Written by: twilightlullaby
Disclaimer: I don't own twilight or the characters. I wish I did, but I don't!
A/N: I would like to thank everyone that has reviewed my story so far! You guys are awesome! I also want to thank shakespearesrose & vnfan for noticing my problem with Bella's height!! She's not two foot four inches! I meant to say she was five foot four inches!! I'm so sorry if I confused anyone with Bella's height after this freakishly short mishap.
A/N number two: Thanks to Michelle62092 & to LovelyLittleMuse for helping/giving me ideas with this chapter! You two rock.
69?
BPOV
My stomach was doing little flips again as I opened my door to get in my car. I sighed as I sat down and buckled up, I was thankful that my music wasn't blaring out like it normally was through my speakers when I started my car. I wanted to look over at Edward to see what he was doing, but I held my strong desire back and focused on not hitting any other cars in the parking garage.
Not one of us said anything, even as we merged on the freeway. It was like the weird awkward silence back in the airport after Rose's unnecessary comment about my relationship status. So what if I was single! I was enjoying it, especially after the last couple of guys I dated and the more recent dates that I've been on. I shuttered at the thought of Mike Newton. I was at the Starbucks on the corner a couple of blocks down from our apartment getting two caramel lattes, for Rosalie and Alice, and a strawberry lemonade ice smoothie for me when I heard my name being called.
"Hey, Isabella Swan?" I looked at the blonde, spiky headed kid that called my name, then my high school memories came flooding back and I realized it was Mike: The kid in high school was determined to get me on a date and in his bead. Ugh.
"Oh, Hey…Mike..." I had said to him then I leaned over the countertop to see how far along the bistros were on making our drinks, I also gracefully knocked over the bottle on cinnamon. I picked it up awkwardly and looked back up at Mike.
"So, what a small world this is! What are you dong here?" Mike sounded enthusiastic.
"Oh, so tiny…" I mumbled under my breath "I go to school at UW Tacoma, so I live here…" I tried to smile to be nice.
"Oh, that's cool!" He smiled a little too friendly at me. "I'm here visiting for the duration of the summer-"
"Bella!" The Bistro called my name, cutting him off. Thank gosh! "Two caramel lattes and a strawberry lemonade!" She sounded impatient…good because I was in a hurry to get out of this suddenly cramped Starbucks.
"That's me," I walked over to the drinks and grabbed them in the portable cardboard box holder they were already in. "Well, it's been nice seeing you Mike. I hope Washington is everything you remember it as." With that I tried escape from his attempt of flirting eyes- Did he think that was sexy or something?
"Hey! Wait a sec," Mike grabbed my elbow "Can I get your number…just incase if we want to catch up or something?" His eyes pleaded with me, so me being the nice person I was and couldn't say no: I gave him my number and that Friday night we had dinner. Naturally the date was a disaster and he's tried calling my cell phone every other day since then. Rose and Alice still won't let me live that down and I don't think they ever will. They both claim I have a problem with saying 'No.'
My horrid memory was cut short, thank gosh, from Edward clearing his throat. My fingers tightened on the steering wheel.
"It's nice here…" He trailed off looking out the windows.
"Yeah, if you like overcast days and rainy weather most of the time." I replied.
"You don't like it here?" The curiosity in his voice startled me. I looked from the windshield to his green eyes. Big mistake…I never wanted to look away, but I knew that if I didn't then I would never be able to look at him again because we would both be pancakes from ramming into the car in front of us.
"No, I love it here, or else I would have moved away for college. I wouldn't mind it being a little warmer in the summertime, but I love all the beaches that we're not far from." I tried to explain.
"That's cool; I've never been to the beach before…" He trailed off again.
"Are you serious?" I was in awe. I looked over at him and he was looking out the window. "Where are you from then?" I was the curious one now.
He looked over at me "Chicago…I've been to the lake there, but never the beach." He elaborated.
"Wow." I was truly amazed. "So, why come here?" I was trying to think of a good enough reason to come here.
"Because of Jasper and Emmett. They are my best friends and I thought I'd tag along with them, plus Rosalie always tells Jasper about the fun times that you girls have here at UWT, so we got to hear about them as well…so we thought might as well give the school a shot." I hoped that Rosalie didn't tell Jasper anything embarrassing about Alice or me.
"Oh." I couldn't think of anything to say after that.
"Where are you from?" He started.
"Washington…actually not to far from Seattle," I had to laugh a little "I'm from a small town called Forks. It's right on the coast, so I grew up going to the beach all the time. Maybe while you're here I'll take you." I instantly regretted my promise a little embarrassed.
"That'd be cool, thanks." I looked over at him again and he smiled, I once again felt my face turn into and idiotic smile for the third time today but was interrupted by my cell phone ringing. I pulled it out of my coat pocked and looked at the caller ID. It was Rosalie.
"Hello?" I said flipping it open.
"Hey, where are you guys, one second you were behind us and now your not." She almost sounded excited.
"Oh, sorry, Rose, I made a left instead of going straight. It's faster this way." I tried to explain.
"It is not!" She accused playfully. "Were you trying to get a little quality time in with Eddie?" I could hear muffled giggles in the background. I tried to cover my face with my hair to shield my blush from Edward.
"Eddie?" I whispered into the receiver. "No, really Rose, it's just faster. Watch, I'll beat you home." I tried to shake her teasing off as nothing.
"Liar!" she yelled into the phone playfully. "But when you and Edward get home, just don't do anything that I wouldn't do…" She was teasing again.
"Alright, bye Rose…" I snapped my phone shut, sighed and shook my head back and forth.
"So, we're in a race?" Edward sounded enthusiastic.
"Ha, yeah," I accelerated a little quickly when the light we were at turned green. "I hope you don't mind that you're going to miss the tour." I joked.
"Just as long as we win, I don't mind." I looked over at him and his green eyes were sparkling with excitement. He said 'we'… I smiled back and continued to race though the streets of Seattle.
"Ooh, quick tour moment," I leaned over Edward and pointed out his window "That's UWT." He looked at my arm and I noticed the proximity to him and pulled it away. He looked out his window at the school; I could have sworn he was smiling. I turned my focus back to driving trying to keep my chagrin at a minimum.
I made the sharp left onto our street then raced down to the end where our apartment building was and pulled into the drive. "And this is where Alice, Rose and I live." I parked my car and turned off the engine. I looked over at Edward and he was looking out the windshield at the blue apartments intently.
"Which one is yours?" He asked.
"That one," I pointed to the third story window "The one with the purple curtains…its Alice's room. She likes purple." I clicked my seatbelt off and popped my trunk to get the luggage out.
"Purple?" He looked at me and raised his eyebrows.
"Eh, it's kind of her fetish." I opened my door and got out to look around the parking lot. Rose's car was nowhere in site. I looked over at Edward and smiled. "We won."
He smiled at me "Cool."
I walked to the back of my car and began grabbing out Edwards bags. I thought I would be able to pick up the big black one, but I guess I wrong because I heaved it over the ledge of my trunk then immediately fell with it onto the pavement.
"Are you okay?" Edward came over to help me. Oh Gosh, Rose didn't need to tell Jasper anything embarrassing about me, I could just do it live for Edward, "Here, let me get that." He took the suit case from off of me and from my hands. "Sorry, we had a limit of bags that we could take and I had to pack as much as I could in this…" His voice sounded guilty.
"It's okay," I tried to get up, but suddenly felt Edwards hand on one of my own, helping me up. "Thanks." I looked down trying to hide my blush that I could feel coming on again. What's with me?! I've never been like this around a guy…usually I'm so straight forward…ugh. Annoying, beautiful Green eyed, perfect bronze hair boy.
"Oh," I felt his free hand rise to my head and pull something from my hair. "You had a leaf in your hair from your little fall." He tried not to laugh throwing the leaf back on the floor. Just then Rose's car came flying into the parking lot. Alice had her face plastered to the window and she was smiling with all her teeth. I realized that Edward was still holding onto my hand from helping me up and gently pulled it away from his. I didn't look up see his face, but just went to grab the smaller, and hopefully lighter, black suit case.
I heard Rose's car turn off and their doors slam shut.
"I guess you were right," Rose stated "Your way is faster." She had fake disappointment in her voice. "I'll remember that next time. . ." She trailed off opening her trunk and helping the guys get all of their luggage out. Alice seemed unusually quiet.
We hauled the luggage all three stories in silence to our room.
Emmett was, once again able to break the silence as I fumbled with my keys trying to open our door. "69?" he stated laughing.
"Shut up…" Rose said. "It's not like we get to choose our numbers for our own rooms."
I laughed remembering when Alice, Rose and I were first give room 69. We joked around for hours about all the things that would have happened or will happen in this apartment.
A/N: So, this chapter was kind of lame, but I still hope that everyone enjoyed it! What do you think the guys and girls should do for the guy's first night in Seattle? I honestly don't have any idea what they should do, so please give me suggestions! I love incorporating as many of them as I can into the story!
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