A/N I know I know, yet another one. But this one is going to be different than all my others I swear.

Summary:

When Bella trudges behind her gold digging mother and new step farther Phil into the ball she doesn't expect to make a group of new friends who will make this summer the best of her life, so far anyway. With trespassing, kayaking and woodland critters named George this summer is sure to be a life changing one.

Bella Swan P.O.V

I walked into the hotel reception behind my mother and Phil. I was pissed. My dress was too tight and it had a corset. A fucking corset! Of course that was my slutty mothers fault. I had way too much make up on and to top it all off, this was my coming out ball.

Basically this ball was held for all the eighteen year old people who came from money to be paraded around and have a sign placed above their heads saying, "My parents will sell me too your parents if you're rich enough!"

It was sickening.

"Oh Isabella will you hurry up!" Called my mother. Phil smiled at me slightly.

"I'm coming! If you hadn't made me wear these stupid heels we wouldn't be having this problem in the first place!"

"Oh stop complaining, you at least look presentable now." I had to mentally scold myself for having visions of me strangling my mother.

A few months back I had been a pretty average girl. Well I had a gold digging slag for a mother but, apart from that, I was normal. Then my mom had managed to seduce Phil. Phil was great, bless him. He was kind and thoughtful and pretty smart. Apart from when it came to my mother. I had told him hundreds of times she was just using him. That he could do better. At first he used to stick up for her but now he just smiled and shook his head.

Everyone in this new world I had been plunged into hated me. They either saw me as the daughter of a gold digging whore, and therefore I was going to become one too. Or I was competition.

The ball was in full swing when we got into the ballroom. Teenagers were shamelessly flirting with each other and adults were mingling and making small talk and telling crappy jokes that everyone would laugh at, way too loudly at that. Fakers.

I spent about five minutes been felt up by sweaty, hormonal boys on the dance floor before looking towards the girls bathrooms. I groaned at the size of the queue. I glanced at the men's bathroom. After having a quick look round to make sure my mother wasn't looking at me I made a beeline to my freedom.

Phil caught my eye and I mouthed that I would be back by one Am. He grinned, winked and nodded. I grinned back. Gotta love Phil. He knew I hated this life style. I think he hated it too.

I pushed open the door and ignored the three guys pissing in the urinals.

"Hey! You're a chick!" yelled the biggest one. "And you're not fucking some loser. So what are you doing in here?" By now all three of them had put themselves away and zipped up.

I looked in the mirror and made a face. I walked over to the window and reached out, grabbing the bag I'd had put there in case it got too much. I took out a makeup remover pad and took all the gunk off my face.

"Getting changed." I replied. I tried to undo the zip but it just wasn't happening. "Well don't just stand there help me! Aren't all you buys supposed to be acting like the perfect gentlemen or something?"

"Look we're not going to have sex with you-" I cut of the bronze haired boy before he could go on.

"Oh I know you're not. Believe me. But I can't well go out on the streets in this can I? I'm escaping, now will you please get this zipper or I'm going to cut the damn dress off and I was really looking forward to burning the thing in front of my mother. Slutty Swan? Ring any bells? Look I only have a little bit of time until she comes looking for me." The bronze haired boy sighed and unzipped me.

"Thank you." I stepped out of the dress and took off that damn corset. "Wow I can actually breathe again!" I grinned at their shocked expressions. They obviously didn't think I would strip in front of them. "Oh don't look at me like that I'm sure you've all seen a lot more than this."

I pulled on my black skinny jeans and Paramore tee before taking all the pins out of my hair and shaking it loose.

"Well no doubt I'll see you at one of these things again. Can you please not tell anyone you saw me?" I begged.

"Only if you let us come with you." Said the blond one quickly. I raised my eyebrow.

"You hate these things as much as me?" I asked sceptically. All three nodded.

"Let us go get our girlfriends and then we can leave." Pleaded the big one. I sighed.

"Fine, I'll meet you by the boathouse, on the lake, on the golf course. If you get me caught I swear I will castrate you." They nodded and I went to go out the window. Muscle and Blonde went back into the ball room and Bronze followed me.

"You not going to get your girl?" I asked.

"Don't have one. Can we hurry up?" I nodded and shoved my dress and corset into my bag, slinging it onto my shoulder. I jumped out of the window and kept low while I passed the ladies bathroom window. Part of a conversation floated through to me

"And OMG did you see those Cullen boys? H-O-T! I nearly came there and then." And that was when I realized where I had seen the three boys. They were only the Cullen boys, the three most eligible bachelors in New York.

I looked back to Bronze, or Edward.

"You're Edward fucking Cullen!" I whisper yelled.

"Only just figured it out?" He smirked. I rolled my eyes.

"Oh shut up. Let's just get out of here." He nodded and we silently made our way to the meeting place.

"So tell me." Began Edward. "If you hate these balls so much, why even bother going?"

"My mom's a bitch and I don't want to let Phil down. He's a really great guy." Edward nodded.

"Yeah he is. My dad good friends with him. I must admit we don't really like your mom." I laughed.

"Join the club. Seriously, feel free to slag her off in front of me, chances are I've said it all before." I sat down on the edge of the lake, pulling a bottle of WKD out of my bag. It was one of the big ones so I had no problems sharing, all I wanted was something to take the edge off, not something to make me think I could fly.

I opened the twist cap and took a long swing. I offered Edward the bottle and he grinned.

"Thanks." He took the bottle and drank about as much as me.

"So who is this chick?" I heard someone say a little way off from us.

"Isabella Swan." Replied Emmett, God, could they be any louder?

"Slutty Swan?! You have to be kidding me I thought we were getting away from the slutty bitches, not joining them!" I decided it was time to make an appearance.

"Slutty Swan's my mother, please just call me Bella." I smiled and held out the bottle to the tall blonde I recognised as Rosalie Hale. She had the decency to look sheepish at being caught out like she had.

"Well why did you just strip down in front of my man?" She asked. I snorted.

"I didn't strip down. Besides I was totally going to go in the ladies room but the queue was fuck long and let's face it, if I had to endure one more spotty rich kid feeling my butt up like he could then I was going to commit murder... And probably suicide." Rosalie must have seen some truth in my eyes as she grinned at me and took a swig from the bottle.

"Fair enough. My Emmie here stops the groping morons for me." Emmet groaned.

"Ro-se! Please don't call me Emmie in front of my bro and new friend." Rose just smirked.

"You were loving it last night."

"Eww, guys, I really don't need them images. Where's your brother we need to get out of here before my mother descends."

"Here they come." I saw Jasper jogging over to us, a small but gorgeous girl on his back.

"Hey guys." He turned to me. "Isabella, this is my amazing girlfriend, Alice." I smiled at her.

"Nice to meet you Alice and OMG are those the new summer collection Gucci shoes?" I looked down at the shiny red heels.

"Yep, that's why my awesome boyfriend gave me a lift over here." She was grinning at me, obviously liking me for my appreciation for her shoes.

"As epic as they are you are going to stick out like the queen at a rock concert in them where we're going, I have some flats that will be less conspicuous in my bag if you want them?" She nodded and I got the said shoes out of my bag and handed them over.

"Thanks Isabella."

"Oh and another thing, only on pain of death call me Isabella. Really I have been known to hit people when they call me that. Ok, so I was planning on going to this mosh pit but with you guys looking like that I don't think it's a very good idea. Any thoughts? Can we talk and walk please?" I put Alice's shoes in my bag and swung it onto my back.

We set of walking. We were silent for five or ten minutes, thinking of where we could go.

"It's getting dark!" Said Alice happily. "I love the dark, makes everything seem like more of an adventure." I gasped. I had it.

"I am a genius!" I cried. "I know what we're going to do tonight. We'll have to swing by my place though so you can get changed." They all nodded, not even asking me my idea.

"Are you going to tell us what we're going to do?" I guess I spoke too soon. I nodded at Rosalie.

"Well you have a choice, we can get changed and just go out, we can go to that mosh pit I was telling you about or...." I paused for dramatic effect. "We can go to this hospital I know of. I've only been once, and that was in the daytime. It was pretty freaky then. Imagine what it'd be like at night." I looked to Alice. "A real adventure." Alice squealed.

"That sounds so fucking awesome Bella! What time is it now?" I took my phone from my bra and read the time.

"Ten past nine. I mouthed to Phil I'd be home at one. He has his phone so I can ring him and get an extended curfew if I need to though." She nodded. I looked at the others to gauge their reactions. Emmett, Edward and Jasper were grinning and talking about how fun this was going to be and Rosalie had this glint in her eyes which excited me and scared me at the same time.

"Well it should be dark in about half an hour. How long will it take to get to your place?"

"Ten minutes tops. It's not far." We came to a pretty high wall that marked the edge of the hotels property.

I climbed up the tree that was closest to the wall. Slowly edging my way along a branch I reached out for the wall. I hooked my legs around the branch as I made a grab for the edge of the wall. When I had a strong grip I let go of the branch and pulled myself up so I was straddling the top of the wall.

"Throw me my bag. You'll have to give Rosalie and Alice a boost up, unless they can climb in those shoes." Even with the flats I had given Alice it would still be a tough task to climb that tree.

Edward threw my bag to me and I threw it down to the sidewalk and swung down so I was hanging on with my fingertips before letting myself drop. Edward followed after me followed by the girls then finally Emmett and Jasper dropped to the ground.

"Well that was a little adventure in itself." Commented Rosalie as I unlocked to door to Phil's mansion. I laughed.

"Yeah, did you see the look on those people's faces at what you were wearing? Hilarious. I'll go get you some clothes. Kitchen is through there, help yourselves. Alice can you come tell me everyone's sizes?" Alice nodded and the others went into the kitchen, laughing and joking.

A/N Edward for your thoughts?

Lots of love,

Sammy ^^

xox