Half an hour later I stepped out of the office. The blond man, who I found out is name is Carlisle, was very nice and welcoming. He told me how the school works, what classes I have and showed me my schedule. All in all it wasn't that bad, though I still couldn't see the imagination between him and Alice. How does such a calm and collected man have such a hyper, talkitive daughter?
I went back to the dorm to get some rest before dinner, only to find out that fate had other plans for me.
In my room Alice was trying to decide what to wear.
Not seeing I was completly out of it, Alice started modeling different outfits asking me what looked best on her.
When she finally finished she looked at me, suddenly noticing something. "Uhmm, Bella, you don't plan on going like that to dinner, do you?"
I looked down at my outfit, trying to understand what the problem with my clothes was. Normally at my old school I would have dressed in my uniform, but seeing as I was on a plane the whole day I was dressed in a plain t- shirt and jeans.
"What's the problem with my clothes?"
"Bella, no friend of mine goes around like that." She reprimanded, making me feel like I somehow misbehaved for not abiding fashion law. "Now come on, show me what you got."
Reluctantly, I opened my suitcase, knowing exactly how Alice would respond if she felt this strongly about clothes.
And I was right. Alice gasped, and I swear her mouth dropped down way below normal.
"B-but, How? If you have this, then then why do you wear that?" She stuttered.
Honestly, I just don't get the deal people make about clothes. I mean, it's just something to put on so we won't go around naked. Why make it into so much more than it needs to be? My mom on the other hand, much like the rest of the world, doesn't really share the same philosophy as myself. Nearly everything I own, she bought me, including the stuff in my suitcase that Alice was at the moment worshipping.
"I don't really care what I wear." I answered her.
She looked, if possible, even more shocked than before. "But you have that." She said, while pointing back to the suitcase.
Remember what I said about letting slip some little detail, and realizing by Alice's responce how compelely unnormal that "little detail" actually is? This is exactly what I was talking about.
I sighed, trying to find a way to explain what I wanted to say without sounding like a rich snob. "Alice, you know how rich I am, this," I pointed to the suitcase. "Is nothing."
Realizing that this conversation was getting uncomfortable for me, Alice tried to compose her face and go on, eventually succeeding.
"Yeah, I know I'm supposed to know this," she sighed. "I guess hearing about it and seeing it just isn't the same thing, but what are you going to do?"
"What do you mean?" I asked, confused.
"Well you obviously can't go around in those! People will know something is up with you the moment they see you!" She exclaimed, making me feel like an idiot. How could I have not thought of this myself? If it weren't for Alice, I would have gone around wearing these clothes and the whole point of my being here would have been ruined!
"Shit! What am I supposed to do now?" I panicked.
I suddenly noticed that Alice had the weirdest expression on her face, something full of hope and excitement at the same time.
"We'll go shopping, of course!" She squealed like a delighted kid. "There are shops on campu,s and we can get you normal clothes and everything!"
I groaned, I absolutely loathe shopping though this is probably my punishment for not thinking ahead in the first place.
And then she changed completely, and put on the most adorable, sad pleading face I have ever seen.
She looked up at me with heartbreaking eyes and started to beg. "Please, Please, Please, Please..."
I sighed, knowing I'm about to cave. She did have a point though, I really did need new clothes...
"Fine." I groaned.
"Yay!" Alice shrieked, and started jumping excitedly. "We'll go tomorrow after school. I know the most perfect place ever..."
"Alice, calm down, we'll decide details later. What am I supposed to do for now?" I asked, trying to calm her before she got too caught up with her plans.
"Oh that's easy, I'll just give you something..." And thus Barbie Bella began.
A hundred outfit changes later, Alice finally decided I was presentable enough for dinner with everyone. Despite my usually easy going self, I was starting to get nervous. What if they didn't like me? I pushed the thought away and focused on Alice, who was going on and on about some up coming event...
"Oh here we are!" Alice said brightly as she pushed the door open. We were at some resteraunt on campus. Alice had explained to me earlier that the school provided us breakfast, lunch and dinner but that most prefered going out to different resteraunts on campus since the school's food wasn't all that amazing.
She started going towards some table at the back which I could see wasn't empty. I took a deep breath, and followed her. As I came closer, I was able to see that there were three people at the table, two boys and one girl.
Upon reaching the table, Alice slid in the seat next to one of the boys, leaving me standing, unsure what to do.
"Jasper, Rosalie, Edward this is Bella, the girl I told you about. Bella this is Jasper." She said, pointing to the blond boy next to her. "He's my boyfriend."
"Hi, How are you?" He greeted warmly.
"Great, thanks." I answered with a smile. I could feel my confidence coming back, so far they all seemd pleasant enough.
"This is Rosalie, she's our roomie and Jasper's twin sister." Alice continued the introductions.
"Hi, Rosalie, nice to meet you." I said a bit nervously, remembering what Alice told me about Rose. Although her description of her hardly did her justice. Rose was downright beautiful, with long, wavy blond hair, sea blue eyes and an amazing figure. She honestly looked like she had just stepped off a runway.
She merely nodded, acknowledging my presence but not answering, which was a bit rude in my opinion, but I wasn't phased as I'd met worse. I sat down in the booth next to Alice and across Rosalie.
"And this is Edward." She said finally, pointing to the boy I recognized from the picture. To say the picture didn't do him justice would be an understatement.
Edward was every bit as beautiful as Rosalie if not more in my opinion, his hair was a strange shade of reddish brown and was in a mess but that only made me want to put my fingers through it, his eyes were a beautiful shade of shocking emerald green and made me feel as if he was looking straight into my soul. Even though I could only see the top af his body as he was sitting across from me, I could tell he was a bit muscular, less than Jasper yet more than average. I looked down blushing when I realized I had been staring at him.
"He's my brother. Well sort of, I'm adopted." Alice explained.
Oh, well that explained why she was nothing like Carlisle... Why didn't she tell me this before?
"Alice," Edward groaned. "Not sort of, I'm your brother completely, and you know that."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Alice brushed him off. "Where's Emmet? I told everyone to be here."
"You know Emmet, he's probably late as usual," Rosalie replied.
Alice chuckled and teased. "Which is one of the many reasons why you lovvvve him."
"I do not!"
"'Course not." Alice retorted, still chuckling.
Feeling out of the conversation I interrupted. "Who's Emmet?"
"Oh, you'll meet him soon. He's Edward's best friend, so he hangs out with us, and of course Rose is always all over him..." Alice explained.
"I am not! Shut up!"
"Who needs to shut up and why?" A booming voice asked from behind us. Startled, I jumped around. My first impression was that he was huge. He looked rather intimidating with his giant muscles and towering figure but there was something about him that also gave me the impression that he was just a giant teddy bear. Probably the very childlike expression and grin on his face.
"Ah, Emmet, thank goodness you're here! I swear if I hear those two bickering for one more second I'll explode." Edward said in relief.
"Glad to be of service, my man." He turned, and noticed me for the first time. "And who might this be?"
"Oh, Emmet, as if you haven't heard Alice talking about her every second for the past month!" Rosalie teased Alice back. What's this about everyone I'm meeting telling me that they have heard oh so much about me from Alice? I must have had a confused expression on my face because Alice explained with a guilty expression-
"I did not talk about her every second I just talked about her,"
"A whole lot," Rose offered.
Alice stuck out her tongue in Rose's direction in an act of annoyance, and I laughed. I don't know what Edward was going on about, these two were hilarious.
Edward looked my direction with a weird expression on his face. Did I have something stuck between my teeth?
A waiter finally arrived to take our orders and I suddenly had a great idea for a game.
Alice must have noticed my giant smile because she asked me if everything was Ok.
"Everything's fine, Alice. I just had a fun idea if you're all up for it." I said a bit nervously. What if they thought I was being weird?
"Like a game? count me in!" Emmet shouted excitedly, and a few people even turned to look at us, startled by the sudden noise.
"Shh, Emmet, you loaf! I'll join if you'll be quiet," Rose shushed.
"Thanks, Rosie baby! Now come on, Eddie, join us?"
"Ugh, Emmet, you know I hate it when you call me Eddie. Besides, I don't want to." Edward said annoyedly. So he wasn't joining us? Pity... Wait, what do I care? I don't care... Right?
Right.
"Join us, party pooper, or your new name will be Eddikins, and I warn you- it will not be pretty." Emmet threatened with a devious smile.
Edward visibly paled and quickly gulped "fine."
"I want in too!" Alice exclaimed excitedly.
"If Alice is in then so am I." Jasper said, joining as well.
"Well? Are you going to tell us what your idea is now?" Emmet started, excited again. I think Alice was affecting him. Either that or they were both on the same energy drink.
"So here goes- how about instead of ordering what we choose, each one will have to pick something random out of the menu without looking?" I began explaining.
"And they have to accept it and eat no matter what, whoever caves buys everyone else dessert!"
"Awesome! Me first!" Emmet announced. Still hyper, he picked up the menu, closed his eyes, and started scrolling down with his finger beside the list of dishes.
His finger suddenly stopped and he opened his eyes. "Shit! I got spinach pie! Gross." He pretended to gag.
Alice laughed. "Now me!" She too picked up a menu and did the same as Emmet, only when she opened her eyes her smile widened. "Ha, I got pizza! I'm totally gonna win."
"Hey, that's not fair!" Emmet whined, and turned to look at me. "Can she even do that?"
I shrugged. "I never said the food had to be digusting."
Alice then turned to Jasper. "Come on now you!"
Jasper chuckled at her enthusiastic expression and went throught the process of picking. When he opened his eyes, his face shifted from excitement to one of disgust. "Yuck, I got stuffed mushrooms! I didn't even know that existed!"
Emmet laughed like crazy. "Welcome to the club, man."
"Your turn, Rose." Emmet said, while pushing a menu in her direction.
She grimaced and closed her eyes. When she opened them she looked absolutely horrified. "I got fried chicken! Do any of you know how much calories that is? I can't eat that!"
Emmet tsked and said, "You have to, remember, you promised!" He then suddenly changed his mind, and gave her a puppy dog look. "Please? for me?" He begged while jutting his lip out.
"You want me to be fat?" Rose asked incredulously.
"You won't be fat, you're Rose, and Rose is never fat." Emmet stated. He looked so serious I wanted to laugh.
"Fine." Rose broke, not being able to resist his puppy face and amazing logic.
She then pushed the menu over to me with a scary look on her face. "You started this I hope you get something nasty."
I gulped and closed my eyes while trailing my finger down the menu. When I opened my eyes, I grinned. "Ha, I got caviar!"
Emmet looked confused. "What's caviar?"
Edward chuckled. "It's fish eggs, you nub, it's considered a delicacy." He then turned and looked at me. You're really Ok with that? Caviar is seriously expensive."
Shit, Shit, Shit, what do I do? I can't have him thinking the amount doesn't bother me at all because then my cover could be blown, but I didn't want to backout of the game either. I threw Alice a pleading look hoping for a save but she just shrugged looking as helpless as I was.
"Uhh, don't worry about it I'm sure I can scrape up enough, it can't be that bad." I shrugged trying to look calm.
Edward gave me a questioning look but apparently decided not to say anything. THANK GOD!
Quickly changing the subject, I pushed the menu in Edward's direction. "Your turn," I said a bit nervously.
It worked! He sighed, leaving the matter at hand and closed his eyes as well. When he opened them, he frowned. "I got PB&J, this is bad."
Alice suddenly started laughing. "This is going to be epic!"
I frowned. "What's the deal with PB&J?"
Alice smiled hugely. "Edward is allergic to peanut butter."
We all laughed while handing back the menus to the waiter.
"Wait, wait." Emmet wheezed between laughs. "What exactly happens when he eats peanut butter?"
Alice giggled. "Oh it's nasty, his whole face goes red and he has these weird spots on his arms."
I frowned. "I didn't know it was that bad... Shouldn't he eat something else in that case?"
Emmet looked at me as though I was crazy. "Are you kidding me? This will be awesome!"
Edward who had been quiet 'till now, waching us with an exasperated expression, suddenly spoke up. "Jee, as nice as it is to know my friends enjoy watching me suffer, I'm sorry to inform you it isn't going to happen. I'll just buy you guys dessert."
"Party pooper," Emmet accused.
"As long as I'm not eating that sandwich you can call me whatever you like," Edward said.
"Don't think I'll forget that Eddikins," Emmet teased.
Edward started grumbling under his breath, and I think I caught the word immature a few times.
I opened the door and turned on the light, before sinking into my bed without even bothering to change my clothes.
Tonight had been utterly exhausting. I recalled how we had all kept up an easy banter until the food arrived. Now THAT was when things had started to get ugly.
The combination of a hyper Alice and an excited Emmet didn't do any good, and when the food arrived Emmet had been first to take a bite (he wanted apparently to show how brave he was) but after a single taste the mayhem began.
Apparently the food was not exactly to his liking, and that's putting it subtly. Emmet had begun nearly choking in disgust before pushing the plate away.
"I am not going to eat that." He'd announced.
At that point both Edward and Rosalie who Emmet had forced to join gave him incredilous and angry looks.
"If you're not going to eat then neither will we!"
Before I was even able to make out what was going on a food fight had commenced-
and I was right in the middle of it all.
By the time everything had cooled down the resteraunt owner kicked us out (can't say I was surprised) and since it was getting late we decided to head back to our dorms.
Which leads me back to the present, lying in exhausted bed, covered with food, and in need of a shower.
All in all today had been nice, and even though dinner was a fiasco it felt good to be hanging out with people who treated me normally.
And I was right. There was a difference between them and my "friends" back at home.
I got up and took a quick shower, enjoying the feeling of the warm water running down my back and cleaning the whole day away.
I returned to my bed and quickly sank into a dreamless sleep.
A\N- This is my first story, so I'd love to see some reviews. Stop being lazy and write a sentence, it won't kill you and it will make me very happy...
