OK!! 2nd Chapter up on this story. Titled Road Trip because they are driving down to Berkeley U! I'm excited because there is some Rosalie fluff in here. Kudos to Annilaia for getting a nomination on the Twilight Awards! Kudos to EdwardismyFav for keeping me on my toes, and kudos to ashel-13 and Hayden for making me go "Le Gasp!" Which I haven't done since I was a sophomore.
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I was in the middle of eating the best chocolate cake in the world when I heard a really annoying sound. It was a soft beeping sound that was steadily getting louder. Then I heard,
"Renee, don't wake her up yet, she's gonna have a long day anyway."
"Honey, Rose and Alice are already on their way! She hasn't even gotten dressed yet."
As soon as she said it I shot straight up in the air, earning a scream from my mom. I quickly looked at the alarm clock which read 8 when I wanted to get up at 7 this morning.
"Oh my gosh, I'm late! Dad, move!" I yelled as I skidded to my bathroom.
My hair was a mess, so instead of wasting time, I decided to whip it up in a ponytail. I brushed my teeth, no sense in eating when they would be here in about two minutes. I got my bag of CD's from my truck and a couple other things while Charlie was lugging my bags out on the porch. Sure enough, a couple minutes later I heard a honk and Alice's yellow Porsche came up the driveway. I silently wondered why they brought her car instead of Rosalie's because there was more space but I didn't say anything. Alice's Porsche was her baby, and she probably wanted to make an impression on all the guys.
As soon as the car turned off I heard it.
"Isabella Marie Swan, what in God's name are you wearing?!" I groaned, I wanted to be comfortable so I just put on jeans, my favorite concert t-shirt, and a sweater because it was chilly outside.
"Really Bella, that's ghastly." Rose chimed in.
"Thanks Rose! Way to be on my side." That's when they came out of the car and they looked like they were going to the beach. Granted Berkeley was only blocks away from the ocean but it was Forks, and not surprisingly it was raining.
"You know I love you Bella, but if you go like that to campus, I will disown you. Its College! Come on!" Alice literally dragged me inside to the downstairs bathroom and brushed through the tangled mess of my hair. Rosalie started to curl it while Alice did my makeup.
"Here Bella, I knew you were going to do this so I brought this." Alice handed me a little bundle of blue fabric. When I held it up I gasped.
It was the skimpiest blue bikini I had ever seen. Other than the ones they had on now, I doubted anyone else had one that covered so little.
"Alice, I will not where that, especially with my parents around! What will Charlie think?"
"Oh Bella, just put something on over top of it then when we cant see them anymore take it off." She said with a smug grin.
I could tell I wasn't going to get out of it. So I shoved my t-shirt on and a pair of way to skimpy shorts Rose had given, on and walked out the bathroom door. My mother stood there crying as Charlie shoved my bags in the back of the Porsche. As soon as I came out, she rushed at me, holding me in a death hug; Charlie sighed and came to my rescue pulling her off.
"Bella, I'm...I'm just going to miss you so much!" I reassured her and then gave my Dad a hug. He whispered, "Bella, try and call once and awhile so she doesn't drive me crazy." I laughed. "Sure thing Dad." My mom hugged Alice and Rosalie too as we got in the car. I had done my crying last night, so I didn't cry now as I waved goodbye, and then the car was out the driveway and down the street. I let out a sigh as I let go of my old life.
"How's it feel, guys? Finally going to live on our own." Alice said.
"Great!" Rosalie and I chimed in together. We both laughed as Alice yelled "Jinx!"
She had taken the wheel for the first 200 miles, then Rosalie, and last, me. I looked out the window at the green trees, and the rain, and the moss. I was never fond of the rain, and it rained a lot in Forks. Now, we were going to sunny, perfect, California.
"Are you guys going to miss this?" I gestured out the window.
"No way!" Alice piped up. "I am so ready for sun, 18 years of rain and gloom is sooo not good for my skin!" I laughed at her outburst. It was typical Alice.
We had been on the road for about an hour when I suddenly remembered that I hadn't had breakfast. Alice suddenly swerved sending us flying into a Starbucks parking lot. When we got up to the counter, the barista ogled at us. I felt self-concious about the way he was staring at me, but Rose nudged me to the table. Alice was leaning over the counter, her hot pink bikini barely covering her. I ordered my usual, a caramel macchiato, and a crescent roll. The warm liquid woke me up instantly, the caramel tasted good on my tongue. Rosalie's bikini was getting plenty of stares as well. They looked so at ease with themselves, and I was standing there trying to cover myself up. Alice saw this and came over and pried my hands from around my stomach.
"Bella, you need to stop being self-conscious. You have a great body, I mean look at all the guys staring at you right now." She turned me around and about every guy in the place turned their heads away, pretending to be preoccupied with something else. I blushed in embarrassment. She turned her back to me, "See what I mean Bella. You have got to be more confident with yourself, especially if we are going to college. I mean come on; Rosalie is going to stand you up." I laughed at her joke. I knew she was right; I had to be more confident if I wanted to live through college. So, I internally slapped myself in my face to wake me up, and strolled out of that Starbucks with a little more swing in my step. Except while swinging, I wasn't watching where I was going and tripped on the sidewalk. Luckily Rosalie was there to catch me. I quickly thanked her and ran to the car, getting in, and shutting the door so that the tinted windows could shield me from what I guaranteed were laughing people in the store.
After about the first 150 miles of talking and laughing, Alice started to whine about her butt being numb. So, we stopped at a 7/11 to get some gas and switch. Rosalie had free reign of the radio, and her music taste usually depended on her mood. It ended up with us listening to Christina Aguilera for 100 miles before I begged her to switch it. She unfortunately decided to switch to Lionel Ritchie and started to sing to "All Night Long" with Alice as backup. I sat in the back massaging my brain; I had never been one for love songs. Seeing as I had never had a relationship, I didn't want to remind myself of that anymore than I had too. Soon enough, Rosalie had enough of torturing me and decided to change it to a rock station. I finally relaxed and hummed along to the song.
After her turn at the wheel, we stopped at a Subway to get some lunch and switch. Rosalie saw a teenager staring open-mouthed at her and she turned to us with a smirk. She purposefully dropped a blob of mayonnaise on her stomach.
"Oops, dang it." She faked. Alice rolled her eyes.
"Rosalie, leave the poor boy alone, I don't think he's old enough to take this." I whispered to her.
She scowled at me, then turned around and slowly got up. She licked a napkin and then slowly started to drag it up her stomach. After she was done, she looked at him and winked and then sat back down. The poor kid had no chance. His eyes got wide and then he glanced down. He started shuffling and I made a gagging noise because I knew exactly what he was doing. He quickly walked past us with his arm awkwardly held in front of his growing "problem", heading straight for the bathroom to get rid of it.
"Ugh, thanks for ruining my appetite Rose." I scoffed as I threw my sandwich down. Rosalie and Alice were falling on the ground they were laughing so hard.
"Well…it serves him right, he shouldn't stare at lady."
"Um, hate to tell you but, that thing that you pulled was definitely not ladylike. That was borderline slutty." That just made them laugh harder.
The kid came out of the bathroom, took one look at us, and fled out the door.
"Ok, I'm done and it's already 1. If we're going to get there and set up before it gets dark, we've got to move it."
"Right-o Sgt. Swan." Alice mocked.
"Oh please, Alice I love Charlie, but if you ever say that again I'll have to royally kick your behind." I teased.
"No! That's prime real estate!" She screamed it so loud that the couple turned around to stare.
My face got red, and I picked up the rest of my sandwich and went to the car. They followed, and soon we were on our way. We all screamed when we hit the California state line. Alice found this as an opportunity to take down the roof. At a rest stop I found that my hair was a mess so I whipped it up in a side ponytail.
"Bravo Bella! That is a very sexy hairstyle, thinking outside the box are we?"
I blushed again. "Yes Alice, alright, I'm taking your advice." She pulled playfully on my ponytail "Oh I know you would sooner or later." She bounced towards the car. A couple of guys came out of a Jeep and stared at us before one of them wolf-whistled. Rosalie took this as an opportunity and bent down, giving them a spectacular view of her ass. I think one of them died. Alice shot her leg up above the seat and pretended to be fixing a strap on her heel. I decided to join in the fun and swayed my hips and I walked towards the car. Doing the only thing I could think of, I opened up the hood and bent down, grabbing onto the hood with one of my hands. Rosalie came over
"Bel-la," she whined "that's totally my thing!"
"Sorry Rose, that's all I could think of."
"Well, at least I know you learned from the best."
After the rest stop we passed through Sacramento and we could tell that the air was much warmer. I got some major butterflies in my stomach when we saw "The City of Berkeley Welcomes You.". We were so close and Alice was literally jumping up and down in her seat. When we saw the signs and then the University itself we got edgy. We asked for directions to the registration office from an overly helpful guy and I drove over to it. They showed us where are room was, we had a larger room because Alice insisted on it and she paid well. We pulled up to our dorm. As expected there were a ton of people out in the parking lot. As we pulled in we earned many stares from a lot of people. We parked and then went to get a few of the 35 bags that were shoved in the trunk and in the back of the car. I was surprised we actually had gotten every one of them in the tiny Porsche.
I stuck my sunglasses on the top of my hair as I tackled the trunk. Alice and Rosalie had taken bags from the back seat. I stuck my foot on the back, trying to get a footing with the dangerous high heels Alice had shoved on me. I was careful not to scratch the paint on Alices' baby. I tugged on the strap of one of my bags, but it wouldn't budge. I gave up after a little while and ended up staring at it, willing it to move telepathically. I heard a cough from behind me and turned to see the biggest guy I had ever seen staring at me with a smirk on his face.
"Nice car, Porsche 911 Turbo, impressive. I was just wondering if you needed help with that." He looked at the pile of bags and then back to me. I stood there stunned. and then blushed.
"Uh…umm…it's my friends car and yes, you can help me because I don't think I'm going to move it with my mind." He laughed a deep, chiming, laugh that made my bones shake.
"Dont worry about it." He walked to the trunk and lifted a bag out effortlessly. I gauked, his muscles had tensed because it was one of Alice's bags, which was bound to be heavy, and it made him even bigger. I had to admit that I was scared even though he was being nice.
"You know I never did catch your name."
"Emmett Cullen. And you?" Emmett, it fit him.
"Bella Swan." I muttered extending my hand. He shook it and I felt a tight squeeze as the blood circulation was cut off, I honestly dont think he realized it. That was when I spotted Alice and Rose coming at me. I also saw Rosalie ruffle her hair a fix her top.
"Well, I think you got the culprite out, you probably have a ton of other things to do. Thanks again, I really appreciate it." I said with a small smile on my face. He looked back at me.
"Not at all Ms. Swan."
"Bella." I said.
"Bella then, well guess I'll see you...around...campus..." I followed his eyes as I saw Rosalie with Alice, Alice had slightly moved back giving Rosalie the full attention of any man within 100 meters. She extended her perfect legs farther out, her hair was pushed to the side, the sun hitting it just right so it glowed. She had the gloss on her lips that I had gotten her for her birthday, and her black strap heels made her legs even longer.
"Bells, whos your cute friend?" she eyed him as she twirled her hair around her finger. I smiled knowing exactly what was going on.
"Rosalie, this is Emmett Cullen, Emmett, this is Rosalie Hale."
"Wow." was Emmetts genius response.
"Hey there, Emmett. So what year are you?"
"Um, this is my Senior year."
"Oh I like older men." I rolled my eyes at Alice, this was true Rosalie.
His confidence came up a little bit. "Well, then maybe later we could... hook up?"
"Yeah how 'bout I give you my number." she got paper from her bag and wrote her number on it and gave it to Emmett. He then gave her his number which she slipped down her cleavage. The poor guy had no chance, he stared wide-eyed at her chest, something he had been trying not to do through the whole conversation. I giggled with Alice as Rose puffed her chest out a little farther.
"Well Emmett, guess I'll see you around." she gave a sexy smirk
"Yeah...Yeah, right, see you Rosalie." he called dreamily as we grabbed the last of ours bags. We walked awkwardly up the stairs, luckily we were on the 2nd floor, I felt bad for the people on the fifth.
We had asked for a bigger room, our parents had all chipped in because of fashion Alice, she needed all the space she could get, what we got was an awesome room, complete with a small kitchen and three seperate bedrooms, and a living room. I instantly loved it, and with Alice and Rosalie, it would be a really stylish living space. I shoved my bags in the room I picked out, it was the smallest of the three but it had the best view, you could see the city and the bay too. Alice peeked in.
"Bella, were going to get the stuff out of the seats, wanna come?'
"Yeah, coming." I tore my gaze from the beautiful view and wobbled towards them. The hard wood floors (another perk, I couldn't believe they could get this in a dorm room, Alice must have pulled some strings) made walking in heels treacherous and I tiptoed carefully around the door. As we got outside my eyes adjusted to the sunlight bouncing off the cars. Alices yellow one stood out, the Porsche wasn't something you saw everyday. I saw all eyes on me and Alice gave me a sly smile and I gave it right back. Honestly, we had been doing this for ages. I had Alice and Rose as my peers, how could I not. We were like a choreographed team, me in the middle of the two, slightly up front (this being because they had insisted on me being front because I hadn't gained enough self confidence yet). My smile grew as guy after guy ( and some girls) turned and gauked at us.
I felt wanted because there were so many people. I loved this new surge of confidence. We walked around the ca and opened three different doors, bending at the hips to give anyone who was watching a nice view, I was more covered than the other two. My head cam back up out of the car, with my purse, and I put my aviators on my face. I stood back and glanced at the scene before me. All these college students, all the fun I was going to have with Rose and Alice, this year was going to be an awesome year.
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