Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or the characters. I also do not own any music I reference.
BPOV (Bella)
"Dead air, B. No power and now radio waves; we're screwed." The static on the WZ20 proved his point.
"So what do we do? Check the main breaker downstairs? Pack it in for the night?" Jasper had worked about three months longer than me, but we had instantly bonded over just about everything. Still I expected him to know what to do in this situation.
"I guess first things first, we check if we are the only ones that lost power…" I nodded, following behind him as he walked down the corridor and then descended the stairs to the first floor of the Student Union.
We only made it to the third stair from the bottom, before I tripped and fell onto Jasper. "Really, Bella?" Jasper scolded. I mumbled a 'sorry' and proceed to get my ass off of his. As I was trying to grip the handrail of the stairs for balance in the darkened building, I felt my hand coming in contact with another hand, much daintier than Jasper's, that's for damn sure.
Pulling my hand back with a gasp, I heard a voice speak. "Who's there?" Okay, 'speak' was kind, the girly voice shrieked.
"Uhh…" Brilliant, I know.
Luckily for me, Jasper spoke up then. He lifted the flashlight around, blinding me first, and then doing the same to the pixie girl that had shrieked. "We were upstairs in the radio station when the power gave out. I'm Jasper, this is Bella. Who are you?" Hello, calm and collected.
The tiny pixie was speechless. I had seen this before; most girls had this reaction to Jasper. Hell, I had this reaction to Jasper when I first met him. But, now he was Jasper, my corny co-worker. More of a brother, than a lover. When the girl finally caught up with her brain again, she spoke, "uh… I'm Alice. I work at the… um, information counter."
"Gotcha, figured I had seen you before." He spoke, before leading us away from the stairs. Actually, it was more him walking away with the flashlight and Alice and I having no other option but to follow him unless we wanted to stumble in the dark some more. "Suppose we can get into the breaker room, or do you think it's locked?" He may have said it aloud, but neither Alice or I answered. Hell, if I knew about any damn breakers.
RPOV (Rosalie)
"Are you freaking kidding me?" I shouted as I was bathed in darkness. Of all the damn luck in the world and all I had was the bad. I should've been out of here an hour and a half ago, but no, now I'm stuck in the dark with money all over the counter because I can't do some damn math the way a computer can.
I fumbled out of the office, locking it behind me, and into the café to see if I could check out whether the rest of the union was powered down as well. As I stubbed my toe on the bakery case, I yelped and pulled out my cell phone for light. I hobbled to the door and looked through the window seeing complete blackness except for a shining flashlight and three people stalking around. I ducked down quickly before realizing they couldn't see me any better than I could see them, in fact, they probably couldn't see me at all. I watched them for a minute before I recognized the door they were poking into. They were just trying to get the power back on, I hoped.
I watched the two women fumble to sit down along the wall and then unlocked the door. "Any luck?" I called out. The guy holding the flashlight dropped it at once, knowing that neither of the girls next to him had spoken. He looked over in my direction, lifting the flashlight in the process. "Well?" I tapped my foot.
"You working in the Coffee Bar?" He asked. Really? No I'm robbing the place and then asking if you can help? I nodded. He spoke again. "No power?"
Me? Oh, I have power, sure.
Again, I nodded at the obvious question. "Can you get the breaker working?" He shook his head, as the group came over to the front of the café, but not trying to enter the place.
EPOV (Edward)
I was sitting there, still trying to tune the damned radio into WZ20, and hoping that 's voice would come back to me. Maybe speaking only to me? Maybe, dirty? Hey, a guy could dream right?
"Dude, it's useless, just let her, I mean, it go." He snickered over my turmoil.
I shoved the blue portable radio over to the other side of the counter and flicked my cell phone open just to watch it die. "Hey, Em, got any service?"
I couldn't see his face in the darkness, well except for the flickering emergency light we had back in the stockroom, but I heard his groan. "Uh, yeah about that…"
"You left it in the car didn't you, douche?"
"… maybe…" Of course, he did; why was I even surprised? We were supposed to leave out the back door, but without the power, we had no way of disarming the keypad lock and Stephanie never gave us keys since we only needed the code. Honestly, why are we bothering using electric locks in the lightning state?
I grunted, tripping over one of the full book carts before slamming my face right into the backroom door and then falling out onto the sales floor. I heard Emmett's boisterous laughter with tiny words of worry mixed in between. "Yeah, sure…" I mumbled before hopping up and feeling my nose to make sure it wasn't bleeding or anything.
I headed up front, past the textbooks and into the clothes department, hoping we could get out into the main student union through the store gate and then find a different exit to the outside world. The last thing I wanted to do was spend my night in this place.
A sudden burst of lightning alerted me to the girls and guy standing in front of the Coffee Bar, although I would have known even without the special effects because of the blood curdling scream that short-haired one made.
That's when I saw her.
She was off to the side, leaning against the easy chair next to the doors of the café. In that moment, her hair glistened in the storm-induced light and her lips fell open in shock of the bolt. She had curves where it counted. She was, just, damn beautiful.
Her eyes locked with mine in that second and I was thrilled.
At first…
Sure, the short haired girl screamed due to the lightning, but the goddess…
She screamed because I looked like a damn burglar getting caught stealing from the campus bookstore. That's not even a descent crime…
A/N: I hope you all enjoy! Review and until next Friday :)
~kmwhyte