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Chapter O3: Sometimes Beginnings Aren't So Simple


"You're wearing that on the first day of school?" Something about the way Alice looked at me- like I had some sort of disease- told me I should be afraid. My eyebrows pulled together as I looked down at my choice of outfit.

Skinny jeans, slip on vans and a band t-shirt. There was nothing wrong with that right? Then I looked to her which suddenly made me frown.

She was all about designer.

"Yeah?" The word took more than three seconds to sound out. She looked at me in horror.

She let out a sigh of disappointment. That was when I figured I should just sit down and keep quiet. "I cannot believe I'm related to a fashion roadkill." she mumbled under her breath but I was quite a listener to pick it up.

"Gee. Thanks."

"At least add some taste to it! Bella you look like someone who had just gotten back from a bar after spending all night there." she was applying her make up but I didn't know why she needed it. She was beautiful with or without it.

"Then what do you wear on a first day of school?"

She shook her tiny head at me. "Bella, Bella, Bella, you have got a lot to learn. But maybe tomorrow I don't have time to make you look better than you do. After all, they say masterpiece's are not rushed. Jas and I are meeting at the cafeteria for breakfast then we need to go to orientation. Are you coming?"

"I guess."

"Great." she grinned picking up her Louis Vuitton bag and slid on a pair of flats that looked pretty expensive for shoes.

"So what do you think about Jasper?" she asked when we were alone in the elevator. She pressed the "G" button.

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know... do you like him?"

I never really thought about that before. "He's nice."

"What about Edward?" her hazel eyes seemed to be eager for my answer. What did I think about Edward?

"He's nice too." She frowned at my brilliant reply. You could tell she expected more from me.

"Nice? Just nice? I think he's good looking Bella! If I didn't have Jasper, I would be all over him!"

"Does it really matter how good looking someone is? It's the inner beauty that counts." I learned that from the many novels I have read and films I watched. It annoyed me that most relationships were all about lies.

"Did mom tell you that?" she was shaking her head. "She's been reading romance novels now a days. She tends to be lonely with Phil touring for baseball."

"I can tell." Not really. I never paid any attention to his absence since I moved in.

"But anyways, she called me last night and guess what?" she was squealing by the time we came out of the elevator and out of our building.

The bright sun reminded me to bring my sunglasses next time.

"What?"

"She's getting my car shipped here!"

I had forgotten about Alice's yellow porshe. Since Phil was practically making a successful living and paying for their bills, Alice was lucky enough to recieve her own car for her sixteenth.

Charlie bought me a second-hand chevy's truck. That was all I got.

"That's great." But I didn't really care.

"Oh no!" she gasped suddenly slowing her dance like movement.

"What's wrong?"

"You'll see when you get home." She grinned wikedly.

"What is it?"

"Jacob tried to make you cereal."

I raised my eyebrow. "Tried to?"

"He went through your cabinets looking for a box of cereal. He ended up trashing the kitchen and over pouring the milk."

I laughed a short laugh. "He makes me laugh."

"You have a weird roommate."

"Actually comparing the both of us, he should be saying that about me."

We ended our conversation when we entered the cafteria. The big, white cafeteria I should say.

It was over populated and was getting a bit claustraphobic by the time Alice and I had bought our lunches and sat down with Jasper and his friends but I didn't mind. Much.

"Alice!" Jasper greeted Alice with another kiss. She returned it with much passion and sat on his lap. Wrapping his arms around her tiny frame, he placed a quick kiss on her forehead.

"Bella it's nice to see you again." he then spoke to me as I sat down on the empty seat beside a big, well-built boy. His dark hair and warm blue eyes made him look less frightening.

"You too." I smiled taking a bite of my apple.

"Hey I'm Emmett." the boy beside me said in a deep yet joyous voice. I turned to him slowly returning his welcoming smile.

"Bella." I held out my hand thinking I should be polite and figured that's how most people greet eachother. With a handshake. But instead of taking it, he lifted me into an enormous, tight hug lifting me off my seat.

"Emmett Cullen! Put the poor girl down!" an unfamiliar voice hissed not to far away from us. Sighing he set me down on the blue chair again.

"Sorry." he mumbled before grinning at me again.

I looked to see who the high soprano voice came from. A tall blonde sat across from the boy named Emmett. She was statuesque that just being in a room with her put my looks to shame. Not that I was pretty because I wasn't.

"Hello I'm Rosalie Hale." she locked eyes with me noticing my stare. I looked away feeling the blood rush to my cheeks.

"Bella." I told her.

"Alice's sister right?" she obviously didn't care. It seemed like she was forcing herself to make conversation with me.

"Uh-huh."

"She's told me all about you." Really?

"Rose look!" Emmett interrupted. "Look! I made you something!"

I glanced at his plate seeing a face made up of two eggs and two strips of bacon. She shook her head scoffing commenting on his so called masterpiece.

"Wow Emmett how... beautiful." Alice gigged.

I zoned out for a bit.

Over Rosalie's shoulder I could see the strawberry blonde who's name was Tanya sitting alone at the table in front of me. She was staring at me. For the first time, she wasn't glaring. She looked... relaxed.

Her composure suddenly changed, her eyes dimming each second. The sound of a chair being pulled back and dragged back into place made my heart accelerate.

"Hello friends." the musical voice came from beside me. She locked eyes with me for a split second before disappearing into thin air.

I picked at my food while the others sitting at the table made conversation again with Edward joined in.

Who was Tanya and what did she want? Why was she still here?

She obviously had unfinished buisness but the question was, what kind? Did she want my help?

"So tomorrow I was thinking we go to the mall after school." Alice clapped her hands together excitedly. Rose lit up with her.

"Sounds good to me!" Emmett replied followed by Jasper and Edward. Then each pair of eyes were focused on me.

I gulped down the piece of my apple I was munching on.

"Bella? Are you in?"

"The mall?" I asked carelessly, nodding my head. "Yeah, um, I'm not so sure."

Alice frowned. "I told you I would help you with your fashion Bella!"

"You did but I didn't agree." I shot back.

"Please Bella?" she had her hands folded together waving her intertwined fingers in front of me in a pout.

Edward let a low chuckle beside me. "I learned not to say no to Alice." he explained when I shot him a confusing look.

"Fine." I mumbled. Alice practically jumped over the table to give me a hug but luckily Jasper got her before she could get me.

"Ooh, thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Bella you're going to have so much fun! They have this really big, great mall a few minutes away! Eeek!"

I was already scared of her and we haven't even left yet.

"It's okay Bella," Jasper wrapped his arms securely around a beaming Alice. "You don't have to-"

"No!" Alice suddenly shouted. "Bella's coming!"

"You don't have to be so demanding pix!" Emmett held his hands in front of him with wide eyes.

Edward was shaking his head beside me.

"It's fine. I'll go." I said quietly.

"Well then. It's settled." Rosalie smiled.

The abrupt ringing bell indicated breakfast was over and all students had to exit the cafeteria and make their way to the theatre for the short orientation meeting. Emmett, Rose, Alice, Jasper and Edward decided they were going to skip orientation since they were familiar with the rules and guidelines.

However, me being the newest addition I wanted to attend. I picked up my tray with untouched food besides the apple and made my way to the theatre room after dumping my tray.

I made my way through the crowded hallways trying to refrain from recieving bruises from the many people who bumped into me.

I bumped into a curly blond who's books he held fell to the ground. I fell along with his pile mumbling a rough "sorry". I picked up his books as I helped myself up.

"Here you go." I told him handing his studies back. He was looking at me strangely and I wondered what he was looking at. Did I have something on my face? Or my clothes?

"Who are you talking to?" the musical voice came from behind me. I looked back at the golden eyed bronze haired boy then turned my head forward to look back at the blond boy. He was no longer there and the books were not in my hands.

I looked back at Edward with my eye brows pulled together in confusion and shock.

However Edward had an amused expression on his face.

"Um..." And then I realized. I hadn't been talking to a student, but a spirit. This is what I hated. Usually spirits have an eerie light glow so I could easily make out who was human and who wasn't. But for some reason they have control of the glow. So it was hard to tell from the live and the dead. "No one."

He looked convinced considering he changed the subject and continued walking with me. I looked back at the spot I had fallen to the ground and where I met the boy. Strange.

"Bella?" he called my name out for about the third time. I hadn't realized I didn't respond.

"Hm?"

"You seem distracted."

I kept my eyes straight forward. "Oh um, yeah I'm just really tired you know. So what are you doing here?" Realizing my question could be taken the wrong way I spoke again. "I mean, I thought you were with the others?"

"Well since you are a new comer, I thought it would be polite and gentleman like if I escorted you to the orientation. Also, I thought you would like some company."

That was sweet. "Oh," I shook my head. "No it's fine, I can manage. You don't have to stay back with me."

"It's no trouble at all. Actually, I was thinking, if you'd like, I could give you a private tour," he smiled crookedly. "We can skip all the boring parts."

"Sure." I replied because I could not think of anything better to say. We turned around to exit through the south stairs.

We began with finding all of my classes and then he showed me the less important areas like the pool, the basket-ball courts, tracks and all that.

Sure enough by the end of the tour we- or should I say, I- bumped into Tanya. She did not look happy at all.


"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" she huffed beside me. She was standing in the middle of Edward and I.

Of course I couldn't reply so I refrained from even looking at her.

"... and that comes to the end of the tour." Edward replied. I nodded my head.

"Thank you so much."

"Oh boo who. It was just a tour get over yourself!" Tanya was acting dramatic. It was hard not to just stop and scream back at her.

"It's no problem."

"Oh yes it is a problem!"

"Stop!" I whispered in a hiss. Tanya just scoffed, crossing her arms.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Edward asked me. He turned to me and for the first time, I deeply concentrated on his eyes. The sun shined behind him, his bronze hair was glowing and his eyes sparkled.

We locked gazes for a moment with Tanya waving her arms beside us screaming in frusteration. He was lucky he couldn't hear her.

"Did you... your eyes... they were gold the last time I saw you."

"So you were examining his eyes? He wears contacts stupid!" I ignored that.

"I wear contacts." he repeated.

"So your natural eye colour is green?" I asked making conversation though it was awkward having Tanya with us.

"No shit sherlock!"

He nodded at me. "My mother thought gold was an unusual colour for eyes so she ordered in that colour. She thought it looked lovely with my hair."

"That's nice." We were now in front of my building. Tanya did not stop glaring at me. That was quite annoying. He just nodded. "Well thanks for the tour, again."

"Like I said, it was no trouble at all."

"Well... this is me."

"Really?" Tanya asked sarcastically. I rolled my eyes and was glad he didn't catch that.

"This is me too." he stated.

"Right." Well I felt stupid.

He opened the door for me but Tanya made it slam against my face instead. I fell to the floor flat on my bum. I groaned in anger.

Edward held his hand out for me to grab onto and pulled me up on my feet again. Tanya was laughing hysterically. I only glared at her.

"I'm sorry," he smiled shyly. "I must have not opened it far enough."

"It's okay." It wasn't his fault. I would know.

"Wasn't that fun?" Tanya sighed beside me in the elevator. She was really starting to get on my nerves. Just wait until Edward left...

"I'm quite use to it. I'm accident prone." I added. Tanya stood beside me mimicking what I was saying.

He chuckled. "I should be more careful next time."

"You mean me?"

He pressed my floor number in the elevator and I looked to see we were alone with quiet elevator music playing in the background.

Tanya stood between us again making sure to seperate us as far as possible.

I didn't understand much. Why she didn't want me to speak with Edward, I mean. It's not like we liked eachother that way, right? We were just...friends or acquaintances and nothing more.

So why was she keeping a good eye on me?

When the elevator door opened indicating it was my stop I took a step forward then turned around.

"Thanks for today."

"Like I said, no problem at all. Will I see you tomorrow?" he asked me.

I cocked my head to the side in thought. "Of course." Not unless Tanya gets me first. The thought made me shudder.

He waved goodbye as the doors closed again and I turned around making my way to my dorm.

Tanya did not walk beside me. She was gone and I never felt so relieved in entire being.


"What the?" Was the first thing I said as soon as I shut the door behind me.

Jacob and his friend stood in the kitchen watching the food channel. Flour was spread out all over our tiles as well as boxed ingredients and empty and full cans of food. Jacob was mixing ingredients in a bowl while his friend cut up fruit and tossed it in a seperate plate.

"Bella!" Jacob grinned from the kitchen. I walked over to the kitchen and set my keys on the counter. "This is my good friend Embry. Embry, Bella. Bella, Embry."

"Hey." he looked similar to Jacob only he was a bit shorter.

"Hi. Um, Jacob what are you doing?" Alice was right about the mess I would find when I arrived home.

"Making lunch." he said proudly.

"Yeah, I'm not so sure I can trust you without burning down our kitchen." I told him truthfully. Embry laughed while Jacob pouted.

They should make a law stating Jacob is forever banned from any kitchen.

"Don't worry Bells," I didn't miss when he called me Bells. Only my father called me that. "I got this!" he waved his spatula to the T.V.

"I'm going to Alice's room." I was frightened of staying in here while they cooked in the kitchen.

"Sure, sure. Just make sure you come back for lunch!"

I just nodded and sped out the door back into the elevator.


I grabbed Alice by the wrist as soon as Edward locked himself into the bathroom to take his shower. I brought her to her room and threw a bunch of clothing to cover the bottom of the door.

We both sat on top of her bed cross legged.

"What?" she asked me as soon as I flopped on.

"Have you seen visions of Tanya lately?" I whispered to her in case the walls weren't that great with soundproof.

She shook her head. "Not really. I can only see when she's comming. Why?"

"She's been following me around lately."

"I know." she stated.

I rolled my eyes. "And she's been threatening me about staying away from Edward."

Alice gasped. The kind of reaction I wanted to see. "Why?"

"I don't know. She hasn't said anything and everytime she shows up I'm always around him so I can't really talk to her alone."

"Do you think they have... history?"

"Probably I mean why else would she want me to stay away from him?"

"That's weird. Edward never mentioned any girlfriends when I first met him."

"When did you first meet him?"

"Last year." She never mentioned that.

"Really? I thought he was a newcomer."

"Well he didn't really hang out with us I mean I only knew him by name. He wasn't friends with Jasper or Emmett yet. He was kind of alone."

That got me thinking. "Do you think maybe he was alone because something happened between the two?"

"Well if something happened between me and Jasper I would probably shy away from everyone and drown myself with Ben&Jerry's so probably."

"Well whatever it is I'm sure we'll find out soon." I told her. She tilted her head to the side, thinking.

After a few seconds she finally replied, "Before anyone gets hurt."

What was that suppose to mean?


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