Never Have I Ever


Bella never had a sleepover at Rosalie Hale's house.

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It's something I might have done if I were in the popular clique and I know exactly how it would have gone down.

I'm eleven and excited, Rosalie's twelve and already way too old for this. Rosalie's mom wouldn't let Jasper invite a bunch of his friends over the same night causing him to hide in his room all night. The lack of boys puts Rosalie in a bad mood which she takes out on everyone until she gets bored with that, too.

We play Truth or Dare and I find myself making out with the back of her hand, but I've gotten off easy. One girl had to call the lamest boy in school and ask him out and I would have rather died.

I dare Rosalie to answer the door when the pizza guy gets there wearing her underwear on the outside of her clothes and Rosalie loves it — which I knew she would. All of us pose for cute pictures and then someone's demonstrating blowjob techniques on a Coke bottle. No one ever gets around to telling any truths. It's probably a good thing because I don't have anything to tell.

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The thing is, Rosalie Hale never looked at Bella twice when she was eleven. Or when she was any age, actually. Rosalie was Queen Bee and Bella was a weird kid with her nose stuck in a book.

Bella's not bitter about it or anything — that's just the way of life.