A/N: Early Update! YAY! first time in a while that I've updated in the same week :D I'm posting this regardless of the number of reviews I get, because I'm really into this story :D but please continue review, adding it to your favorites, etc.

Rose and Em: 15 years old
Alice, Maria, and the rest: 14 years old


6 years later….

Maria's POV

Over the past few years a lot has changed. For example, Alice and I are no longer best friends. Why? She has everything I want, anything anyone could want, love, money, fame, success, and happiness. I hated her because

I left Tennessee for a year, the year I began disliking Alice. I moved to Texas to visit Grandma Natalia. My return to Tennessee was not easy. Edward had seen me talking badly about my sister and he had been really mad. I'm 14 now. I'm Alice's twin; she started her music career a year after she left Memphis for Nashville, she became extremely famous and well-known. Her first CD went double platinum in the first few months of its release. I'm a part of her band, doing vocals and things like that. Alice had mastered the guitar and the piano by now. She was everywhere. Her face was everywhere, on tee-shirts, bags, perfume, clothes, etc.

Alice was flying into to Tennessee today after being out for a couple of months and I couldn't wait till the day was over. There was one thing I was afraid of though. She was moving back to Memphis, our hometown, and going to high school along with me. It was Jasper I was worried about. They would probably end up being in the same classes, which means they would spend time together, and he'd fall for her charm.

Mom dragged me to the airport and we waited for Alice. Jasper, Bella, Rosalie, and Edward were also there too. Edward glared at me and Jasper gave me a small smile. Rosalie and Bella nodded their heads at me in greeting and waved at my Mom.

When Alice stepped off the plane, she hugged Mom "Oh! I've missed you so much!" she said smiling. She then looked at Edward with tears in her eyes and hugged him. "I missed you Eddie" she said as the tears fell from her eyes. She wiped them away and then hugged Bella tightly. She hugged Jasper, and he awkwardly hugged her back, but Rosalie was much more enthusiastic, she adored Alice, it was clearly written all over her face.

Esme and Carlisle were next and then Caroline and Richard, Jasper's parents, took turns hugging her. She hugged me last with a simple "I missed you too". The entire day was centered on Alice and Emmett, and I was left alone, Jasper, on occasions would turn to talk to me, but somehow he'd end up talking with the rest of them and leaving me alone.

Alice tried to get me into the conversations. Emmett would occasionally shoot me a smile and start a conversation with me, but his attention would wander off to the rest of the group who was talking to Alice or making conversation with her. Our parents were talking to each other, I, on the other hand, had nothing to do, so I just did whatever they did, lost in my own world.

Next week…

School was even worse; everyone talked about her, even my friends. I was sick and tired of hearing everything about her. Lunch was horrible.

Jasper and Bella were at our usual table with Rosalie. Emmett took a seat next to her as I entered the cafeteria. Alice skipped over to them with her lunch in her hands; she was about to sit on the other side of Rosalie, but Jasper motioned for her to sit next to him. That was my seat, I thought. As soon as she sat down he turned to face her and started a conversation with her. I cleared my throat announcing my arrival at the table.

Jasper looked up at me a smiled. Everyone else did the same thing. Alice, on the other hand, got up to greet me with a hug, I almost died of embarrassment, all eyes were on us and I awkwardly patted her back. She smiled at me and then sat down next to Jasper again. I held on tightly to my tray to keep from smacking Alice.

Alice, naturally, fit into our group. She had gotten requests to be friends with the 'popular' crew, like she had when we were younger. She declined, saying that she'd love to hang out sometime, but that she loved hanging out with our group more. She got along well with everyone, the elderly, the little kids, the adults, and animals. One thing I was jealous of.

At the end of the day, I found out Alice was in Jasper's class. Which meant they'd be spending a whole lot of time together from now on, and I couldn't lose him to her, I wouldn't allow that to happen.

Everyone seemed to favor Alice. Our grandparents, Emmett, Momma, Daddy, Bella, Edward, Rosalie, and the rest of our neighbors, these people loved her before she became famous, and they loved her more than ever now. She also had over a million fans and now Jasper as a friend as well.

What made me hate her even more was that she did everything so effortlessly. She was naturally good at everything she tried; I had yet to see her fail. I, on the other hand, was only good in a few subjects, but compared to Alice, I wasn't good at anything.

Alice loved the attention she received, but she never took it all for herself. She always gave credit to those who deserved it. Like in her concerts, she'd give shout outs to her inspirations, her co-songwriters, our family, friends, etc.

Jasper, Bella, Edward, and I walked home together. Alice always signed up for after-school programs. She signed up for the cheerleading team this year. I made the mistake of sharing that piece of information while we were still 2 blocks away from the school. Jasper and Bella wanted to cheer Alice on, while Edward simply said, "I wouldn't miss this for the world" as we turned around and entered the gym.


Jasper's POV

Maria always talked badly about Alice, and I honestly believed that she was evil, rude, and cruel. That was the reason I had been unwelcoming to her when she first arrived. She was a bit hurt by the way I treated her, I could tell, but she didn't make me try to like her. She talked to everyone on the way home. Maria always said that she hated Alice, but the way I saw it, Alice didn't hate Maria.

I decided to give her a chance; after all, she hadn't done anything to me. By the end of the day, I got to know her a lot more; it was very easy to get along with her. She wasn't stuck up or selfish, she was far from it, she was still Alice, the same girl she was before she became famous. Maria on the other hand, changed, a lot.

She was falling under bad influence, I could tell. That was part of the reason I stopped hanging out with her as often as I used to, the other reason was that Rosalie and Bella had talked to our mom about Maria and she had made me promise her that I wouldn't become a rebel.

In the morning, Esme took us to school. Maria ditched Alice for her own group of friends. I had to take her to the main office to get her schedule and her homeroom. I didn't mind, but why wouldn't Maria take her own sister to get her schedule. You'd think she'd be a little more considerate.

Alice tried to make it seem like she didn't notice or didn't care that Maria was being so distant with her, but I knew how to read people. Alice thanked me for helping her find her way to the main office but said nothing about Maria.

At lunch, Alice looked like she was almost afraid to sit with us, as if someone would tell her she couldn't. It took me a while to realize that she didn't want Maria to get mad at her. I invited her to sit next to me, hoping that Maria wouldn't mind. Maria arrived at that moment clearing her throat. Alice jumped up slightly and stood up and skipped over to Maria to give her a hug. All eyes were on them as Maria awkwardly patted Alice on the back. Alice then skipped back to her seat next to me. Everyone smiled and greeted Maria, but for the majority of the conversation, Maria wasn't included.

Or, if Alice tried to include her, she'd give one worded answers making it almost impossible to talk to her. We all gave up on trying talking to her by the middle of the lunch period. Near the end, Maria got up and went to sit with her other friends, Nettie and Lucy.

When the period was over we all got up and walked to our next few classes. The rest of the afternoon was pretty boring. Luckily, I have all my classes with Alice and I spent the entire rest of the day talking to her while the teachers weren't looking.

Alice didn't tell us that she was signing up for the cheerleading squad for some reason, but I was glad that I had eventually found out. I knew Maria never meant to bring it up, and it kinda just slipped, but everyone agreed to go cheer her on.

Emmett and Rosalie were there when we arrived talking to Alice; she smiled at them and then mouthed 'Oh No' as she saw us enter the room. She shot Rosalie a panicked look as the coach called the girls who were trying out.


Maria's POV

I guess being small was an advantage sometimes, or at least it was for Alice. She honestly knew how to move. Her cheers came naturally and I knew that she hadn't rehearsed for this at all; she was making it all up as she went along.

At the end, the coach called her up and when she walked over to Emmett and Rosalie, she was smiling widely and jumping up and down. Her dimples were showing; she walked over to us and smiled.

"I made the team" she said beaming.

"That's great!" Edward said as he twirled her around. She giggled. Any outsider would think that they were a couple from the way they acted around each other.

The rest of us congratulated her. Bella hugged her, Jasper hugged her too, I just nodded at her and she nodded and grinned back at me.

She was talking with Edward at full speed skipping beside him. Bella was talking with Jasper, and Rosalie with Em. I'd join in on some conversations but for the most part I was quiet, 'till Nettie called me, then I was talking with her on the phone at full speed. Nettie was one of my best friends; she understood me so well and hated my sister with me. Lucy, on the other hand, was the nicest one out of the 3 of us, she wasn't too nice either. She was okay; she had no problem with Alice, because she doesn't judge people unless she actually knows them.

Alice and Edward were ahead of us but when we caught up to them, they were both smiling widely. Alice was still talking at full speed all I heard was "Shopping Trip something, something, Edward, something, something, revenge, something slave." I'm pretty sure that's what everyone else heard to because Edward had to repeat it before we all realized that Edward had gotten her upset. No one lied to Alice without getting away with.

I inwardly rolled my eyes. Of course that was the price he would pay. Alice was crazy when it came to shopping. Edward didn't oppose, this was the least Alice could do. He knew it because they were such good friends. The older they got, the closer they got too. They were always talking to each other; they were always texting, instant messaging, on the phone, or something along those lines. I was going to say something but our mom arrived to pick us all up.

Alice was talking with Edward at full speed, an evil smile on her face. She filled our mom in on what happened and our mom laughed at Alice's plan. She barely seemed to register the fact that everyone had already gone home until later on. She had hugged Bella and Rosalie good-bye but pecked Jasper's cheek. Jasper had (very faintly) blushed and got out of the car thanking our mom. Em began to tease her, but she ignored him and continued talking to Edward.

She spent the entire afternoon working on a new song that had come into her head because she didn't have homework.


Alice's POV

I had to admit, the first day of high school was scary for me. I was just so glad I hadn't arrived too late in the year. It was only the 2nd week of school, which meant that not too many things had happened. I was in advanced classes, along with Jasper. I always thought he hated me, but he turned out to be really nice.

The day kept getting better, I made the cheerleading squad, I had honestly thought I hadn't because I hadn't rehearsed or prepared myself for it.

The best part of the day was turning Eddie into my slave... this was going to be fun, for everyone, besides Eddie of course.


A/N: Bet ya didn't see this baby coming :] there isn't going to be much about Alice and Edward's careers, this story will focus more on Alice's, Jasper's, Maria's, and the rest of the gang's lives as the story goes on. Things are going to start to get crazy.

Reviews=Love. I wrote this one really fast and I hope the next chapters come like this too.

~HPxoxo aka Kathy