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When Beauties and Hawties Collide
Chapter One, A New Beginning
BPOV Bella Point Of View
Alice, Rosalie, and I have been inseparable since our births – our parents were best friends, and so we became the same. Each of us was born at the same time, but Rose was the oldest. One hour older than Alice, and two more than me – I was the youngest. We were each born exactly an hour apart, Rose was born at 11PM, Alice at 12AM, which left me to be born at 1AM, the next day. I was teased by them about this for a while, but no matter, no matter, this all stopped when we were in the second grade. Now, we were Juniors at Forks High! Well, at least soon-to-be Juniors! We were actually just waking up and getting ready to go to our first day as Juniors and ruling the school! I was sooooo excited!
At Forks High, Alice, Rose, and I were known as "The Beauties", because, well, we were! Our parents called us "The Three Beauties". Each of us were alike and different at the same time. Rose really had the whole model look all ready for her, complete with lengthy, wavy blonde hair, icy blue eyes and her perfect, flawless hourglass body that boys always fall for. Alice was a short pixie like girl with short black spiky hair, brown eyes and was always full of spunk. She was really the most energetic of us all. But even though she seemed like the person who was always fun, always bubbly, all the time, she is NOT the person that you want to mess with. As for me? Well, I'm basically your typical schoolgirl with the beauty times ten, as Rose said. I had glassy long brown hair that rang up to about my chest and it always smelled of strawberries, and well hazel-brown eyes and I guess you could call me fit. All of us wore the trendiest clothes, had the sickest cars, and had the life people would kill for (AN: Sorry, just had to put that in!).
We all loved shopping, tanning at the beach, going down to our private pool and just soaking up the sun. We could basically do anything since our parents were all rich, and our mothers always encouraged us to go out shopping. They were really the best people to do your makeup, and well just get complete makeovers from! On the other hand, there were our dads, who bought us all the cars we wanted. Each year, we would get a new car for the start of the school year. Our most recent and current ones are the best yet! Rosalie has a lightning red 2008 Chevrolet Corvette, Alice has a yellow 2008 BMW 3 Series Convertible, and I have a silver 2008 Audi R8 Base Coupe. All of us really liked driving fast and we never got tickets, got in an accident, or got caught, so we could speed as long as we didn't get into trouble, and our parents didn't mind! Alice had picked up from our moms, and was majoring in fashion design and makeup. Rose, although has the whole model look, has a strange obsession over cars, and is going for mechanics. I, with the absolute LOVE of books and reading, am going for literature. Anyways, we were in the middle of changing and getting ready for school when all of a sudden,
"Ring, ring, ring" Our cell phones all rang at once. This only on rare occasions happened, like if something was wrong, so nervously, we each answered the phones, and
"Bella? Bella, are you there?" It was one of the many bodyguards that we had. I was so nervous, and panicky, that I didn't really notice her talking. Something must have gone wrong! Something must have gone wrong! Why else did they call? Why was it not Charlie? Or Renee? Or one of Alice's parents? Or Rose's? Okay really, I know I'm sort of overreacting, but something was seriously wrong here! I was snapped out of my thinking when I heard the shrilly voice of Alice screaming "No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" "There MUST be a problem! No, this can't be happening!"
Rose was quiet and her cell phone dropped from her ear to the floor in a matter of seconds.
Oh no! What's wrong? Bella. Pay attention. You're on the phone. Then I realized I wasn't paying any attention to the person talking to me on the phone. I quickly listened in again.
"Bella, Bella, honey, I'm so sorry." The voice answered.
"What? What's wrong?" I answered with a slight uneasy feeling.
"Bella, sweetie, the plane that your parents, as well as Rosalie Hale's and Alice Brandon's parents were on for the exclusive interview in New York lost signal and the plane crashed and-"
Right then, I interrupted "Where are my parents? Are they okay?! Where are they? Why aren't you answering me? Answer me!"
"Bella, honey, I'm sorry, they didn't make it." Then, silence. By now I had also done what Rose did - dropped the phone. Everyone else was also quiet. Alice had calmed down now and was in shock. We all sat there and were deep in thought when the doorbell to our house rang. Each of us dashed to the door and looked nervously at the door handle. None of us had spoken and now someone was at the door. Right after we had gotten a call about our parents' death.
"Knock, knock" I froze. I don't think I can open the door.
"Bella! Open the door!" Rose was fiercely whispering to me.
"Bella? Bella! Open the door!" Rose was actually screaming at me. This never happens! I better open the door…
Cautiously, I opened the door and was met with a deathly hug and Jacob?
"Jacob?" I questioned, confused. Why is he here?
"Bella, I came to see if you were okay. They called Billy and I wanted to come down here and check up on you to see how you were doing. Are you okay? If there's anything you need, I'll be glad to help you get it." Figures, someone called him to tell him the news. "Look, Bella, one of your bodyguards is here, and they came with your limo. He told me to tell you that you weren't attending school today, and you could… well, I was wondering if maybe…." He trailed off, and I was wondering what he was about to say
when suddenly I saw him look at me and blush. I never thought I'd see the day Jacob Black would blush!, I thought.
"Bella! Come here! Hurry!" Well at least Alice is back to her normal cheery self. "Since all of our parents died…" I cringed as she said this. "Well, all of our peoples talked and said that since we were so close, we would be able to live with each other! Bella, we get a whole fortune, and, we get to live with each other! This is going to be fun! Come on! We don't have to go to school today, so let's go SHOPPING!! I have already told Rose, and she said that she's coming too, so hurry up!" She really gets over things quick, I thought, well, I guess that's at least better than what I'm doing. Moping around. Maybe she was right, we could have fun, I mean I know that my mom and dad wouldn't want us to all mope around just because they were... dead. I had made up my mind right there and then. So, I'm going to make my life the best, and live for them, because I know they can see us from up there, in heaven, but I'm not sure I'm going to trust or get attached quickly to anyone in the process. Or, at least that's what I thought. Then I realized that Jake was still standing there.
"Jake, sorry, but gotta go. Alice wants to go shopping. Bye!" I quickly told him, hoping he would let me just go without finishing what I thought he would.
"Wait! Bella!" He grabbed my wrist just as I turned around. Crap! I slowly turned around, looking Jake in the eyes.
"Bella, I was wondering if maybe you would like to go out some time? We could go out to coffee, or maybe... uhhhmm… I don't know, I could go with you… to the mall?" He said looking at me. I just stood there, not knowing what to say to him, looking at the floor now. I never really like liked Jake, only as a mere friend. Oh no! How can I turn him down gently? Man! Okay, here goes…
"Uhmmm... Jake?" I turned to look at him in the eyes again. "I'm sorry, but I just don't like you… like that. Sorry." He just stood there, looking heartbroken and I just felt plain old bad for him. I then turned around quickly and headed for Alice and Rosalie. They were both there and looked at me expectant, like they wanted me to tell them something.
"Bella…" Rose said. She probably wanted me to tell her what Jake said to me earlier. Oh! I hope not! I'll just pretend I don't know what they're talking about. Maybe they won't notice, and let me go. Oh! I just hope so!
"Yes, Rose?" Act innocent. She won't know, she won't know, she won't know! Why is she looking at me like that? I turned and my gaze was now on Rosalie, she was staring intently at me, expecting me to answer, and apparently she knew that I knew what she was talking about and just asked me straight up, getting impatient, I think.
"Bella, what were you and Jake talking about?" She was staring at me now, using her damn puppy eyes at me. I tried to look away, and Alice caught on and also asked me.
"Yes. Bella, what were you two talking about?" She too was staring at me with puppy dog eyes, and I knew then that I would give in, they knew I would. Stupid puppy eyes! Ugh! Oh well, better now than later, I guess, you know they'll get it out of you… some way or another…
"Jake just asked if we wanted to go out, and I said no." I said simply, glancing at the wall to the left of both of them, wanting them to drop the subject. Clearly though, this was not going to happen because Alice and Rose looked like they were going to pounce on me right there! They started firing questions at me. I was still looking away at the time, but I could guess who asked what.
"Well?!" Alice.
"Do you like him?" Rose.
"You know, if you do, we can always postpone shopping, you know… if you want…" Alice
"Yeah, you know, I always saw a connection between you two…" Rose.
I was getting tired of the questions now and I turned to look at them.
"No, I don't like Jake. We don't have to postpone the shopping, I really need to go anyways, we haven't gone shopping for a while and so I need to get a few things…. And Rose, there is definitely NO CONNECTION BETWEEN ME AND JAKE!! I DON'T LIKE HIM, AND I DON'T THINK I EVER WILL!!" I was practically screaming at her now, and I wouldn't be surprised if Jake heard me now, all the way down in La Push. At least that's where I thought he was…
Rose and Alice were looking at me now, nervously and not at me. I was wondering what was wrong. Why are they like that? Why do they look…. nervous!? Wait a second... are they looking… BEHIND me? Oh no! Oh no, oh no, oh no! Crap, crap, crap, crap! Jake better not be behind me! Who knows what he would do if he heard me… Right then I heard something drop and as I turned around I saw about a dozen roses and barely caught sight of Jacob running toward the front door. Oh no! Now I really blew it, even if there wasn't a connection between me and Jake, it was SO over now!
"Wait! Jake, wait!" I was too late, for I saw Jake running and I knew it was just useless trying to run after him, since he was faster than me, any day. Well, at least I won't have to worry about him…
As I turned back around to go and get ready for shopping, Alice and Rose appeared and had a blank, sorry expression on their face. Did they think this was their fault? They can't. It wasn't. This was my entire "fault" they didn't do anything wrong. All if what I said was me, not them, they better not be getting ready to apologize, I was SO not going to have this. They better not-
"Bella?Weresososorrywedidntmeantowedidntthinkthathewashereandthenohbellawerereallysorry!" Alice was talking way too fast for her own health so I didn't really catch it, but I'm sure they were among the lines "Bella? We're so, so sorry! We didn't mean to, we didn't think that he was here, and then… oh Bella! We're really sorry!" She looked like she was going to say more, but I wasn't going to allow that!
She did nothing wrong! Neither her, nor Rosalie, who looked so sorry, there really are no words to describe it!
"Alice! Alice, Alice, Alice! It's okay! Really, none of this was your fault. It was all me. My emotions and feelings towards Jake were true. It wasn't any of your faults, so don't you DARE think about trying to apologize!" Then I turned to look at Rosalie. "Rose, it wasn't your fault. Please, don't feel bad about this. You'll only make me feel worse! Please!"
They looked thoughtful for a minute, then we all hugged each other, and I thought I saw someone through the open door at the front of the house, probably the one Jake left open when he ran out, but I wasn't sure, since then he looked at me and gaped and ran off too. Great, I thought. Not only am I scaring away boys I know who just confessed their feelings to be, I'm also scaring away boys that don't even know me that are outside my door. Just perfect. Sigh. Maybe boys just aren't for me… unlike Rose…
We all quickly got ready and headed outside to the limo, and told him to take us to the mall. We were all going to get new wardrobes, since, well, shopping sort of helped us all ease the pain, and we could get away from thinking so much about our parents' death, so went to just about every store.
None of us minded shopping, and we ended up with so many bags, that we had to call three extra vehicles to take it all back. We threw out all of our old clothes and put all of our new clothes in our very huge closets. Since Rose and Alice were already basically family, they had their own rooms, closets, bathrooms, and everything, and we all had rooms connected to each other, and loved it!
By the time we were done, it was time to eat and so we went out to the limo again and went to eat out at this fancy restaurant in Seattle.
When we got there, I noticed that Rose was drawing attention, as there were a crowd of waiters waiting to assist, and we just barely got in through the door. Wow, I thought.
Finally, we were seated, after they all offered to seat us somewhere, and ordered when we finally had time to talk. We were tired and talked about tomorrow, our first day at Forks High, as Juniors… We decided that we would be sisters and then the reason we weren't at school for the first day was because we were on vacation and got a delayed flight, which caused us to miss the first day. We knew everyone would believe us if the people were informed of this by Rosalie, they would quickly, and easily believe her.
"Are we through here, ladies?" Our waiter kept on coming continuously even though he was here not five minutes ago. I mean, take a hint, man! He was staring at her, and only broke off staring when Rose spoke.
"Yes, sir." Rosalie said, since she didn't want to be rude, but I could see she was annoyed with him too.
"Yes, thank you" Alice replied, wiping her mouth with the napkin, and trying to hide the giggles I could see her showing just about any minute now.
"Sure." I said smiling, not really trying to be rude but the guy was really annoying Rose, and me too.
"We'll take the check now, please." Alice said, so we could get going, and since his eyes were still on Rosalie who seemed just about fed up with trying to be nice to him. As Alice spoke, he turned to look at her, a little surprised, I might add.
"Oh! Uhhmm… your check has already been taken care of, miss." He said, looking at us like we were idiots or something.
"How? We didn't pay it…" I was really just wondering why he would pay it, it must have cost like over a hundred dollars, since everything in this restaurant was expensive.
"A gentleman about the age of you, ma'am." I could tell he thought we were stupid but I didn't really care. Right now, I wanted to know who this "gentleman" was who payed our bill.
"What was his name?" Asked Alice, probably wanting to know if he was cute, or anything.
"I'm sorry, he didn't mention it." And with that, he left us staring after him like idiots. I think that was what he was aiming for though, us looking after him like that, and, well, that's what he got. All us beauties staring after him. We were all thinking about who bought our dinner and finally Rosalie spoke up and pulled us out of our thoughts of him.
"Hey! Guys, let's go!" Clearly wanting to get out of this restaurant so she wasn't hit on again. And with that, we left and went back to the limo. All of us were really tired and thought it best to just go to bed early and get rest for tomorrow, since tomorrow would be a long day.
We wanted to sleep together again and as everyone fell asleep, I was still deep in thought. Who was that boy? Why did he pay for our dinner earlier? Was it really just Rosalie he did it for? Or was he really serious? He wanted to pay for all of us? Why can't I think of anything other than him? Why am I even thinking about him?! Well, all I knew was how much I really wanted to see that boy tomorrow, and with that last thought, I slipped into a wonderful dream about him. Little did I know that I would actually get answers to these strange questions.
