Chapter 1

Getting Out of the Closet

Bella's POV

I took a deep breath and walked into the coffee shop.

I came to Seattle a year ago. After spending the entire year bouncing between
crappy jobs and apartments, I finally quit the idea of living all by myself.
Either I would live in a scary apartment (one that I could actually pay the
rent) all by myself, or I would suck up my pride and find someone to share the
rent with and live in an apartment were my other roommates weren't rats and
cockroaches.

After one week of answering newspaper ads and some phone calls, I finally
found someone who actually seemed normal.

Her name was Alice Cullen. She and her friend, I believe her name was Rosalie
Hale, were searching for someone to share an apartment with.

The small café had yellow walls and dark brown leather sofas. The entire
place was very cozy.
I remembered that the girl called Alice told me to look for two girls, one
with long blond hair, and the other with short and dark hair. I scanned the
room and found them near some large windows.

Oh my God… these girls were beautiful—so beautiful it was almost scary. I
mean, my selfesteem levels dropped immediately as soon as I laid eyes on them.
I actually thought about calling off the meeting and calling them later, to
say I found another apartment.

However, I quickly realized how stupid that sounded and approached them.

"Hi, I'm Bella Swan! You must be Rosalie Hale and Alice Cullen,
right?"

Two pairs of beautiful eyes looked at me. The girls were smiling, and
immediately I felt a bit more at ease.

"Hi! How are you?" the small girl with short black hair and dark brown
eyes asked. "I'm so glad to finally meet you! I'm Alice Cullen and this
is Rosalie Hale," she said while pointing to her blond friend.

This girl—Alice—looked like a fairy: her hair was short and spiky and her
frame was
little, almost dolllike.

Alice was bouncing up and down on the chair, like she was really excited
about something and couldn't even hold still.

Rosalie looked at her friend and giggled. She waved her blond hair back and
looked at me trough her honey colored eyes, a smile on her lips.

"Sorry, Bella, please don't think we're crazy. It's just that our
pixie here is too excited to meet you… I mean, compared to all the other
'interviews' we've had, you actually look normal."

"Yeah, no axe hidden behind your back, right? " Alice interrupted Rosalie
and looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

Rose and I looked at each other trough the corners of our eyes. We burst into
giggles and eventually Alice joined us.
"No Alice, I don't, but thanks for trusting me that much!" I said,
still trying to catch my breath.

We spent a couple of hours talking and getting to know each other. I learned
that Rosalie was originally from California and had a great passion for cars.
She was even starting a business and had already bought a place where she was
planed to start an auto shop.

Alice had two brothers and was born in New York, although she moved to
Seattle when she was fourteen. She was now working as a fashion designer.

By the end of our meeting, it was more than obvious that we were perfect to
live with
each other. We decided to go, and I was finally able to see the apartment we
would be living in.

Both Alice and Rosalie had already seen the apartment. As I said before, they
were only searching for someone to share the apartment rent with.

As soon as I entered the apartment I couldn't help but squeal with joy.
From the corner of my eye I could see that the girls were looking at me with
expectant looks on their faces—they wanted to know if I approved.

I couldn't find any words. The apartment was beautiful, not in a very
expensive way. It was cute, and had… personality.

The apartment was still empty, but I was already in love with it. There was a
large bay window in the living room and I could already see me there, reading
my favorite books.

"So, what do you think?" asked Rosalie.

I realized at that moment that Alice's excitement was probably contagious.
Rosalie resembled her little friend by standing there, bouncing up and down,
waiting to hear my answer.

"It's beautiful! I can't believe we're actually going to live
here."

"I know, it's amazing, isn't it?"

Alice jumped at me and wrapped her legs around my waist. Rosalie came along
and hugged me too.

The three of us eventually fell to the ground with a loud bang. I mean, come
on. Truth be told, I was holding the weight of TWO girls and let's just say
I'm not the most coordinate person in the world. It really was not my fault.

The moment we hit the floor we started laughing. After about fifteen minutes
of this we just laid down on the floor, trying to catch our breath.

"My butt hurts," I whined.

"My boob too. Rose grabbed it when we were falling," Alice said while
shooting Rosalie a death glare.

"Well Alice, you know I always fancied you, in a weird lesbian way,"
answered Rose with a seductive voice.

"Well Alice, how do you feel after your first lesbian experience?" I
couldn't help but play along with them, it was just too funny.

"I feel dirty," Alice answered in a thoughtful voice, then she started
shrieking. "Unclean, unclean!"

"Oh c'mon Alice, you know you want me. Rawr." We started laughing
again.

When I arrived home that day, I lay down on my couch and started thinking
about the day I'd had.

It really was an amazing day. I made two new amazing friends and was sure
that I was going to have tons of fun around those girls.