A/N: All characters belong to Stephanie Meyer. All relation to real life people are merely coincidental.

Alrighty here is chapter 2!!

Bella:

"Now, are you sure about this Bella? I feel like being in New York City is doing great things for you". Mrs. Cope didn't want to see the "rising star of the photography department shovel herself back to dreary Washington". As much as I liked Mrs. Cope, I was just not feeling right being this far away. I had cried on the phone with Alice for the past month. She told me she was trying to work through everything with her color guard and that Jasper was being hazed by the band. It seems like Rose and Emmett were the only one who were happy. If they were happy at UW, then maybe I could be too. Not to mention Charlie was more than thrilled to have me closer to Forks. I have to go to where I feel I am going to be happy and right now, it seems like UW is that place. I had gotten into UW on partial scholarship when I applied but decided I would try out NYC. I had gotten onto the color guard there also and had made plans to meet with the coach when I arrived in 3 days to talk about a possibility of being on the team. She had said that some girls were not pulling their weight so there was going to most likely be a few spots open by the next week. Everything was all set. I was moving into the dorms and even got a single in the building where most of the football and band members were. Everything was going well.

As I packed my stuff and headed to the airport with Kate and her sorority sisters Brittney and Marisa, she gave me a hug and told me that if I changed my mind and wanted to come back to to the big city that there would be a drink waiting for me at T.J's. She was one of the few things I was going to miss about living in New York.

The plane ride back to Washington was uneventful. I got lucky with no crying infants and an aisle to myself. Once I was off the plane, I sent a text to Alice.

Back in the state where it always rains, wish I could see your smiling face- Bells

I felt so bad for Alice and Jasper. They were miserable at WSU. I only told them a few days ago that I was transferring to UW and that Emmett and Rose were picking me up from the airport. It felt as if I had just pressed send when my phone was ringing with Emmett's number.

"Hey, where are you?"
"I just got off the plane. I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Are you wearing the hoodie?'
"Yes and it's massive on me. It won't be too hard to spot the short girl wearing the triple XL UW hoodie with CULLEN written on the back."
"Just hurry up, munchkin. Rose is jumping up and down waiting for you."
"Okay gigantor, be there soon."

I was lucky. I told Charlie that it would be easier if Rose and Emmett were going to pick me up since it was closer for them and so that we could head to school. They had even driven back to Forks to pick up my truck. That was another thing i missed about living in Washington, having a car and not having to wait for the subway with all the creepy people late at night after going out.

It wasn't hard to spot the two of them, decked out in UW hoodies for cheerleading and football. Emmett is 6'3" so he is easy to find if you just look up. I ran to them like in those old movies and hugged Rose with all of my might. Then Emmett picked me up and swung me around. I always thought of him as my older brother. The drive to campus was uneventful, listening to old 90's music and singing along to BSB and N*Sync. I think I even caught Em singing a little "Bye Bye Bye". When we got to the dorm we all grabbed a bag and a box and took it to the dorms. As I walked into the entrance of Hansee Hall and my R.A Pablo was there waiting to help me get settled in. on the way to the grand staircase, I saw the most beautiful piano the was surrounded by windows that looked out onto the lush green courtyard. I had always wanted to learn to play the piano. After we got to my room and unloaded everything there was a knock on my door

"Hey, I'm Elliot."

Elliot was short and sweet and also the drum major. He said that the coach, Miss Samantha, as they liked to call her, told him to make sure that I was all settled in. From the way that he talked about her, I couldn't help but suspect that he had the hots for her. He told me that I was to be up at 9 am tomorrow. 9 am on a Saturday? What was I getting myself into? He also handed my uniform, purple shorts and a grey long sleeve UW shirt that said "GUARD" on the back. I was so thankful that I had talked to the coach and was meeting with her this afternoon to go over a basic audition for the seniors and captains to show them my basic saber, riffle and flag skills. There was a lot of irony of me being in color guard. When it came to walking in high heels, I was a mess, but in high school, when I was in my uniform with the shell top and navy jazz pants, nothing could trip me up, i wouldn't fall over my feet and fall flat on my face in front of the entire school. I was able to throw peter pans with my flags and flourishes with my riffle.

My "audition" for the seniors and captions went extremely well, they were all surprised with my passion and " facials" as they called them. I guess i learned that from Rose and Alice, they were always so animated when we were in high school. I guess doing my routine reminded me of hem and how much my friend meant to me. I did have one negative comment and it was about my tattoo, they told me it needed to be covered and i had assured them that i was able to cover it with makeup so wearing a sleeveless shell would not be a problem.

That Sunday was my first away game in uniform for UW, charlie had even driven in to watch me. The game was great, Emmett was catching some great passes for 2 touch downs and managed to only get tackled once. Rosalie was the image of perfection in her UW cheer uniform and icy blond hair pulled back with a big purple and gold bow in it. All the guard and cheerleaders had a little huskies paw print on the right cheeks. I had managed to pull back my mousy brown hair into a pony tail with curls in it. But getting those curls were miserable. Rose had to wet my hair the night before and sponge roller it then hair spray and cover them. But i wanted to look perfect for my first game. Not just for Charlie or Em or Rose, but for me. I felt a little sad that I was here all alone doing color guard. Yes i had my friends like Jeanette and Arianna on guard with me and Elliott the drum major, but without Alice and Jasper here it felt a little bitter sweet. I had called Alice almost ever day that I could after practice, she wounded miserable but wouldn't admit it. I felt as if she was hiding something form me. But I tried not to think about that , I needed to be happy. So held my flag a little tighter and quickly kissed the makeup covered fork tattoo on my wrist and headed out in line for the half time show.

We ended up winning the game and Emmett, Rose and I made plans to meet up later back at the dorms to play some wii and I promised to make my famous reverse chocolate chip cookie. We promised to make it a after home game tradition if we could. We all sat there in our respective hoodies playing everything from wii bowling to Mario kart. I don't know how she did it but she convinced Emmett to play Wii Cheer with us. Of course she won, which nearly sent Emmet's competitive self over the edge. She then leaned in and kissed him and I swear he turned from rough and tumble football man to the sweetest little puppy with big doughy eyes and dimples that anybody has ever seen. By 2:30 in the morning was spent. I quickly plugged my blackberry into my macbook and saw that I had 3 texts. One was from Kate wishing me good luck and informing me that she had been elected to council for her sorority. I was happy for her. One was from Elliot demanding that I post my pictures form toady on facebook and tag him. The last one though was short ans sweet

Glad your back in Washington, you did great today. I'm proud of you.

As un talkative and reserved as Charlie was, that little text message made my hear swell with a feeling of being loved.

During practice on Wednesday, Miss Samantha told us that since we had lost a few girls due to transfers that we had a few new girls coming to try out and that she wanted us all to be there. As we walked into the practice room i nearly lost it. Right there stand 100 feet away from me was Alice, wearing the tryout uniform and her hair perfectly done. As tiny as she was, when she walked in to a room, her small and her energy made her feel as big as Emmett, not to mention she is pretty strong and her throws would sometimes hit the ceiling of the gym back at home. But she was here, in Seattle, at UW. I screamed when i saw her and ran over to her and jumped into her arms and tacked her to the ground.

'WHAT THE HELL ALICE!!! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU WERE TRANSFERRING?? AND TRYING OUT?? WHERE ARE YOU LIVING, WHERE'S JASPER? WHEN DID YOU GET HERE??"

i was out of breath and Alice wiped the tears that I didn't know had started to pour out of my eyes, undoubtedly smudging my eyeliner. She looked at me and smiled with tears welling up in her eyes.

" I didn't want to tell you because it was a surprise and I wasn't sure if i was going to be trying out but after i say the facebook pictures fro your last game i knew I had to. I'm living in your dorm silly, jasper too, I'm surprised you haven't seen him hanging out with Elliott all the time, he is the drum line. Now if you will get off of me I would like to make a good impression for my audition and having my best friend hugging and crying on me as sweet as it is i don't think will help me."

I smiled and gave her a good luck hug and rubbed her fork tattoo. Of course after her amazing audition she made the team and we decided that that night we needed to celebrate. Ava, the captain of the guard reminded us of the mixer tonight between the cheerleaders band and some of the football team. Alice immediately grabbed my hand and made a mad dash to her car to take me shopping.I was so glad to have her here with me. Everything felt right. I was actually excited to go shopping with her at forever 21 and wherever else in the mall she wanted to take me. This was going to be a memorable night. I would just feel it.

Thanks for reading, lets see what happiens at that party. There is a posability that as a outtake ill write about what happiens to Bella in the one month time span.

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