at the waves crashing but when he looked back to me he smiled I could help but smile back. When we reach the pier I had asked him if he would prefer going up to the pier or if he would like to continue on the beach. He didn't care he said whatever I like would be fine with him, so I chose the pier. We continued to talk about random stuff like what our hobbies are, favorite color, favorite place to eat, even talk about favorite movie. Which I learn that he like to play softball and like me likes to read; he's favorite color is blue, he loves to eat at In-n-Out just like me, also he just love the movie The Other Guys which I just had to laugh about because I also like that movie. I told him that I like to cook, that my favorite color is also blue which made him laugh, and other than In-n-Out I loved eating at this little restaurant called Golden Ox. My movie of chose would have to be Transformer, he didn't seem to believe me but I was dead serious I even told him that I used to watch the cartoon that used to come on. Apparently he also used to watch it; we got into about argument about who was better Optimus Prime or Bumblebee. I'm team Bumblebee and Edward is team Optimus Prime.
We walked to the end of the pier where people usually come to fish I like to came and watch them catch fishes. We were standing there for a few minutes in complete silence it felt nice, I felt my dogs at my feet laying down.
Once again Edward broke the silence. "So I was wondering I know we don't know each other very well but I was hoping that maybe you would like to go on a date with me tomorrow?" OH MY GOD! He's asking me out.
"Yes I would love to go out with you." That's right play it cool don't embarrass yourself.
"Well since I still don't know anything around here other than In-n-Out we can go wherever you like." Hmm so many chooses I can't even think a just one restaurant.
"There are so many restaurants I'm sure we can come up with one. Do you want to come over to my house or would you like me to come over to yours."
"How about I meet you at your house and here we should exchange number so that you can text me your address." Yes! I cannot believe that this gorgeous man just asked me on date and now he wants my phone number.
He gave me his cell number after I had given him mine and he promised to text me to get my address and to tell me for sure at what time we would be going out. He told me he wished he could stay longer to talk but he had to be getting home because he had a shift this afternoon, so we said our good-byes and he left but not before he trying to say good-bye to my dogs but Demon tried to bite him again. Thank God the other dogs didn't try to bite him.
After Edward left I stayed at the pier for a few minutes before I got the call from the girls to go and have lunch. I didn't tell the girl while we were at lunch that I had a date with a very handsome doctor I didn't want to jinx it. I was so excited though I could not wait. Why couldn't tomorrow come any sooner?
A/N: I hoped everybody enjoyed this chapter. There is more Edward and Bella to come just you wait.
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