A/N: Hey guys!! Welcome to my second fanfiction. I know… I'm excited too. XD

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Still don't own anything but the plot…. And without further ado… CHAPTER ONE

BPOV:

Lying on my bed, staring at my laptop screen, I could literally feel my jaw drop. It was spectacular… like a palace, but grander… MUCH grander.

"ALICE!!" I called out.

"Mmugh!" Alice came into my room, her voice muffled by the toothpaste and toothbrush in her mouth. Rosalie came in after her probably wondering about all the commotion.

"Are you sure I'm looking at the right website?!"

"Is it the one with the clear blue pool that surrounds the castle like hotel?" Rose answered calmly . I only nodded silently.

"… the one with the large ivory domes?" she continued.

I nodded again.

"… the one that looks like the freakin Taj Mahal except BIGGER?!" Rose said excitedly jumping on my bed, landing right next to me. I nodded. "Well, you've got the right one then." She said coolly, peering over my shoulder at the hotel that we were going to stay at in India.

…. INDIA. I never thought I was ever going to say this, but I'm actually looking forward to time away with the girls.

Alice's parents bought Rosalie, Alice, and I tickets to go to India for our college graduation present.

"Ah'm hu ehihed abou ha'hing hu boo'ys wi u!!" Alice excitedly announced. I looked at Rosalie as she looked at me. We shared a mirror mask of confusion on our faces.

"Alice… spit then talk. Not talk then spit… remember, we went over this." Rose lectured Alice like a mother. Rosalie tried to keep a smile back as Alice (with much complaining… though we didn't understand ANY of it) spit out her toothpaste.

"I SAID…" Alice started.

"Umm… Alice. We're right here. No need to yell." I told her.

"I said 'I'm so excited about having the boys with us!!" she said in a more subdued tone.

"BOYS?!" Rose and I exclaimed at the same time.

"Yeah… Didn't I tell us guys?" she said, but after looking at our confused faces she teased us, " Hmm… must have slipped my mind… Oh well!!" Alice started going back to her own room.

"ALICE MARY BRANDON!! Don't you dare walk away from us." Rosalie's tone was deadly. Best not to mess with her… even I know that.

Alice came back smiling, pranced up to my bed and took a seat.

"What boys?" I asked.

"I'm sure you remember my dear brother Edward." She said, clearly enjoying the look on my face. "Edward, and his two friends Emmett and Jasper are meeting us in India. I doubt we're going to be hanging around them much though."

Edward…

Amazing how just one name could evoke so many memories and emotions.

RPOV:

"Edward, and his two friends Emmett and Jasper are meeting us in India. I doubt we're going to be hanging around them much though."

Hmm… I do recall Alice saying that she had a twin brother. Of course I've never met him… or his friends, because I didn't go to the same high school as Bella and Alice. I only met them in college. We shared a room.

"Emmett went to the same school as us." Alice explained to me. "And Jasper… I've never met him either."

I looked over at Bella. She looked totally dazed.

"Edward…" she whispered, barely opening her mouth to breath out his name.

Alice caught me staring at Bella. She let out a big sigh.

"Bella…" she started. "Well… it was obvious to everyone that she carried a torch for him… obvious to everyone… but him."

I nodded to her to continue.

"He only saw her as a friend… but of course things are more than a bit different this time around…"

I cocked an eyebrow at her.

"Bella… in high school… well… I think I have a picture on my computer." Alice dashed away.

Wonder what made her so reluctant to say.

She came back clutching her bright pink macbook. I saw her open it and click around a bit before she turned the computer to face me.

I couldn't help myself. I gasped. If Alice hadn't said that that was Bella… I probably would have pegged her for another… WAY different girl.

…I mean… Bella in this high school had horrible acne, huge black glasses, and a goofy smile… and if you squint a bit… you could make out broccoli… or was that spinach between her teeth and braces.

All I could say was…. WOW. Definitely not the Bella I'm used to seeing around the house. She had really changed since high school.

"Yup." Alice stated, as if answering the question in my mind. "Now you can see why we can't blame the poor guy for seeing her just as a friend."

"Well, I at least LOOK better." A voice said from behind my shoulder. I turned and saw Bella looking at the picture of when she was in high school, with the same horror and shock as Alice and I. "The zits finally cleared off. The braces came off. I got contacts…"

"And your chest grew!" I added. That probably made the most difference in her appearance. In the picture she had a totally flat chest.

"Don't worry, Bella. We're going to make him beg for you." Alice said with a triumphant smile.

"I mean… look at you now. A guy has to be mad not to want this." I said, motioning to Bella with my hands like a showgirl with the wheel of fortune. "You're every man's dream and you've got a personality to match."

"Yup. Not every girl can say that about herself, and yet here we are: three beautiful ladies with awesome personalities, off to go to India for an adventure of a lifetime!... AND possibly the love of a lifetime." The pixie said with a wink, pulling us in for a big group hug. "I have a really good feeling about this trip." I heard Alice whisper.

JPOV:

"Hey Edward! Did you happen to see where my blue sweater went?" I yelled at Edward.

"You mean this?!" I heard Edward yell back. As I turned toward his voice, a blue sweater hit me in the face. I heard booming laughter. Emmett, no doubt about it.

"I can't believe you're done packing already!" I said to Emmett who was lying down on the couch with a bottle of beer in his hand.

"Packing's easy. Just through in a couple pairs of jeans and shirts… not to mention underwear and socks…"

"You know this is a fancier place. You have to dress at least a bit better. Not to mention there are going to be girls there with us…" Edward said.

Girls, huh… I hadn't heard about this part of the trip.

We were each given a ticket to India from Edward's parents for a graduation gift.

"WHAT… GIRLS?!" I heard Emmett boom, followed by a large thud. I turned to see Emmett flat, lying face down on the carpeted floor, with only his hand up, with his bottle of beer in it.

"Saved the beer…" He muttered as he got up. "Are they hot?!"

"Dude… It's Bella, my sister, and their friend Rosalie."

"But are they HOT?!" Emmett asked. Edward shot him a look. If looks could kill… Emmett would be dead 9 times over.

"Hey… I remember Bella. Bella from high school, Bella. Right? She wasn't much to look at… but she was nice. She was like my sister." Emmett said smiling brightly, probably reliving some high school memories.

I wouldn't know Bella or Rosalie. I had met Emmett and Edward at college when I roomed with them, while Emmett and Edward went to the same high school and knew each other long before that.

"Is Rosalie hot?" Emmett (of course) asked.

"No idea, I haven't met her. She's probably a friend they made at college." Edward answered.

I decided to play with Edward a bit.

"Is your sister, Alice hot?" I asked. I could see him visibly cringe. Edward looked as if he would gag.

"SHE'S MY SISTER!" I chocked back my laughter as I saw his face. Emmett was full out laughing on the floor, his voice muffled by the furry white rug. I always thought that it was a good thing that we had a carpet in the living room.

"UGH!! I'm going to bed. We have a long flight tomorrow." Edward went to his room frusterated… with us most likely.

EPOV:

Sometimes those guys are so immature.

My thoughts drifted back to our vaction in India that starts tomorrow. I wasn't just excited about going to India. However exotic and dreamlike it seems, it's still going to be similar to everyother place in the world.

What I find myself really looking forward to is finally seeing Bella tomorrow after… what seemed like forever… and more.

We were really close in high school. I even considered asking her out for prom… you know, just as friends. But that was before Tanya Denali asked me to go with her and Bella agreed to go with Mike.

I'm really excited to see what she's been up to since high school. And she's probably changed a bit… I'm sure. But not too much. She'll still be the same Bella. Bella with glasses, braces, a nice smile, and the same witty sense of humor that I've grown to miss over the years in college.