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"Absolutely not. No. Alice I will not live with your brother that I have never met."

"But Bella you need a roommate and so does he. It's perfect. And don't be so dramatic you have defiantly met him before. Christmas break two years ago." Alice smiled at me triumphantly.

"Alice I hardly call seeing the back of his head through my rear view mirror meeting him and I most certainly do not need a roommate. "

"Oh come on Bella, it will be fine. He is moving to the city and he isn't interested in renting his own apartment. Just do it and see how it works out." Alice gave me her best puppy dog eyes.

What Alice understood is that those puppy dog eyes are my weakness and she used them against me all the time to get whatever she wanted.

"Fine. But if he is mean and rude and inconsiderate he is gone. And he better not be as peppy as you. Not that it's a bad thing it's just I don't know if I could handle living with that much pep. Oh and he is a slob we will have major issues."

"No, No. He is a doctor he is very mellow. Oh Dear. I got to run, Jazz and I have dinner plans. I will come by tomorrow with my brother so the two of you can meet. Hugs. Smooches. Tootles." Alice kissed my cheek and ran out of my apartment.

I have stood on my own for awhile and I thoroughly enjoy it. I'm a twenty three year old single, successful women. I live alone because it takes a special kind of man to deal with me. Let's just say I'm a little bit OCD about things. I am a perfectionist, which is not a bad thing at all in fact it is why I am so good at my job. I am the editor and chief of Degree, a high class, high fashion magazine that is very popular with young adults. I take my job very seriously and I am good at what I do, not to sound big headed or anything but one of the best in the business.

I have many other negative qualities but at least I am women enough to admit I have very poor qualities, on the plus side every negative quality comes with a positive. Such as: I am picky but just because I know what I want. I am sarcastic but just because I don't take shit from anyone. I have a potty mouth but only because I don't believe in filtering thoughts. I am to independent but I call it strong willed. Okay that's enough about my bad sides.

I have lived on my own since I was seventeen, well once Alice lived with me for a week but she moved because she couldn't handle me. She said 'I love you so much Bells but seriously you are an uptight bitch ease up and I'll move back.' I never really offered her back, don't get me wrong I love Alice so much, she is my best friend, but I can't handle living with peppy people. I myself am not so peppy. I like to sit at home curl up on the couch and work.

Work is good, work is great, work keeps my head on straight. All right I will admit that was cheesy but sometimes I get cheesy things in my head and I just can't help myself. I love my job, like I previously stated. I love designing magazines and controlling the certain things that I get to control. Oh yea I guess I am a control freak just because I like things done a certain way. I have won numerous awards for being so great at what I do. Do I brag a lot? I probably do just because I like people to know what I have accomplished so early in life.

Here I am on a Friday night at 9:30pm sitting at home on my laptop working. Doing what I love. Maybe sometimes I wish I had more of a social life. I could have a social life, I get invited to so many parties and promo parties I just can't bring myself to go. I do however always make time for Fashion Week. Fashion is my Passion, I hate to shop but I love clothes, because of my job I usually get free clothes from big clothing designers. They want there stuff featured in the magazine so to convince me they bring me gifts, one of the many perks of my job.

I go to bed every night at 10:00pm no excuses, not a minute later. I am a very scheduled person, although sometimes if I am feeling a little rebellious I take a shower at ten and go to bed after my shower, but other than that I take showers in the morning at exactly 6:30am. I eat breakfast at 6:59am, and by 9:00am I leave for work. Except for weekends, usually I don't follow schedules on weekends because there is absolutely no need to. I know waking up at 6:15am is ridiculous if I don't have to leave until 9:00am but I take my image seriously. I have to, I represent a magazine, the greatest magazine in Seattle.

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I woke up refreshed like always. I don't get why people are tired in the morning if they go to bed at a reasonable hour then there would be no tiredness. Last month I fired a girl because she fell asleep at her desk, that is completely unacceptable to fall asleep at work. Maybe if she wasn't such a little tramp and didn't run around with half of Seattle she wouldn't of fallen asleep. My phone ring tone brought me out of my thoughts of Tanya and her skank self.

"Good morning Alice." I said pleasantly

"Morning Bells. So what time do you want to meet my brother?" Alice asked a little to peppy.

"Well I need to clean up and get ready, it's 9:00am now so…"

"Great we will be there at 2:00pm. Because we both know there is nothing in that absurdly clean apartment of yours. You are going to use that time to get ready. Don't worry Bella it's great it takes you so long it means you care. Oh and can we talk about my line later please?" Alice pleaded

"We will defiantly talk about it later. I am going to do yoga too by the way." I stated

"Okay see you at 2:00pm and not a second later."

Alice hung up the phone and left me to my thoughts. Alice has been begging me to put an add for her fashion line into Degree. I have always loved Alice's fashion it's just hard to incorporate the items she creates into the Degree theme. Degree is very high fashion, modern, chic. Alice's fashion is very old time, classic, beautiful, elegant gowns. I bet if I told her what type of stuff to design she could do it but I don't want her to get the wrong idea. Alice's fashions are amazing just not what we would incorporate in Degree. I want to help Alice out but I can't jeopardize the magazine. I probably know a few people who could get her into a magazine. I wrote a note in my planner to remember to do that.

At 10:00am I got into the shower to begin the extensive process of becoming beautiful. I can lounge around in sweats and be completely satisfied but since I am meeting my roommate I need to make an impression. My showers take about an hour, I have to wash my hair, and my body, shave and then sit on the bench and relax. After I shower I do my makeup then hair then I get dressed. Makeup takes me half an hour because I don't wear much but I do wear enough. Hair takes about an hour and a half because I have to blow dry, defriz, straighten, and then sometimes curl but not always. Plus I have to moisturize it so it doesn't dry out at break. Getting dressed takes sometimes an hour sometimes longer. I take time to pick out my outfit and then I try on the options and then I narrow it down until I find the best one.

Today I decided I would just straighten my hair. I decided to go with a nude lip and a pale pink eye shadow to make my brown eyes look brighter. I went with a pair of straight leg jeans with a red tube top, and a black shrug. I obviously wasn't wearing shoes because I didn't allow shoes in my house. It could stain the carpet and it brought germs in.

After I was all done I went to go check up on the guest room to make sure it was in tip top shape. It obviously was because I cleaned it myself. I didn't do maids EVER! They can't do things the way I want them done. I pray Alice's brother wasn't a messy person. Oh God help me if he is. I heard a knock at the door. I walked to the living room slowly, I didn't need to rush to the door there was no need. Alice knocked again.

"Okay Alice, I'm not fucking deaf I'm coming." I said slightly annoyed. I heard Alice yelling from the other side of the door.

"Language like that doesn't make a very good first fucking impression. Oh oops, oh well its my brother." I giggled to myself. Alice was so cute sometimes, okay all the time. I opened the door and hugged Alice.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to swear at…" I couldn't speak and that rarely happened. He was, He was.. I don't even know. Gorgeous, amazing, beautiful, god-like, Jesus in person. He was more amazing than any model that has ever been in my magazine. His copper messy hair, his bright green eyes, his structured jawbone, and the way you could see his sculpted muscles under his shirt. Stop Bella, You don't like men, well men don't like you. Don't bother.

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EPOV

"Alice, I have never even met her before. I cannot just go live with her."

" Oh Edward don't be so dramatic, you've seen pictures of her and if I recall correctly you called her stunning. Plus, I don't see why not. You guys will get along great. If it doesn't work out move out." Alice gave me her puppy dog look.

"I just got here today and you want me to go meet and stay with a random women. Alice does that sound like me?" Her big blue eyes were melting my heart but I at least had to try to fight it.

"Edward. She has been my best friend for four years now. She is mature, responsible, a little to responsible but you guys will be great for each other. I mean get along great. Trust me, since when have I ever been wrong?"

"Fine Alice. Fine. When do I meet her?"

"Now! We are here!"

I can't believe I was moving in with someone I have never even said one word to. Usually it takes me a long time to actually make a decision about something, this was so unlike me it wasn't even funny. Alice had to basically drag me into the elevator and up to the penthouse suite. The penthouse suite! Who was I living with? I have had good things in life but a single women living in a penthouse suite? What's wrong with her? Alice knocked on the door, there didn't seem to be any movement on the other side so Alice knocked again.

"Okay Alice, I'm not fucking deaf I'm coming!" Oh shit what am I getting myself into. Alice tsked

"Language like that doesn't make a very good first fucking impression. Oh oops, oh well its my brother." Alice was so funny, the things she said always made me laugh.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to swear at…"

She was beautiful, no other words could describe her. Her straight brown hair, that had tints of blonde and red highlights in it. Her big brown eyes, that looked so innocent but had a hint of something that I couldn't quite place in them. She had cute cheeks, I don't know why but I was stuck on her cheeks. Don't be rude Edward say something.

"Sorry. Hello I'm Edward Cullen." I stuck out my hand for her to shake.

She took my hand and shook it. Her grip was firm, like she was trying to prove to me that she was superior or something or trying to tell me she is strong. When our hands touched there was this unexplainable feeling, like shocks, or static electricity, like every nerve ending in my body was on edge. Like I said unexplainable.

"Hello, I am Isabella Swan. Call me Bella." She quickly jerked her hand away from mine. I knew she felt it too because she looked at her hand after. She inspected it to see if something was different.

"Bella, Don't be rude. Can we come in?" Alice looked at Bella and smiled.

"Oh. Um. Sure." Bella moved to the side to let us in.

The apartment was beautiful. Everything was open, there was big glass windows that over looked Seattle. The floors were dark wood and there were white rugs throughout. The walls were white and had framed pictures of blown up magazine covers, and there was shelves with awards on them. Basically to sum everything up everything was amazing and classy.

"Oh take your shoes off!" Bella yelled at me. I quickly took my shoes off.

"Sorry." I said quietly.

"Mhmm." She rolled her eyes and turned her head. Alice just gave me a pleading look.

"Bella how about we all sit and talk to get to know each other." Alice said, taking a seat at the white dinning table.

"Yea. Okay." Bella came and sat at the head of the table. I just took the safest bet and sat next to Alice.

"So Edward tell Bella about your self."