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Somebody pinch me

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OMYGOD

I smiled to my self as I drove away. Good thing there wasn't any traffic, because I was paying the least bit of attention to the outside world. That man was bringing up a side of me I didn't even know was there. I had only met him, but I knew I was smitten. My brain said this whole situation was impossible, but my heart said I had developed a little crush over the past couple hours.

When I arrived home, I unloaded the little things I bought and went inside. I went upstairs to wrap my present for Chris and Angela's anniversary. Good thing I bought it today, because tomorrow was Monday and I had to work, and I knew I would be busy the rest of the week, and wouldn't have time to buy it.

I was going over there this weekend, and I couldn't wait. I missed everyone like crazy.

After my mind was empty again, I started to day dream about Jake. He must have thought I was a stupid clumsy child. He surprised me by buying me a new shirt. He was really nice, and I still can't believe the courage it took me to ask him to continue shopping with me.

Thorough that question game, I learned a lot about him. But I was surprised that he was Alice's brother. That kind of sped up my heart.

I met Alice the day after I moved here; she seemed so nice, and high-spirited. We got talking, and we sort of clicked. I knew automatically that we would be great friends. But when she heard that I was single, she blew up, saying that someone as beautiful as me should have all the men of the world should be falling all around me. I had to laugh at that, because I knew that I was just a normal girl, nothing special. She said I had to meet her brother, and hinted that he was single. Now that I knew who her brother was...well my heart just couldn't slow down.

I spent another hour cooking a late lunch, since I was always so hungry.

The rest of the week passed by, as slowly as ever. I worked as a secretary for a hotel, owned by the Volturi brothers. It was kind of boring, since it was all desk work, and there didn't seem to be anything to do.

Friday night, I packed a small bag. Getting everything ready, because I was leaving first thing in the morning. I headed to bed early, and the next thing I knew, my alarm was ringing. I pushed myself off the bed and into my bathroom. After getting everything out into my car, I jumped into the driver's seat, and drove onto the highway.

I made it there in three hours, and as I made it into civilization, I relished in my old life. I made my way through all the familiar streets, and reached my parents' house. I knew they weren't expecting me for another two hours, which was what made the reunion that much better.

I stepped out of the car, and walked back up the porch steps, knowing exactly where the doorbell would be. I rang it and waited.

"I heard footsteps a moment later, and then my father swung the door open, looking quite grumpy. "Who are you and what do you want?" he asked. But when he laid eyes on me, his face lit up.

"Gee, dad, not exactly the greeting I would have wished for." I smiled as he pulled me into a tight hug.

"Nessie, god I've missed you so much,"

"Charlie, who is-" I heard my mom start, but she was cut off when she saw me, "Nessie!" she ran over, and hugged me as well."

"Hi, mom,"

"Ohmygod, where have you been? I missed you like crazy."

"Renee, I think our daughter needs to breathe," Charlie said, Renee pulled back and continued to gush over me.

"Ohmygod, we need to call Chris," she ran over to the phone, and called Chris and Angela over.

The rest of the day continued the same way. I hung around with all my old friends and family. Remembering all the fun times we used to have, just a few months back.

Sunday night, I said my goodbyes, and headed back to L.A. I arrived home, in three hours again, and I was exhausted by the time I headed uup the stairs and plopped my self into my bed.

I groaned as the alarm woke me up. I lifted my hand up to smash it away.

Ugh, it's still five. But I forced myself to get up, because I had to make it to work by six thirty, and I didn't want to be late on my first day.

I got dressed, but I didn't have time for breakfast, so I decided I decided grab something from outside.

Today was my first day as hostess of the hotel. I had been secretary for the past three weeks, but last week Aro called and said that he admired my organized work and said the hostess has been fired, for reasons I did not ask about, and now I took her place. I know, I thought it was pretty crazy too, but I didn't know what to do, so I 'went with the flow', as Chris said it.

As I entered the morning life of the hotel, I smelled the hot coffee and bagels and donuts that the employees bought as their late breakfast. I went to my new office and couldn't help but stare at the massive room. It was about twise the size of my bedroom. The theme was dark wood tiles, and black leather chairs and couches. I couldn't believe my eyes.

Then I heard a cough from behind my, "Hello Miss. Cullen,"

I turned around, "Oh, Hello Mr. Hale, how are you today?"

He chuckled, "I told you it's just Jasper, why so formal?" It came to me as a surprise, when I realized that Jasper was my fellow colleague.

"And, I told you to call me Nessie," I replied

"Okay, okay. Let's compromise. No formalities?"

"Alright," I smiled.

And so the day went on uneventfully. I did some boring desk stuff.

When it was time for me to go, home I packed my stuff, and said my goodbyes. I was so tired, and my feet were sore, which didn't make sense because I was sitting on my butt all day long.

I arrived home, put together a fast but yummy dinner, and stuck it in the oven. I ran upstairs to get rid of my clothes because I felt so uncomfortable in this tight shirt. And my head was about to blow, because this morning I was stupid enough to tie my hair in a sophisticated way.

The rest of the week went by the same way. Work was really boring these days, and there was nothing for me to do.

On Wednesday night, I didn't have anything to do so I decided to head to bed early. I made myself a strawberry milk shake and started up the stairs. But just as I was going to jump into my bed, the phone rang.

"Hello,"

"Hey Nessie, it's me"

"Oh, hi Alice, how nice of you to call,"

"Are you busy? Because I was just bored, and looking for someone to talk to,"

"Oh no, I'm just hanging around my house."

"Okay, so waddya want to talk about?" I was about to reply but she cut me off. "Hey... do you want to like come and hang over at my place?"

"Um, I'm not sure, wouldn't Jasper mind? Isn't it too late?"

She laughed, "You're such a goody-two-shoes,"

"Okay I'll make it up to you, how about some time this week? Hey I'm planning a little get together with my friends and family from San Francisco this Saturday, want to come? You can bring Jasper too. Ooo it'll be so much fun, and you could meet Angela," I said as I started to get exited about the 'little get together' that was starting to form into a party.

"Sounds like fun, hope I'm not a burden though. May be I should leave you with your family,"

"Nonsense. You'll have to meet them anyways, come on, I've been talking about you forever, and they want to meet you too."

"Okay, Saturday, but what time?" she asked.

"Any time, but may be you could come a bit early? And help me with my outfit? I still don't know what I'm going to wear.

She started to squeal out of happiness, "Alright! I can't wait! Okay, Jasper is calling me now, so I'll talk to you later.

"Alright bye," I smiled as I hung up; Alice was the best to ask for help in clothes. She loved styling peoples' clothes as much as I loved cooking.

I had only planned a little get together with my parents and Chris and Angela, but now Alice was coming and they were finally going to meet.

During the month I had stayed here in LA, I became really close to Alice, and always talked to her about Angela, and to Angela about Alice.

I spent the rest of the day lounging around the house, and then decided to watch some T.V. I ended up watching the whole first season of gossip girl, since I had it on DVD. I hadn't realized that it was almost 12 until I got up to stretch a bit. I decided to end it here, and went up to go to sleep.

After I became comfortable, guess who I dreamt about? I can't even escape him in my dreams. I wonder what that means, was I falling for this man? It seemed too good to be true. Even if I was crushing on him, he couldn't possibly have the same feelings for me, I was just some girl he ran into.

I kept on dreaming about Jake. I hadn't seen him again, but something in me wanted to. Every time I thought about that day at the mall, I start blushing, and my heart would start beating faster.

I actually wanted to invite him to the party, but I didn't know how to bring it up. What would he think?

Tomorrow is my big party day. and Alice was going to pick me up after work today, to go over to her house and try out different outfits. I didn't know why I couldn't just drive in my own car. But she said because I wouldn't be tempted to run off to my house, and that we needed all the time we could get.

After work, I packed my things and headed out. I passed by Jasper's office. "Hey Jasper are you coming?"

"Yeah, wait up," he picked up his things and walked over. "Hey, how was your day?" as we started walking to the front.

I laughed, "Jasper, we work together, we see each other every other minute, don't you remember me?

"Oh, right, didn't recognize you there for a second," he chuckled. "So you ready for tonight, Alice is going to torture you with all those clothes you know."

"Ugh don't remind me,"

"Hey did you meet Jake before? I heard he's coming with Alice right now. That is if you don't mind meeting him. He's really nice you know,"

My heart gave a little flutter, as I heard his name. He's coming? Right now? I started becoming self conscious of what I was wearing. Was I presentable? I wanted to make a good impression.

Geesh, calm down Nessie.

Jasper started looking at me weird, when I didn't answer. "Actually, um... yeah... I... uh... I met him at the mall. Last weekend, we got talking, and I realized he was Alice's brother…"

"Really?" he asked, but I didn't understand what he meant, "It takes a lot to get Jacob to 'start talking' to a girl. You must be special." he raised his eyebrows at me.

I started blushing and turned my face away. "Well… Um ..."

"Nessie, I've never seen you stutter before! Oh this is going to be fun; you two must be in love!"

"Stop it!" I tried to shut him up, before the whole world heard. "Can we change the subject, please?"

He shook his head, "No can do," and pointed his head to the direction where I saw Alice's car parked in the parking lot. I internally groaned. Here we go.

As soon as she spotted us, Alice ran up to us, and hugged me, exceptionally hard, considering her petite figure.

"Nessie! I missed you so much!"

"Calm down Alice, It was only 5 days" I laughed.

She let me go, and ran up to Jasper to greet him, but I didn't want to see that. So I let my eyes wander.

But that's when I noticed that someone else was leaning against the hood of Alice's car. There he was, standing in his dark jeans and blue polo shirt that cling to his muscles perfectly, so breathtaking. My knees started to buckle so I decided to use them. My body felt like it was attracted to him, and my feet automatically led me towards him.

I walked over to his side. "Hey, Jake,"

"Hi Nessie, nice to see you again,"

I sighed as I remembered how his husky voice made me feel like jelly. "So, how was your week?" I asked, not really knowing what to say.

"My week was... boring I guess, not really entertaining. But whatever happened to seeing each other soon?"

Did my heart just skip a beat? I think it did. Did he actually want to see me again? Well, several times I tried calling him, but I chickened out on the last number and hung up. I didn't know if he even wants to be friends like he said that day.

"Well..." I tried to come up with an excuse... "Yeah I don't really have an excuse..."

"Come on, why didn't you call? I don't bite,"

"I..." then I decided to turn the chairs, "well, you had my number too, why didn't you call?"

"Aright, you caught me,"

We both laughed, and at that moment I felt something, almost as if he liked me too. But no. that couldn't be possible...could it? Then I decided to let out the more brave side of Nessie. This was the only chance and I wasn't going to give it up.

"I'm guessing Alice told you about my party tomorrow?" I asked.

"Yeah she did, and let me tell you this; she's going to torture you with clothes tonight,"

"Gee, thanks for the heads up. But I was thinking, may be you want to come too?"

He smiled at the offer, "Alright, as long as you're cooking," he winked at me, and I tried to control my heart.

"Perfect, I expect you to be there with Alice and Jasper."

"I'm there," he smiled even wider, God can he get any more handsome? I had a sudden urge to kiss those lips.

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