When I knocked on the door I could see someone moving towards the door from the other side. I t was hard to tell anything else about it due to the color of the glass that I was looking through. A middle aged woman answered the door and her face lit up when she saw me.
"Hello, you must be Bella!" she said excitedly. Why was she so happy to see me when she didn't even know me? Oh well she seemed genuinely nice and caring, I think that I was going to get along with her fine.
"Yeah, that's me." I said. Again she looked happy that I was even talking to her.
"Come in, come in! Let me show you around." She ushered Bill and me in the house. (A/N: I always pictured it as a house and not like an apartment building, so try to imagine that.) When I looked around I saw that the walls were painted a nice shade of light yellow with white trim. To my right was a living room that looked like it was connected to a kitchen and a fairly small backyard. Our small group went to the living room and we all sat down on the couches that were sitting around the fireplace and T.V.
"Oh, how rude of myself, my name is Shelly Daniels and I am the orphanage supervisor and care taker." She said with a smile, it seemed that this lady was always happy. "You can call me Shelly, or Ms. Daniels."
"Ok, Ms. Daniels, is anyone else living here at the time?" I asked, I wanted to know who I would be living with.
"Yes, we have five other girls living here at the moment." She said. "Would you like to meet them?" she seemed a little anxious to introduce me to them, maybe like Bill she was nervous of my reaction to them. But I'm not always good at reading people so I just dismissed it.
"Five is a lot of people for one house and one person to take care of. Will I get my own room or will I have to share." I didn't mean to sound as mean as I did, but the thought of having to deal with five girls plus a woman who is supposed to take care of us was a little frightening. Her smile faltered a little bit at my harshness.
"No, I'm sorry but you will be rooming with two other girls. I will call them all down now." She said and scurried away. When she was out of the room Bill turned to look at me and he seemed upset and a little angry.
"You shouldn't be rude to the woman that is taking you in." he said sternly, I didn't like it that he was chastising me for something that I didn't even mean to do.
"Whatever. I will try to be nicer, ok." I said back though my tone had softened a bit. A few seconds later I could hear people coming down the stairs. A line of girls followed Ms. Daniels into the living room and stood facing me. Out of the girls, three were blonde, one a light brunette, and one with spiky black hair. The only two that really stood out of the bunch were a girl with wavy golden blonde hair who looked like she could be on the cover of fashion magazines or strutting down the runway. The other was the one with the spiky black hair, she was shorter than the rest of the girls, and she has a thin but not too skinny body and she looked like a pixie. (A/N: I'll just let you guess who those two are.)
"These are the girls." Said Ms. Daniels starting at the front of the line she pointed at a girl with straw blonde hair and said that her name was Sarah, next was another blonde named Kelly, After that was the girl with light brown hair, I soon found out that her name was Stephanie, lastly she introduced the golden blonde whose name was Rosalie, and the black haired one who was named Alice.
"You will be rooming with Alice and Rose." She than turned to the girls "I expect that you will treat Bella with the respect that you show everyone else. Rose, Alice will you show her to your room." After that, she went over to talk to Bill about some legal things.
"Hi, Bella! I am so excited to finally meet my new roommate. Come on and I'll show you the room." Said Alice, I almost laughed because I had never met anyone so perky. I followed Alice and Rose over to the stairs and up one story until we came to a hallway with several doors. We continued on to the second door and then Alice stopped and opened the door and let me inside.
The room wasn't big, but it wasn't cramped either. There were three single beds, and one large desk against the wall with a computer mounted on it. Against the other wall were a book case and three dressers. Two of the beds had covers on them already, one was blood red and the other was a light purple, the last one was bare, and I assumed that it was mine. Alice and Rosalie flopped down on the beds, Alice on the purple and Rose on the red.
"So what do you think of the house?" Alice the ever so perky one asked.
"It' ok I guess, but I don't see why I have to be here in the first place." I said, once again my voice had turned hard. Really, I didn't mean for it to come out that way, but I guess it's just the way I protect myself from letting anyone get close to me. I wouldn't let anyone be close to me since the accident. Alice's face fell drastically, she seemed so hurt. I guess that she really wanted to be friends with me. Rose noticed Alice's change of mood and instantly had a look of rage on her model like face.
"What the heck is you problem?!" she practically yelled at me.
"I don't have a problem!" I shouted back. Now she was getting on my nerves. She had no right to yell at me.
"Apparently you do! No one messes with my sister! So again I ask what the heck is your problem. What's with the bad attitude?!" I was shocked, not because she was still yelling, but because she thought of Alice as her sister. I was jealous that they had that connection.
"My parents are gone, I think I'm allowed to have any attitude I want!"
"We all lost our parents one way or another, but we all learned to deal. You don't see us being all rude and mean just to make ourselves feel better! So lose the attitude and don't be bitter. Don't treat others badly just because you are all alone!" she was finished now I could tell. My mind was going a thousand miles per hour, thoughts of my parents filled my brain. My mom holding me when my dog had died. Dad showing me how to kick a soccer ball. The accident, and the hospital when I woke up alone. Then finally the funeral.
I hadn't realized it but tears were streaming down my face. My heart felt like it had been ripped out and stomped on again. Never had I really sat down and thought about the fact that I was alone until now. Sobs were coming from my mouth as I fell to the floor clutching my chest. On the floor I cried and cried, only when I felt a pair of arms around me did my sobs lessen. When I looked up I saw Alice's pixie face above me. I didn't understand why she was comforting me when I had been so mean to her earlier.
"It's all right, you can get through this." She said.
"Alice, I-I'm s-s-sorry." I sobbed. Her eyes were gentle and I felt a little less hopeless.
"Bella, its ok I can't stay mad for very long ever. That's one thing that you will learn." She smiled at me.
After a few more minutes of me crying and her comforting me I finally felt better. She helped me up and took me over to the bed so that I could sit down. "Rosalie I'm sorry about being so rude before." I said.
"It's ok, I'm sorry for making you break down like that." She seemed guilty. So I forgave her.
"Don't worry about it, I think that this needed to happen. I never really understood everything that had happened and what it meant before." I said smiling slightly.
"Thank God that's over!" she said and fell back onto her bed. Both she and Alice were laughing, and I couldn't help but join in. I was actually happy for the first time in what seemed like forever.
