Chapter 1....A New "Abode"

"No flippin' way" Yes, those were my first words in my new home. Granted, it wasn't only my new home, it was also the new home of my two best friends, Bella and Alice. Our parents had been best friends since who knows when, and we had been friends since before we opened our eyes for the first time. (Not literally, of course) The house, ("house" doesn't really seem appropriate, more like mansion) was huge. As big as a circus tent, but with walls, carpet, wood, and air conditioning.

"Welcome to your new abode" I looked over to see Bella trying as best as she could not to laugh. The new assistant Alice's father had hired for himself was hilarious, always using big words like, "abode" and "immense" and "pulchritudinous", (Alice looked that one up in the dictionary, it's another word for 'pretty') to try to make herself sound more professional.

"As you can see, your belongings have already been brought in and set up in the hallway by your rooms. Your rooms of which are all on the third floor, please choose your preference. And girls?" She paused, meeting our eyes, "Please see to it that no destruction is done to the house. Mr. Hale has specifically asked that no harm be done to the house." Bella and Alice laughed. They knew how persnickety my father was, and always has been. When I was little I was not allowed to tough anything on display in the house, no feet on the sofa, I wasn't even ever allowed in his office. It had even became a joke with us, making sure to mock him about it secretly when he would leave the room. Now it was just sort of a nuscience. "I'll leave you three to the details now." She left us through the main door.

"Wow. Well, who wants to go check out our rooms?" Alice said, already halfway up the steps. Bella and I quickly followed her lead, as we bounded up the steps.

"I call this one!" We heard Alice shout from the second room on the left.

"Ooh Rose, this one is perfect for you!" I turned around to see Bella standing in the doorway of the first room. It was derinitely to my liking. The walls were red, with black and white shadowy paintings creatively hung on the walls. The bedding was also black and white, with a swirly pattern curving and whirling throughout the whole comforter. The pillows were either solid black, or solid white, accompanied by several smaller scale red pillows admist them. There was a decent size black desk on one side of the bed, opposed by a rectangular dresser attoped with a mirror, also black, on the other. It was totally me.

"Well go ahead, take it!" Bella said, obvioiusly seeing my excitement. As Bella ran across the hall to see the remaining room, I took a peek in the room Alice had chosen. It was so her style. The walls were a light pink, the furniture an off-white, and the bedding was sophisticated and chic. She had already transferred her suitcases from the hall into her room. I stepped in farther. Now I knew why she had loved this room so much. The closet was as big as a car. I giggled to myself. Alice is absolutely obbsessed with clothes, she just can never get enough. Alice was in such heaven, she never even noticed me come in, so I decided to go see Bella's selection. Even though she got last pick, her room still matched her personality. It wasn't fancy, there was nothing really to brag about, but that was how Bella liked things. Yet still, the room was gorgeous. The furniture was all a deep brown wood, and the walls were what the color of the ocean would be if you traveled to Bora Bora, a beautiful blue. The sheets were pure white, and looked soft. There were several pillows the same color of the walls in the center. "Like your room Bells?" I asked her.

Bella turned around and smiled, "Love it"

I looked around briefly before Alice came in. "Hey, before we came I was researching some local hotspots. There's a piano bar downtown, anybody wanna go? It's got a strict dress coed of formal wear."

Bella growned. "Bet you'll love that, huh Bella?" I asked with a smirk.

Bella replied with only a sarcastric smile.

"Oh c'mon guys, it really will be fun. Please Rosalie?" Alice said, finishing with a smile at me. So it turns out I was the tie breaker huh? "Sorry Bella" I laughed.

"Great!" Alice cheered, "Be ready in forty-five minutes." While I was leaving I could hear Bella murmuring to herself in the backgound about what you're even supposed to wear to a 'dueling piano bar'.

I guess somehow we were all ready to go in the forty five minutes given to us. We all looked very nice, hair pulled back or curled, nice dresses. Yes, even Bella was dressed up in a white dress with black lace peeking out from the hem, (which reached just above her knees) and the sweetheart neckline. Her hair was pulled into a bun on the side of her head, and her feet were placed inside red pumps. Alice was wearing a simple light green strapless dress, adorned with matching Chanel logo earrings, necklace and cuff. I couldn't quite see her shoes because of the length of the dress, but the green really offset the red in her short pixie gut, and made her hazel eyes sparkle. I looked down at my ensemble. I had on a floor length, wine red dress with a plunging neckline and no jewelry, though I did have on a navy blue cocktail ring and pins the same color in my hair, which I wore down in it's natural goldon curls.

I had always been more revealing than the other girls. I suppose I used my beauty for my advantage quite alot. Men had always flocked around me, I had always gotton compliments on how I looked, and now I was just used to it, even expected it. I was vain, even though I hated to admit it, I was. My looks made my parents proud, and alot of the times it felt like they would show me off, like a show dog, to all their friends, and our neighbors. Their pride was one of the reasons I was who I was, and sometimes I hated them for it. I couldn't get those days out of my head the whole ride to the swanky bar in Alice's Porshe.