"Bella! Are you okay? What should I do? I'll call a doctor." He rushed to my bed side table, where the phone was.
"No, Jake, I'm okay." As I went to grab his arm and stop him, I knocked a glass of water on the floor.
"Oh crap." I muttered. I got up to clean it up, but Jake pushed me back onto the bed, abandoning the phone on the table.
"I've got it Bells. You just relax. How do you cope alone?" He grinned at me, and my clumsiness.
"I do have friends Jacob, other than you, Angela and Ben." I stuck out my tongue at him. "Besides, I like being alone. You know that. And it's easier to deal with the pain of not having Ed...Him around."
I cringed as I almost said his name. I tried to avoid pain. Emotionally anyways. Unfortunately, when you are a natural born klutz like me, physical pain tended to be a part of everyday life. A knock on my door caught mine and Jacobs attention before he had a chance to reply.
"I'll get it." I smiled, as Jacob mopped the water off the floor. I waddled over, and answered the door. It was my college buddy, Simone.
"Simone! Hey! Come in." I stepped aside, and she walked into my pathetic excuse for a room. The walls were painted magnolia, and there were a few cheap bits of furniture scattered here and there, a crib in the corner, a couple of supplies for the baby, and of course my bed with some cheap blue throws on it. "Simone, this is Jake, my friend from Forks. Jake, this is Simone. A college friend." I emphasized 'a college friend', hoping he would get the joke. He looked up, and nodded to her, and she waved shyly to him. "So what can I do for you Simone?"
"I came to moan about my new roommate. Actually, I was wondering if you were bored of being alone yet." She looked at me, her long black hair shining in the dim light coming from the lamp on my desk, and her blue eyes looked slightly glazed. She had been smoking pot.
"She can't be that bad?" I looked at her, and the gestured for her to sit on my old, shabby, second-hand sofa. I sat with her. Jake had moved onto my bed, and was already snoring softly; poor Jake.
"Her wardrobe alone could take up more than our room. And, oh my gosh, she has so many mirrors it's like living in one of those Hall of Mirrors at the fairground. And she's dead pretty. Like really pretty. I feel so plain and urgh compared to her. I don't like her."
"Sounds like someone I know...used to know." I smiled, determined not to let my pain show. "What's her name?" I pressed on.
"I don't know. Something weird like Vorn. I can't remember. Hey, why don't you come and meet her?"
"I would, but I have company. Maybe another time?" I looked over at Jake sleeping, and imagined my afternoon trying to watch my small television, whilst Jake spent the afternoon snoozing on my bed. "Actually, I could pop down for ten minutes. But that's as long as I can stay." I smiled at her. Her dorm was three doors down, so I wasn't worried about Jake waking before I had a chance to get back.
"Okay, let's go!" Simone gleamed, as we got up from the sofa, and walked out the door, closing it softly so as to not wake my sleeping wolf friend. When I got to Simone's room, I found it strange that she would knock on her door. After no answer, we walked in. Her new roommate was nowhere to be seen.
"Strange. She was here when I left just now." Simone muttered as she put her stereo on low so it was background noise.
I couldn't help but take a look around this mysterious newbie's half of the room. It was decorated in pretty, fluffy pink and white lights, mirrors, lots of mirrors, and two photographs. I had to look closer at the photo's thinking that my eyes were deceiving me. But she was definitely there; Alice Cullen. Edward's sister. My oldest best girlfriend, before the whole family, my whole family, disappeared off of the face of the earth.
How could this new roommate know Alice?
Did she know Edward too?