I OWN NOTHING :D

I woke up to music blasting out of the kitchen. Groaning, I turned over and hit my head against my pillow. I'm not an early morning person. I can be a morning person, but not extremely early. Looking over to my phone on my bedside table I saw it was five thirty. Exactly. Way too early. My early is around seven. Gah!

After tossing and turning for a while, I realised that the music wasn't going to stop. I groaned again before getting up and swinging my legs out of bed. I padded my way bare footed into the kitchen. Where I found Alice. Dancing to ACDC. Dancing rather well to ACDC.

I walked up to a table chair and waited for her to turn a bit "Morning Alice."

Her body froze and she turned quickly. "Shit Bella. Don't sneak up on me." She said, glaring at me.

I shrugged. "Your fault for waking me up."

She looked at me strangely for a moment before realizing what I had meant. "OH GOD! Shit! Sorry Bella. I'm just used to living with a family that are early... people. And and Ahh shit. Sorry."

I laughed at her. "It's fine." I said as I turned the music down to a dull roar.

She stood looking at me for a while. I cocked an eyebrow at her. She shook her head quickly then looked around. "Do you want some coffee?"

"Ahh.. sure."

She went over to a coffee machine on the breakfast bench that was defiantly not here last night. And poured a mug half full that I had never seen before. She handed it over to me and I looked at it strangely. What is it with people and having straight black coffee? Isn't a bit strong? I got up and looked into the- now full- pantry. How in the world has she done so much in so little time? I spotted a sugar bowl in the corner and pulled it out. Spooning some sugar into my cup. Hmm… now I needed milk. I rummaged around in the also full fridge until Alice pointed out it was in the door.

I laughed. "Thanks for that. How did you do all of this in such little time?" I asked. Pointing to the fridge and pantry.

"Oh. I should probably tell you huh? I'm kind of an insomniac." She looked at me with a sheepish look.

"What? It's fine. But… how long have you been up?"

"Oh… about… 2 and a half hours." She said, picking up the newspaper that sat on the table.

"Hey Alice? Have you finished unpacking your stuff?"

She looked up from her paper and looked into space for a second. "Yeah. The only box I have left is in my room." She said finally, her eyes returning to the paper.

My heart pounded in my chest. I hated asking people for things. Usually I just do everything myself. But I needed to get my unpacking done… "Do you think you could help me…? It's just that I haven't even started… well I've barely started and you know that i need to do shopping." I paused. "Could you help?"

"Yeah sure." She said looking up from her paper smiling.

I breathed out. " But ahh… when do the shops open?"

She looked at her phone. "Around seven."

"So, we have like an hour and a bit to get ready?"

"Yeah. Or we can go out for a proper breakfast before we go shopping?"

I smiled. "I like the way you think."

She laughed at me. "Yeah so do I." I laughed with her and stuck out my tongue.

I took another sip of coffee before Alice jumped up.

"C'mon c'mon c'mon! We gotta get you ready for shopping."

I gave her a weird look. "What do you mean get ready for shopping?"

She put her hands on her tiny waist and gave me a look that made me feel a lot smaller then her tiny figure. "You need to look the part if we're going to be shopping for good clothes"

My eyes widened. "Oh… Alice I was hoping you would just take me to the American equivalent of Target or something… I don't have the money for expensive places"

She smiled. "Yeah well I do. And I have a lot to spare. I'll pay."

"No Alice. I can't let you do that."

"Oh why not? Everybody wants free clothes."

"Alice. To be completely honest I don't know you. And you don't know me. You can't just waste your money on me."

She made a 'pfft' sound. "It's not wasting Bella. I know we don't know each other that well. Yet. But I'm paying and there's nothing you can do about it."

I huffed out a breath. Giving up. "Fine."

She grinned at me. "Alright lemme at your closet."

For the next half an hour Alice got my clothes for me, applied makeup that actually belonged to her, chose my shoes from her collection- who would have guessed me and a pixie have the same sized feet- and straightened my hair. After that she said I was ready to go and went into her room to change. She came out two minutes later looking adorable in a little light pink dress. How the hell could she do that? She was ready in two minutes and it took me 15 times that amount of time. That was bullshit. Anyway. We went down to a café just outside the campus before returning to get Alice's car. Are you ready to hear what it was? A yellow Porsche. Yep. You heard correctly. My room mate. Has a Porsche.

We drove to a shopping center and Alice dragged me into every store in it. She wouldn't let me look at the price tags. Even when I was getting changed into them to see if they would look good. Alice came in with me when I was getting changed by the way. I mean its not like I'm shy anymore. I'm sure its just who Alice is. Plus. It made it quicker to see what worked and what didn't.

By two o'clock we had a summer and winter collection of clothes including shoes, handbags and accessories. Now all that Alice thought I was missing was sexy lingerie. She practically had to drag me into the store before dumping me into a change room while she picked out items. I couldn't believe how much she wanted to buy. There was at least 20 items she wanted for me. It was insane. And most of them were either black of a deep blue. She even bought me a black leather corset. Who the hell was I going to wear that for? And where the hell was I supposed to put all these clothes?!

My troubles were solved when we got back to the dorm. Having to do five loads each to get all the bags up to the room. Alice soon went to work washing everything. And then, by 6, she had everything in my room neatly. I'm not exactly a neat freak. But it seemed Alice was. She had everything in different compartments for colour, season, and article.

Alice wasn't even tired once she had done everything. She even started on dinner! While I collapsed onto the very comfortable couch. When I did. I remembered my letter to Jake.

"Shit. Alice? Do you know where a post box is?"

She stopped chopping up a carrot and looked up into space for a second before starting to chop and talk at the same time. "Yeah there's one to the right of the administration."

I nodded and stood up. "Wait. Do you have any stamps by any chance? I don't want to bother you any more then I already have… but do you?"

"You're not bothering me! Yeah I have a pile on my table in my room. They should be on the left of the lamp."

I nodded. "Thanks Alice." I said as I walked into her room. It was gorgeous. She had already set up all her music, pictures… all of her personal things. Her bed was a four-poster. I was jealous. But instead of looking at anymore of her room I went over to her desk in the corner. As promised. The stamps were on left of her lamp. Right next to a photo. I glanced at it and picked up three just to be safe and turned around. Until I realised who was in the photo. I turned back around and picked up the frame.

It was the boy I had seen yesterday. The gorgeous guy that was moving boxes. Alice had her arms around him and her face was pressed into his chest. She had lied to me. She had a boyfriend. That blonde guy must just be bullshit. I knew she was too good to be true.

The guy was looking at the camera and at that moment I got extremely angry and jealous of Alice. She had this gorgeous guy. And who did I have? A pen pal.

I put down the photo as softly as I could and almost ran out of the room with the stamps in hand. Alice had music on again and didn't notice me pick up the letter, my new coat and run out the door. As soon as I was out. I didn't move. I put my back to the door and leaned my head back and closing my eyes,

I heard the elevator ding but I stayed still.

"Hello?" A soft deep voice asked.

I jumped up and looked at him, terrified, I hadn't even heard his footsteps. It was him though. Him. Alice's boyfriend. The gorgeous one.

"Hey. Excuse me." I said grumpily before moving around him to the elevator.

I heard a knock at the door before Alice opened it and squealed. "You came!"

"Yeah, course I did Ali Pali." He tried to make his voice softer so I wouldn't hear, but I actually thought he wanted me to hear. "Who's your friend?"

"Oh, it's Bella. She'll be back in a second I think. She's gone to post a letter."

"Alright then. So what's for dinner Al?"

My heart plummeted. Yeah he was hot. But he was with Alice. Bloody Alice. Then the door closed and the elevators opened. The ride seemed to last longer then it should have. But I put my letter into the letterbox once it was stamped quicker then I thought. But I didn't want to go back to the dorm just yet so I wandered around the campus a bit.

Somehow I found myself in the stadium. Looking out onto the lush green football field. In movies and T.V. shows football was so big in college, and even high school. I wondered if it was actually like that. With the bitchy slutty cheerleaders and the big jocks that picked on the nerds.

I sat down in one of the seats and put my feet on the one in front of me. Letting the cool breeze flow over me. I had never understood American football. Or gridiron like we call it back home. There was two teams on a team? How many players is that? Too many to me.

"Hey! What's a pretty lady doing here all by herself?"

A big booming voice shook me out of my thoughts. I looked to my right to see a massive guy strolling towards me. Not massive as in fat. This guy had packed on the muscles obviously. He had cute boyish features. He was good looking with his brown hair messed about. And obviously was a football player. And he reminded me a lot of Emmett at home.

"Hi. Umm… just thinking I guess…" I said in my stupid accent. Returning my gaze to the field and the weird goal posts.

"You a fan of it?" he asked, sitting down next to me and following my gaze.

"Never seen it." I felt him move next to me and I turned my head to find him giving me a horrified look. His mouth was hanging open and his eyes wide. I laughed. "What?"

"You've never seen a match?"

I laughed again. "Does it sound like I have?"

"Oh yeah, your accents a little weird. Where you from? England or some shit?" he said giving me a cheeky grin.

"Nah, Australia." Looking around at the massive stadium.

"I'm Mat by the way."

"Bella." I looked at him again. "Hey I'm sorry but I better get back to my room."

"Yeah me too actually. Can I walk you?"

I laughed again. "If you really want to."

He grinned. "Well I do. So it appears that you have an escort." Mat jumped out of his seat and held his hand out while trying to do a bow type thing… "M'lady." My laugh echoed around the stadium as I took his hand and he pulled me out of the doors. He released my hand and I put them in my pockets as I led him back to my building.

"So why were you in there?"

He shrugged, looking ahead. "I dunno. Seeing if they'd mowed the field yet. Was going to kick a couple of balls but then I found someone to talk to so I changed my mind." He gave me another grin. I let a giggle out and he looked at me strangely. "That took longer then I expected."

Now it was my turn to give him a strange look. "What took longer then you expected?" I asked with my brows furrowed.

"Usually I have girls giggling away with one line. You took at least ten or more." He smiled at me again.

I threw my head back in laughter but kept walking. "Well." I said when I had calmed down, "I'm one of the usual girls then am I."

He smile increased and he put his arm around my shoulder in a friendly way. "So where is your building then?"

"Oh just round the corner."

"You in the building above the library?" he asked curiously.

"Umm. I guess so. I didn't know that to be honest."

"That's my building to."

"Oh well then it appears we're building buddies then ay?"

"Ay?" he laughed at it.

I rolled my eyes and turned the corner just in time to bump into something. Him. damn it damn it damn it!

His piercing green eyes looked down at me and I took a step back. "Alice is looking for you by the way." He said, his voice deep.

"Ah… thanks."

Just then Mat stood in front of me and said "Well looky what we have here. Edward fucking Cullen! How you been?!"

I took another step back as they embraced and started laughing in that way that guys do when they haven't seen someone for ages. They started talking about something but I tuned out and looked at the time.

Shit it was already 8 and I still had to unpack. "Umm Mat? I'm going to go home alright?" He looked over at me and nodded, waving with a grin as I turned away. I jogged in through the door and over to the elevator. Stepping in as it opened in front of me.

Up went the elevator. Open goes the doors. Out goes Bella and into the dorm room.

When I'd closed and locked the door I saw Alice lying on the couch with her eyes closed. "Hey Alice. You look tired."

She nodded sleepily. "I'll sleep better tonight then last night. Can we do your stuff after class tomorrow? I'm beat."

"Yeah that's fine. I'm gonna go to bed too… Umm…" I just thought of a way I could repay Alice for helping me with my shopping. "You like pancakes yeah?"

Her eyes snapped open. "Do I ever!"

"How bout them for breakfast tomorrow? My treat." I smiled at her.

"That would be great Bella. Night."

"G'night." I said walking away from her retreating form. As soon as I was inside my room I closed the door and looked around. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad. I'd get through it one way or another anyway. I smiled to myself as I changed and got into bed.

Yeah. It would be fine.

Hey guys. Sorry about this but I didn't like how I did the chapter before, so I've changed it. Hope you guys are alright about it. Also I'll try to have an update before the week ends. Reviews are always welcome and I love constructive criticism. Love you all! Xx Sas