I don't own Twilight.

First chapter of my new story. This chapter is in Bella's pov. Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1 - Getting Through.

I stared up at the large red bricked building. I was nervous, I could feel the mark my sweaty palms were leaving on the strap of my midnight blue backpack. This was the first time I'd really been away from home, and talk about throwing me in at the deep end, they were sending me away for year only to return on school holidays.

"Okay baby, do you have everything?" my mum asked. She was huddled into my dad trying not to cry while I was watching. They stood by my dad's police cruiser, thankfully he'd taken the day off today. I nodded quickly and offered her a reassuring smile I didn't believe myself.

"Oh come on Bella, it'll be alright," I recognised my best friend Alice's voice as she skipped over to me. "Hi Renee, hi Charlie," she smiled.

Alice and I had been friends for a long time, she and her brother Emmett had protected me through my embarrassing speech impediment through middle school, that's how we met. A group of girl's were laughing at me when my teacher told me to introduce myself and Alice stood up for me, telling them how unattractive they looked making fun of a poor new student. She helped me through it as much as she could, but when the kids started to go too far, Emmett had to step it, everyone was scared of him so they soon backed off.

Emmett was a year above us, so he'd already been here for a year and knew where he was going. "Okay make sure you write to us, or email sorry, and I'll call you," Renee started to break.

"I'll miss you, bye," I hugged both my parents tightly not sure if I wanted to let go. Alice grabbed my hand and waved quickly to my parents as she dragged me towards the building. I glanced over my shoulder quickly and saw Carlisle and Esme, Alice's parents, climbing into their black Mercedes. I waved to them, they were like my second parents. "So what've you been doing this summer? I've hardly seen you".

"I've been helping Carlisle and Esme, you remember I said they adopted another son?" I nodded quickly remembering her bringing it up almost a year ago. "Turns out Edward needs more help than they first thought, that boy hardly leaves his room, I've been like a servant, have to take his dinner to him and everything, well I volunteered just for an excuse to actually see who was living in the room next to mine, before that I had no idea what he looked like," she rolled her eyes.

"It's not going well then?"

"Understatement, Carlisle finally convinced him to go to school a few weeks ago, he's fine with him and Emmett, but he's terrified of me and Esme, apparently he's had a bad experience with women, Esme's been upset about the whole thing, he fears her the most, she gives him his breakfast bowl and he hunches over like he's protecting himself".

"Oh poor Esme, how can anyone not like her?"

"You obviously haven't had an Esme lecture," she giggled. "They're scary, Emmett gets them all the time".

"So is Edward coming here?"

"Yeah, I'm sure you'll meet him soon enough, come on let's go and find out what room we're in," she said as she dragged me over to the dormitory building. We entered through a large glass door and found ourselves in a large room with lots of windows. It was decorated entirely in different shades of blue and had thick navy carpets. There were lots of comfy looking sofas and they were all positioned around widescreen TVs. "The list is over here".

She ran off then into a large crowd of students. "Hey squirt," I heard Emmett's booming voice behind me. "Don't you want to know your room?"

I turned to see him glaring off into the crowd. He had a few of his football buddies "Alice is looking, I wasn't going in there," I smiled at him.

"We're in the same room," Alice squealed running back over to me. "Get lost Emmett, you're only checking out all the new girls". Emmett grinned guiltily. How did Alice know her brother so well. I assumed it must be a sister thing. "Come on Bella, let's leave the pervs to their business".

She was dragging me again. I wasn't sure why she was always in such a rush to do everything. Why couldn't we just go at my pace for once? Our room was nice, something I hadn't expected. It was decorated in lilac, with a violet carpet, soothing colours. There was already a blonde girl unpacking her things. She looked up as we entered and smiled the most beautiful smile I'd ever seen. She was insanely beautiful and my self esteem took a serious hit. "Hi guys, I'm Rosalie," great she had a angelic voice as well. Alice and I wouldn't have a chance next to her.

"Hi I'm Alice and this is Bella, it's so nice to meet you, we're going to be great friends," Alice rushed through the words without taking a breath.

Rosalie's eyes widened. "Is she always like this?"

"Pretty much, wait until you see her with a sugar rush, she's scary," I giggled at Alice's pouting face.

"Great, a scary hyperactive pixie, Jasper will love you," she rolled her eyes.

"Jasper?" Alice and I asked together.

"My twin brother, he loves perky girls with lots of energy, his last girlfriend literally started to bounce off the walls at on point," she picked up a silver picture frame of her and a boy who looked similar to her so I guessed it was the boy she spoke of, she handed it to Alice.

Alice squealed again. "Oh my God, am I okay to go out with your brother, I don't want to upset our friendship," Rosalie laughed.

"It's okay, as long as you don't start telling me what a great kisser he is or anything like that, some things a sister doesn't need to know, but I will warn you, if you hurt him I know where you live".

Alice faked a scared look. We all got on very well and chatted while we unpacked a few things. We had a heated debate over who got which bed. Alice and Rosalie finally decided they'd use the bunk beds in an attempt to get as far away from my talking in my sleep. I was in the single bed on the other side of the room. "I can't believe you're going to your first period looking like that," Alice crinkled her nose at me.

"What? I only just about managed to come here, I don't get your weekly allowance to buy whatever I want," I sneered. She pouted at me.

"No, but I can loan you my clothes anytime, and I've been begging you to let me buy you things every time we go shopping, so stop being moody and put this and these on," she threw a black, leather jacket that hugged what figure I had and black ankle boots with heels I was dubious of. I knew better to argue and pulled them on. "Better, come on we better get going".

We walked off together until we needed to go our separate ways. I found my biology room quite easily only stumbling a few times. I opened the door glad to see I wasn't late and looked around. There was one seat left next to the most gorgeous boy I'd ever seen. He glanced at me quickly as I sat next to him, before quickly averting his gaze to his notebook. "Hi," I smiled trying to look friendly.

He shied away from me, perching himself as far across the desk as he could get. "Hi," he mumbled before hunching himself over protectively. At this point the teacher announced himself. I couldn't help glancing up occasionally at the beautiful, bronze haired boy. He caught me once, for a moment his emerald green eyes locked onto mine before we both looked away. I blushed automatically.

Finally Mr Steven's excused us and I ran off to find Alice. We had Spanish together. I found her halfway to the room chatting with another few girls, everyone loved how excitable Alice was. We walked to Spanish together and sat next to each other near the back. Alice was already gossiping about something, I just nodded along while my mind was still on the strange boy in my biology class. "Oh my God, there he is," Alice started whacking my arm.

"Ow, Alice stop it," I complained. Her focus was gone and she was staring at the blonde boy with curly who just sat down in front of her. She leaned forward in her seat and tapped him gently on the shoulder, why couldn't she do that to me rather than bruising me, purple marks looked awful against my too pale skin.

"Hi I'm Alice, you're related to Rosalie aren't you?" she was smiling like a kid who had just seen a sweet shop.

He nodded. "I'm Jasper, we're twins".

"I guessed, you too look so alike, you're both gorgeous," I rolled my eyes at her. He grinned and turned back to the board.

"You may as well just drool over him Alice," I laughed, I noticed the corner of his mouth twitch up. "Oops I think he heard me".

"Will you shut up," her face went red then and she hid herself in her arms.

"Hola Chicos," a petite woman with long black hair called entering the room. "Me llamo Rebecca Cornwell, bienvenidos," she smiled and placed a pile of textbooks on each of the front desks. "Take one and pass them back".

Alice didn't retreat from her protective form until the bell rang. We had a short break then. "Do you mind if I hang with you guys," Jasper asked in his slight southern drawl. Strange I hadn't noticed Rosalie's accent. Alice's mouth fell open and he grinned at the reaction.

"I think that means yes," I laughed. "I'm Bella by the way, we're your sisters roommates," I smiled pulling Alice up from her seat.

Rosalie met us outside our Spanish room. I wasn't sure if she was waiting for us or Jasper, but they both joined us as we searched for Emmett. Alice wasn't very eager to find her newest brother. "Emmy," Alice cried loudly as we finally spotted him laughing with a group of guys.

He excused himself from them and made his way over to us. "Alice, you're not supposed to talk to me here," he almost growled.

"Emmett, we're not going to damage your rep, you were talking to us earlier," Alice pouted, but he wasn't listening. He was too busy staring over her shoulder. I followed his gaze to Rosalie, of course he would be staring at the supermodel in a teenager's body. Alice noticed too, "If you don't want to talk to us, then I can't introduce you to my new roommate".

"Fine, just introduce me," he almost begged.

She started jumping up and down before calling Rosalie and Jasper over to us. "Rosalie, Jasper, this is my brother Emmett, he's in the year above us," Emmett pushed past us and grabbed Rosalie's hand, raising it to his lips and kissing her knuckles. Rosalie offered a polite smile, while the rest of us rolled our eyes. Emmett was such a goof sometimes, he watched too many chick flicks.

"Have you seen Edward around?" he turned back quickly to Alice who shook her head. "We're supposed to be keeping an eye on him, how can we do that if we can't even find him".

"There he is," Alice pointed out the same strange boy I'd sat next to. He was sitting hunched over on a wooden bench clearly uncomfortable by the group of girls who were trying to talk to him. "Emmett, he's going to freak out over there, he can't even handle being near me, let alone a whole group of girls".

Emmett ran off to the boy, I felt bad for him. He was so uncomfortable by the girls presence, but none of them seemed to care, they were too taken in by his looks. As Emmett got close a look of relief flashed onto his face. He rescued him and brought him back over to us. "Edward, are you okay?" Alice asked as she put a hand on his shoulder. He shrugged her off.

"Edward, it's Alice, she won't hurt you," Emmett's voice was quiet for once, in a soothing tone. Edward nodded.

"I'm fine," he mumbled. Well at least his behaviour wasn't just aimed at me.

"Edward, this is Jasper, Rosalie and Bella, they're our friends, they won't hurt you either," Alice was smiling at him.

He looked up slightly and his eyes locked onto mine again. I froze feeling myself becoming hypnotised by his gaze. "I'm sorry I was rude to you earlier," he smiled. Alice glared at me dumbstruck.

I know it's not very good, just a very long introduction to the story, but it will get better or at least I hope it will. Anyway please review.