Authors Note:

Set when everyone is still at school, Chuck and Blair aren't together, I know Rosalie would probably never take "a break" from Emmett, but I had an idea an ran with it.

Chapter 1

"I have to go!" I screamed at Emmett, for what felt like the millionth time.

"No, you don't. Running away from problems never helps Rose, please just stay."

"If I thought it would help things, I would. But the fact is that it's not. I have to do this. I won't be gone long. Just the winter season, I might even come home sooner."

"I'll be waiting for you." he said, defeated. I kissed him on the cheek and went to the car. Alice appeared out of nowhere, looking upset.

"You don't have to come. You don't even want to."

"I do." she lied. I rolled my eyes, started the engine and raced off. Truthfully, I wanted Alice with me. I hated going off on my own. And we always had such funny times together. I had missed her really. Ever since Bella came on the scene she was all Alice could talk about. She's not even that pretty.

After a couple hours of proving to myself that I'm prettier than Bella in my head (yes, I'm that pathetic. So what?), I put her to the back of my mind. Alice was now hyper and excited about where we were going.

"New York, I still can't believe it!" she laughed.

"I know, have you even ever been there before?"

"No, I don't think so."

"You'll love it." I promised her.

We finally reached our hotel and collapsed straight onto our beds. True, we never slept, but travelling can take it out of you!

"What are we going to do first?" asked Alice.

"First, we're going to get our story straight for tomorrow at school."

"Oh, OK then. Sisters?"

"But we look so different…" I said, looking at the mirror. Hmm, my hair looked good today… no, focus on the conversation.

"We can say I dyed my hair if anyone asks." decided Alice. I laughed.

"Sounds good."

The rest of the night we just messed around for a bit, gossiping on everyone and anyone we could think of. Alice was so different when it was just us two. More like me, like she was actually my sister.

At around 4 o'clock in the morning we started to get out our school uniforms, and adjusting them to our taste. All I did was make mine a little bit tighter and shorter. No harm done really. Alice made her skirt more layered, going for the gothic fairy look. Well, she could defiantly pull it off. Hair and make up was next, but I just did the usual. I left my natural long hair slightly wavy, and added a little eyeliner and red lipstick.

By the time we had finished getting ready it was time for school. This time our school was called Constance Billard School For Girls. We linked arms as we walked in, and went straight to reception.

"Good morning, how can I help you?" asked the woman behind the desk.

"We're new students here." said Alice sweetly. "My name is Alice Smith and this is my sister, Rosalie Smith."

"Oh, I see. Here are your timetables and a map of the school for you each. If you need any help, feel free to ask."

"Thank you very much." smiled Alice. We walked away comparing timetables. We seemed to have all of our lessons together, apart from English, which was the first lesson. We hugged each other goodbye and then left for our lessons.

My lesson wasn't actually that far away, and I ended up following a couple of boys to the classroom. They seemed to be talking about some girl… Serena…? I'd never heard of her. I decided that the one on the left was the pretty boy, but the one on the right was… handsome and manly… I don't know why but I liked him a lot. They went into the classroom, and I went straight up to the teacher. That's when they noticed me, and when my ability to hear clearly across rooms came into use.

"Wow! Who the hell is she?" the handsome/manly one asked.

"I have no idea, but she's beautiful." said then pretty boy. "She looks a bit like Serena, in a way."

That's when my face must have shown my annoyance, the teacher showed me nervously to a seat. I hated being compared to other girls. I was me.

"No. She's completely different from Serena. In a good way." I heard, which made me smile. I was sat two rows behind the boys, and the handsome one turned around quickly to introduce himself.

"Hello, I'm Chuck Bass. What's your name?" he asked in a flirty way.

"I'm Rosalie Smith."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." he smiled, turning back to the front of the class. I smiled too, he seemed nice.

By the end of the day, Alice had made a couple new friends. It was so easy to do when it was just me and Alice around, humans weren't so intimidated. Her new friends seemed cool anyway. One was called Blair, she had dark brown hair and amazing fashion sense. An the other, was Serena. It turned out to be the Serena Chuck and his friend were talking about too. I only know because when they saw us all together, they eagerly joined us.

"Ah, Rosalie. We meet again." said Chuck, as he strode over to me.

"So we do." I smiled.

"Tell me, how would you like to go to dinner with me tonight?" he asked

"I was actually planning on having dinner with Alice, my sister, but we could meet up after. I still need a tour around Manhattan." I smiled.

"That sounds excellent. I'll meet you outside The New York Palace Hotel, at 7?"

"I will." We both smiled at each other.

As we walked back to our hotel, Alice asked me about Chuck.

"So, what is going to happen between you two? You haven't broke up with Emmett have you?"

"Of course I haven't! I just want… I'm not sure really… it's just a tour around the city." I argued.

"We both know it's more than that." Alice commented quietly.