Hey guys,
So I'm back after a loooong break. I've had this story in storage for quite some time now and struggled to start it as I actually started a good few chapters in, parts where floating around in my head and I decided to write them down and make a FF out of them. This first chapter won't be very good as I just needed to get the background down quickly so that I could concentrate more on writing the better chapters that are sure to come...well hopefully anyway :p
Enjoy!
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BPOV
Chapter 1
Moving In
Just breathe.
I kept on chanting the same thing to myself as I pulled up outside the house that I saw in the paper, there was an ad for a girl looking for a roommate and I was in desperate need of a place.
I had just moved away from my horrible hole of a room with my EX-friend and was in need of a place to stay ASAP.
I had recently moved to Seattle only a few months ago and had to come from a small town known as Forks with my old friend Jessica and her creep of a boyfriend Mike. We had just finished college and where moving here for the whole city life experience, I graduated with honours in English Literature and used my Grandmother's inheritance money to buy a small shop that I was going to do up all nice and make it into the local book shop.
It has taken these past few months of living here to get it all decorated and suitable for customers, however I am in need of another home as Jessica caught Mike trying to kiss me and threw us BOTH out!
I mean come on!
I didn't even do anything! I told her months ago that he tried hitting on me but she just brushed it off and told me that it was all in my head.
Now I know that I am not the prettiest girl there is, I'm not ugly but the better word would be ordinary, I have plain brown hair and eyes and skin so fair that should not belong to a girl that spent most of her life living in Arizona. But I knew when a guy was hitting on someone and he was defiantly hitting on me.
So here I am now, getting out of my rust bucket of a Chevy and chewing on my bottom lip from the nerves of meeting my new "roomie."
I have met her before, Alice is her name, but that was a quick 10 minute tour and then I made the decision to move in over how close it is to the book store plus the fact that it is a really nice place and the rent isn't that bad.
As I walked along the short path, the front door swung open and revealed Alice.
There she was in all her small glory, she was about up to the height of my shoulder, short spiky black hair that stuck out at every direction, that looked really good, and was wearing a really nice pair of jeans and a funky t-shirt.
"Bella!" She called out to me, even though I was only a few steps away from her by now.
"Err, hi." I said uncertainly, I really like her and could have ended up with someone much worse than her, so I feel pretty lucky. But she's just so hyper and confident that it is going to take a little time to get used to, compared to my quiet, shy demeanour of course.
"So where is all your stuff then?"
"It's in the truck." I pointed my thumb over my shoulder.
"Emmett!" Alice screamed.
I had to refrain from covering my ears with my hands at the high pitched sound that came out of her mouth.
"What!" I heard the gruff voice before I saw the owner; he stood in the doorway and looked like a bear.
He was huge!
Muscles the size of my thigh, short brown hair and big brown eyes.
"Ahhh another shorty." The guy, Emmett said, looking at me rubbing his hands together and licking his lips like I was his next prey.
"Shut it Emmett!" Alice glared at him before she turned to me with a bright smile on her face, "Bella this is Emmett, my bear of a big brother."
I smiled shyly at him and gave a small wave, he stood there crossing his arms and gave me a warm smile. I think I'm going to like him.
Alice then proceeded to dictate to Emmett where to put all my things, I did try to protest but ended up being told to be quiet and go sit in the living room and wait for Emmett to bring everything in.
To be honest I was glad that he did it all for me because I was completely shattered after loading it all up and was not looking forward to unloading it all.
I wondered up the steps and headed into the house, straight for the living room doing exactly what Alice told me to.
The next thing I knew was feeling someone poking me in the ribs, chanting my name over and over again.
"Belllllaaaaa. Earth to Bellllllaaaa, come in Belllaaaaaa."
"Whaaaat?" I croaked.
Oh no!
I shot up.
I fell asleep and staring right down at me was Alice, hands on hips and a stern expression on her face.
"Oh Alice I'm so sorry. I don't even remember falling asleep." I tried to get out in all one breath, not sure if it made a lot of sense to her seeing as it didn't to me.
Alice just shook her head and laughed, "No worries Bella." She pulled me up by my hand and started leading me out of the room, "Everything is done, Emmett set up your room and I sorted all your clothes, with an outfit laid out on your bed ready for tonight."
I stopped at the bottom of the stairs, which she was trying to push me up, "Wait, what's happening tonight?"
"Oh we're all going out." She said with a big smile plastered on her face, "To a bar just down the road from us, my other brother, Edward is playing tonight and you can meet my boyfriend and Emmett's girlfriend as well."
Apprehension crossed my features which made Alice perk up even more, jumping up and down, "Oh pleasssssssse Bella, it will be so much fun and don't worry about meeting them, they'll love you."
I let out a sigh and smiled down at the bouncing pixie, not wanting to disappoint her I turned and headed up the stairs, "Ok."
"Great," Alice screamed. "I'll be up in 10 to help you with your hair and make-up."
Oh great...I hate being a Barbie doll.
Oh suck it up Bella, Alice seems like a great person and you don't know many do you?
Shaking my head I put the outfit on that Alice laid out for me, which was a royal blue fitted shirt, which I liked very much and very tight black jeans. Hmm I don't remember this being amongst my other clothes, but I didn't think about it too long as I looked in the mirror as I did look pretty good in it.
I sat down on my already made up bed and awaited the torture of Alice and became even more nervous about meeting everyone else.
What if they don't like me?
I know...not the best start, but I promise you. Just keep reading and it WILL get better.
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