About one day later I was about half way there. I had stopped a few times and to get something to drink or eat. I was getting extremely tired so I decided to pull off interstate 471 going into Kentucky. (I just picked a random location from the mapquest thing I did.) When I got on the exit, there were a few gas stations, a Marriot hotel, and a local bed and breakfast.

I chose to stay at the local bed and breakfast. It was in a large three story house. The bed and breakfast was called the Cullen Inn. I drove up the long gravel drive way that was about the length of an entire football field. The driveway was surrounded with apple trees growing on both of the sides, then grass growing in between them. The house was like and the location was like from a scene of those fairytale movies or something close to that. There was ivy growing up the front steps onto the porch and so forth. The house was made of wood and that was painted a pale but glistening white. It was surrounded by a huge garden with such flowers so beautiful I can't even describe them.

I parked my car where some other cars were parked. Then I grabbed my toiletry bag and stuffed a two t-shirts, jeans, and pajama pants into it. I wasn't going to be going anywhere incredibly fancy on the drive, so why not be comfy? I walked up the front wooden steps, onto the white porch, and through the French doors into what I guess had originally been a family room but was now a lobby. The front desk was made of an old antique wood but still somehow looked modern. The lady sitting at the desk had a heart shaped face, billows of caramel-colored hair, and warming brown eyes. She had a kind, loving look about her. She was like one of those people you would see on a Vogue magazine.

"Hi, can I have room?" I asked nervously. It came out more a whisper than my regular voice, which I had meant it to be. The woman looked up from the desk and smiled kindly.

"Of course, for how long?" the woman asked starting to type away at the computer.

"Just one night, please."

"Okay. I'll need to look at your license, please. My name is Esme," said Esme smiling even more now. She had a motherly look about her. Like one of those mothers that no matter how many kids they have, they never get tired of them and love them fully.

"Oh, I'm Bella." I dug around in my bag and found my wallet. I pulled my license out and handed it over to her. I hoped that she wouldn't look at the horrifying picture of myself on it.

"All the way from Washington state?! Why are you coming all the way down here?" She asked while still typing away.

"I'm just making my way cross country to college. I'm going to Virginia Tech," I said.

"Oh, you have a lovely picture! My children are all going to Virginia Tech. Hmm, maybe you'll see them there. I'm afraid two of them have already left for it, though," she said while handing me back my license. I just blushed at the first remark. Hmm? Her kids are going to Virginia Tech? That should make things quite interesting. Then she handed me a room key.

"Your room is on the third floor, second door to the left. I hope you enjoy your stay!" Esme exclaimed excitedly. She smiled back up at me then, "Would you like to meet me youngest daughter that hasn't left for VT yet?"

"Thank you. Uh, sure I'd love to meet your daughter," I said wondering what in the world would happen next. What was her daughter going to be like? There were a thousand and one possibilities!

"Okay, I'll call her right down," she said. Esme then turned toward the stairs left of the front desk and called, "Alice, come here! There is someone here I would like you to meet."

"Coming," said a cheerful, highpitched voice coming from upstairs. A girl that looked about 18 was walking, well more like sprinting down the steps, to where Esme and I were. The girl was pretty short but who am I to speak. The girl was amazing beautiful. She had shoulder length glossy, deep black hair. It was angled to show her off her elegant face. She had a beautiful set of crystal clear light blue eyes. She stopped in front of me and Esme, and smiled a brilliant smile with amazingly white teeth. Happiness was practically coming off of her in waves, I couldn't help but give a shy smile back.

"Bella this is my youngest daughter, Alice. Alice this is Bella. She's told me that she will also be attending Virgina Tech. I'll leave you two now to get to know each other," Esme said in one breath. She breathed again and then smiled.Once she was back at the front desk, she started typing away.

"Hi Bella! So where are you from? I'm glad your going to Virginia Tech! That will be so much fun! I'm so excited! Are you excited? I'm gonna go shopping before the school year starts there though. Do you like to go shopping? I absolutely love to go shopping," Alice said so quickly that I barely caught it. I have really good hearing. When I was about three, I had a really bad ear infection and they gave me some medicine that was too strong. But instead of it damaging my hearing it actually made it a whole lot better than most people's.

"Hey Alice. I'm from Forks, Washington. Yeah I'm excited about going to Virginia Tech! I don't really like to go shopping that much," I said laughing a bit after that.

Alice then just smiled and got a mischevious glint in her eyes, "So do you want me to show you where your room is. I think I heard my mom say it right but if I didn't we can just whonder around til we find the right one," she said. Alice then went up the stairs and beckoned for me to follow. I followed her up the stairs wondering what she was planning behind those blue eyes.

Author Note: Hey. Sorry I haven't been able to update for a while. I had planned to update the next day after I wrote the first chapter but my internet system at home crashed. So, here's an extra long chapter to make up for it I hope. I will try to make my next chapters longer

Now time for me to ask what you want to go on in the story. I have it pretty much planned out but am still open to suggestions. The cullens are going to be human in this story. Sorry for any of you who wanted them to be vampires if any of ya'll did. You'll see why later when it all comes into play. Tell me if you think Mike, Jessica, Angela, Lauren, or Eric should be in it. Anyway you don't have to review for another update. I'm not one of those authors that make readers write reviews just to get another chapter. It drives me crazy, no offense. I just simply thank you for reading my story.

AJ