A/N: This is my first fanfic so it will definitely be getting better than it is now!!

Chapter 1: Friends

BPOV

I walked on campus and looked around. Everyone was here for much of the same reason I was, with the exception of the parents saying their goodbyes to their children, finally on their own. I felt a little sad, I knew Charlie would've liked to see this and I had actually wanted him to come but I knew that if he did I wouldn't be able to bring myself to let him leave.

I kind of wished I had brought my camera in my purse, not packed it away so I could take some quick shots of the school and send them to him right away but I pushed that notion aside. I would look like an idiot if I did that and I didn't really know anyone here, so I needed to look like as little as an idiot as I could.

I knew that plan wouldn't work, but I could try. I was a huge klutz and at a normal school that wouldn't be a problem, but at a fine arts school like this one, it was a disaster. I was majoring in lyrical dance too, so that would be a fun explanation. I wasn't clumsy when I danced but otherwise I fell almost as often as I breathed.

I stopped looking around and pulled out my map. I found where my dorm was and started towards it when a small, pixie like girl bounced over to meet me.

"Hi!" She said brightly.

"Hi to you too. Look no offense but I really have to dump my stuff in my room." I tried to start walking but she grabbed my shoulder.

"Well it's no hurry, classes don't start for a week anyway. And my boyfriend Emmett can help with your bags. I'm Alice by the way. All around dance major. Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Street you name it I'm there!" she grinned. "What about you what do you do?" She furrowed her brow at me as if hoping to see an answer come flying out of my skull.

"Lyrical major, mainly. I'm taking some ballet this year too though. Actually it looks like I got signed up for more than that, Rosalie probably messed with my schedule. She's my step sister." I like this girl, I thought. Maybe I already had a new friend.

"Wait, Rosalie Swan? As in Forks Washington? Oh my gosh does she go here too? She's dating my brother! Hey Edward over here!" She called at a bronze-haired boy who turned around, and was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen.

I later learned that he was a piano major with a minor in street dancing. Alice had forced him into that class and from the look on her face she was very proud of it too.

"So you said Rosalie goes here? She told me she was going to school in L.A." He furrowed his brow and although I hadn't seen any resemblance between the two of them at first he looked so much like Alice then that I thought answers really were coming flying out of my skull I just didn't know it yet.

"Yeah she said something about telling you L.A. and showing up here in New York. You know, to surprise you." I had trouble forming sentences that weren't completely redundant around this Edward. Something about his bright green eyes was, for lack of a better word dazzling.

"hmm..." he looked down. "This could be bad." He muttered. I didn't think he meant for me to hear but I did already know that they had broken up just this morning. I was surprised though now I saw the infamous Edward Cullen. He and Rosalie were the perfect match for each other. She looked like a Sports Illustrated model, although not so slutty as some, and he looked like, like, a Greek god. Those kinds of people always seemed to end up together.

"What do you mean Edward? Why would that be bad?" Alice asked. She gave him the same look they both gave me and I understood immediately. They probably read each other so well they tried it with other people subconsciously.

"You did not!" She gasped. "Edward, you didn't! You couldn't have broken up with her! And not tell me?! Edward what happened?! Tell me-" She stopped short when two people walked up behind me. I already knew that silence for Alice was unusual. I twisted in my seat to look up at them.

"Alice, a new friend already?" The bigger of the two boys asked. He wasn't just bigger though, he was much, much bigger. He had dark hair on his head and looked like he could eat me as a snack.

The other boy must've seen the look on my face because he smirked at me and said "That's Emmett." He was kneeling next to my chair so he wasn't so loud. "He's the height of a giant and has the muscles to match, but he's really just a teddy bear. A big teddy bear mind but he has a soft spot for Alice's friends so he will warm up to you quickly with her approval." He flashed a grin in my direction with blinding white teeth as he straightened up. I realized that he wasn't really that small either, only in comparison was he small. I actually had to crane my neck to look at him, and he wasn't exactly scrawny. His blonde hair was cut to cover a part of his face, and he looked very quiet but I thought we could be friends, especially if it kept me on Emmett's good side!

I untwisted myself to look back at Alice. She was grinning ear to ear towards Emmett, but her eyes were on the blonde boy.

"Emmett, who's your friend?" she was seemingly interested only out of politeness but I could tell she liked this boy and thought they would be great friends, just like me. This was only the day we met and I knew her so well!

"Oops, sorry. This is Jazz. Well Jasper Hale. I'm Emmett Hale by the way. He's my brother." He extended a hand the size of a ham down towards me. When I made that relation though I realized I was starving.

"Isabella Swan, you can call me Bella though." I smiled at him.

"Oh I'm honored with the privilege of the nickname! Impressive." He grinned. "I'm hungry who wants food?"

"Emmett you're always hungry!" Alice laughed. It was a tinkling sound that for some reason made me think of rain on water.

"Hey Alice, I'm hungry too!" I put in with a laugh of my own. Emmett had grabbed me around the waist and hauled me up. I was currently about 3 feet off of the ground as he shook me around as if trying to figure out how to take me apart.

"I approve of this girl. I feel like Italian, and Bella probably does too. I mean really who has a name like Bella and doesn't want Italian food? Onward to the café!" He threw me over one shoulder and Alice over another and we laughed all the way there.

"I don't know why he calls it the café, if you were wondering that. Oh and he is a bit quick to warm up to people, and I think he likes you… If you want down just hit hard right…" She hit a spot on his back and he put us both down with a loud yelp, rubbing his back. "There" she finished with a wide grin. "And now for the Italian food!"

We spent a few more hours eating and talking. I found out a little more of their individuality.

Edward wasn't particularly talkative although he did talk enough to be perceived as a friendly person. Most of what he said was sort of cryptic. If you thought about it you understood but otherwise it made no sense. Sometimes he would say something and about five minutes later one of us would understand and start laughing, getting us odd looks from the rest of the people in the café.

Alice just kept talking to whoever would listen. From what I heard she liked to shop, and always won her bets.

Emmett really was like a giant teddy bear, just like Jasper said. He joked a lot and just kept on eating. His laugh though was contagious, it was big, deep and booming. He acted like an older brother to everyone but Alice.

Jasper though was very quiet. Reserved, but not rude. Actually I liked him a lot, nearly everything he said was just to one person, and it nearly always made the one person burst out laughing. It was especially great when he said something in a silence though. After someone said something awkward or that just sort of ended the conversation for whatever reason, he would say one little thing and we would all erupt in laughter.

Somehow we ended up in a contest to see which one person could go the longest without laughing. It was a bit like a tournament, one on one but everyone tried to make them laugh. Whoever was closest to Jasper or Emmett always lost, with the exception for Jasper. He won easily, not even cracking a smile at any of the odd things we would say. Emmett's contagious laugh was what finally broke him.

"Oh my gosh, you guys it's nearly ten o'clock!" Alice exclaimed. We all looked at her as if she had spoken a different language which I hoped she had. We couldn't have spent noon til ten together, I still hadn't found my dorm or who I was roomed with!

"Emmett could you help me with my stuff?" I waved to my pile of luggage bags next to the table.

"Si senorita, where be your room?" he pulled out a map. I pointed and Alice noticed.

"You have got to be kidding me, that's where I am! What's your room?"

A/N: Please review and tell me what you think!!! I have a few more chapters typed up ready to post, and some funny stuff is coming soon.