Chapter 1

"Alright, the car is all packed." Sadie Harrison yelled to her family. Packed was an understatement. The car looked ready to burst with both Sadie and her sister Jude's boxes and suitcases shoved into and on top of the little apple green VW bug.

"Jude I'm sorry I can't take you to school myself but I really can't take off work right now." Victoria Harrison said to her youngest daughter. "Don't worry though, Sadie will make sure you get all settled before she moves into her new apartment and I'll be up to visit in two months for parent's weekend."

"Don't worry about it Mom, its probably better for me to walk away from you than for you to get all emotional in front of a bunch of people I don't know." Jude smiled and leaned into her mother for one more hug before she left for school. With one last hug and kiss, the sisters squeezed into the car. As they were about to pull out of their driveway for the last time in a long time, Victoria motioned for them to wait and walked up to Jude's side of the car.

"Remember, this is a chance to build for your future. It's no longer me you would be disappointing with bad grades but really yourself. So work hard, and have fun. Stay safe and balanced." With those last words from Victoria, the girls waved goodbye and left. Throughout the entire drive to the University, Jude kept thinking of her mother's words of warning and she was determined to really turn around her academics and prove to her mother and herself that she could be a good student.

One month later…

Jude walked into her tiny dorm room and collapsed onto her bed. Despite hating all of her classes, as a freshman she was required to take all general studies, she had been working extremely hard and had received nothing lower than a B on anything she had done. It was just after noon and Jude was done with her classes for the day so she decided to take a nap. Around 1:30 a pounding on her door woke her and she slowly rolled out of bed and opened the door. Sadie was standing there with an impatient look on her face.

"Hey Sades, what's up?" A tired Jude asked.

"Um, hello? Earth to Jude! It's Friday, I've been sitting around for the last half hour waiting for you to come over so we could go for out weekly lunch."

"OMG, Sades I'm so sorry, I just passed out as soon as I got back from class. I totally forgot to set my alarm. Let me just grab my bag and we'll go."

Sadie and Jude went to the student union and each ordered a salad and sat down.

"So Jude, what are you doing tonight?"

"Uh, I don't know, probably get some work done then call Kat and Jaime."

"Ugh, Jude come on. You've been here for a month and you're acting like you're in a convent! Have you even gone to a party or on a date? I know you've been asked, I mean come on you're a Harrison, we're pretty hot!"

Jude gave a slight chuckle to this and took a deep breath before she responded. "No, I haven't gone out yet, on a date or party. But Sadie I really wanna do well here and I don't wanna go out and make an ass of myself with a guy or by getting wasted at a party. I will go out, I just want to finish adjusting. I mean, I look at how Whitney is when she goes out every weekend. She stumbles into our dorm and I have to run for a trash can before she pukes all over our room. Then the next day I get to hear all the details about whatever guy she hooked up with and whatever drama unfolded the night before. I just don't want to turn into that."

"Ya, but that is like one far extreme. How about this, you come out with me tonight. You don't even have to drink if you don't want. I'm going my friend Jack's frat. It'll be so much fun! Besides, you haven't met my friend Tommy yet, and he'll be there tonight along with a lot more of my friends that want to see you again."

"Good friend Tommy, huh? He must be more than a friend considering I met all of your friends when I was here to visit you last year." Jude said in a suggestive tone.

"EWW, I can't even think of Tommy in that way. I mean ya he's drop dead gorgeous and the sweetest guy ever but I think of him to much as my big brother to ever consider anything more with him. Besides he treats me like he does all of his guy friends. And lastly, the only reason you didn't meet him last time you were here is because he was doing a semester abroad in Italy. He's the one that sold me on it, he did the same program I'm doing next semester." Sadie finished that last bit with a little twinkle in her eye. She had always wanted to go to Europe and she was so excited for her upcoming semester abroad. "So what do you say? Will you come out with me tonight?"

Jude thought about it a moment and let out a deep sigh. "Okay, okay but you're gonna have to come by later and help me decide what to wear."

Sadie squealed at the idea of making over her sister's look. Jude rolled her eyes not knowing what was in store for her that night.