Chapter 1:

I-5 & T. Swizzle

"Isabella Marie! If you don't hurry up and get your cute little ass out the door we are going to get stuck in traffic and never get to the park in time."

"I'll be down in five minutes tops."

Ugh. Why on earth did I agree to this camping trip again? Oh yeah. Because Alice Brandon and Rosalie Hale are my best friends. Too bad my idea of camping and their idea of camping is two completely different things.

I guess to understand my lack of enthusiasm, you must first understand what I put up with by loving these two. If you took all the energy of the sun, stuck it in a jar, and multiplied it by ten, it still wouldn't come close to the amount of energy my pixie-like friend has in the very tip of her pinky finger. Alice is by far the perkiest girl I know. She doesn't walk in to a room, she bounces, gracefully I might add. Rosalie on the other hand, is quite the opposite. Any normal person would run and hide from the uptight bitchy-ness that is Rosalie Hale. Sure once she warms up to you she's as loving as can be, but the skin on that girl is tough.

I've been friends with both girls for as long as I could remember. We all grew up in the tiny town of Forks, Washington, where we all lived on the same street. We all went to high school together and away to college together. After our first year of all having horrific roommates we moved into an apartment together and have lived with each other ever since.

When Alice and Rose first told me they wanted to spend our first vacation together since graduation camping, I knew something was up. They aren't exactly the outdoorsy type. I automatically pictured us sleeping in tents and sitting out by the camp fire at night after along days hike through the woods. Boy was I wrong. As soon as I agreed to our 'camping trip' Alice made reservations for us to rent a gigantic travel trailer for our two week trip.

"Bella your five minutes are up! We have to get going!"

Afraid of dealing with my dear sweet friend if I angered her, I quickly grabbed my back pack and headed down the stairs of our two story house and out the door to the trailer waiting in our driveway. I really don't understand why we need something this big thing and so much stuff. Its only the three of us and we have enough clothes to last several months, even though all I plan on doing is laying out on the beach and reading for two weeks, and enough food to feed a small army.

I climbed up into the trailer and into the drivers seat, knowing that I would be the one to starting us off to the beach in California where we would be spending the next two weeks.

"Isabella, what on earth are you wearing? I know that's not what I laid out for you this morning."

I looked down at my denim shorts and simple black t-shirt. She should have known I wouldn't be putting on that deathtrap she called an outfit this morning. "Alice I'm not going to spend hours riding in that thing in an outfit that I can't breathe in let alone sit down in."

"Fine," Alice all but pouted out. Hmm…that's a little unlike Alice to give in so easily. Now I'm worried.

"Well bitches, I say we get this show on the road. Izzy, Ali cat , lets go!" I really couldn't stand being called anything but Bella and already this morning they had called me the two names I loathe the most, my actual name, Isabella, and Rosie's horrid nickname for me, Izzy. This is going to be along trip.


By the time it was about lunch time, we had made it to all the way to Roseburg, Oregon. I expected us to stop along I-5 at a rest stop and make our own lunches since we had packed so much food. Instead we stopped at Casey's and had one of the most delicious pizzas I had ever had.

After lunch we got back on the road towards our destination. To be honest, I was kinda nervous. I mean, I had camped a lot as a kid with my dad Charlie, but this was Alice and Rosalie here. Me and Charlie had always camped close to home and near somewhere where he could go fishing. We would sleep in tents and cook whatever fish he had caught during the day for dinner. Occasionally his best friend Billy Black would come and bring his son Jacob who was a few years younger than I was. It was always fun but in a simple kind of way.

This trip would be way different. Alice had rented this big travel RV for us to take with us. We brought Rose's jeep with us. I wasn't quite sure where exactly we were staying only that it was near the beach, but I had overheard the girls talking about hookups and cable and WiFi so I knew it must be nice.

"I'm like 8 foot 4,

Blond hair to the floor

You shorties never thought I dreamed

About rapping hardcore"

I was pulled out of my thinking by my pixie friend and her horrendous rapping. Ever since she saw the clip of Taylor Swift rapping on youtube she insisted that she could too.

"No I ain't got a gun

No I never really been in a club

Still live with my parents

But I'm still a thug"

Oh great. Now she has Rose joining her. "Come on Izzy! I know you know the words too." She was right. I heard the song so many times coming from Alice's room that it was kind of hard not to.

"I'm so gangsta you can find me

Baking cookies at night

You out clubbing,

But I just made caramel delight

T Swift and T Pain

Rappin on the same track

It's a thug story

Tell me can you handle that

I had a dream last night

I had high-top Nikes

I had diamonds in my mouth,

And diamonds on my mic

By the time I woke

I was singing "I'M ON A BOOOOAAT"

Cuz I'm a singer turned rapper

Shorty I'm a make ya

Straight to the top, yo

Shorty I'ma take ya

You can call me T Sweezy

Now I'm a rap star

Hey it's a thug story

Now tell them who you are

Singer turned gangsta

You don't wanna fight me

Straight to the top

In my extra small white tee

T Swift and t pain

All up on the same track

It's a thug story

Tell now can you get with that

What! What! I knit sweaters yo!

What! What! Don't test me [bleep]

Hey hold on, hold on

I didn't even say anything

WHAT?

I said "yo"

YUP

You guys bleeped me and I didn't even say anything

I didn't even swear

SHE DIDN"T EVEN SWEAR

Hello??

By the time we finished our horrible white girl rapping, we couldn't control our giggles. We continued down I-5 and took US-199 just as "Spin Around" from the Josie and the Pussycats movie came on. Ever since Alice saw that movie she insisted that one day we would be our own punk rock girl band. Too bad none of us could sing or play an instrument.

As time went on the music continued to remain all girly and upbeat. I knew that was Alice's doing. We blasted the speakers to Britney and Avril, Madonna, both Simpson sisters, the Spice Girls, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus(which Alice knew was an embarrassing guilty please of mine), and of course more T. Swizzle, as Rose had taken to calling her. I'm sure people in the cars around us were laughing if they looked up into our windows as we danced around in our seats waving our arms around like crazy and bobbing our heads, but we honestly couldn't care.

We were coming up on hour fourteen in the RV when we pulled into Casper Beach RV Park and Campground. Words could not describe the scene before my eyes. The beach ahead of us was absolutely breathtaking and the camp grounds were surrounded by woods. Tall cliffs were off in the distance along the coastline. As we pulled in to our spot I noticed that most camp sites were already filled. In fact the only ones open in our area were the one we were setting up in and the one right next to us.

Because none of us had actually had to hook up one of these things before, Rosalie used her magic to convince a nice man a few spots down to help us. In no time he had us all hooked up with electricity, water, sewage, and even cable. We all thanked him for his help and he told us if there was anything else we needed to let him know. He turned to walk away but before he got too far, he looked back at Rose smiling and reinstating the word anything.

By the time we were all settled in we decided it would be better if we got a good nights sleep before we started 'Alice's Awesome Activities List' as she had titled it. Looking over the list a few things didn't seem that bad. I had always wanted to try scuba diving and horseback riding and there was tons of trails we could take through the park. Maybe this trip wouldn't be so bad after all.


Yay for finally having the guts to publish something! This is definitely my first story and hopefully it will get better..I already have the first couple chapters done and a story line for the rest of it. Let me know what yall think...even if you think it sucks.