Disclaimer: I do not own any bit of Twilight. All belong to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 1: Intro to my life
It's Fall. It's October but November is usually more boring so I should probably stop complaining. But...my life is boring. When is something exciting going to happen?
Wait. Let's back up. My name is Bella Swan. I live with my dad Charlie and my sister Renesmee in a small town called Forks. It's in Washington and it's pretty quaint. I grew up here. It's a kind of place where everybody knows everybody.
My best friend is named Alice. She's 19. Her and her family moved here when she was a freshman and we've been best friends ever since. She's the kind of friend that always cheers you up and someone that you can never get sick of. She's tall and skinny, with dark choppy hair and a huge smile. She kind of reminds me of a porcelain doll. A doll with tattoos. She's very pretty and every guy seems to think that too.
There's the group of girls we always hang out with. There's Rosalie, Angela and Jessica.
Rosalie moved away in September to live with her Marine boyfriend (wait, husband.. they got married two weeks ago) half way across the country. His name is Emmett and they're perfect for each other. Rosalie is gorgeous; she's 20 and tiny, with short brown hair and she's got lots of piercings.
Then theres Angela. She's 19. She's very sweet and she has long brown hair and she's very skinny. She has a boyfriend named Ben and they've been together since we were all in high school. Angela lives with her Mom and Grandma. She lives in the basement of their house and it's perfect for parties. But ever since we started college, she's been neck fucking deep in the Radiology program she got into at our college.
And Jessica; well I guess you could said she is the ultimate party girl. She's got this long brown hair (that I'm very jealous of) and big lips. She constantly is texting a new boy that she started talking to. She loves to drink and loves to have a good time. She's also the perfect friend when you are feeling spontaneous. Jessica (like any other twenty year old) is down for anything.
Then theres me. I'm painfully ordinary; I'm always wishing that I looked different. I guess it comes from having friends that are extremely gorgeous. I'm constantly taking pleasure in changing my appearance in any way. I'm always changing my hair color or getting a new piercing. As of today, I have plain long brown hair and huge green eyes. My nipples are pierced too. I'm a virgin, which is kind of surprising since all my friends, well, aren't.
Oh, and another thing you should know about my friends before we go on-- I'm not saying my friends are sluts, but they definitely aren't prude. We are always talking about the sexual escapades each one of them go on and how drunk they were last night. Filling in their memories with what they actually did is my favorite part.
Forks isn't exactly what you might call "fun." On weekends, there is nothing to do. Each of my friends has their own car but it's a matter of who has gas money and who doesn't. Some of us are usually working so we can't always hang out together. The parties in Forks are decent. My friends are the life of the party anyway and something usually happens that will make us laugh.
In August, we went to a party in this town called La Push. I knew a couple kids who live up there so me and my friends make the trek up there. It was the last night that Rosalie had out with us before she was moving. Quil and Embry have their own apartment in downtown La Push. It's a very big apartment for two dudes but they constantly have people over to make up for it.
We had smoked a blunt on the way to Quils. The girls like to relax before meeting new people and I assured them tons of people would be there.
"New people, right?" Jessica asked as she puffed at the blunt. "Last thing I need is some fake ass bimbo claiming she's seen me at some parties pretending to be my best friend."
"New people. Right." I answered. I hoped Quil would be alright with me showing up with only a text message. And I hope he's alright with me bringing 4 of my girl friends? Who am I kidding? Quil LOVES girls.
Once I opened the door to the apartment, Quil came over and wrapped me into a bear hug. He reaked of Captain Morgan. "Holy shit!" he slurred, "What the fuck is up Bella? When I got your text.. I was so surprised to hear from you. How did you know we were having a party?" We walked into the living room.
"Doesn't matter," I said with a wink. "I can't believe you are already shit faced..." I turned to my group of girls who were already sitting on the couch, giggling amongst themselves. "I don't think you've met any of my friends. This is Jessica, Angela and Rosalie. And I think you remember Alice..."
Quil has had a crush on Alice since I introduced them a while back.
He smiled big. "Yes, I believe I do. Hello Alice." He turned to the rest of the girls. "Well it's lovely to meet all of you. WHO WANTS TO DO A SHOT?"
Jessica was the first one off the couch and did two shots of vodka back to back. She loves free alcohol more than anything. The rest of the girls grabbed some beers and sat back down on the couch.
I just remember it being so loud in the apartment. It was filled of voices and music. I had walked into the kitchen and saw, at least, 20 bodies. Two tables of beer pong were going on and everyone was watching. La Push is known in the party world for serious beer pong players. Embry and Jacob were playing against two girls I didn't know. The girls were losing; both teams were sloshed. Embry threw the ping pong ball up in the air and it bounced off the table and into the only red cup on the table. He yelled, "Game over! I'm on ffffiiiirrreee!" The boys high-fived each other.
Embry looked up and saw me standing there. "Well, well, well. Look who we've got here." He left the table and ran up to me and hugged me. Jacob followed right behind him.
Jacob said, "Where the hell have YOU been? I know the parties in Forks aren't anything to be proud of so don't even say you've been there."
I laughed. "Partying in Forks, actually."
"You can't be serious." Embry said as Jacob picked me up by the waist and rested me on his hip.
"It'd be cool if you could put me down and let my feet touch the ground," I said. Embry headed for the living room and Jacob followed with me in tow. "Or you could just keep walking and not let me walk.."
Quil was talking with Alice on the couch as Angela and Rosalie were sipping their beers, dancing.
"Hey, where's Jessica?" I asked.
Angela turned and faced Embry and then saw Jacob resting me on his hip effortlessly. She gave out a giggle, "She went outside to smoke a cigarette. Hi, I'm Angela. This is Rosalie." She gestured back to Rosalie and held out her hand for Embry to shake. Jacob put me down on my own two feet and Embry pushed her hand out of the way.
"We don't do that shit in La Push!" He grabbed both of my friends and hugged them. "It's nice to meet you two. I'm Embry."
Jacob waved to them. Me and Jacob went outside to find Jessica. I opened the back door to the porch and saw Jessica sitting on the patio cradling a bottle of vodka.
She turned around and smiled. "I love your friends, Bella. Quil told me this is now MY bottle of vodka and cheers to that!" She took a huge swig out of the bottle. She was obviously already drunk, thanks to Quil.
I laughed, "I leave you alone for 5 minutes and you're already drunk??"
She took a huge drag from her cigarette and stood up, clumbsily slamming the vodka on the table. "Hi, I'm Jessica. I don't think I've met you before."
"Sorry, this is Jessica. Jessica, this is my friend Jacob," I said.
Jacob smiled. "Nice to meet you Jessica."
They smiled at each other. And I knew what both of them were thinking. I laughed and decided I was way too stoned for this lovey dovey shit. I left them both outside and headed back into the living room.
The night was a blur of countless stories and lots of dancing to hip hop. At one point, I went outside to see if Jessica was still alive and instead, found her in the kitchen sitting on Jacob's lap, making out with him. At 4 am, the party started to cease. We started to gather all of our stuff when we found out we were missing one member of our gang. We found Jessica was in the kitchen with her shirt inside out, and backwards. She was passed out on the floor with her flipflops in one hand, her bottle of vodka in the other and her purse wrapped around her arm. Jacob was passed out right next to her. And it was at that moment that I wished I had a camera.
On our way home, it all started to sink in. Rosalie was leaving. She was moving away with Emmett and we were starting college. While I was driving, everyone was quiet. I looked in the rearview window of my big truck and saw Rosalie looking out the window. Tears were streaming down her face. Besides her was Angela with her head on Rosalies shoulder. Jessica was awake and looking in Rosalie's direction. I looked to my right and saw Alice crying silently too. We were all thinking the same thing at exactly the same moment.
I turned to concentrate on driving. I cleared my throat. "I'm going to miss you, Rosalie."
That was when Alice turned to look at me and started crying louder. As Alice was weeping, I peeped in the mirror to see Rosalie's reaction. She was crying harder now and Angela was holding her hand. Jessica, still drunk, slurred, "We will all miss you, baby."
I put one of my arms over the center console to hold Alice's hand. Alice pushed her hair out of the way and squeezed my hand. She wiped her face with her free hand and looked out the window.
After a long, painful silence Rosalie spoke. "I'm going to miss you all so much it hurts."
After Rosalie had left, we started college. We moved on. What were we supposed to do? I'm not good with change and with Rosalie gone... I felt lost. I woke up, I went to school, I worked and then I came home. Went to bed. Then woke up and did it all over again. Things were just so fucking boring. It was like my life was moving in slow motion and it was painful. Well, whatever, not physically painful but I was dying for something cool and exciting to talk about. All me and my friends talked about was the same shit. But I guess things can't be glorious all the time. Wait. Can they?
Author's note: This is my first fan fic, guys! I would like to know what you thought about the first chapter. I posted the second and third chapters as well. If you get around to reading those too, let me know what you thought! Thanks.
