CHAPTER 1- Arrival

BPOV

"I HATE YOU" screeched my best friend, Alice, to her boyfriend, Jasper.

"WELL, THE FEELINGS MUTUAL" he yelled back.

This was what I heard when I arrived at my best friend's house. I was spending my summer holidays with her after not seeing her for almost six months. I missed her. It was really hard to say goodbye when I was leaving home to go to college but I wanted to get away from forks. It was my escape route.

I really should introduce myself. My names Bella Swan and I'm 21. I have brown wavy hair and brown eyes. I'm really clumsy and have been in the emergency room more times than I can remember. My best friend Alice has black spiky hair and looks like a pixie. Guys tend to fall over her feet and that's what happened to Jasper. Jasper is extremely good-looking with blond hair and loads of muscles.

Now Alice and Jasper rarely argue so it was a bit of a shock to arrive back to it.

As I knocked on the door I could hear the argument die down as they went to open it.

"OMG, Bella you're early." Said Alice

"I know I thought id surprise you" I said back

"Well hello Bella, what a surprise to see you here" announced Jasper

"Hey Jazz how you doing"

"Good, Good but how are you-"

"Bella, it's been so long we need to catch up. Jazzy go tell Rose that Bella's here and that well meet her at the club in about an hour." Alice commanded

"Wait, what were going clubbing but Alice I just got here and I'm really tired."

"Oh but Bella Rose really wants to see you and since she's working today I thought we'd go to her work to visit. Pretty please bells." Giving me her best puppy-dog eyes I gave in.

"fine but no Bella Barbie. Ill dress myself tonight ."

"okay go and get ready then" Wow this was strange. Alice never gave in without a fight and the fight she normally wins. She must desperately want to see Rose.

I went to my car to get my bags. I wasn't expecting any help so I didn't ask. After all, Alice would be worried about breaking a nail or messing up her hair and jasper was on the phone so he wasn't going to be much help.

I carried my duffel bag upstairs along with my suitcase and handbag. As I unpacked my phone rang.

"Hello"

"Hey Bells its Jake" Jacob black has been one of my closet friends since college and our families went back years. He was the sort of guy most girls would fall over (tanned and muscles galore) except from yours truly, who didn't see him that way.

"Oh hi Jake. What's up?"

"Nothing much. Just heading out with some of my friends from La Push"

"Oh, okay. So I've been back for about 20 minutes and Alice has already made me agree to go to a club with her and her boyfriend were we will be meeting Rose from her shift and then hitting the town" I moaned

"That sounds like a lot of fun Bells" he replied sarcastically

"Yeah. Can't wait"

"Well don't you sound like you're all sunshine and rainbows this evening?"

"Very funny Jake. Anyways, I have to start getting ready or Alice will kick down my door and drag me into her room so she can get me ready"

"Okay id better let you go then. I know how much you hate being Bella Barbie. Love you, Bells"

"Love you too, Jake." He hung up and I proceeded to get ready, taking out my strawberry shampoo and conditioner and hitting the shower.

By the time id finished in the shower it was coming up to twenty to seven. Were supposed to meet Rose at seven, so I'd have to rush. I pulled out my favourite midnight blue dress, black tights and blue stilettos. I slipped my blue bra set on and applied my make-up. Then I blow dried my hair to give it oomph and dry it. I slipped into my dress and was pulling up my tights when Jasper knocked on my door.

"Bella, can I come in" he asked

"Sure, Jazz" I answered

As he pulled the door open I couldn't help but notice what he was wearing. The black dress shirt strained against his muscles, showing off every one of them. His black jeans hung low on his waist and were tight. Alice was one very lucky lady.

"Bella, Alice said if you are not downstairs within the next five minutes then she will leave without you." He said this as I was pulling on my stilettos (I could just about walk in them without falling over.)

"I'm ready, Jazz. Let's go downstairs and get out of this place before Alice has both our heads"

"I couldn't agree more." He said as he looped his arm through mine, as we walked down the stairs.

"What took you guys so long? Anyone would have thought you were doing something up there." Alice stated.

"Umm Alice. Number one I would never do that to you. Number two . Jasper doesn't feel that way about me, at least I hope not"

"No I don't. No offence Bella "

"None taken. And thirdly, calm down and let's get going."

"Sorry, and let's go!"

As we stepped onto the porch we were faced with a dilemma. Whose car would we take? You see, there were three cars there we had to pick one. I voted for Jaspers Audi as it was the biggest and all four of us could fit in there( counting Rose) but Alice wanted to take her Porsche yet that only fit two people, so that was out. However my car was a very sleek, fast, black Mercedes that could fit four people in and was faster than the Audi. Being as we were running late we chose my Mercedes. The hard part was choosing the designated driver. Rose was out as she had been working all day and would need time to wind down. Alice wanted to drink so she was clearly out. It was between me and Jasper. I didn't mind driving but seeing as it was my first day here Jasper insisted that he drove. So I let him.

With that all sorted(Jasper driving my car) we set off to meet Rose.