Previously:

I slowly lowered my face to hers and still she stared at me like some scared caught animal. Our lips were only inches apart, I could smell her breath and..

"Edward! Dude, you suddenly disappeared." Emmett's voice boomed behind me.

Bambi's eyes widened, she ducked under my left arm and disappeared.

Sorry, updating took a little longer than last time. Somehow this chapter was a little difficult for me to write.

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Chapter 9

BPOV

I was standing in the lobby, waiting for the elevator to arrive. Today I would be working the room service late shift but I had to go to the executive lounge to retrieve my stuff I forgot there yesterday.

I stared at the closed elevator doors, completely lost in my thoughts. That was my constant state of mind since last night.

Damn you, Edward Cullen!

I couldn't even sleep last night. I just tossed and turned in my bed and whenever I closed my eyes all I could see was his face so close to mine, his puckered lips only inches from kissing me, those piercing green eyes. Why did he try to kiss me anyway? After I slapped him he rather looked like he wanted to kill me. Maybe it was some stupid trick of him to finally have me fired. As if slapping him wouldn't be enough evidence.

The elevator doors opened and abruptly pulled me from my musings. I stepped in without looking up and when the doors closed, I pressed the button for the twelfth floor. My nose was the first to register something familiar.

Warm, musky and pure sex..

I turned around and again found myself standing face to face with Edward Cullen. He simply stood there staring at me with those piercing green eyes. I gasped and instinctively took a step backwards so my back hit the wall of the elevator.

"Mr. Cullen. I.. I'm so sorry." I stuttered. I wanted to apologize but I didn't know where to start. He shook his head and crossed the small cabin in two long strides so he was standing as close as he was last night against that wall in the club.

"What.." I started but before I had the chance to utter another word, his hands grabbed my face and I felt his lips on mine. It was like nothing I ever experienced before. The feeling was like fire that spread from my lips and made its way through my whole body. I was tingling all over and my hands acted on their own by finding their way into that gorgeous bronze hair. His tongue grazed my lower lip and I willingly opened my mouth. When his tongue touched mine, my fingers grabbed his locks as if I was drowning and he the only piece of straw I could hold onto. He didn't seem to mind though because the sexiest little moan escaped his lips into my mouth. I didn't even care that my brain started to scream for oxygen because I never wanted this feeling to end.

Eventually he had to breathe, too but he only gasped for air and instead of pulling away completely, his lips found the left side of my neck and he started kissing and sucking across my jaw to my ear where he gently sucked my earlobe before returning to my neck. When I felt his teeth softly graze my skin, I whimpered and even pulled his hair tighter. Again he responded with a moan and pressed himself closer to me. His hand traveled down my side, grabbed my thigh and hitched my leg up around his waist. The sensation of him being pressed this close to me caused wetness to pool between my legs. I moaned into his mouth and pulled him in even closer.

"Bella.." he moaned. "You.. ugh.." and again his lips found mine and our tongues danced. I gently sucked his bottom lip and he involuntarily thrusted his hips forward. What I could feel through the layers of clothes between us couldn't be described as 'little' excitement.

Oh my.

Again his lips traveled down to my neck. "Bella," he said between moans. "You have to be at the hotel in less than an hour."

Huh? What is he talking about?

"Edward," I sighed, not wanting to interrupt what we were doing by talking.

"Sorry to interrupt. Who is Edward?" I heard a higher voice now.

Suddenly everything was gone. The elevator, Edward, the bulge I clearly felt against my thigh. I slowly openend my eyes and saw Alice standing next to my bed, her hands on my hips.

"Isabella Marie Swan, if you don't get your ass under the shower right now, you won't have to wonder anymore if Edward Cullen got you fired." she said in a mother-like tone. "Wait, Edward Cullen's first name is Edward. Did you just have a sex dream about Edward Cullen?"

"What?" I was wide awake all of a sudden. "No! I didn't have a sex dream!" I lied.

"Yeah, right." She eyed me suspiciously. "We'll talk about that tonight, you're not off the hook. Now move!"

Alice shooed me into the bathroom where she had already prepared my stuff so I just had to jump under the shower. In less than twenty minutes I was ready and we ran downstairs to her car, a Mini cooper that was definitely faster than my old Chevy, and headed for the hotel. Mental note to self: Find a way to thank Alice for again saving my sorry ass.

When we got to the hotel, I went straight to the room service office to start my shift. A young man with black hair was at the phone talking to a guest. "Hi, you must be Bella." he said after he had passed the order to the kitchen. "I'm Ben Cheney. You'll be working the shift with me."

"Hi Ben, nice to meet you." I answered. "What should I do?"

"Oh, Bree from the executive floor called. She said you forgot your notes yesterday." he answered. "Why don't you go fetch them and then you can help me prepare the carts for dinner orders."

"Okay." I said and went to take the staff elevator.

"Bella, I have an order to serve in about two minutes. Why don't you just go and take the guests elevator?" he suggested.

I gulped remembering my vivid dream from this morning. I simply nodded and headed to the lobby. As I stood in front of the doors, I started to get more and more excited with every passing second.

This is ridiculous, Bella. What are the chances you might actually run into him at this time of day?

The elevator arrived and I stepped inside. The cabin was empty. I was alone. Relieved I let out a breath I didn't even know I was holding. I was really starting to get paranoid. I pressed the button for the twelfth floor and the doors closed. A few minutes later I stepped out of the elevator and went to the executive lounge.

Bree was already waiting at the desk for me and handed me my notes. I said a quick 'thank you' and headed back to the elevator, hoping I didn't have to wait that long. Just when I turned around the corner, I saw the doors of the cabin closing. I ran the last steps, tripped on the carpet but still managed to get my hand between the doors so they opened again. I stumbled inside and saw the button for the lobby was already pressed.

I turned around and had to find out my chances in meeting Edward Cullen at this time of day were apparently at one hundred per cent.

Dammit!

He just stood there staring at me with his green eyes and very vivid pictures from last night's dream suddenly popped up in my mind. I blushed furiously and lowered my eyes.

"Mr. Cullen." I said, not wanting to be impolite.

"Hm." was the only response I got.

I remembered myself slapping him yesterday and figured that this would be the only chance I got to talk to him privately. I should at least try to apologize. I sucked in a deep breath and started: "Mr. Cullen, I wanted to.." but being the jerk he was, he raised his hand in a fending manner to stop me and stepped out of the elevator, which in the meantime had arrived in the lobby, to disappear through the revolving glass door.

"..apologize." I finished my sentence unheard.

With clenched fists I stomped back into the room service office. I was so furious. I have been mad at him before, on more than one occasion but this fury was like nothing I ever felt before.

How dare he?

It was one thing to treat me like I wasn't privileged to work here, to insult me in front of his brother and in front of other guests, to lead me on and then drop me and make me feel like I'm a slut. But to not even let me apologize for my behaviour he even provoked himself and most of all for putting his hand right before my face as if he couldn't endure hearing me talk. I had enough. I swore to myself, the next time I'd see Edward Cullen face-to-face, I would tell him what an arrogant selfish prick he was, job or no job.

EPOV

Why did I have to meet her in the damn elevator?

I didn't get much sleep last night. I couldn't close my eyes and not see those big brown Bambi eyes in front of me or her parted lips just waiting for me to kiss her.

I had to thank Emmett for interrupting us. I didn't know what I was thinking trying to kiss Bambi in the club. I, of all people, should have known better. If not for Emmett, I'd be in trouble right now.

Still I couldn't stop thinking about her and what it would have felt like to kiss her, to feel her skin on mine. And I was mad at her for wanting her this way. This was what she had planned anyway. Now I wasn't any better than this anabolic giant boyfriend of hers.

When I saw her enter the elevator my heart skipped a beat. I couldn't do anything except stare at her. I couldn't even form a single word much less a coherent sentence when she greeted me. She seemed even more nervous around me than before, if that was even possible. I figured, she was afraid I would attack her again, especially in a closet space like an elevator. It was only seconds before she would tell me that she was going to tell Victoria about last night's events and I knew I couldn't handle it. Not right now. I expected it anyway, so there was no need for her to inform me in advance. I knew about the procedures in cases like that. All too well.

So when she started saying something, I just raised my hand to show her, I didn't want to hear about it. Lucky for me, we arrived at the lobby just then so I didn't have to look into her eyes and just stepped outside and left her standing there. I simply couldn't handle it.

At the office I couldn't bring myself to actually do something. I just sat in my chair and stared out the window, lost in my thoughts.

Stupid Bambi.

I didn't even hear Emmett coming in so I was totally caught by surprise when he suddenly jerked my chair and I almost fell out of it.

"What the fuck, Emmett?" I shouted.

He just bellowed with laughter. "Really Edward, I never thought I'd get a chance to do this in my life. What's going on behind that huge forehead of yours that's got you all messed up?"

"Nothing. And what do you mean by 'huge forehead'?"

"Never mind." he answered and let himself flop onto my sofa, a fresh Starbucks cappuchino in his hand. "So, nothing, eh?"

"Emmett, what do you want?" I asked, unnerved.

"Nothing. Actually, I just wanted to ask why you were trying to kiss Bella last night." he replied nonchalantly.

I gulped and turned around in my chair to face him. "You saw that?"

He looked at me astounded. "Err.. yes, I have eyes, you know. As do Rosalie and Alice. So, what's going on between you and Bella?"

"Nothing's going on between me and Bella!" I snapped. "There's not even a 'me and Bella'."

"Yeah, right. I saw that last night." he chuckled.

I pulled my hair in frustration. If Emmett saw and, even worse, Rosalie and Alice, I was in deep trouble. Better to look for a new hotel right away.

"So, no answer, huh?" he pried. "Well, then I have at least something to talk about to Rosalie tonight."

"NO!" I shouted. "No, Emmett. Stop talking to Rosalie about me and Bella."

"I thought there is no 'me and Bella'." he mimicked my words. "Come on, Ed. Spill!" He made himself more comfortable on my couch, if that was even possible and sipped his coffee.

"There's nothing to spill, Emmett." I sighed, still raking my hands trough my hair. "Apart from that, you better keep your mouth shut in front of her boyfriend. Nothing really happened, anyway."

"Boyfriend? Rosalie didn't tell me about Bella having a boyfriend." he said.

"Well, maybe because nobody knows about it because she's not allowed to have one. At least none who is a frequent guest at the hotel she's working at." I clarified.

"And who would that be?" he asked.

"Jacob Black." I answered.

His eyes went wide and the next thing I saw was a brown jet of coffee raining down on my light grey carpet.

"Emmett! What the fuck? My carpet!" I shouted looking at the mess.

"Jacob Black." he just said before he started howling with laughter, holding his stomach. "Jacob Black her b..b..boyfriend?" He even shed some tears while laughing and I started to get irritated.

"I don't know what's so funny about that, Emmett." I said furrowing my brow.

"Funny? Oh Edward, I'll tell you what's funny about that." he laughed, still catching his breath. I sat there waiting, my arms crossed in front of my chest. "You ready?"

"Yeah.." he sighed. "Sorry, but it's just.." he giggled.

"Emmett!"

"Yeah, so.." he started. "If Jacob Black was Bella's boyfriend, maybe we should ask Bella if her real name is Bobby or something." He started howling again.

"What? What are you talking about, Emmett?" I asked confusedly.

"Edward, sometimes you're so oblivious." he stated. "He's gay, Edward."

"Who?"

"Jacob Black."

"What?"

"Are you really this stupid? Jacob Black is gay. So if he were Bella's boyfriend.." he started to explain to me like I was a three-year-old.

"Okay, okay. Got it " I interrupted him. "He's gay? How do you know?"

"As I already said earlier in this conversation, I have eyes." he said. "Plus he hit on me a few weeks after we started staying at the hotel."

"He hit on you?" I asked incredulously.

"Yeah. But don't tell him I told you. I don't know if James knows about his.. way of life, you know." he continued. "He's a good guy, I don't want to cause him any trouble."

"Oh, okay." I said.

"So, I guess you have some more brooding to do, I'll just go and leave you alone." he said while getting up. "And Edward?"

"Hm?"

"If there's anything else you're oblivious to.. just call me." he giggled.

I threw a pen at him as he closed the door behind him.

Jacob Black was gay. Who would have thought'? But if he was gay, he couldn't be Bambi's boyfriend. But why did they hug in the park then? And what about him trying to protect her after my snappy comment in the lobby?

I was even more confused than before.

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Next update on Sunday hopefully.