HERE I GO! okay, so it's my first chapter of my first story EVER! I'm excited and nervous. But I do hope some of you give it a try. Bare with me, though, because it is my first and I'm just getting the hang of it. Sorry it's so choppy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight. All that fabulous stuff belongs to Stephanie Meyer.

Wish me luck! Enjoy.

world spins madly on = great song by The Weepies. go check it.

Chapter 1: World Spins Madly On

"Tell me again, Alice, why I carried all of mine and your luggage up the stairs?" I asked while rubbing my back.

"Because you love me very, very much!" Alice said, grinning.

"True!" I grinned back at my best friend who was sitting on one of the many cardboard boxes in the living room.

"And because you're a push-over," Rose countered from her place upon yet another brown box.

"False!" I yelled as I poked her in the ribs. Unfortunately though, for me, it started a tickle war, which Alice joined in on, and, like usual, I was the first to give in. What can I say? I'm ticklish.

Ten minutes later, the war had ended and we were back to looking wearily around the room at the strewn boxes.

"You know, we really should unpack." A series of 'mmmhhmm's and 'yep's ensued as we looked around the room at the many boxes of our possessions, but not one of the three of us made a move to start unpacking.

"Well, I say we go next door and thank my big brother for putting the boxes into our fabulous new home. What do you guys think?" asked Alice as she started for the hallway.

"Sounds good to me!" And at that, the three of us were out the door.

Alice and I had been friends since I can remember. My dad, Charlie, and Alice's parents, Carlisle and Esme, were really close. SO by the time Alice and I started school, we were inseparable.

When Alice and I were starting high school, we met Rosalie Hale. I thought she was frightening at first. All the guys at Forks High drooled over her – not that I cared because they were all annoying. But I guess Rosalie saw this too because she never really fell into that crowd. She did, however, start eating lunch with Alice and me. Rose took us under her wing and, although she had problems at home, always took care of us. The three of us became a unit, never leaving each other's sides.

Alice's family was very wealthy and Esme and Carlisle always made sure that Al and her brother, Emmet, had everything they wanted. Surprisingly though, neither Alice nor Emmet were bratty because of it.

On the other hand, Rosalie had a hard time at home so usually spent most of her time at either mine or Alice's place. Rosalie's parents drank a lot and by the end of our ninth grade, social services had placed Rose permanently under my dad's care. Now, she's practically my sister.

As for me,my parents split up when I was a baby and I don't really talk to my mom anymore. I haven't seen her in a couple years. We mostly just didn't stay in touch. So Charlie raised me for the most part and I'm thankful for it. He can be awkward and stubborn sometimes but I genuinely love him.

So after graduation, there really was no choice but to go to the same University. Rose, Al, and I chose UVIC because we'd gone to Victoria a couple times and really enjoyed the city. We like it because it wasn't too big or too small. Alice's dad dabbles in real estate when he gets bored and it turned out that he just 'happened' to have a couple houses in Victoria. Emmett already lived in Victoria for a year, so we decided to move next door to him.

Our new house was truly beautiful. It had white siding and a wrap-a-round porch. Emmet's was more of a party pad but I thought ours was more me.

Rose, Al, and I stood on the porch, waiting for Emmett to answer the door, although I doubt anyone could hear us knock, from the loud music pumping through the house. But I guess I was wrong because a few minutes later, a cute guy with light brown curly hair answered the door.

As soon as he opened the door, his eyes were transfixed on Alice and hers' on him. There was a short silence until I heard Emmett boom, "Yo Jazz! Someone at the door?" The guy at the door finally tore his eyes from Alice to look up at Rose and I. He mumbled, "Uhhh…yeah..." Alice regained her state of mine and yelled back to Emmett, "It's your little sister and your other new neighbors, you big lug!"

At that, Emmett came quickly down the hall. "Yo, neighbor!" In the doorway, grinning from each to ear, than enveloped Alice in one of Emmett's signature bear hugs. "Hey little sis," he said to Alice.

Then he turned to me and I backed away a little, but Emmett ignored the sign and the big bear crushed me in his arms anyway.

"Hey other little sis!"

"Hey Em...can you put me down now? I can't br-breathe." I gasped out. Emmett chuckled and released me before turning to Rosalie.

"Hi Emmett," she said, lifting her hand in a little wave. The action, surprisingly, was almost nervous. Believe me, I didn't think Rose could be nervous. It just wasn't possible. At least untill now.

"Hey Rosie," Emmett replied with a grin on his mouth and a twinkle in his eye.

When we lived in Forks, both Rose and Emmett had had small flings with people, but they were mostly just to keep them occupied. I think I always knew that there was a special connection between them. Maybe all they needed was a new place to light that connection on fire.

Introductions were made with 'Guy at Door' - who turned out to be Emmett's roomate, Jasper.

We got a small tour of the first level of the house, and the five of us sat down in the living room, me and Rose on bean bags, Emmett in a lazy boy, and Alice and Jasper sat on the couch with a little distance between each other. Music from the Kooks rang through the house.

"So," I started,"were did you two meet?"

"School," Emmett answered through a mouthful of Cheesies.

"What Emmett means is that we worked on campus. The three of us worked at the Starbucks." Jasper corrected and ran a hand through his curly hair. Rose spoke up then. "What do you mean by the three of you? I thought it was just you two."

Emmett shook his head enthusiastically. "Nope! Eddie is off visiting his mommy in Chicago."

We all looked at Jasper for a more detailed explanation. "Our other roommate, Eddie, is in Chicago with his mom right now. Should be back in a couple days."

"Hey guys!" Emmett boomed from the lazy boy,"we should have a BBQ when Eddie gets back!"

Everyone looked at Emmett and laughed a little at his outburts. Sometimes, I didn't think Emmett actually understood that he was 19.

We all agreed that on Friday night, 4 days away, we'd all get together for the barbecue. Everyone would be pretty busy untill the weekend anyway. I applied for a job at Willowpark Assisted Living Residence (an old people' home). I genuinely thought it would be pretty interesting to hear different people's stories and to hear them talk about their lives- plus the pay was really great. I did an interview with a really cheery woman and found out that I got the job.

Rose would be pretty busy as well. Jasper was the only one that still worked at the Starbucks and Emmett worked at a garage across town. Rose always loved working on cars in Forks and she was really good at it too, always restoring old ones or vamping up new ones. Emmett knew Rose loved cars and told her about a position that was free at the garage as an assisstant/secretary/all round helper. Apparently, Emmett had told his boss that Rose was really great and so the position was hers if she wanted it. Rose immediately accepted it of course. I think she just wanted to spend more time with Emmett.

It was June and classes didn't start untill September, so we had a bunch of time to just hang out and make money for school. Alice wasn't doing anything really untill school started because she didn't need a job except for working on her own designs. She was going to study marketing and fashion at UVIC, while Rosalie was mechanics and business, and me, psychology and journalism. We weren't all planning to be having double majors. We were just starting out like that first, untill we decided.

When I stepped into Willowpark for my first day of work, I realized that it didn't smell characteristically like an old folks' home, which I was very glad of. It was quite fresh on the inside. The wallpaper was pretty tacky, but how much can you ask for? Sue, the cheery woman from my interview, came over then and greeted me warmly. "Hello Bella," she said, shaking my hand,"follow me, we'll get you all set up."

I had expected a day of boring orientation, but it wasn't as bad as I though it would be. Sue introduced me to a nice girl named Angela that would be working at the front desk with me. She looked about my age and seemed pretty sweet when I talked to her, while Sue was just running off to help an elderly, man who was lost, get back to his room. "It's a nice place to work," she said, "I think you'll enjoy it. Sue takes over the front desk when activities in the afternoon are going on - meaning we have to take part in the activities. Don't worry though, they're really not that bad. There's bingo on Saturday, water arobics on Sunday, family day on Monday, umm...Tuesday's dancing, Wednesday's..."

Okay. I was expecting maybe having to play cards or bridge or maybe read someone a book or two. But swimming and dancing? Deffinitely not good at either. Deffinitely. At least I'll only be surrounded by geriatrics - and Angela. No biggie.

Sue came back arter a while and gave me the run down on the place. Angela gave me a tour, showing me the dining hall where most of the activities also take place, the newly renovated pool, and the several wards where the residents live. I was wrong in thinking that it would just be old people living there, as it also had people with mental problems whose families' just couldn't take care of them. Although it was a very nice place and probably quite expensive to live there, I would never want to live in a place like it. There simply wasn't enough freedom.

Because it was only an orientation day, I was allowed to leave at noon. I was glad for it because I knew that Alice and Rose wouldn't be home for a while and I'd get some peace and quiet. I loved them to death, but their excited squeels can be a bit much sometimes. After stopping downtown to get some groceries, I headed back home in my old truck, wanting to get my head into my new book while I had the quiet at home.

Turning up the driveway, I realized that I hadn't put a set of keys in my bag because I had thought I would be last home that night. And even though I knew the door would be locked, I stood on the front porch trying the door knob 10 times, seeing if the the gods would grant me my wish this one time. But they didn't, so I slumped into the bench next to the door, dropping the grocery bags on the ground.

I sat there for a while, just watching the street, kids riging their bikes, a dog laying in the sun, an old woman pruning a rose bush, untill a thought popped into my brain: I could climb the lattice on the side of the house up to the balcony off my room. I was positive that the doors on the bacony were unlocked since I had opened them to let the air in that morning, seeing as it was sweltering hot at 8:00 that morning. Heat waves blow.

Leaving my shopping bags on the porch to either come back to them or collect after i got inside, I walked around to the side of the house with my room(the side facing Emmett's place). I wondered why I was doing this, seeing as I could win the award for most clumsy, but not wanting to wait around for at least 3 hours for someone to get home. So I stuck my foot in the first holding in the lattice. My hands held me up as I took shaky step after shaky step up the side of the house. As my legs started to shake and my hands start to slip, an unfamiliar, but beautiful, voice from behind me shouted, "Why are you climbing up my neighbours' house?" He didn't necessarily sound angry, just curious and ...amusemed? I turned my head around to see a guy around my age leaning out a window directly across from me in Emmett's house, no make that a Greek god with flaming red hair and peicing green eyes leaning out a window directly across from me in Emmett's house. He was the most handsome person I'd ever seen. But the amused expression on his face turned me back to the task at hand, but unfortunately, not quick enough, as my fingers slipped from the lattice and I lost my footing as well as I came closer and closer with the ground.

Then everything went black.

SO, that was it. Now I know you may feel like flaming me for it being so bad. But please don't. I dont mind constructive criticism though!

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