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Chapter 1- The Beginning

"Hi"

I turned to look behind me and saw a boy about my age. He had a weird golden brown messy hair and a pair of striking green eyes. I just stared at him while he looked at me expectantly.

"Can I join you?" The boy asked while pointing at my sandcastle. This time, I nodded my head slowly, allowing him to make the sandcastle with me.

We were both quiet; busy with making the sandcastle. Half way in making the sandcastle, I heard my dad calling me.

"Isabella!"

I saw my dad waving his hands trying to get my attention. He made a sign of going home. The boy saw my dad too. We stopped making our sandcastle and just as I was about to leave him, the boy suddenly spoke. "I hope I get to make sandcastles with you again. I'm Edward," while reaching out his sand-covered hand as if he was asking to shake hands.

I copied his movements and shook his hand while introducing myself, "Isabella. See you again soon." And with that I ran to my father while catching a last glimpse on my sandcastle and my new friend, Edward. He was waving at me and I also waved back.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

I awoke with a jolt and saw the small evil electronic device that was making the unbearable noise at 6:30 in the morning. My dream was a memory from my childhood and it was not the first time that I dreamt about him. I just couldn't get why I kept on dreaming about Edward.

Edward was my first friend. When I was shipped to Forks, courtesy of my mom, I would always ask Charlie to bring me to the beach where I could make sandcastles. It became my hobby and Charlie seeing that it made me happy, brought me to the beach often. On the third time I went there, I met Edward and we continued making sandcastles and being friends for 2 years until he transferred to a different state with his relatives. Thinking about it made my chest ache a little. My reminiscing was interrupted by Charlie who barged in my room wearing a frilly apron whilst carrying a wooden tray filled with breakfast food.

"Um, Dad, wha…. what-"

"Before you say anything else, it was Sue's idea to put me on this apron. And as you know I cannot cook for a living so while she did the cooking, I was ordered to bring this to you."

I stared at Charlie with a dumbfounded look then suddenly I was laughing so hard that I almost fell on the floor.

"Oh dad! Can I take a photo of you?" without waiting for his answer, I started snapping photos of him. I was still giggling when he sat beside me placing the tray of food on his lap.

"Glad to be of some amusement to you. Happy Graduation Bells." He hugged me sideways and although I could hear the happiness in his voice, I could also sense the emotion he had bottled up ever since I told him I was attending WSU.

"Thanks dad. I'm only 7 hours and 37 minutes away from here you know. At least that's what Google says. I'm going to miss all of you, especially you." I tried telling my dad without showing how emotional I was getting. It wasn't easy for me to make this decision- going to WSU for college- but I really wanted to pursue my education and concentrate on my studies at the same time figure out what i wanna do in my life. I know Charlie understood my decision and because we've been through a lot for the past 13 years; that's why he didn't contest the decision I made. He supported it actually. "Good thing you have Sue now or else you'd be back to eating take outs," I added.

"That woman is a Godsend Bells. Now, enough with the chitchat, Sue will have my head if we don't get down there pronto. Lord knows what she has done to the kitchen." And as if on cue, Sue shouted for us to get down already as the breakfast she made is starting to get cold.

I will definitely miss this.

"… and as what Steve Jobs said 'Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.' Congratulations seniors batch 2013! We did it!" I remembered Angela giving her valedictorian speech something about what that rich visionary person said. I just hope he was right because I've been freaking out from the time I left Forks which by the way was 8 hours ago. It was just after lunchtime when I arrived at WSU and I drove my monstrous truck straight to the dormitories so that I could unload my things right away.

As I was starting to unload my things, I noticed a lot of people going in and out the dormitory house. I think I have to make 3 trips to unload all of my possessions I brought from Forks to WSU. I was about to enter the threshold of the house, when I saw two beautiful girls going down the stairs. Actually scratch that, they weren't just beautiful; they look like goddesses! One of them is a tall blonde bombshell; she's the type of person that could stop a crowd and she's kinda intimidating with the scowl that is present on her face. On the other hand, the other girl has striking dark hair that easily stood out with her height. And I thought I was short, she was shorter than my 5'3.

I was brought out of my reverie when I heard the blonde saying, "…all of this is her fault anyway you know. Alice, he should just dump her. There's no point in staying in a relationship when one of them is caught cheating. He's just too much of a masochist." I didn't mean to overhear them they just didn't make an effort to lower down their voices. The short one is apparently Alice; she was about to reply when my presence caught her attention.

"Hi! I'm Alice. What room are you?" The girl, Alice asked me with a big smile on her face. "Um, R25?" My answer came out like a question while the blonde girl, whom I still don't know the name, stifled a chuckle.

Alice squeaked while hugging me, "We're roommates! I'll show you our room just wait for us while I get my things from our car." This Alice said while running to their car. Okay, that was the weirdest thing ever. Who hugs someone you don't know?

"That's Alice for you. I'm Rosalie. Call me Rose."

Did I say that out loud? Ugh. Where the hell is my verbal filter.

"Oh, I'm Bella." I told Rose with a timid smile. She was staring at me in a speculative way as if sizing me up; I couldn't tell if she likes me or not, the awkwardness between is very palpable. Good thing Alice was only gone for a few minutes. She came back dragging 2 large suitcases and a carry on. Was this girl serious? "Let's go, I'll show you our room."

Rose and Alice took each of her suitcases going up the stairs while I wordlessly followed them all the while carrying my things. Suddenly Alice asked me what my name is. I told her to call me Bella.

"Bella, that's a nice name," smiling she said more to herself. "Well, Bella, welcome to our room!" She opened the door with a smirk attached on her face. At first, I just saw a normal dorm, but as I walked further into the room, I noticed the designs Alice must have done. The room was a little bit girlish because of the different shades of pink but the twinkle lightings and small embellishments definitely made the room cozy and homier.

"I hope you didn't mind the designs I've made. If you don't like them, I'll put them down. I swear!" Alice was looking at me with a worried expression. I didn't notice Alice saw me eyeing the bookshelf on the corner of the room since I'm already busy thinking of placing there the books I brought with me.

"There's also a bookshelf you can use. My mom, Esme, told me to take it with me just in case, but since I'm not really fond of reading books it's yours. So d'you like it? I mean it is really okay if you don't like it you know. You can be honest with—"

"I love it Alice." I told her truthfully. She rewarded me with a big smile. "Oh Bella! Thank God you loved it! It would be a shame to throw all of these away" She said while gesturing to the whole room.

Rose suddenly interrupted "Alice, I think we should go? Isn't Jasper waiting for you?" She was giving Alice a very meaningful look as if trying to convey a message. Alice turned to me, " Bella, I'm really sorry for leaving you here. I just have to go and meet my boyfriend and my—Yeah so is it okay if I leave you here for a while? I promise to have a roomie bonding with you before school starts." She looked at me with her own version of puppy dog eyes and who was I to say no? I could definitely use that time to fix my things and call my dad.

"Sure Alice. I still have to fix my stuff. Don't worry about it," I said with an honest smile. Alice suddenly hugged me forcefully all the while saying, "You're the best Bella! I'll see you in a bit!" And with that Rosalie and Alice left me on my own.

"Let's do this Swan."

I had called my dad and arranged all of my things; I just had to put my clothes in the closet when Alice arrived together with a tall handsome guy; Rosalie was nowhere to be found. "Bella I'm back! I see you've unpacked your things" She said cheerfully.

" Yeah, I was able to unload my things eventually." I said while glancing on the clock. "Wow, it's already dinnertime!"

"Actually that's why I'm here. I wanted to invite you to eat with us. Oh! Where are my manners! This is my boyfriend Jasper."

Jasper tipped his head while uttering a simple hello to me and I could definitely hear his southern accent.

"Rosalie is already at the caf with Emmett, her boyfriend. So are you eating with us?" Alice asked me looking somewhat hopeful.

I thought why the hell not? Alice seems to be a nice person and I don't know anyone yet. "Sure! I'll just put these away," pointing at my clothes.

Alice, who seemed to look at my clothes winced slightly. "You okay?" I asked her.

"uh, ye-yeah I'm fine Bella. I just—I'll just wait for you outside the room." Alice said while rushing outside. Well that was just weird.

"Don't worry about her, she's just being Alice." Jasper told me laughing loudly.

Alice, Jasper and I arrived at the cafeteria or caf for short, at half past seven. The three of us lined up to get some food and because I'm not that hungry, I just got myself a salad. We saw Rosalie with her boyfriend, Emmett, sitting near one of the windows.

Emmett is a huge person, even though he's sitting, you could definitely tell that he can lift 100lb weights easily. His smiling eyes and signature smirk made him cute and without it, I would surely be afraid to talk to him let alone sit with him.

"So you're short stuff's roommate. Emmett McCarthy's the name." He said while extending his muscular arm.

I was a little flustered and shy to talk to him though I also extended my arm to shake hands with him. "Yeah, I'm Bella. Nice to meet you." That was all I can really say. I mean I'm really a more closed off person and I'd rather observe people than have all the attention. However, Emmett and Alice seemed to want me to keep talking because they kept asking me question after question.

"So, where are you from?"

"You probably wouldn't know the place since it's really small. But I'm from Forks."

"Do you have any siblings?"

"No, I'm an only child."

"What's your course?"

"I'm taking up English here."

"Do you play sports?"

"No, I have a problem with my hand-eye coordination."

"Do you like watching movies?"

"It's okay. I watch movies from time to time"

"Do you use toilet paper when you're done pooping?" Emmett asked that question which earned him a loud head slap from Rosalie. The table burst into laughter then we realized that almost all students had already left the area.

"It's almost 9pm! Gosh! I didn't realize the time." Alice said shockingly.

I nodded my head in agreement with Alice and uttered, "I think we should head to the dorm soon before they close this place."

We all headed back to our respective dorms. While the boys tried to say goodbye to their loved ones, I headed straight to my room and grab some toiletries so that I could shower at the communal. Alice and Rosalie followed me at the communal after awhile. Once we're fresh, Rosalie went to her room; which she shared with Victoria or Tori (according to Alice) on the third floor while Alice and I went back to our room on the second floor. I was so exhausted that I could only nod at Alice's suggestion about shopping. When my body hit the bed, I fell asleep right away.