a/n- i'm putting links to the girls' suits on my profile if you wanna see them.

Enjoy!! i own nothing!

Our plane landed just after noon and 3 o'clock found us drinking beers poolside at the Hard Rock. We figured we'd wait till 5 to move on to the hard stuff. Of course it is always five o'clock somewhere.

Rose as always was looking hot, long, leggy and tan. Her slim body barely covered in her black string bikini. The three of us had spent more than 5 hours swimsuit shopping. It was pure torture for me, with Rosalie and Alice insisting that one of my cardinal and black Speedo tanks was not going to cut it in Vegas. I'd ended up in boy shorts and a halter top bikini. My first bikini, ever.

I had to admit I looked pretty hot too, hot enough to sit next to Rose in a lounge chair and not stress.

Of course my friends had insisted that I hit the tanning salon before we left. Though I was much tanner than I had been back in Forks. Training in an outdoor pool had a huge effect on that. But, Rose and Alice had gotten a huge laugh how pale my torso was in comparison to the rest of my body. Then Alice had spent an evening a few nights ago carefully self tanning my goggle tan too. Now here I was tan all over, fit, muscular and looking nearly as sexy as Rose.

And the two of us were not going without notice as we sat and reminisced about the last 4 years.

"Hey, remember that fucktard, Mike?"

"Oh God, don't remind me," I groaned. "That was all your fault." I rolled my head back, pointing at Rose as I laughed heartily.

"He was cute. In a little lost puppy kinda way."

"Well then there must be nothing cute about lost puppies." Rose laughed with me on that one. "At least I won't have to worry about running into him once I'm living in LA."

Rose looked at me seriously. "What the hell are you going to do in LA?"

"Oh, we are so not going there. This trip is supposed to be all about celebration. Not about what comes after."

The sad truth was that I had no idea what I was going to do in LA.

I had no idea what I was going to do period.

Rose was about to graduate with a Mechanical Engineering degree, and had a job lined up at some tech company doing God knows what. Looking at her people would never have any idea how fucking crazy smart she was, she was a fucking genius with numbers. There was no way I would have passed my very basic math classes without her.

I would soon hold a degree in English with an emphasis on creative writing. Though I couldn't figure out what the hell good it was going to do me.

I wanted to write. But the likelihood was that no one would be paying me to do that for awhile. And I had a crap load of student loans to pay off. Alice was planing on heading to LA, figuring it was a good place to start in fashion. She didn't have any real plans either, but, at least she parents that would pay for her to sit around an do nothing for awhile. I'd already taken and passed one of the exams I needed in order to teach in high school, there was one more to take and student teaching. It wasn't a perfect plan, but, it was something to pay the bills.

"I really just wish you guys weren't leaving me. What am I going to do without you. Life won't be nearly as entertaining."

"Yeah, the Klutz and the Spaz have got to be pretty entertaining for the Beauty Queen." I giggled.

"Damn straight," Rose laughed, taking a swig of her beer.

A cocktail waitress stopped beside us, setting two shot glasses filled with some green girly looking drink on the table between our chairs.

Rose gave her a sneer with a raised eyebrow, "Gag," she stated. Rose was a whiskey girl. I laughed. We obviously had a good beer buzz on.

"These are from that big guy over there. You want me to send them back?"

Rose shrugged, "Ah hell, I never turn down a free drink. No matter how nasty it looks. But for future reference, Jameson. And can we get another couple of these," Rose gestured to our nearly empty beer bottles. The waitress nodded and scurried off. Rose lifted her glass to me, "To free drinks."

"Free drinks," I agreed, clinking our glasses together and throwing the shot down.

I looked up to acknowledge the sender of the drinks. His back was to us, as he was high fiving a slender blond guy. He was huge. Like a linebacker, every part of him was muscular, he looked like he probably spent hours in the gym each day. I laughed, "Look at the 'muscle man' who sent the drinks." I slapped my hand on my thigh. Rose looked up and giggled, that was just her type.

"Oh and dark curls too," she cooed.

Just then Muscle Man turned and shot us a smile. I'd know those dimples anywhere.

I jumped up. "Emmett!" I yelled. Running toward him. Emmett stood and flung myself into his arms. "Oh my God!! I haven't seen you in forever."

Emmett embraced me, nearly knocking the wind out of me. Then gave me a huge kiss on the cheek before lowering me to the ground. "Bella, Bella, Bella. Look at you. Holy crap, I can look directly at you in this light and not be blinded."

"Shut up," I slapped at his chest.

"Don't hurt yourself there Bella. You look good, real good."

"Thank you." I wiggled my tush a little bit at him, causing me to loose my footing and stumble.

Emmett reached forward grabbing and steadying me. He laughed, "Man, I've missed you Bella."

"Em," said the guy sitting with him.

Emmett turned, "Bella this is my buddy, Jasper. Jasper, this is Bella. She's a friend of my sister."

Jasper nodded at me, "Hey. Shot?" There were three shot glasses of tequila on the table.

"Hells yes! This is way better than that shit Emmett sent over earlier."

"I thought girls like that kind of shit."

"Not this girl." I said grabbing the salt shaker.

"So where is my sister?" Emmett asked.

"Her flight comes into tomorrow morning, she had a final presentation this afternoon. And we weren't holding our party off on account of her. To Alice," I said clinking glasses with Jasper and Emmett. I licked the salt off my hand, threw back the shot and shoved a slice of lime into my mouth. I shuddered a bit at the burn of the alcohol. "That's what a shot is supposed to do to ya."

Emmett smiled at me. "Alright, Jazz. We should head in if were gonna make those reservations."

Jasper stood and held his hand out to me. "Jasper, it was nice to meet you," I said shaking his hand.

"Yeah we should hang out later tonight," he said before shooting Emmett a quizzical look. When I looked over at Emmett, he looked like his eyes were about to pop out of his head.

"I'll walk you back over to your friend. Meet you up in the suite Jazz." Emmett put an arm around my shoulders.

"Shit Bells, you grew up nice, in the last couple of years." He looked around, "I'd love to punch several of these guys in the face for the way they're looking at you. Is Alice going to be as scantily clad as you? Cause I'm not sure I could handle every guy at the pool staring sex at both my little sisters, one is bad enough."

I smiled widely at Emmett, "I've missed you too, Em."

He stopped walking. "I have to be honest with you Bella. He's here too."