Bella is a 18 nearly 19 year old sophomore at New York University. When Bella was ony a year old, Jordyn, her mother was diagnosed with a serious cause of brest cancer. Her blood wasn't healthy enough for chemo theropy, so they had to pull the plug. Bella of course didn't understand this, she only knew that she grew up with out a mother and she died from brest cancer. Freshman year of high school things got tough for her, she wasn't old enough to work yet, her father, Steven, was struggling with the bills and needed to to take on two jobs.
Bella was smart, she did well in school. Eventually she met Marie and instantly became best friends. They always hung out.
Bell began to write stories, reflecting her situation, but would trash them before anyone had a chance to read them. A year laterher father took an overtime shift at the factory. He didn't realize that there was a massive chemical leak and was later diagnoised with an uncurable lung diease. Bella and her father couldn't afford all the extra bills. Steven soon wrote a will, giving all the belongings to Bell and selling the house. The money would go into her account for college.
His last wish was for her to live a good life, for her to be happy and fall in love. Bella couldn't believe what was happening. She lost everything. No grandparents, no aunts, no uncles, no sibblings, and now no parents. She was completely alone.
The house sold and she sold everything she couldn't keep. Richard and Layla Anderson, Marie's parents, took in Bella and treated her like their own.
Bell wanted to forget about everything, she began to through all her frustration into writing, poems, songs, and novels. Non of which got to see anything but the trash. Marie and Levi, Marie's older brother, listened t Bella's singing and wnated her to try for all different types of shows. Bella of course didn't want to do that, she took singing lessons from ages 4-14. She just wantedit as a hobby for now.
Then she heard of the band One Direction, she loved them. She owns all their songs. Has posters, a phone case, their movies. She's read all their books. She loves them, they put a smile on her face when she listens to their music.
Marie and Bella soon graduate high school. Marie's parents gift Bella with a lovely little boy kitten, and gift Marie with enough money to get a months rent in an apartment for two in
NYC. Both girls' dreams are to go to New york university, they tried hard all high school and eventually got excepted and move to New York City.
They have a normal and fun freshman year of college, Bella studies Literature. She strives t become an author, a poet, a song writer. MArie wants to become an artist. They balance each other out. Marie the girly funky one, and Bella the nerdy skater one.
Bella begins to have dreams of her parents, of the days she saw them die. Of everything. She hasn't had a happy dream she can rememebr in a while. Only the nightmares, or she doesn't dream at all. Yet she keeps a smile on her face. She doesn't let Marie see the pain in her blue eyes. But she just got a job at a book store and loves it, she loves her boss Ashley, too.
To keep her mind off everything, and the fact that her father's death anneversay is only a month away, Bella reads the books. Ashley doesn't mind though, it allows the costumers to have a good recommendation to buy loads of books.
A quarter of the way through Marie and Bella's sophomore year at NYU is where the story beings.