Disclaimer-- I don't own Twilight or the rule.

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BPOV

Today is my first day working at my new job. I finally quit my job at Newton's. His antics to get me to dump Edward for him were getting ridiculous so I just had to get away. Now I'm stuck in an office.

Edward was sympathetic toward me so he promised to come with me today. My first day on the job.

"Are you sure about this, love?" Edward asked for the ump-teenth time.

"Yes, Edward. Now calm down. Everything will be fine." I assured him.

Edward and I walked out of the elevator hand in hand. The secretary showed me to my prison cell of an 'office'. Before I could even sit down, there was a knock on my door.

It opened before I could even answer it. How rude.

A tall, pretty red-head walked in holding two bottles of water and a can of coke. She looked very office-like in her pencil skirt and tucked in button-up blouse. Man. She must be smart! Look at her!

"Hi. I heard you're new but I need some serious help!" She said frantically.

"Sure. What's the problem?"

"Well." She said as she set her drinks onto my desk. "I'm confused. I don't know which of these drinks has less calories. You see. I'm on a diet..." She trailed off at my disbelieving look. How the hell could she not know that water has 0 calories? Even if she didn't know, all she had to do was read the health chart above the ingredients and read the amount of calories.

Edward started laughing his ass off. He couldn't help it.

"What's so funny?" She asked confused again.

"Well. Usually drinks that don't have sugar have less calories." I said as lightly as I could.

"Oh. Okay." She said. Then she concentrated extremely hard on her drinks. She finally walked over to a cupboard at the back wall and pulled out a cup.

She poured the coke and a bottle of water into the cup. Gross! Watery coke!

"Thanks!" She said after a sip of her concotion. Her face didn't even show any displeasure in drinking her witches brew! "I can taste the diet working already!"

And with that she walked out of my office and closed the door behind her leaving the unopened water bottle on my desk.

I turned to Edward and he started cracking up again.

"You were right, Bella." Edward said while laughing. "You're going to be just fine working here!" He held his sides because he was laughing so hard.

I narrowed my eyes at him and glared. "Well at least she gave me a water bottle. Now I don't have to buy one."

I learned an extremely valuable lesson today. Looks can be extremely deceiving.

Rule: Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.