Ch. 8

EPOV

Previously:

"Hello. My name is—" I stopped.

I'd seen this person before.

The first person I had seen was unfamiliar, and that's probably why I didn't recognize them at first.

He had long brown hair, dark russet colored skin, was very tall, and seemed like just a regular customer. The second person was almost his exact opposite. She had short black hair, very pale skin, was tiny, and she sent my mind on a trip. She was friends with the brunette.

I caught my breath and started again. "Hello. My name is Edward, and I'll be your server tonight."

The black haired girl –I thought her name was Alicia or something—looked up at me as I was talking. She gasped.

The man looked up at me, then back at the girl. He repeated this a few times, then said, "Alice"—that was her name!—"are you okay?"

She looked at him, startled. "Huh? Oh, yeah Jacob. I'm fine." She turned to me again. "Edward, it's so nice seeing you again." She spoke to me warmly; as if we'd known each other for years rather than hours. I quickly decided to follow suit.

"Hey, Alice. How are you?"

The man –Jacob, she had said—looked confused. "Er…. How do you two know each other?" he asked.

I looked to Alice, not knowing what to say. She smiled at him and said, "Oh, we met earlier today, Jake. Edward helped Bella on the stairs." He raised his eyebrows, questioningly.

"She tripped," she said, blowing it off easily.

"Of course she did," he sighed.

But I barely noticed the last part of the exchange.

Bella. It was such a lovely name. Her name truly fit her. Beautiful. Stunning. Striking. Angelic. Gorgeous. Bella. I stared day-dreaming, but snapped out of it with one random, miniscule thought. Bella was the name of the charming girl in the notebook, wasn't it? I wondered if they could be the same person, but quickly shoved the thought from my mind not wanting to get my hopes too high.

I had been spacing off for a while, apparently, because Jacob coughed a bit obnoxiously.

"Oh! Sorry, what can I get you to drink?" I asked, remembering why I was there.

We both looked to Alice.

"Umm…. I'll just have a Sprite, please," she said.

"And for you?" I asked Jacob.

"I'll have a Coke, I guess."

"Okay, I'll be right back with those," I said.

I got the drinks and went back to the table. They were whispering and looking around furiously. When Alice spotted me, she stopped abruptly.

"Here are your drinks. Are you ready to order?" I asked, eyeing them suspiciously.

"Yep!" Alice said enthusiastically. "I'll take the spinach pasta."

I nodded. "And for you?"

Jacob smirked. "I'll take the ravioli platter, followed by the chocolate deluxe cake with three scoops of chocolate ice cream on top, sprinkles, and 16 gummy bears put on the edges of the plate."

I knew what he was trying to do. So, I just smiled back. "Okay, that'll be out soon," I said easily and started walking toward the kitchen.

"Wait!" Jake stopped me.

With a faux concerned face, I turned back around. "Yes?"

"You didn't write any of that down. How will you remember it?" he asked.

I chuckled. "I've had this job for quite some time. I'm really good at remembering the orders."

He didn't say anything.

"Is that all you needed?" I asked.

He was looking over Alice's shoulder at something and didn't respond. I looked at Alice.

"Yeah, thanks Edward." She said looking at Jake curiously.

He jumped as if he had been kicked. "Uhh…." He looked at Alice meaningfully.

I just ignored it and went to put in their order.

When the food was ready, I went back to the table to find them both looking behind Alice. So as to not drop the food, I didn't look to where they were.

"Okay," I said putting the food down in front of them. "You have the spinach ravioli, and you have the ravioli platter. Your chocolate deluxe cake with three scoops of chocolate ice cream on top, sprinkles, and 16 gummy bears put on the edges of the plate will be out shortly."

Alice smiled while Jake just started digging in.

"Meah. Tmaks. You kmow, dis wabeeolee is really good."

"Uh, thanks?" It sounded like a compliment…. Kind of.

He smiled and kept eating.

"Thanks Edward." Alice said taking a bite.

"No problem. If you need anything else, just give me a holler."

"M'kay. Will do." I turned and walked away.

"Hey Edward!" my friend Robert called.

I walked up to him. "Yeah?"

"Man, you should've seen this chick I just served! She was super hot. And she didn't seem to like her date. Man he was a real freak. But really, you should've seen her!" He sighed.

"I'm sure she was good-looking, Rob. All of the girls you serve seem to be." I smirked.

"Shut up. This one was really hot."

"I'm sure."

"Y'know what, man? I'll show her to you."

But before he could find her, Alice came rushing over to me.

"Hey Edward, we have to go. Er… Family emergency. We left 60 buck on the table. That should be enough for a tip for you too. Sorry, but we really need to go." And she ran off and out the doors with Jake whining, "But I didn't get my cake!"

"Well that was weird," Rob said.

"Yeah…."

"Too bad –Oh hey! There's the girl!"

I looked to see how "hot" she really was. When I saw her, I blinked. She was beautiful.

He was pointing to a gorgeous girl.

He was pointing straight at Bella.

A/N: I'm a terrible person. Let's just say life caught up with me…. Yeah, it did. Ugh.

Okay, it's summer so I should be updating. But I'm not sure how much. Because I'm trying to find a job and stuff, plus I'm going to Florida on Wednesday, and I've just got so much stuff going on. But I promise that there will be another chapter up before I start school again.

I love you all!

~Casey