So this my pretties is chapter deux! Please enjoy it.
"So have you decided what room you want?" The current first lady asked me. We were riding in the limo with the president his wife and my dad to the ceremony.
"No, not yet but I do have a few ideas."
"Well you better choose fast." She gave me a warm smile.
"Yah I know." The rest of the ride was spent in idle chatter about the day's events. We pulled up to a big building and were quickly ushered into it by the secret service, the paparazzi were everywhere. Once we were situated in the room we were informed it would be another half hour before it would be time to go out and give the speech.
"Where is Mr. Cullen?" I asked one of the planners walking by with a clipboard and head set.
"He's in a different room with his family, he goes out before you guys." I frowned; I really just wanted to know where Alice was. The half hour was painfully boring, my dad only paced back in forth while the President and his wife just talked to each other in hushed voices. There was nothing for me to do. I almost leapt with joy when the lady with the clipboard walked back announcing that it was time.
We were led to the big oak doors and waited till the doors were opened for us. The sight before me was incredible; a sea of people spread out in front of us all cheering when they saw my dad and the current president. We walked out waving and smiling for all the cameras and fans, I made my way over to my seat and was overjoyed when I saw Alice was to be sitting next to me. I gave her a quick hug which the photographers snapped at with greedy fingers and sat down.
"Hey long time no see." She commented.
"Yes it's been too long."
I looked over to see who else was we were sitting with and I think I almost stopped breathing. There was a gorgeous boy with bronze hair and emerald green eyes staring back at me, he had the face of an angle and the body of a god. He gave me a smirk and I was pulled out of my daze, why did he have to look so smug? Alice must have noticed my staring because she smiled.
"Bella let me introduce you to my family, this is my brother Edward." She pointed over to the Greek god, I gave a small wave and a shy smile. He just kept looking smug, as if he knew the effect he was having on me, he probably did. "And this is his twin Emmett." She pointed to a boy, well actually he looked like more of a man that was sitting next to Edward, how had I not noticed him before? He was huge! I didn't see how they could be twins, they looked so different. Emmett had curly brown hair and dimples his piercing blue eyes looked really friendly.
"Hi Isabella!" he said excitedly.
"Hi Emmett, you can call me Bella." His smile got even bigger if possible and he nodded.
"Ok Bella then." The ceremony started then so we had to be quiet. Before I knew it, it was over, my dad was now the president and I was the first daughter.
"Do you want to get ready for the ball together?" Alice asked.
"Yah that sounds like fun, do you want to come over to my house?" I asked. It sounded weird talking about the white house as my house.
"Yah is it okay if Rose comes too?" I looked at her confused.
"I don't know who that is."
"Oh yah." She seemed to remember I was knew to all this. "Rose is the daughter of the secretary of state, her twin brother Jasper is my boyfriend." She looked off into the distance with a dream like face as she talked about jasper.
"Okay then." She snapped out of it and took my hand leading me back to the fourth row.
"Bella I would like you to meet Rosalie Hale." She said, that was when I noticed who I was meeting. She was gorgeous, as in supermodel gorgeous. She had brilliant blond hair and blue eyes. I felt really inadequate standing next to her.
"Hi." I extended my hand and she quickly shook it as if I might have some sort of disease.
"Hello." She said in a sultry voice.
"So we're heading over to Bella's house to get ready for the ball, can you ask your driver to send your dress over?" Alice asked Rosalie. Rose nodded and we followed her out to one of the cars that were waiting for us.
We rode back to my house in silence, well Rose and I were silent but Alice just kept on babbling to us. We pulled up to the front and the secret service escorted us inside.
"So which one is your room?" Alice asked.
"I don't actually know, I haven't picked yet."
"You haven't picked yet?" She looked astounded.
"No I haven't had time."
"Well we have to pick one right now." Half an hour latter Alice had found my new room, it was nice and spacious; it had a balcony and was a light shade of blue. Alice set up all of the stuff she had had her people bring over, like all her make-up and her dress.
"So are you excited about the ball?" She questioned us. Rosalie was applying her make-up while Alice was doing my hair.
"Yah I guess."
"Who are you going with?"
"Me?" I asked from my chair.
"Yah, who is your date for the Ball?"
"I didn't know I needed one."
"You're going by yourself?" Rose asked speaking directly to me for the first time.
"I guess, why who are you guys going with?" I asked nervous now, was I going to be the awkward third wheel?
"Well I'm going with Jasper."
"And I'm, going with Emmett."
"As in your brother?" I asked Alice.
"Yah their dating." She explained.
"Oh."
"It's no big deal that just means you can dance with a bunch of different guys tonight." Alice tried to reassure me but that only made it worse.
"I have to dance?" I whined.
"Yes you do!"
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Half an hour latter we got dressed in our dresses. Mine was black with a gold trimming at the top, it fit me like a glove, I hadn't picked it out myself that has been done for me. (All their dresses are on my profile.) Alice looked so cute in her pockadotted dress and Rosalie looked to die for in her blue and gold number.
"I'll just call the boys and tell them to meet us there." Alice announced as she dug for her phone. The Ball was being held in my house (the white house) so we didn't have much ways to go.
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"Oh my god would you look at what Irina's wearing!" Alice squeaked to us as we were waiting around for their dates to show up.
I looked to see who they were talking about when I saw a girl with stick strait blond hair that came to her chin in a hideous orange ball gown.
"Yah and she's coming this way." Rose muttered under her breath.
"Alice! Rose!" Irina exclaimed as she approached us. She gave me an obviously fake smile. Which I returned.
"Irina, you're looking….interesting tonight." Alice commented. "This is our friend Bella." Irina shook my hand.
"So how you liking your new life so far?" she asked, he voice was really annoying; I wasn't really sure what she meant.
"It's okay." She scrunched her nose in distaste while smiling making her look like a strangled dog.
"So who did you come here with?" Alice asked her trying to keep the conversation from becoming awkward.
"Tom." She sounded pleased with herself.
"Wow that desperate where you?" Rose asked, I had to swallow my giggles.
"Whatever, you look pretty dateless at the moment, what happened, did Emmett finally realize that you some washed up slut?" ouch that was harsh.
"No but looks like Tom finally realized you were." Irina looked over to see Tom attacking some girls mouth with his. Irina gasped.
"TOM!" she yelled before stomping off. We broke down into giggles as we watched her retreating form.
"Man, that girl is pathetic!" Rose got out between laughing fits.
"Who is she exactly?" I asked a little confused on the specifics.
"Well you see at our school, the one you're starting on Monday, we are kind of the popular click and we only let certain people in, you have to be approved by us, Irina is just a wanabe." Alice explained, I looked at them shell shocked. How had I ended up with the two most popular girls in school as my some what friends? Were they going to talk to me once school started? I wasn't exactly what you would call popular.
"What's wrong?" Alice asked.
"Um are you guys going to talk to me in school?" I asked looking down.
"Of course! Why wouldn't we, you're the president's daughter, that makes you like automatically in our group! Not that, that's the only reason we're friends with you, I really like you Bella." Alice gave me a hug and I felt happy again.
"So who else is in the group?" I asked.
"Well there's me, Rose, Jasper, Emmett, Edward, Tanya, Anna, Tyler, Chloe, Jennie, Connor and few other people that are scattered along the way. Did I get everyone Rose?"
"Yah I think so." She looked around. "Where are they?" she asked herself.
"Where are who?" someone asked from behind us, I jumped when I heard he low male voice.
"Emmett don't scare me like that!" Alice said hitting his arm. I turned to see Emmett, someone who I assumed was Jasper, Edward and a girl I didn't know.
"Hey guys." Jasper said going over to Alice and kissing her softly.
"Jasper, Tanya, I would like you to meet Bella." Alice said pointing to each one in turn.
"Hi Bella." Jasper gave me a little wave.
"Hey."
"Hello Bella, I like your dress." Tanya said with a smile, she seemed nice.
"Thanks I like yours too." My heart fell a little when I saw that she was holding Edwards arm, she must be his girlfriend. Edward just smirked at me. Why must he always be so cocky?
We fell into easy conversation about school and what I should expect. I learned that Tanya and the girls were really nice and the she was in fact dating Edward.
"Oh hey look the rest of the gang just arrived."
I looked and saw three girls and two guys heading our way.
"Hi guys!" a girl with really curly caramel colored hair addressed us.
"Hi."
Guys I'd like to introduce you to Bella." They all looked at me with smile.
"Bella this is Anna." Alice showed me the girl with curly hair that looked really excited, she had light hazel eyes and a huge smile. "Tyler." Tyler had jet black hair and green eyes, he was cute. "Jennie." She also had light hair that went all the way down her back. "Chloe." Chloe had dark strait brown hair with matching eyes and the pale skin, "And Connor." Connor had dirty blond with a couple freckles here and there, he had his arm around Chloe, while Tyler had his arm around Anna. Cute couples.
We continued to talk for a while until some of us decided to dance. Alice went off with Jasper, Rose with Emmett, Anna with Tyler and Chloe with Connor. I was left alone with Jennie. She seemed really nice, she was super sarcastic though, sometimes I wasn't sure if she was joking or not.
"You wana go get something to drink?" she ask me.
"Yah sure." She led me over to the bar there was a cute guy bartending and he gave me a look of recognition as we neared.
"What can I do you for Miss Swan?" I looked over at Jennie to see what she wanted. She leaned in and whispered.
"See if you can distract him for a minute, just flirt with him or something." I gave her a confused look but nodded anyway. What was she up too.
"Well, I don't know, what would you suggest?" I tried to sound as flirty as possible; I leaned forward so that he would hopefully lean forward to. I saw Jennie disappear behind the bar, he hadn't noticed. I tried not to look over at her so that I wouldn't tip the bartender off, but I was confused, the bar was free we didn't have to pay for out drinks why was she steeling the drinks?
"How about a virgin margarita?"
"Uh yah sure." Jennie had just given me the thumbs up sign so I decided to cut this short. He quickly prepared it for me and I left taking it with me. I met Jennie out at the balcony, it was deserted.
"What was that all about?" I asked. "The bar was free we didn't have to pay." I explained.
"Yah I know but I doubt that they were just going to hand it over." I didn't know what she was talking about.
"Yah they would have."
"We're underage remember?" what was she talking about we were underage, I –oh! That's what she meant she wanted to get drunk, I felt stupid now. And I wasn't sure if I wanted to drink, I hadn't really before.
"Are you okay with that?" she asked, she must have seem my hesitance. But I didn't want to be the wet blanket, I was finally being accepted into this new social circle, and I was in no position to pass up friends, even if it meant drinking. What was the big deal anyway, it wasn't like I was the first teenager to drink underage.
"Yah, I'm cool with it."
"Good." She showed me she had stolen two bottles, they were huge! They were both vodka. She opened a bottle and took a sip, she squinted her eyes at the first sip burned her throat and then handed it to me. I hesitated but then closed my eyes and did it.
I took too much and cringed as it burned my throat. I started to cough a little once it was down, man this stuff was horrible!
We continued to drink and chat for a few minutes before we heard voices approaching. I started to panic, what if I was caught. I looked over a Jennie but she was relaxed, already buzzed. Right as I was about to get up and bolt the people walked in. I let out a breath when I realized it was Alice and crew.
"What are you two up too?" Tyler asked as he took a seat next to us. Jennie just handed him the booze. The rest of them formed a circle. Alice sat next to me and Chloe was on my other side.
"Are you okay with this?" Alice asked me. I was a little buzzed myself and wasn't sure what she meant. "I mean are you okay with drinking?"
"Yah, I'm good." She nodded though she looked at me skeptically.
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By the end of the night we had gotten pretty drunk. Alice had started making out with Jasper and had eventually left to go find some bushes to continue their little love fest in. Edward had stayed quiet the whole time and continued to look at me in a smug matter. Emmett had twisted his wrist when he fell after trying to show us how to do the chicken dance the "right way" as Emmett had put it and Chloe had gotten caught by the adults when she had walked up to some prime minister and asked him if he wanted to get busy with her in the janitors closet, she then passed out. Connor hadn't been fast enough to stop her. Luckily she hadn't ratted us out.
When it was time to leave I simply walked over to my room and passed out on my bed.
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School was starting today; I was both excited and nervous. I had seen Alice a couple times since the night of the ball she had helped me pick out what I was going to wear: A jean skirt and light pink baby doll shirt.
Alice said she would come pick me up for school with her secret service. I was to be attending a school for Washington's most elite. It was a privet school where all the government officials' kids went. True to her word Alice's car pulled up right at 7:30.
"Hello!" she exclaimed as she gave me a hug. "Ready for your first day?"
"As ready as I'll ever be."
"You know everyone is going to be talking about you, what with being the president's daughter and all."
"Thanks for the reminder." I really didn't want to be in the spot light.
"I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of printing your schedule out for you."
"No that's great actually." I didn't want to only have a few seconds to memorize it before I had to put it to use. I looked it over. "Do we have any classes together?" I asked.
"Yah I think we have French together. You have Bio with Edward and Math with Rose." I nodded. We pulled up to the big building and got out. There was already a swarm of people trying to catch a glimpse of me. I just blushed and let secret service handle it for me.
"Wow that was brutal." Alice commented. I agreed with her and she showed me to my homeroom. "Now meat me outside the lunch room after fourth period, that way we can sit together." She explained. I nodded and was off.
"The day passed by without much incidents. Only people here and there staring at me and the occasional brave person who would ask me a question. I had sat next to Alice during French, Chloe was in that class with us, I found out she was French and had moved here a few years ago, she didn't have an accent though. Math with Rosalie was awkward because I wasn't sure she liked me too much. When it was finally time for lunch I found Alice. We say down at a table in the back with the rest of the gang. I noticed that no one so much as approached that table out of fear.
"So what did your parents do?" Tanya asked Chloe.
"Well they grounded me, so I don't have a car any more, but other than that nothing." She shrugged.
"Yah cuz you guys are French, drinking is like second nature to you guys." Emmett said as if it were obvious.
"That's not true." She defended.
"Whatever."
"So Bella are you going to try out for the dance team here?" Tanya asked me.
"Why would I do that?" I asked, I was really all that coordinated.
"Well Alice is on it so am I, Chloe is the captain."
"Oh."
"Yah Bella you should totally try out." Alice said getting excited.
"No I don't think so." They left it at that seeing that I wasn't going to budge.
"Where are they going?" I asked as I saw Edward leave with Tanya. He had been avoiding me all of lunch, only talking to jasper and Tyler.
"Uh well…" Alice looked uncomfortable.
"They're going to go hook up before class." Emmett yelled. Oh, I'm sure I was extremely red by this point.
The rest of lunch I just listened to other people conversations. I learned that there was going to be a part this weekend at Jennie's house and that we were all invited. The Bell rang and I made my way to bio, great I had that with Edward.
I took my seat at the empty table and took out my notebook. I looked up when I saw someone come in late, it was Edward. He apologized to the teacher and took his seat next to me, joy. He looked a little flushed and I cringed as I thought about what had made him so. He glanced at me and then turned his attention back to the board. So I was a little surprised when he spoke to me still keeping his eyes straight ahead.
"So how was your first hangover?" he asked casually. There was that smirk again.
"What?"
"You obviously don't drink." Was I really that obvious? I hadn't thought so.
"How do you know?" I asked a little peeved.
"Well for one you're one of the most prudish people I know." He retorted.
"How would you know?" I repeated, I was starting to sound like a broken record.
"You just give off that vibe; you're not like the other girls around here."
"Well I'm sorry to disappoint but I'm not as prudish as you think." I gave him a smirk of my own. He just snorted as if he didn't believe me. Well he would find out one day how prudish I really wasn't.
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Once bio was over I was escorted to gym by a rather friendly guy named Mike. He wouldn't stop talking the whole way, but in a way it was kind of sweet, he wasn't even that bad looking, it just looked like he tried too hard to look that way. The extra gel in his hair and his popped up collar where screaming pretty boy, but I ignored that.
"So are you one of them now?" he asked me suddenly.
"One of who?" I asked confused.
"Well I saw you talking to Cullen today, are you like in their group now?" oh he meant was I friends with "the it click" I wondered. I supposed I was, I had never really been popular before, and I felt a rush at the thought that I was now.
"Yah I guess I am." He looked a little dejected so I tried to lighten it up. "So are you going to Jennie's party this weekend?" I asked, he smiled at me.
"Yah, are you?" I nodded. "Do you want to go with me?" he asked. I thought for a second. I suppose, he was cute and I didn't really want to be the odd one out, plus he wasn't that bad.
"Yah sure." He looked like he was about ready to jump out of his skin at my answer. But I reminded him that we were going to be late for gym if we didn't hurry so we left quickly to change.
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By the end of gym I realized that I should never be allowed back in there, I'm pretty sure I gave a concussion to a girl named Jessica. I met up with Alice at my locker after school, she was talking with Rose, Chloe and Anna.
"Hey." I greeted them.
"So how was your first day?" Anna asked, she was really sweet.
"Fine, I found a date to Jennie's party." Alice got wide eyed.
"WHO!" she yelled in excitement.
"Um, Mike Newton."
"Ew seriously?" Rose asked. Chloe glared at her. "Well don't get me wrong he's cute but you could so much better." I was shocked; did she really think I could? Maybe she didn't hate me completely.
"Thanks but I think I'll be fine with him for now."
"Whatever."
"So you guys up for hanging out?" Anna asked.
"Sorry I've got a ton of homework." I said.
"Yah Chloe and I have dance practice." Alice said grabbing her dance bag from her locker.
Anna turned to look at Rose.
"Emmett." She simply said.
"Okay well another time then, bye guys." She waved before walking off.
"We should get ready together for the party on Friday." Alice suggested.
"Okay whose house?"
"You can come over mine if you want." I supplied. They nodded and I snagged a ride home with Rosalie.
I was so excited for this weekend to come; I had a feeling this party was going to get pretty out of control.
Well that was the second chapter, please review and let me know what you think. You have no idea how much I hunger for your reviews, and the more I get the sooner I update!!! So it's all up to you.
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