Authors Note -
Hey guys, always a pleasure. It's the chapter where you get to see everyone together in one scene.
Also this chapter will be in Hayleys POV, so surprise!
Hope you enjoy the change just for this chapter and enjoy a little insight into Hayley, I'm glad you're all loving her.
Enjoy! X
Chapter Eleven:Rude
Hayleys POV
I run from my car to the entrance of Blacks, thankful that I've trained myself to be able to run in boots-even in the rain-without slipping.
I jump in to one of the revolving doors seconds too late and end up getting squashed slightly before pulling myself in safely.
"Bastard." I mutter at the door once I'm a safe distance away from it. There was always a chance it could hear me and kill me on the way out, right?
Pain runs through my shoulder but I ignore it as I look around for the receptionist. Unlike Cullen Industries, this place has a more welcoming look to it, with warm colours and homey furniture.
I immediately like it and vow that one day when I'm the most succesful business woman in America-you gotta dream big-I'll have a building just like this one.
"Haley, is that you?" I hear a familiar voice to the side of me but I can't place it.
I turn to see the Swan sister I didn't think I'd see today, let alone any time in the near future. "Alice, what are you doing here?" Had someone invited her to our lunch today?
"Rose forgot her cellphone." She says waving a phone in front of me. "Do you work here too?"
"Oh God no! I don't work for people, I'm self employed." Kind of, I'm soon to be self employed. That was once I decided just what I wanted to do in life. I was young, I had time. For now I'd freeload off my ever doting father. "I'm here for lunch with Bella and Rosalie."
She doesn't say anything and avoids eye contact with me, I can tell she's upset at not being told or invited, which I find weird considering she's never wanted to hang out with any of us in the past. Especially not Bella.
"You should join us. We can catch up. You applying to any colleges yet?"
"Oh, I'm already at college, I turned nineteen three months ago."
"No way, it's been that long?" The last time I had a proper conversation with Alice was when she was in Junior year. "You should definitely join us, I've missed out on too much already." I say smiling at her.
She returns my smile and nods. "Sure. So, do we go straight up?" She asks.
"I'm not sure, is there no receptionist?" I say, looking around at the desk but seeing no receptionist in sight.
"I've been waiting for ten minutes now, no-ones been here the whole time." She shrugs as if to say 'whatever, no biggie'.
"Let me just text Bella, I don't know what floor they're on, and I'm not ready to search every floor considering there's like, thirty of em." Just because I could run in boots, it didn't mean I'd willingly do it without thinking about all of my options.
H: Quick, wat floor u on?
B: 16, y?
I don't bother responding, I have the information I need. Plus Bella said it was okay to come over so I'm assuming that means she's free.
"Come on, they're on the sixteenth floor."
We walk side by side towards the elevator and unlike Cullen Industries no-one tries to stop us. It's weird, but I don't dwell on it.
"So how are you finding college?"
"It's good yeah, the guys are still just as immature as they were in highschool though."
"Ha!" I say, realising Alice and I had one thing in common. Boys. "Oh honey, it's gonna be like that for the rest of our lives. We will always be the better sex."
"You can say that again." We both laugh as the elevator door opens and we're faced with more warmth.
Why were there no receptionists at this place? Alice and I give eachother a look as if to say, 'what the fuck is going on?'
"Is this guy cheap or just cheap?" I ask as we look around for someone to help us, but they all seem to be in their own world.
Most of them are running around like little bees, desperate to complete some kind of task. See, now this is why I'm self employed, or rather, unemployed.
"Hello there, who are you two lovely looking people?" A blatant gay man says to both of us, which is the only reason I'm not rolling my eyes at his compliment.
"Hi, we're looking for Rosalie Swan?"
"Oh you guys must be Alice and Haley? Rose said to be expecting both of you. Come with me."
Ooh, fancy. I feel like royalty as we both walk past the masses of people and are led around the corner to a sanctioned off area.
I see Rosalie and Bella sitting across eachother at a desk, which I can tell is Rosalies because of the name plaque she has. It's placed a few metres away from a door which has the name Jacob Black on it.
"Hey, you made it! Thanks Mark." Rosalie shouts to the both of us.
"Anything for you beautiful. It was nice meeting the both of you." He says to Alice and I, although it's obviously just him being polite. We never really even spoke.
He walks off and leaves the four of us alone.
"I got your phone." Alice says to Rose, she fishes it out of her denim shorts and hands it to Rose who lights up at the sight of it.
"Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou."
I roll my eyes at her and she sends me a dirty look but it's all done in jest. I look towards Bella who looks happy to see us but I can tell there's something bothering her.
"You okay?" I ask, snapping her out of her trance.
"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah I'm good."
"Right, well I invited Alice to our lunch, shall we leave?"
She masks her surprise well as she looks to Alice and then me.
"You might aswell pull up a chair, Bella and I can't leave yet. Our bosses are still in a meeting, we were told to step outside for a few minutes, and that was twenty five minutes ago." Rosalie says while checking the time on her watch.
I walk over to the office and drag two of the chairs back over to Rosalies desk. I plop down in one and Alice sits in the other.
"You sure they haven't killed each other in there?" I ask, wondering why they'd been asked to step outside.
"God, imagine that." Bella says laughing uncontrollably.
It wasn't that funny, even I could admit that, but frankly I'm just glad to see she's laughing so I laugh along with her.
"Pfft, I reckon Mark could take em all on." Rosalie says which sends us all into hysterics.
Soon enough we're all laughing at how stupid we are at laughing, when the door opens.
Alice and I carry on laughing because well, I don't think either of us can stop, but Bella and Rose fall silent.
"What's going on?" Someone asks while staring at all of us but I'm curled over trying to ease the pain from laughing in my stomach, so I can't see who.
"Sorry Mr Black." Rosalie says to the voice.
Ah the infamous Jacob Black, the guy who owned the building I was in.
"Social visits aren't acceptable at the work place Rose, you should know that by now."
"I'm sorry." I say this time, trying my best to contain my laughter. "It's not her fault."
"And who are you?" He asks me. Well I'm assuming it's me, I hadn't looked up to see yet.
His voice stops me short though, such distaste runs through it. I almost want to look up and shout 'hello, sorry for having a little fun!' But I don't because it could result in Rosalie being fired.
I get up and walk over to him, taking in everything I see. He's an extremely goodlooking guy but I don't let it phase me. "Haley Wyatt, self employed and loving it. You are?" I know who he is but that doesn't mean I won't pretend I don't know him.
He flushes red and stares at my hand which I'm holding out for him to shake. He steps backwards and looks away from me as if I've just offered him a blowjob or something.
"Jacob Black, owner of the building you're currently in." He says once he's collected himself.
"Wow, you're just as welcoming as your building." I say, sarcasm dripping my every word.
I move my gaze from him as three other people step out of his office. I recognise two of them as Edward and Emmett, the other, a blonde with curly hair is a stranger to me though.
Edwards eyes land on Bella who's trying to look anywhere but him.
Emmett is staring straight forward, clearly not wanting to catch anyones eyes, angry as per usual. Rosalie on the other hand is desperate to catch his attention, as she sits up in her seat and looks him over repeatedly.
The stranger is smiling at Bella but giving Alice a glance every other second, whereas Alice is looking at Emmett.
It's all very confusing and I wonder just what I've missed. We definitely needed to go to lunch now.
"Sooo, this is nice." I finally say, trying to ease the awkward tension. "How about us girls go to that lunch we were supposed to be going to?" I say towards them, but they all stay quiet.
"Am I invited?" The stranger asks me.
"Sure, as long as you can listen to endless chatter about boys, work, clothes, more boys, and girls we don't like?" I say, matching his smile.
At least someone was willing to help me get rid of the silence.
"Sounds like my type of conversation. Jasper Cullen, I don't believe we've met." He offers me his hand to shake so I extend my own to meet his. How was this guy a Cullen, he was so… welcoming.
"Haley Wyatt, occasional tag along to that girl over there." I say motioning to Bella.
"Ah, of course." He looks at Bella again. "Nice to see you again Bella. Alice, you too."
"Yep." Alice says quietly but her eyes are too focused on Emmett, and it isn't a look that says she finds him so hot she can't tear her eyes away from him. It's more of a 'shit, what is he doing here?'
"You must be Rosalie Swan." Jasper says to Rosalie once he's looked over her name plaque. "I didn't know there was another Swan sister. It seems good looks run in the family."
He could talk. Him, Emmett and Edward were all magnificent looking. That Jacob guy could probably surpass them all if he smiled once in a while, but he was too unapproachable to deem hot.
"Oh, thanks, nice to meet you." She says blushing while shaking his hand.
Suddenly Emmett walks over to the two of them and pulls Rose up from her seat. "I need to talk to you, now." He says while dragging her round the corner, not giving her a second to even decline.
And then there were six…
Everyone seems to just stare at eachother, all of them in their own little world. I slide over to Jacob, the only one here who looks just as confused as me.
"Do you have any idea what's going on here?" I whisper at him.
He looks at me, a puzzled look all over his face, but he doesn't bother answering me.
"Hey, I asked you a question?" God, he wasn't half rude.
He stares at me blankly as if I'm some sort of alien and turns so that I'm faced with his shoulder. I pull at his shoulder so that he's facing me, fed up with how things worked around here.
"You're extremely rude, do you know that?"
"And you're extremely pushy." He says through clenched teeth.
"Thanks, I got it from my Mom." I say, smiling at him even though he's sending me daggers with his stare.
"God forbid I ever have to meet your Mom then."
"Well unless you plan on dying anytime soon, I don't think you will, even then, I'd question whether you end up in heaven or not."
He looks at me with eyes full of regret, pity written all across his face.
I shrug my shoulders. "She died when I was like four months old, it's okay, I don't know any better." And it's true. I didn't know any better. How were you supposed to miss someone you don't remember knowing?
His eyes grow more confused and he turns so that his shoulder is facing me again.
Rosalie and Emmett appear from around the corner, he looks just as angry as before, whereas Rose just looks sad.
Bella decides it's time to finally get up and go thankfully and stands to leave. But to my surprise she walks over to Edward.
They start whispering something to eachother and seconds after, Bella is walking away.
"Jasper it was nice to see you again." She waves at him and grabs my hand to leave.
Alice and Rosalie are quick to follow us. I turn so I'm facing Jasper and smile. "Nice to meet you Jasper! Mr Black, you not so much."
And with that said I turn back round and let Bella pull me into an elevator and head out of the building.
Authors Note:
Love Haley even more or surprised at what goes through her brain?
Also guys, schools coming up for me in about 10 days so it may be harder for me to upload every couple days, but I promise to try and give you guys a chapter at least once every 7-10 days.
Plus I have a lot of personal stuff going on in my life right now and even though writing normally let's me escape all of that, I'm feeling pretty uninspired lately, and I'm really sorry about that because I do understand that I shouldn't be depriving you of a story you like, just because of my personal issues. Sorry!
Also about the whole Eli thing, don't worry, he'll get what's coming to him. I have that all mapped out in my head, it's just about where to have it.
Crazy Fact - I wasn't ever going to do a Haleys POV but with this chapter, the only way I could describe everything and give you an outsiders look into things, was by having her as the first person.
Question - Theories on the romantic pairings and how they'll go down? Also, who do you picture as Haley?