Chapter 8

Rose showed me the basics on how to take an order and which tables I would be responsible for. Since I am clearly not an expert on being a waitress Rose took the standard eight tables I should have had and cut it down to four giving all the others one table extra. "OK since your just filling in here is a list of all the alcohol we have and our specialty list. If you need anything at all Jasper will be behind the bar and can answer anything or just grab one of the other workers and ask them."

Rose handed me the same shirt that everyone else was wearing and a black half apron with a pen and pad of paper in it. I put the two lists Rose gave me in my empty pocket and quickly went to change my shirt.

I stopped in my tracks when I came out of the bathroom and saw Emmett sitting at the bar. I quietly snuck up behind him and placed my hands over his eyes. "Guess who?" He grabbed my wrist and turned pulling me between his knees. Before I could even wrap my mind around what had happened he had his lips on mine causing me to moan. A throat clearing caused us to come out of our lip lock making me blush. "I hear you are going to be filling in for Stacey?" I couldn't muster up my voice so I just nodded at Jasper, "Well, you can't be any worse than she is."

"Yeah, I don't think Rose will give every hot guy free drinks all night long. At least she better not." Emmett wrapped his arms around me anchoring me to his chest. I felt more at home being held by him than I ever have in my actual home. "OK that's enough you two. We will be opening soon and I need Bella concentrating on the task at hand and not on you Emmett."

I gave Emmett one last kiss as Jasper went to open the door and tons of people came pouring in. Immediately music started playing from the DJ booth in the corner of the dance floor and the longest night of my life started.

Thankfully most of the people who walked through the door when we opened went straight for the bar to get their first drink. Those who did find a table quickly claimed the booths were they could sit to relax and I only had to cover the standing tables.

I was able to hangout with Emmett for a half an hour before people who were dancing decided they wanted to claim one of my tables. Being a waitress was a lot harder than I initial thought it would be. I thought it would just be as easy as taking there orders and bringing it back to them, but with all that was going on in the bar it was impossible. I would take an order and barely be able to hear them over the music. Once I took the order of drinks to the wrong table, and I could never remember who ordered what drink.

I felt like my head was floating three feet above me and I was caught in a whirlpool and can't escape the current. How Rose is able to keep it all straight is beyond me. Thankfully it seemed that the night was slowing down as Jasper yelled out last call. I followed the lead of the other waiters and went to my tables to see if they wanted anything else before we closed. I only had two tables with customer still hanging around.

The first table I went to had two drunk guys and I am assuming their girlfriends. When I asked if they wanted anything else the girls both said no even though the guys slurred that they did. I took their money and smiled when the girls told me to keep the change leaving me a $20 tip.

My last table was a group of guys who got all their drinks from the bar allowing me to avoid them until this moment. When I approached the table and could actually make out the people who were sitting there I realized it was the same group of guys from the docks. I kept my eyes down and tried to be quick about asking if they needed anything else but my luck for the night must have ran out.

The man I remember as Jacob leaned back and looked me up and down. "I know you. You're that girl from the docks the other day. I saw you get on Emmett McCarty's ship right?" I lifted me head and looked at him before I nodded not sure where this conversation was gonna go. He grabbed what was left of his beer and downed it before he stood and got entirely too close to me. "Well," I shivered as his slid his hand down from my shoulder to my elbow, "when you want to be with a real man you come to me." When he grabbed my wrist and started pulling on it I jerked away from him just in time to see Emmett right beside us.

"Is there a problem here Bella?"

I took a step closer to him putting some distance between me and Jacob. "No, the guys were just leaving." Jacob turned to face Emmett, "Yeah Emmett we were just leaving, and Bella you remember what I told you." This time I stepped so that I was behind Emmett's shoulder and not getting the full force of Jacob's stare.

When I looked back at the bar both Rose and Jasper were giving Jacob the same glare that Emmett was giving him and all three followed him until he and his friends were out of the doors. Emmett was breathing so hard that he almost seemed to be shaking. When I put my hand on his shoulder it was like I had broken a trance and he realized where he was and who he was with. I have never seen someone act that way and it was a little frightening to see.

The last of the customers scurried out of the bar and the bouncer locked the doors just as everyone else started to clean. Emmett still stood there but this time he was looking at me and not burning a hole with his eyes. "Has that guy ever said anything to you before?" I shrugged my shoulders not sure if I wanted to add to what is clearly bad blood. "Not directly to me." He raised his eyebrows waiting for an explanation. "When I came to you the other morning he and his friends were getting on their boat and they made some comments about me as I walked by."

He clenched his first and took a deep breath. "You need to stay away from him. He is bad news. He is the guy on the island that no one wants to mess with. He has fingers in everything illegal but never gets caught by the cops. Please just stay away from him." I nodded and pulled him to me for a hug that we both clearly needed to be able to relax after that altercation.

"Alright let me go make sure I have done everything I needed to do for the night and then we can go. I am beyond tired and my feet are killing me." A small kiss to my forehead was the only response I got but it said a lot to me.

Everything seemed to be good with all of my bills, which was a miracle. Jasper said I could have a job if I wanted one but being a waitress didn't seem to be a good job for me so I politely turned him down. Rose and I made plans to hangout at the beach tomorrow apparently we both were in desperate need of a tan. Emmett and Jasper were going to join us as well as the guy from the amusement park who gave Rose his phone number.

I was so tired I thought Emmett was gonna have to carry me again but I was thankfully able to make back on my own but as soon as my head hit the pillow I was out. I barely remember Emmett crawling on the bed and pulling me close to him.