Tropical paradise.

Chapter 1

BPV

I awoke that morning to hear Charlie's booming voice calling me from down stairs.

" Bella, honey, you have to get up! Your going to be late for school!" Charlie bellowed out. I got up out of the bed that I had slept in my entire life and walked across the room that hadn't changed since the day I was born. The only things that hadn't been in there that day were my adult bed and a desk that held my decrepit computer. As I headed into the shower, I groaned. I didn't want to go to school today, but I had to. I had a huge test in history today. Well at least I got to break up with my psychotic boyfriend Mike Newton.

Mike Newton had started out as a normal boyfriend. I had known him for years, since Charlie had been one of the best costumers in the Newton's sporting goods store. When we started dating, he seemed like a sweet, doting boyfriend. Then as if the change happened over night, he became obsessive. I had even once caught him looking at me through the tree in my bedroom once. The calls never stopped. He had always wanted to know, where I was, who I was with, and if I was cheating on him. His sense of paranoia had grown in the past few months to the point where our fights were starting to get physical. The straw that broke the camels back was that my best friend, Alice Brandon, had caught Mike cheating on me with another woman. After she told me that, my mind was made up to break up with him.

As I came bounding down the stairs, I couldn't help but notice the huge grin on my father's face. My father hated Mike Newton. He felt that Mike was arrogant and a show off. I had to agree with him there, he drove a shit box suburban for crying out loud! I was thinking about this as I dove into my lucky charm's cereal. After I was done, I placed the bowl in the sink, grabbed my coat, and proceeded to head out the door. I grabbed the gift that I had gotten for Alice's birthday( it was yesterday) on the way out. It was a coach purse, something that had taken three months of saving up for. When I had seen it in the store ( Alice and I had frequent shopping trips to Seattle) I automatically knew she would like it.

As I pulled out of the drive way, I tried to formulate what I would say to Mike. I wasn't afraid to break it off, but I was afraid of what he would do after the fact. As I said before Mike wasn't stable. In fact he was the type to go all homicidal or suicidal or something like that, which was scary. I would probably tell him that it was me and not him or something like that.

I met up with Alice in the parking lot, like I do every day. She was ecstatic that I was going to break it off. She really hated the kid. In fact her hatred rivaled Charlie's . It was one of the many reasons Charlie liked her as my best friend.

" in case I die... happy birthday!" I said giving her the bag which contained the Coach

" Oh, what is it!" Alice said while opening up the bag.

" BELLA OMG YOU DIDN'T!" Alice shrieked when she first saw the bag.

" you shouldn't of!" Alice said happily.

" do you like it?" I asked.

" LIKE IT...I LOVE IT!" Alice shrieked, jumping up and down. I then saw Mike coming towards me and groaned.

" HI BABE!" Mike yelled at me, completely ignoring Alice. Ugh...here we go!

" Listen Mike, we need to talk." I started up.

" What is it?" Mike asked confused.

" I know what you did last night, you were seen by a number of witnesses." which was true. After Alice called me, I was hit with a wave of phone calls by class mates wanting to know why Mike was making out with another girl.

" What are you talking about?" Mike played dumb.

" I know that you were out with Jessica Stanley, I know that you made out with her, and I know that you took her home last night!" I said. Jessica Stanley was the biggest whore of the Senior class, I wouldn't be surprised if they did anything else. It was then that Jessica called out to him. She was dressed in five in heals, booty shorts and a tube top...in the middle of March!

" Mikey baby...last night was so fun!" Mike looked embarrassed at this, the moron was going to try and deny it.

" What are you talking about Jessica?" Mike asked shooting her a warning look...which she didn't get.

" you know, you, me, and the back seat of your car in front of my house!" Jessica shouted. Okay I really didn't need to know that. Alice looked disgusted..

" Mike if your going to be with the whor- I mean Jessica, fine go right a head, but im not going to be the woman who always wonders if her boyfriend is cheating. Id go nuts, I've had enough, im breaking it off." I said. Alice looked thrilled.

" What?" Mike asked dumbly.

" You heard me... Im B-R -E-A-K- I-N-G U-P with you!" I said.

Mike looked horrified. Then his eyes filled with rage and he turned in Alice's direction. So he was going to blame this all on her, when he was the one that cheated?

" This is all your fault... you filled her head with all these lies about me!" Mike spat.

" No, I didn't do anything, you did it all yourself!" Alice shot back

" Mike, honestly, she's telling the truth!" I shouted.

" NO ONE BREAKS UP WITH MIKE NEWTON!" Mike roared running into the school. That was another lie, I knew that three of his ex girlfriends broke it off with him. Alice laughed as he ran away.

" What a fucking narcissist!" Alice laughed as we headed into the building.

" I know!" I said.

" I cant believe that you actually dated that...how could you stand the ego?" Alice asked

" To be honest Alice, I don't even know!" I responded.

I had lucked out that day that many people saw the breakup. The rumor mill started to turn, but was basically killed by people who both witnessed the incident last night as well as the breakup. Everywhere I walked people told me how glad they were that I broke it off with Mike. Apparently he wasn't as popular as he thought he was. It shouldn't of surprised me, Mike thought that he was better than god himself.

I took my history test and felt that I knew all the answers, which probably meant that I failed. After I finished, I talked with Alice some more. I had lucked out that we were placed in the same class. Alice wanted to plan a celebratory shopping trip to celebrate the end of my relationship with Mike. She was practically bouncing the down the hall way all day.

" Oh, I forgot to ask you, my father's getting my car inspected while we're in school, do you think that you could give me a ride home?" Alice asked on the way to lunch.

" sure, no problem!" I said. Alice lived right across the street from us, so it wouldn't be out of the way.

" Thank you, it means so much!" Alice said happily.

" your welcome!" I said

we then finished our lunch.

At the end of the day Alice met me at my car. True to her word, her car was missing from it's usual spot when I walked by it. When we got into my truck, Alice thanked me again.

" While we're in here... do you mind stopping at the grocery store... I want to buy scratch tickets!" Alice asked ( she had just turned 18( a/n I don't know the gambling age in Washington state, so just bare with me on this)). I had to buy dinner anyways so I told her we would. She squealed with joy.

I picked up what I needed too at the store. Tonight we were going to have chicken with mashed potatoes and a salad. Charlie would be thrilled. I always enjoyed cooking, it gave me time to think. As I was thinking about this Alice ran up and bought two $2 scratch tickets from costumer service. We then went into the check out line and payed for the food.

" I cant believe that you actually did it...you actually broke up with him!" Alice said

" I know, but I had to, I mean I couldn't be the woman who gets cheated on constantly!" I said.

"I feel ya there!" Alice said. Alice had plenty of boyfriends that cheated on her. She always had the innate sense to know what they were doing though. That was how she knew where Mike was.

" what is it with the men we pick!" Alice exclaimed as we walked into the car.

" I know, its like we have bad luck or something!" I said

I then pulled into Alice's drive way. She bid me goodbye and headed into her house. I backed into my drive way and brought everything into the house. I had already diced up the salad and was placing the chicken in the oven when Charlie came in.

" What smells so good Bells!" Charlie said as he entered the kitchen.

" Oh, we're having chicken tonight with mashed potatoes and a salad!" I said

" Sounds wonderful!" Charlie said.

About two hours later we dug in. Charlie talked about his day, how he arrested some middle schooler's for vandalism. Crime wasn't big in Forks, Washington( the town that I lived in) so this was a big deal for him. He acted as if he caught a serial killer or something.

" So, how was your day?" Charlie asked... he had wanted to know how the break up went, but was trying to be subtle about it.

" it went well...but you might want to keep watch in case Mike comes...he didn't take it well!" I said.

" Marvelous...it will give me a chance to pull my gun on the kid!" Charlie said.

I retired up the stairs after dinner. Charlie wanted to watch the baseball game, something that I really wasn't into. Because I had no homework, I got really bored and went on my computer. I went to check my e-mail to find that I had ten... count them...ten e-mails from Mike asking me to think it over. They progressively got more threatening. So I sent him this:

" Mike, no matter how much you threaten me, ill never come back to you. Its over. Were DONE!"

I hit send and then changed my face book and my space statuses to "single". There was a massive amount of messages from Mike on those sights as well, but I ignored them. Since I now had really had nothing to do...I pulled out the scratch ticket and began to work on that. My winning numbers were 7 and 13 ( it figured that my birth date would be my lucky number!). Row one was filled with $20 prizes, none of which I won. I felt no hope when I got to the end of Row two, since I hadn't won anything else. When I scratched off the last number, I noticed that it was a thirteen. I looked down to see how much I won thinking that at most it would be $200 or something like that. My jaw dropped when I got a look at the actual prize. I had won $1,000,000. I started to hyperventilate. I wanted to scream. I immediately called my father into my room to double check the amount. He freaked when he saw all those zeros. I was thanking god at this point that I was 18 so that I could collect the money. I sprinted across the street, ticket in hand and knocked on Alice's door.

" Bella, what happened, did Mike threaten you or something?" Alice asked when she saw my face.

" No, well he did, but that's not what im here for!" I responded.

" Well then what is it?" Alice said impatiently.

" Look!" I said while shoving the scratch ticket in her face. Her face dropped when she saw what I had won.

" OH MY GOD!" Alice shrieked jumping up and down. She then ran up stairs retrieving her ticket. She then began to scratch. She too had won $1,000,000. She bellowed out for her father to look at the tickets. I thought that he was going to have a heart attack or something.

" ALICE MY GOD, DO YOU KNOW THE ODDS OF THAT HAPPENING TWICE... IT DOESN'T EVEN HAPPEN ONCE!" Mr. Brandon said, his face turning white as a sheet. I thought that he was going to faint or something. Charlie then came running across the street, upon seeing the look on Mr. Brandon's face he asked, " you too?".

" Well, I know what we have to do with this money!" Alice shrieked. She then turned to her dad and asked if we could vacation on the island in which Alice's family had a hotel. It was passed down from generation to generation and Mr. Brandon just recently inherited it.

" Okay, you'll only have to pay air fare!" Mr. Brandon said. Sweet free hotel!