Emmett's pov
And so we stood in our very unflattering uniforms, listening to a small, spotty man in his mid twenty's whose name was Colin.
"So you boys" he said in a snide little voice while eying all six foot six of me.
"You can work in the kitchen on grill; Simon will show you what to do." He pointed to a skinny boy who looked like he was about to pee his pants, at the thought of having to tell us what to do. We all grinned at him, exactly in sync, not a reassuring sight.
The poor boys eyes shot open and you could smell the fear flying off him.
Then Colin turned to the girls, with what I think he thought was a sexy grin, I saw Rose immediately roll her eyes,
"we can't have two pretty girls like you stuck in the kitchen now can we, you can work on the counter, with me." He gave a suggestive eyebrow wiggle. The girls just glared.
We guys headed around to the grill area which was not a massive space,
"Colin" called Edward. As he turned to look at us, Edward gestured to the grill area. "I really don't think it will be possible for us all to work in this area."
Colin looked at us all, glancing back at Rose, who even in the unflattering uniform, and her hair up in a hat still looked as hot as hell!
I growled a little under my breath, as he checked out her backside, he swung round again, obviously on some kind of power trip and said.
"You, Emmett, you head for the drive through, Tracy will show the ropes." Then he turned back to give Rose his full attention. I could only hope that she accidently stood on his foot, or crushed his fingers in the till, or pushed his head in the fryer, or rammed a burger so far down his throat he choked .
I comforted myself with these thoughts as I headed for the drive through booth.
Tracy was a tiny little blonde girl, who was even smaller than Alice, which was a good thing as the booth we were meant to take the orders from was tiny.
She quickly showed me the ropes, letting me take orders in no time, while she used the touch screen to send orders through to my brothers in the kitchen, who had to cook the disgusting stuff. At least I didn't have to touch any food.
After a while Tracy went to break, I reassured her that I was perfectly fine, coping on my own, she gave me an unsure little smile but left all the same.
And I was fine until, I had to use the touch screen, there was one little problem, it didn't work. I tried and tried but, no matter how many times I touched the damn thing nothing happened, the car I was taking the order from started to get impatient.
"Just hold up". I growled up as I tapped the screen harder and harder. I was defiantly going to smash the thing a minute, then Edward appeared from nowhere as if I had called him.
"Emmett it works through body heat you idiot."
"So" I said looking at him
He looked at me as if I was completely dense
"So we don't have any." He hissed
Oh yeh...vampire now I remember derr.
But all I said was,
"oh bugger."
"Go find Colin and tell him you can't do it." Edward ordered, but that wasn't necessary as the cars behind the one I was taking the order from had started leaning on their horns not liking the wait.
"What seems to be the problem," asked Colin in his reedy little voice, I decided against snapping his neck, I didn't think it would go down to well with Carlisle if I killed the boss on the first day,
"My hands are too big for the screen I can't type the orders in properly." I said and I purposely held my big fist slightly to close to his face for comfort and then slowly cracked my knuckles.
He dropped his eyes and just told me to follow him onto the resturant floor, once there he handed me a mop.
"Clean the floor." he said.
"Please." I said
"What?" he asked.
"I said, please, you should have said clean the floors please, manners cost nothing you know." I said. This idiot was starting to get on my nerves.
As he walked away I wondered if Carlisle would be disappointed if I just maimed the manger on the first day. Hhhmmm tempting
As I moped the floors I was over taken by complete boredom, I thought this might have been fun but no I'm pretty sure that this was shaping up to be one of the worst nights in history.
Edward called my name from the kitchen, so quietly that only vampire ears could hear it.
"Don't worry," he said, "be happy." He must have heard my despondent thoughts; the kid never could stand me to be unhappy, even if I was a jerk to him ninety percent of the time.
Then Edward started to whistle... I knew that tune it made me smile, and over the whistling so low that only we could hear came Jasper singing the words.
"Here's a little song I wrote,
Might want to sing it note for note,
Don't worry,
Be happy,
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry,
Be happy,
Don't worry be happy now..."
Then Alice and rose joined in, again very low,
"Woo oo oo oooh ooo ooo oohooo
Don't worry,
ooohhhohhh
Be happy,
Aint got no place to lay your head
Someone came and took your bed
Don't worry,
Be happy
the land lord say your rent is late
he may have to litigate
don't worry,
be happy
wooo oo oo oooh ooo oohooo"
I couldn't help it I just felt myself start to dance with the mop, to my own little private song,
Wiggling my bum as I mopped away and then I joined in,
"Aint got no cash, aint got no style,
Aint got no girl to make you smile,"
I hadn't realised but I was singing a little louder than the others, which encouraged the others to do the same, all of us joining in despite the stares we were now receiving.
"Cus when you worry your face will frown,
and that will bring everybody down.
Don't worry
Be happy
Wooo oo oo oooh ooo oohooo"
We were all swaying away oblivious , the girls back to back the boys nodding their heads over the top of the counter, as I gave a one man and his mop dance show, for the entire seating area, a few people were giggling now, which only encouraged some more bum wiggling from me.
"Wooo ooo ooo oooh..."
"Cullen!"
Colin was striding across the seating area; he was so red I swear he may have had steam coming out of his ears.
"Yes?"I asked not stopping my swaying,
"What are you doing! "
"Moping the floor like you told me," I said smiling; honestly I couldn't even get mad at this little prick with this song in my head.
"Did I tell you to sing and dance as well?" he demanded.
"Nope." I said popping the p, "I just thought I would throw that in as a special little treat, what you think?" I said doing a little foot shuffle for effect.
"I think," he said very slowly and carefully, "that you should collect rubbish outside," and he handed me a black rubbish sack,
"Please." I said.
He just looked at me and said.
"NOW"
Well you had to admire the guy's nerve facing off a vampire, so I wouldn't kill him,
I just leaned down looked him in the eye and said, "manners are a virtue but..."
then I started to sing...
"don't worry, be happy," and started Dancing again.
The poor guy nearly choked, he just looked at me disbelieving and turned his back.
"Your fired." was his parting shot.
"Oh," I said, "don't worry, I'm leaving."
Then I held out my arms pretending to be an aeroplane winked at my family and danced to the door singing.
"I'm leaving on a jet plane; don't know if I'll be back again."
As I got to the door I turned and waved, blew a kiss to my audience and left feeling rather proud of myself.
Between killing the manager and getting fired I'm pretty sure that even Carlisle would agree that I had made the right choice.
A/N For all of you who may not know this song. (shame on you!) It is Bob Marley, Don't worry, be happy, You should all down load it, it's the catchiest tune in the world
Love from Beckyxxx