Ok, breathe Bella, maybe it's not them. No such luck, there standing next to Marissa was not only Alice but also Rosalie, Emmet, Jasper, and he who shall not be named.
Therefore, I had two options; 1) run and hide. I could get a new job and hope they don't find me, or 2) pretend not to know them. Act like their any other person in the world. I think I'm going to go with number two; that one at least let's me keep my dignity. Now I know it would be impossible to pretend not to know them forever, but I can at least try and keep it up at work. I gathered the little bit of courage I had and turned around.
"Hello, I'm Isabella, but call me Bella. You must be the new employees." I said in the most indifferent voice I could muster up.
"Hi I'm Alice. This is my husband Jasper and these are my siblings Emmet, Rosalie, and Edward." She said after she realized what I was doing. It was hard hearing his name, but I took a deep breathe and kept up my indifferent attitude.
"Ok, who's taking the waitresses position?" I asked.
"Rosalie and I are." Alice said. I noticed how she was the only one talking, but I didn't dwell on that thought for long.
"Well you two follow me, and the rest of you go over to the counter and ask for Jerry. He'll be expecting you." I said making extra effort not to look at him during this whole exchange.
"We don't really have specified sections. Just go and ask Marissa what's open." I said.
"We missed you Bella." Alice said when we got to the further end of the diner.
"When you have an order just go and give it to Jerry. He's the one with the beanie." I said ignoring her statement.
"Bella, I know we haven't gotten along in the past but please let us explain." Rosalie said, speaking for the first time. They were making it extremely hard to appear unattached.
"The uniform is mandatory; you'll receive it before you leave." I said.
"He never stopped loving you. He misses you everyday." Alice said, desperately trying to get me to understand.
"Do you have any questions?" I asked I'm a cold voice. I couldn't take much more of this. I needed to get a way from them; I needed a chance to clear my head.
"No." Alice said sadly."Ok, then were done here. You can stay and get the feeling of things, but you're not needed until tomorrow." I said before I turned and left without looking back.
I practically ran into the back storage cabinet. Calm down Bella, you can do this, just breathe.
"She's different." a voice that sounded like Emmet said. Great I've gone crazy, hearing voices isn't good.
"What did you expect, her to welcome us with open arms. I could barely get a read on her emotion, and the little I did get was full of pain." Jasper said.
It sounded like the voices were coming from above me, so I looked around and saw a window a little above me. I climbed up onto a box and peeked through. There standing in the back alley were the Cullen's. At least I know I'm not crazy.
"This is my entire fault." I heard Edward say. Hearing his voice was like a knife through my heart.
"You were doing what you thought was best." I heard Alice say. I climbed off the box and left the cabinet, not wanting to hear anymore.
I was sitting behind the counter doing my homework, when they came back in. This time instead of Alice and Rosalie it was Emmet and Jasper who came to talk to me.
"Bella, how have you been?" Emmet asked hesitantly.
"If you have any more questions Richard will be happy to answer them." I said looking every but them.
"Bella, ple....."
"Babe" Owen yelled, cutting off whatever Jasper was about to say. Owen grabbed my chin and pulled me in for a quick, rough kiss.
"Don't come by tonight, I'm busy, and I thought I told you not to wear your hair up." he said while pulling the hair tie out of my hair. He didn't say anything else, before he turned and walked out the door.
"You are so lucky to be with him." said one of the dim-witted girls I work with.
"Ya I'm real lucky." I said sarcastically, as I toyed with my ring. "Do you need something?" I snapped when I realized Emmet and Jasper hadn't left yet.
"You don't love him." Jasper stated more than asked.
"You don't think I know that." I said coldly, hoping they would get the picture that I didn't want to talk to them.
"Why are you marrying him then?" Emmet asked bluntly; leave it to him not to beat around the bush.
"If I want to talk about my feelings with you, then I'll come find you, but don't hold your breathe I doubt that will happen." I said as I gathered my stuff and moved to an empty table.
I am glad to say that the Cullen's left me alone for the rest of the night, but I did catch them on more than one occasion staring at me. Seeing them opened up all the feelings I took so much time to close off, and that scares me; No it terrifies me.