New Story: I Can Make It on My Own
Summary: All Human, BxE, EmxR, JxA, CxEs. Bella works at a gym in her spare time earning money to keep going to a prestige dance academy. Edward an upcoming musician regularly comes to this gym. Bella, training to be a ballet/contemporary dancer is in desperate need of a composer for her final concert to get a much needed scholarship, while Edward is looking for his big break.
Disclaimer: Twilight and all its wonderful characters belong to the great author Stephanie Meyer
Bella's POV- September
Age: 19
Great! Another day I work t thought when the alarm clock buzzed on my bedside table. I have to keep reminding myself that if I don't do this I wont be able to afford dance academy.
You see my mum died when I was five and dad working as the chief of police in a small town Dubbo, couldn't afford for me to go to a big dance academy in the centre of Sydney. I wasn't as well off as the other students at this school. So now all I do is work at a gym in all my spare time earning enough money for me to eat, pay the rent and go to dance school with the occasional shopping for clothes.
Alice was my best friend living with me in my apartment even though she didn't have to helping me with the rent. She came from a well off family who own a huge company here in Sydney. Her parents even gave her her own mini house.
Alice goes to my school as well but isn't a dancer. She is a fashion designer and designs costumes for the dancers. She has helped my with every one of mine so far.
I groaned. I didn't want to get out of bed this early on a Saturday. I unplugged the alarm and put the pillow over my head signing out if relief.
I didn't last long in my peaceful state when my little pixie-like roommate started jumping on my bed yelling at me to get up.
"Come on Bella!" she whined "You have to get out of bed if you want to get to work on time cause I called the gym and they said if you get there early enough you can be let off early this afternoon." Alice said jumping on my bed
"Alice! Come on. Why do I even have to get off work early, I don't mind staying that late?" I replied grumpily
"Because… I have a great idea what we could do tonight. Were going clubbing!" She exclaimed excitedly
"No way in earth Alice!" I said sternly "I hate clubbing and I have to be fresh in the morning to go to work and I have to go otherwise I will not be able to pay the tuition money."
"Fine, how about this, I will bring you home before 1am and if you are not up to going to work tomorrow I will call the gym and tell them why you aren't able to come in the I will pay you whatever you would have earned that day, OK?" She asked with that famous Alice pout. She knows I can't deny her when she pouts like that!
"Argh! Fine Alice, I will go. What time am I getting off today then?" I asked giving in easily.
"Well I was thinking you will get off at around 3 then we can go shopping for about two hours then come back here where you can get dressed and I can do your hair and make-up, then we will go and grab dinner at around 6.30 and be at the club at about 7.30. Does that sound ok?" she said to quickly that I couldn't understand.
I just agreed and got up to get ready for work quickly grabbing my soap, strawberry scented shampoo and conditioner and a towel and jumped in the bathroom for a quick shower.
When I came out of the shower I saw that Alice had lay out my outfit for the day. There was a grey hoodie and shorts, perfect for the gym. I was hoping to get in a bit of a workout today to keep fit. I only wish that I could think of choreography but one problem is that I don't have any music at all to dance to. There is a requirement that says tat you have to use something that no one has heard before to make you dance even more original. Now where was I going to find some one who can write songs? I didn't know anyone who did. Maybe I could ask Alice. I should remind myself to do that while we are shopping.
I grabbed my keys, phone, iPod and wallet and stuffed in into my sports bag that was a requirement for the job. I also grabbed an apple for breakfast and said bye to Alice and ran out of the apartment.
I got to work just in time and swiped my card to notify them that I was here. I took my place behind the counter and waited for the first customer to arrive.
The day went along pretty uneventful with the usual customers with the same requirements until I heard the bell on the door ring. I turned my head expecting another usual customer but standing there were two men with shorts and singlet's on looking as hot as ever. One had brown curly hair and was huge biceps on his arms. The other had the most gorgeous bronze coloured hair with sticking green eyes. His muscles weren't as big as the other man's but boy were they big.
I was standing there frozen with my mouth open form when they walked in I didn't notice them walk up to me until I heard one of the cough. I looked up quickly and a blush appeared on my cheeks. They must have found my embarrassment amusing because they started laughing until I shot them a death glare and they tried to stifle their laughs but it wasn't working.
I didn't want to focus on me anymore so I started talking in an annoyed tone. "What can I do for you boys today?"
"Well hello," The bronze one said "We would like to use the gym for an hour to about two hours please."
"Which rooms would you like access to sir?" I asked as company policy
"Umm…" He turned to look at his friend "I guess we will just use the main gym for today thank you."
"Are you men members of this gym?"
"No." The brown haired one said and I think I heard something along the lines of I wish I was though.
"Well that comes to around 50 together for two hours with access to the main gym area. Is that all toady sir?"
"Yes thank you." The bronze haired man answered politely obviously hearing what his friend said. "I'm Edward Cullen and this is my brother Emmett." He said pointing to his brother who waved slightly and winked and me. "And who may you be?"
"I'm Isabella Swan but I liked to be called Bella." I answered politely
"Well Bella I hope to be seeing you around soon. See ya." He said with the sexiest smile I have ever seen.
I gave a wave and went on with the rest of my work trying to get my breath back from what I just encountered.
Throughout the rest of the day I kept glancing at Edward, watching him work out lifting weights and running on the treadmill. He was incredibly sexy running with sweat glistening of his arms. Whenever he caught me three things would happen:
a. He would give me that sexy crooked grin
b. I would blush a bright shade of red almost as bright as a tomato and turn away quickly
c. He would laugh and turn away continuing with what he was doing
I was just sitting there flipping through magazines when I got a phone call.
"Hello?"
"Bella? Hi. This is Anne from Price Mount Dance Academy. I just called to tell you that I have told a few scouts of the great potential we at Price Mount see in you and they are coming to the final concert in a few months to watch you perform and see if you have the potential to attend their school."
When I heard this I was in shock. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know which emotion was the most overwhelming, the excitement and pride or the nervous side stressing over if I was going to be done in time or if it was going to be any good.
"Umm… I am glad you thought of me for this. Thank you very much." I said nervously.
"Well you are one of the best students we have Bella. I hope you have come up with a great routine but I am sure we will not be disappointed." She said cheerily "Well I really must be going. Ii would like to see what you have come up with sometime next month. Goodbye." She said then hung up
Great! This is going to be a very busy and stressful couple of months.
Finally it was 3 o'clock and I could leave. I was meeting Alice at Westfield shopping centre now so I swiped my card, grabbed my stuff and headed for my car. I owned an old rustic red truck that can only drive up to 55km/h. Which here is Australia isn't very fast at all.
I made it to the mall at about 3.20pm (the gym wasn't very far but in my car it took a while) and found a not very happy Alice waiting in the food court.
"Where have you been? I have been waiting here for 20 minutes!" Alice half yelled half whispered.
"Well I got off at 3 and I came straight here. You know with my car it doesn't go very fast so you have to add on about 10 minutes to the usual time it takes." I pleaded with Alice
"Fine, I forgive you, but in return you have to let me buy you whatever I want with no complaining for the night. OK?"
"Alright, but only for today. Where are we off to first?"
"Well I was thinking we could start off at David Jones and then we will just go around and see what else we can find in random shops. Sound good?"
"Yep, sure does. Let's go!" Usually I don't like shopping but Alice really wanted to do this so I am letting her have her fun for at least one day.
Alice said we didn't have time to shop even though I thought is went forever but she was dragging me from shop to shop pushing me into dressing rooms with huge piles of clothes. After about an hour and a half of shopping and four bags full of clothes, shoes and accessories later we still didn't have anything suitable for me to wear clubbing by Alice's standards.
We decided to sit sown for a while and try and think of something for me to wear. Well Alice was I was just trying to stop the aching in my legs. Then I saw a shop that had designer clothes for low prices. It was good for both our needs, Alice's need for fashion and mine for cheep clothing.
"Hey Alice what about that discount fashion store?" I said hoping she would agree I didn't need to spend to much more time in here.
"Yea, that might be ok. We will go in and have a look I guess." She agreed
We walked in there and we went to look around for a bit. Then I heard Alice scream.
"Bella! Come here I found the best dress. This would be perfect for you." She held it out to give me a look. It wasn't too bad. "Here take it and go in to that dressing room." She said pointing to the rooms.
I took the dress from her hands and walked towards the dressing rooms quickly sneaking a look at the tag. 59.95, not too bad for a designer dress. I tried it on and it was the perfect fit. I stepped out of the dressing to show Alice and she screamed again. Gee this girl has a set of lungs on her.
"Yay! You look fantastic. All you need is that black belt you have at home and a pair of black heals and you will look great." I wasn't really good at wearing heals because I am very clumsy but ever since I started dancing I have gotten better it keeping balanced (much to Alice's liking because now I can wear heals more often).
"Alright Alice but don't go too overboard." I said in a warning tone.
"Bella, Bella, Bella. When have I ever gone overboard?" She said sweetly.
"Alright Alice," I said rolling my eyes "let's go."
"Ok I'll meet you at home."
With that I headed home to the apartment, mentally preparing myself for Bella Barbie.
When I arrived home Alice was already there setting up all the gadgets for Bella Barbie. She had the curler, hot iron and all different types of make-up out I didn't even know what they were called.
"Alright Bella, go have a shower and get dressed, then I will do your hair and make-up. Ok?"
"Alright." I grabbed my shower things then went and had a long hot shower soothing my aching legs from a day at work then shopping with Alice. After a while I heard Alice knocking on the door to the bathroom.
"Isabella Swan, if you don't get out here now I will not be a very happy person and I wont go easy on you in Bella Barbie." She yelled
That got me out of the shower. I quickly turned of the water and stepped out of the shower drying myself off as quickly as possible. I got dressed in my new dress and put on my belt.
When I stepped out of the room Alice started jumping and clapping her hands wildly.
"I knew you would look great! What did I tell ya Bella? What did I tell ya?" She said excitedly.
"Yes ok Alice you knew. Now can we get this over with already?"
"Ok Bella, sit down and I will do your hair and make-up." I obeyed quickly and Alice got right to it.
An hour later we were both ready. I was wearing a navy blue spaghetti strap dress that flowed to mid thigh and had a twist at the back, a black belt with a buckle and plain high heal black shoes. My hair was completely straight and I had light natural make-up but then I had smoky blue eyes. Alice is wearing a black hot pant strapless jump suit with a gold rim at the bottom of the shorts, a thin woven gold belt sitting loosely on her waist, gold high heal shoes matching the belt perfectly and a long gold chain. Alice had her hair spiked out and had black and gold smoky eyes with just a touch of lip gloss.
"Alright Bella, we look hot so let's strut our stuff and show them boys what they are missing!" Alice said confidently
"OK." I said nervously.
We got into Alice's car (she said mine was too slow) and went off to get some dinner. We ended up getting a salad each from McDonalds. The only slightly healthy things you can get to go.
We ate dinner quickly and at around 7.45 we arrived at Club Moonlight.
Yay!! I am so excited. This is my first Fanfic so be nice. Well Read and Review. Enjoy! :)
