It was a late October evening, and the moon was out. Its crescent shape provided only a smidgen of light for Bella as she trudged home from a light night at the accounting building. It was cold and windy. She felt the wind whip her face as if chastising her for staying out too late. She felt the cold sting her hands. No one else was out. It was Fall Break, and all the other students were away. The campus was a ghost town.
Isabella Swan is a 24 year old Master's Accounting student at the University of Chicago. She had spent the day, and now part of the night, studying for her courses and preparing for Accounting 101, a course she taught in exchange for having her Master's degree payed for by the university.
Isabella was ready to be rid of the weather and be in her warm, cozy apartment. She lived just off campus in student housing. It was a two-level multi-unit complex. She liked most of her neighbors, and they were all fellow college students-both graduate and undergraduate students. And it too was a ghost town this week due to Fall Break.
In particular, her downstairs neighbor, Jacob, was charming. He was also handsome, very handsome. He used to be a student in her Accounting 101 course. He would stay late and ask questions. Including if she would go out with him. If she would come over later. His apartment was just downstairs, and she would always see his doorway as she made her final ascension home.
But he wasn't a very good student. And Isabella wasn't going to jeopardize her scholarship over some guy.
So when Isabella, with her backpack, wind whipped face, and freezing hands, rounded the corner that evening, she expected to see his closed door. He would be on break.
Instead, what she saw, would so incredibly alter he life, nothing would ever be the same again. She just didn't know it yet.