Drew and I had been best friends since before our time. Our mothers were friends at uni and our dads play footy, in the local league, together. We both love to play guitar and play footy with all our mates. I'm a girly-girl, but I love to play a game of footy with my mates. Drew and I knew each other's secrets. Well, most of them anyway. I know all of his and he knows most of mine. All except one, who I like. I couldn't tell him who I like – him – because it would severely change our relationship. And he probably wouldn't like me in return, anyway. But I just can't ignore it. Everytime he passes by me, I can't breathe. What are you supposed to call this? Love? Crap! I'm in love with my best friend!

The girl that Drew likes, sadly not me, is the school hottie, Kiara. Of course, every guy is already after her. She's blonde, tall, curvy and everything that I want to be. Beautiful, I think is the appropriate sentiment. My three very girly friends (who also love a game of footy), are Alice, Rose and Bella (short for Arabella). My guy friends are, of course, Drew, Cohdi, Mick, and Kyle. We also have a tag-along, Mike. Dear God, Mike is the most annoying gay person in the entire world. He tries to convince everyone that he can play footy, but he can't. Even Alice, the smallest of us all, can tackle him to the ground with complete ease. Alice is a small, petite pixie. She has spiky brown hair, which points in every which direction. Rose has blonde hair, blue eyes and is stick thin. Bella has brown hair, and green eyes. She's beautiful, but tries to hide it. I, Taylor, have blonde hair to my waist, and blue eyes, a darker blue then Rose's. I am about 170 centimetres tall, the same as Rose.

Anyway, Alice and I had just finished our last period of French. Alice was bouncing of the walls, because she was so excited that we were going shopping and then having a sleepover. We went to meet up with Rose and Bella at Rose's car, but then we saw that Bella and Rose had company. Rose's older brother, Chad and his best friend, Emmett. Rose and Chad shared their light blue eyes, blonde hair and their impeccable posture. I had never seen the Hale siblings slouch, and I doubted I ever would. Emmett, however, was looking at Rose with a look that Alice and I knew quite well. It was a look of longing, but the three of us all knew that even though Chad looked lean, he was very strong. Both of us walked over to Rose and we heard the end of the conversation. "But Chad, is this really what you want to do? Think of Mum and Dad. All they've done for us. They wouldn't want......." Chad looked not angry, but annoyed. "They wouldn't want what, Rosie? How would they know anymore? They're long gone. It was all their fault, anyway", Chad spat. Rose gasped and Alice, Bella and I interceded. We all knew that the Hale parents were not Chad's and Rose's favourite talking point. Alice quickly whispered in her ear, "C'mon. Retail therapy. I'll buy you the new Marc Jacobs you've wanted for ages.", and pulled her away from her brother. With that Chad walked over to his best mate and shook his head in the direction of his car. I threw a "stink eye" at Chad's retreating back. Rose handed Bella the keys, and I guessed that she was too anxious to drive. I rubbed Rose's arm affectionately and she nodded back to me. We all have such a huge bond, that sometimes we just don't need to talk. This was one of those moments. Bella got into the driver's seat, and I, into the passenger seat. Alice was sitting next to Rose in the backseat. Rose had a few tears, but it was mostly that she was shaken. Her stunning face was pale, and she trembled slightly.

As soon as we got to the shopping centre, we all headed to the shoes vicinity to buy Rose her shoes. Alice's family was loaded, and she handed out money to us like there was no tomorrow every single time we went shopping. This morning Alice's dad, Carlisle put more money into her account because he knew that she had planned a shopping trip. In fact, he does that everytime we go shopping. After shoe shopping, we went to Valleygirl, one of our favourite shops, followed by Ozmosis, Billabong, Roxy and many, many more. After a solid 5 hours shopping and a mani-pedi, it was nearing 9 o'clock, so I said, "Guys! It's tea time!"

Dinner was followed by our drive back to the school car park to get Alice's car and then on to all our houses to pick up our stuff. I went with Rose, who drove me to my place and then back to her place with her car. We were followed by Alice, who picked us up and then of to, as we all call it, The Cullen Family Mansion. Alice's mother, Esme greeted us in the living room, along with Alice's 10-year-old twin sisters, Cynthia and Angelina. Carlisle was still at work, but would be at home in about 15 minutes. We all ran up to Alice's massive room with our shopping and bags. For the next hour, we tried on all our new clothes. We swapped shoes, because we all, amazingly enough, had the same size foot. Then an intense game of Truth or Dare began.