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Chapter 11
Jacob POV
I get up to see Leah in the kitchen. I rush back to my room and put on some pants.
"You don't have to put pants on for me." Leah jokes.
"Uhh…yeah, okay." I huff a laugh. "What you doing here so early?"
"I thought I'd come early and fix you some lunch, I hope that's okay."
"Oh sure, sure." I bob my head lamely, not really knowing what to do or say.
"You get the boys today?"
"Yeah, so I'll be busy, as usual, this weekend."
"Okay, well I had fun the other day, and uhh…I'd like to do it again. When you have or find some free time, of course."
"Sure I had fun too; I'll see what I can do."
"Here." She hands me my lunch.
"Thanks. I'll see you later."
I walk out the door, and head off to work.
I could get used to this!
BPOV
Work this morning seems to drag on; I just can't seem to focus. Between lunch with Scott and the guy from the store yesterday, I just can't keep my head in the game.
Get it together, or you'll lose your job Bella!
I try hard to focus on all the paper work, but get distracted by this guy that comes in to my office.
"I'm looking for a Ms. Swan…"
"That would be me how can I help you?"
"Wow aren't you a pretty little thing!"
"Well thank you, but I'm sure that's not why you are here..."
"Well no, but would you like to have dinner with me?"
Oh you cannot be serious…What the hell is going on around here…Did these guys not get the memo; I am so not the catch of the day. I am as ordinary as they come?
I give it a minute before I answer gauging my gut as usual before I do anything, man let me tell you it don't take an idiot to realize this guy is a player.
"Look you must be stupid or desperate to pick up a woman at work, so let's just pretend you didn't even ask and, fix the problem you have. Okay. So what is the real reason you are here?"
He hands me his paper work and I notice right away two shipments are scheduled to be delivered at the same time.
"I will have it handled in a few hours, you get started on your route and I will call you to let you know what to do."
He walks out and I get on the phone, thankful for the distraction. Now most men look down on women, especially women in a general 'male' job position so you can imagine how well this goes. Fighting to switch delivery times takes me right up to lunch, and I receive a severe attitude from one client but I managed to get it done. I clock out and head to the café where I agreed to meet Scott.
He is waiting out front for me. When I walk up to him he leans in and kisses me on the cheek. I smile slightly. We walk to a table and sit down as a waitress comes over not even giving us a minute to look at the menus.
Well you are either desperate for a good tip or you really want a shot at this guy!
My thoughts are soon confirmed as she turns her back to me and looks at Scott and smiles sweetly.
"What can I get you handsome?"
Wow, are you really that dense he is on a date, sort of?
"Well you can start by checking on my date first." He gestures towards me with his hand.
After she turns to look at me she rolls her eyes. "What can I get you?"
"I will start with, a glass of water and a few minutes free to look at the menu."
She turns back and asks Scott. "And, for you?" in this voice that made me want to ring her neck.
"Well I will have a coke and I need a few minutes as well please." He stays so polite.
We decide what we would like to eat and talk about what we like and don't like until the overbearing waitress comes back.
"Have we decided?" She smiles at Scott.
"Yes ma'am I do believe we have." He nods for me to go ahead. The waitress grudgingly looks at me.
"I will have the Garden salad…No peppers, onions or croutons please?" She writes it all down without looking at me.
"And you, what can I get for you?" she smirks at him, but Scott seems oblivious to it.
"I will have the steak and baked potato, with no vegetables." He puts the menu back down on the table and looks right at me.
Well no dinner at my house for you, or around the boys for that matter, if you don't eat veggies how am I supposed to get my sonss to eat them?
Whoa I'm looking into the future what the hell…
"So Miss Bella, tell me more about you?" Miss Bella ugh I hate that. Time to scare this one away.
"Well I have two kids." Jack pot! Bye, bye, Scottie.
"Really," much to my absolute surprise he doesn't seem to care. "How old?'
"Seven and five."
"I love kids they are so fun to play with." What the hell! "No kids don't scare me, do you feel better?"
"What?"
"I know you tried to scare me off there. You can't scare me away with knowing you have kids." Alright buddy I will find a serious flaw in you yet, you can't be that good!
"I just like to get it out there to give you the chance to run, before this gets too messy."
"Well it will take more than that."
"Well then tell me about yourself…"
I find out he like horror movies too, he likes to commentate on how fake it all looks. He gains a strike by hating romance movies, but gains one by toughing them out for the sake of the lady. Yes he gained a point by the lady term too. However he lost one for not being romantic at all, and got one for putting a lady's needs before his. Then he lost one by being messy, I know you think that's being nit-picky but I already have to kids to clean up after I don't need another. He got another point for acting like the waitress wasn't flirting with him, although I wish he would have done more I know guys just don't do that so I settle for the ignoring. Then when he said he didn't he want kids of his own that was minus two, how is he going to be with mine if he don't want them to begin with?
I wonder if that guy, at the store with the girl, is her father. Well he has to like kids to take her to the store with him. She looks like she is Seth's age too, so that can't be easy. Huh. I am willing to bet he would score off the charts. Man I wish I knew who he was. Bella you are on a date right now snap out of it!
So by the end of the date he broke even and that guy is back in my head. How in the world is that supposed to help?
We get up to leave, he pays the bill and walks me out, and he wishes me a good afternoon and tells me he'll see me tonight.
"Just come to the door and you and your friends will get right in." he winks at me.
"Thanks Scott." I get in my car and leave.
Work drags on as I try to keep two guys straight in my head; I knew Jas would never want to talk to me again. Not that I blame him but at the same time I had family issues and if he can't handle that then maybe I don't need to have him around.
I get Billy from school and head home. When I walk through the door there is an excited Seth, chatting Jake's ear off. Jake is nodding and arranging his face as need be. Jake waves to me and I wave back, nodding to the house telling him to come in. he directs Seth into the house as he continues to chatter.
"Ok Seth, please let me talk to Jake, now?" I stop him when he pauses to breathe. I look at Jake. "Now you are aware he is not to have any TV for at least a week longer, and I want this done before he plays." I hand him Seth's homework and look at Seth, "and no getting out of it, responsibility now young man."
"Yes Mama." He sighs.
"We'll do this right when we get home, because I have got fishing planned for tomorrow." Jake exaggerates the excitement, knowing the boys love fishing.
"YAY!" they hop and squeal in unison. I laugh with my mother to see them so excited.
They are off with Jake, I stand at the door and wave until they are out of sight, then I turn and attempt a mad dash for my room, but sadly trip on the step.
"Going out are we Bella?" my mother asks.
"How can you tell?" I peel myself off of the steps and look at myself nothing major…Just a small cut on my hand.
My mother looks at me and smirks. "Oh sweetheart you can just tell…"
"Okay Ali will be here in half an hour, will you send her up please?" she nods and I go back upstairs and straight to the shower. When I shut the water off I hear three girls giggling in my room, I rush to dry off and go to my room. Shutting the door I scratch my nose with the door, yeah I know I am a hazard to myself. When I turn around Rose has the hair stuff and Alice has the makeup and Angela is on the bed flipping through the CDs again.
"Ang you decided to come." I smile
"Yeah Alice said I can be the DD and watch all you guys get drunk and stupid." She laughs and we all join in.
"Oh okay, well Scott said today at lunch…"
"What, you had lunch with the bouncer from the club?" Rose drops her jaw.
"Yes," I bob my head and give her a idiotic look, "Anyway Scott said to go right to him and we are in the clear. So work your magic, girls." I sit down to let them work.
"Okay well Bella what did he score, we have to know to know how to make you look." Rose fishes for information.
"Come on you guys you all know I don't do that point system anymore." I lie.
"Bullshit." Rose coughs not so subtlety.
"Bella we are your best friends for a reason." Alice has me there.
"Oh, is that a cave I smell coming?" Angela jokes.
"Okay, okay, okay." I put my hands up in surrender. "He broke even." I take a deep breath and blow it out my nose.
"Even- what about Jas?" Rose asks.
"Oh that's right I forgot to call you."
"What the hell…Well I told Ali at lunch on Wednesday?"
"Okay now lunch is a four woman thing because this sucks." Rose complains, but we all agree. So I fill in Angela and Rose about lunch with Jas and what happened with Seth. Rose gives her input, of course cursing James to the pits of hell. When I am through Rose decides he wasn't worth it anyway and that I will find some hot guy tonight. Then I ask them about the bronze haired god with green eyes, that I saw at the store the other day.
"No fucking way…That sounds like Jazz's friend that I told you about… Edward Cullen."
Cullen…Cullen…Cullen…where have I… Oh shit no fucking way!
"No way…Are you serious…Please tell me you are kidding Ali?" They all look at me confused. "You remember the doctor I took Seth to, get this his name is Carlisle CULLEN." I stress the last name, and they all gasp.
"Well then, I guess it's a good thing you ran like a bat out of hell." Rose jokes.
"I guess I can take comfort in the fact that will probably never see him again."
"Uh Bella, I think he has a little girl." I look at her. "That goes to this school. Isn't that fair next week…The fair you are volunteering at…"
Click, click, click. Oh shit, how do you avoid a person when you are running a game? Damn it.
"Wonder-freeking-ful." I breathe out in frustration.
"Well he doesn't know you, right and he doesn't know about Seth and his dad can't talk to him about it either because of the consent laws and shit they got that's so tight air can't seep through…"
"What -Rose, that didn't make any sense?"
"What I am saying is, his dad can't tell him about knowing you because even though he is his son, he can't tell him anything, it's the law. You're safe Bella."
"Besides from my understanding Edward is studying to be a doctor himself so I'm sure he knows how to keep his mouth shut." Alice chirps up.
"A doctor, where the hell did I go wrong?" Angela jokes. We all laugh because she would never trade Ben for a doctor.
We all finish up getting ready, and head downstairs. "Bye Mama" we all say in unison, making my mother smile and shake her head.
We get to the club and the first thing I do is head straight for Scott. I wrap my arms around him and hug him so tightly I shock him.
"Well, Miss Bella, I was not expecting that."
"We did shots in the car on the way." Yeah I was feeling it.
"I see." He kisses my neck and I soak up the attention. "I'll be in at ten like last time."
I nod and kiss him on the cheek and he lets us right through. We find out table and Alice and I go get drinks.
"Jas…Hi"
"Hi Bella, you don't seem so distracted now…" He sounds pissed.
"Yeah sorry about that I had issues with my kids so my mind was elsewhere." I watch his reaction. Alice stands quietly by my side, watching.
"So you have children?"
"Yeah, is that a problem?"
"Uh, no but I think as far as dating goes I won't waste your time. I am not a kid kind of guy. You seem nice but I just don't think it would work out."
"Oh okay." I shrug.
Alice now has her jaw dropped. No doubt shocked my casualness. We get our drinks and walk away.
"What was that, you didn't lay into him?"
"So, I'm just glad I didn't take him around the boys before I found out."
"Okay who are you and what have you done with Bella?" she laughs
"I am just trying to look at things differently." I shrug.
"Oh wow."
"I am not trying to fall in love but I would like to, so why cry over spilt milk."
"You are coming around, that's good to know." Alice smiles. "Let's go." She pulls me to the floor after we set out glasses down. Rose comes up a bit later and tells Alice that Jasper is at the table and she will take over dancing with me. We dance for a while, taking breaks for drinks when Alice comes back and tells me it's ten o'clock. I look at her and Rose and up to the bar. Rose nods and walks to the bar with me. I stand there for a minute or two and then Scott comes and puts his hands on my hips, I look at him and he leans into my ear.
"Slow screw, right?" I nod back. "Jas's and Bella's drink." He hands them over and Scott leads me and Rose back to the table.
We talk about things, nothing of importance, just having a good time when Emmet comes up and grabs Rosalie's ass. She squeaks, and turns around and playfully slaps his arm. They kiss and he goes to get a drink. We spend time with the guys dancing and drinking as Angela watches over us to make sure we are okay.
When the guys head up to get more drinks a thought hits me and I tune out everything around me.
I wonder if the store guy likes to do this. Na he has to be the type that stays home. What if he does like this? I wonder if I would see him here, I haven't actually looked yet. I take a quick scan. I don't see him, but people don't usually come to these things alone now do they, which means if he's here he has a date and is unavailable. Unless he is doing what I am doing and playing the field just having fun. Hmmmm. Is he the type to do that? Wait a minute isn't Alice's friend his friend, maybe I can have her get information on him. Wait what why would I do that? Ugh. I need to jus…
"Earth to Bella." Rose breaks my metal rambling. I look at her. "Welcome back." She laughs.
"Huh?" I blink to try to focus in on her, that when I realize I have had a little too much to drink.
"Never mind. Get Scott lets go dance." I look to the side and see him looking at me a perplexed expression on his face.
I smile and motion for the dance floor he smiles and takes my hand. We close down the club again. I stumble to my car as Angela get into the driver's seat. Scott helps me in again and we head back to my house. Instead of everyone leaving, they all crash at my place. So when I get up that morning my place looks like a camp for hung-over chicks. I get up and shower, and head downstairs. My mother has four coffee cups on the counter; in front of the three unused ones is the Tylenol, Angela is already up is drinking from one of the cups smiling. I sit down and take my pain killers and start sipping my coffee as we all sit or stand in silence. About an hour later Rose and Alice start moving and appear downstairs. Taking their pain killers and sipping their coffee, they sit with me groaning until the pain is bearable.
After a few hours Alice asks who wants to go shopping with her this afternoon. I agree to go if she waits till the evening. I have to call Jake to check on the kids I didn't call last night, and I have some stuff in town to do. She agrees changing to supper plans and shopping. After all that is finalized I go to my room check on the kids, who are fine, and get ready for my running, when my boss calls. He needs a shipment taken to the hospital now.
Wonderful work on Saturday, oh well this will make up my hours right. I tell him I will be there in a short while and hang up and go down to see if anyone needs a ride home. They all say they will wait at my house for me. I bet you hung over lushes. I laugh at my internal joke. Angela just looks at me like I have lost my mind, and my mother looks at me like 'look who's talking' causing me to quickly quiet myself. I kiss her on the cheek and tell her good bye and wave to all of them as I head out.
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