~Bella's POV~

I finally arrived at the university and pulled up into a parking spot next to a silver Volvo. My poor truck seemed to be the oldest vehicle here.

I unzipped my bag and pulled out the envelope of documents I'd been sent, a found the map that directed me to the dorm building I'd been assigned to.

The interior of the building was pleasant enough, with a young woman sitting at a desk in the lobby.

I made my way over to her.

"Hi, my names Isabella Swan."

"Hey, I'm Lisa. I'm Resident Advisor of this residence hall. Can you sign this please?"

"Ok, here is your key. You're in room 108." She gave me the key in exchange for the signed paper.

You're roommate is called..." She glanced down at her file. "Alice Brandon."

Roommate...damn. I had been holding out hopes for a single. Just my luck.

"Ok, thanks."

"If you need any help or anything, just come ask me, or the Resident Director, Paul."

"Great." I said without enthusiasm.

I decided to take the elevator rather than risk tripping up the stairs on my first night here. I found my room easily, and was struggling with the key when the door was opened from inside.

A short, pretty, slender girl stood before me, with cropped black hair. She looked unnaturally happy, and was practically bouncing on the spot.

"Hey, I'm Alice; you must be Isabella!"

"Hi, yeah, call me Bella."

"Bella, sure. So how are you?"

She bounded ahead of me into the room without waiting for an answer.

"You can have the bed by the window Bella."

"Oh thanks, are you sure?"

"Absolutely." Alice bounced onto the other bed. "So, we should get to know each other a bit. What are you majoring in?"

"English Lit. You?" I asked as I unpacked my stuff into a closet. Alice had already unpacked, no doubt with great enthusiasm.

"Psychology. Hey, do you need any help unpacking?"

"Umm, I'm good thanks."

Alice wandered over anyway. She picked up my favorite blue shirt.

"Ooh, this is lovely! Hey this is going to be so fun! We can swap clothes and everything!" She was practically exploding with excitement.

"Yeah." I said half-heartedly.

I couldn't imagine why anyone would want to borrow my wardrobe, which consisted almost entirely of jeans, sweats and t-shirts. Alice's clothes, on the other hand, were bound to be beautiful, if her current outfit was anything to go by. She was wearing a frilly green tank top, and low-rise blue jeans which suited her perfectly. Definitely not the kind of stuff I would wear.

"Tell me about yourself Bella." Alice said, perching daintily on the edge of my bed.

"Um, ok. What do you want to know?"

"Where you're from, your family, anything."

"I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with my mom, the I moved to Forks to live with my dad two years ago."

I felt uncomfortable disclosing even this small amount of personal information to someone I'd only known for 45 minutes.

"Forks, that's pretty close isn't it? Well up till now I've lived with my parents and my little sister. And now I've come here with ,my boyfriend, Jasper. Do you have a boyfriend or anything?"

"Yeah, I have a boyfriend back in Forks."

"What about hobbies, what do like to do?"

"I read a lot, I guess. How about you?"

"My main hobby is dancing." She twirled on the spot. "I'm getting hungry; do you want to head down to the cafeteria? I'll introduce you to Jasper and our friends."

"Wow, you've already made friends here?"

"Not exactly. I already know them, and we all ended up at the same college."

"Cool."

So Alice had a ready-made friendship group here. I sighed as I realised that, yet again, I was going to be the outsider.