A/N- Okay, I know you must hate me so much for not updating for ages but I have very good reasons! I had my GCSE's and my prom and that only finished a couple of weeks ago.

And, do you want to know how much I love you guys? Because i'm proving it by updating this chapter at 01:23 in the morning! I am knackered and have got to get up early but I just couldn't stand the thought of all of you being dissapointed in me. :'(

Anyways, once again I am very sorry, but I hope to get the next chapter up within a week at the latest!

Coincidence, Fate, Bad Luck

Chapter 4 - Big Brother

(Bella P.O.V)

The next day, I woke up to the sound of birds singing outside my window, the sun streaming into my room and a light breeze blowing the curtains.

I slowly got out of bed and headed for my bathroom. I turned the shower on and started brushing my teeth while I waited for the water to warm up.

After I had finished in the shower, I pulled a towel around my body and another for my hair. I started towel drying my hair and when I was sure it wasn't going to soak the floor, grabbed the hairdryer from underneath the sink.

Hair? Check. Light make-up? Check. Clothes? Check. It was fifteen minutes after I had showered when I went downstairs to see what was for breakfast (which, since last nights dinner, I couldn't wait to eat!) Walking through the kitchen door, I saw Sue cooking at the stove (What a surprise!), Charlie at the kitchen table reading his newspaper, and Emmett and Rosalie (Who had slept over last night) fighting for a slice of toast, even though Emmett already had two slices on his plate, three sausages, beans and several strips of bacon!

I walked in and said a good morning to everyone with a grin on my face. There was a murmur of "Hey Bella's" as I sat down across from Emmett.

"Help yourself to anything on the table, Bella; and if there's something you fancy just let me know." Sue smiled, kindly.

I thanked her and poured myself a bowl of cheerio's. After a couple of minutes, Sue turned off the stove and made her way over to the table with a plate of eggs (Which Emmett helped himself too), and sat down at the end of the table opposite Charlie. After a few minutes of silence and quiet chewing, Charlie put down his newspaper and poured himself a mug of coffee.

"So what are y' kids plannin' on doing today then?" he asked.

To be honest. I hadn't really thought about it. I mean, what's a girl supposed to do when she's in a town she's not familiar with and barely knows four people?

"Well, I think me and Rose are going to the mall. We're meeting the guys there and are going bowling." Emmett replied to Charlie's question.

"That sounds like a good idea, you should take Bella too!" Sue suggested, excitedly.

"Oh, no, it's okay. I don't wanna…" I started before Emmett cut me off.

"Don't be silly Bella! 'Course you can come, maybe you can calm down Rose and Alice." He laughed and rolled his eyes, earning him a jab in the ribs by the beautiful blonde sitting next to him.

"But I'm not very good at bowling. Clumsy, remember? And I don't know your friends, anyway." I pointed out.

"Neither can me and Al; bowl, I mean, the boys are always laughing at us." Rose smiled.

I bit down on my lip, unsure of what to do.

"And don't worry about their friends, they're all nice enough and at least you'll know some more people when you start school tomorrow." Sue comforted me.

"Yeah, just don't, err… get too friendly with any of the boys in town. Especially that Cullen boy. He's got a bit of a name around here as a player and, well he'll probably just try to… play y'." Charley added awkwardly.

We all laughed at Charlie's embarrassment at trying to give me boy advice.

"Hmm…Okay, I'll come" I told everyone, once I had stopped laughing.

Everyone beamed at me and as I left the table and headed for the door to the hallway, I suddenly remembered something.

I turned around facing Rose.

"Umm, Rosalie?"

She looked up at me from her fashion magazine, smiling kindly.

"What should I wear?" I asked, as I was only in my sweats.

"Would you like me to help pick out an outfit?" she replied, a little too enthusiastically.

"Umm, if you don't mind."

One hour and forty seven minutes, twenty three seconds later I was ready. After I had been squeezed into an outfit Rose-Approved (I borrowed her size zero skinny jeans, her tight fitted black top that was low cut and 'emphasized' me cleavage, and a pair of black four inch heels), had my hair ripped out of my scalp (or that's what it felt like, although it was all still there on top of my head in nice ringlets that reached my shoulders. I checked.), and my face had been completely covered with a thick, yet subtle amount of make-up, I was standing in front of my floor-length mirror on my wardrobe door.

I was stunned; I couldn't believe that I could ever look this beautiful. I mean, I had been told I was pretty; from my Mum and my friends, but I never believed them. I always thought of myself as plain.

I thanked Rose and we walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. Looking at the clock on the wall, I realised that it was nearing half twelve, and as we were meeting everyone else in half an hour, we decided to leave.

Emmett insisted on driving and when he pulled into a parking space at the mall, I got out of the car and almost fell over.

"God, Emmett! You drive so fast, I think I've left my stomache back in the driveway!" I complained.

He just laughed while Rosalie hit him and rolled her eyes.

We all walked into the mall and up the escalators, to where I presumed the bowling alley was, with me stumbling occasionally.

As soon as we stepped off the escalators we turned left and saw a big crowd of people that we started walking over too. Everyone in the big group was looking at us, focusing mainly on me, with curious expressions.

When we reached them I was feeling a bit nervous.

Emmett turned to everyone and said "Hey, guys! This is Bella, you know Charlie's daughter?" he asked.

There was a murmur of "Hello's" as all eyes turned to me.

"Yeah, well if I see any of you messing my little sister around, your dead; and I won't even use Charlie's gun." He eyed them all and then ruined what I thought was a very scary, if not embarrassing; convincing little speech by laughing.

Everyone but me started laughing either at him or at my clear embarrassment, I don't know.

"Anyways Bella, this is Alice," he pointed out a small, black haired pixie that immediately ran up to me and hugged me, telling me that we were going to be the "best of friends!" before disappearing back into the crowd so fast, I wasn't sure it had really happened.

"This is Jasper," Emmett continued, this time pointing to a tall boy with a curly, dirty blonde mop on his head who nodded once at me with a small smile and the turned back to continue talking to the pixie.

Emmett continued introducing me to people, including two girls named Lauren and Jessica who both looked very similar to Barbie dolls with their very tiny, mini skirts, orange tan-lines, and bleach blonde hair. I was also introduced to a couple of boys (Mike and Tyler) who kept staring at me.

"And lastly, this is Edward."

There were a couple of seconds silence as Edward turned around to face me (he had been talking to the Barbie dolls (who, by the way; were giggling and blushing like crazy)) and we stared at each other in shock.

"Actually. We've already met" Edward told everyone (who was now looking from the boy I had met on the plane and me, to find out what was going on), once he has got over the shock and had his lop-sided grin plastered across his face.

After Edward had detached his eyes from mine and looked around at everyone else's curious looks, he started telling everyone the story of how we had met.

"…And then she turned back around to me, I held her bag back to her and as she took it she brushed her hand against mine, obviously letting me know that she liked me. And then she turned back around and walked away… and now we meet again." He finished.

"Yes, well it is obviously coincidence." I told him, a bit defensively.

"I prefer to think of it as fate, I mean, this is the second time we've met." He said, with a mischievous smirk.

"It's a small town." I said, simply.

"And if we were to meet again?" he asked.

"Then I'd put it down to bad luck." I told him, sweetly.

He just smiled while everyone else laughed and congratulated me.

Okay, I know I was acting kind of weird, and not myself, but I don't know what it is. Maybe it was how I looked giving me extra confidence? Or maybe it was just my anger against all players? I didn't know. All I knew was that I definitely wasn't going to let him play me.

A/N- Sorry about ending it all here but If I had continued writing the whole chapter how I had planned too, it would have been very long and I wasn't sure if you's would get bored?

I think this story is going in a different direction than I planned, so I might have to change the summary.

Also, I was wondering... would you prefer to have the next chapter of Edwards P.O.V of when he sees Bella outside the bowling alley ( which will probably be quite short but up maybe tomorrow, and I can use Edwards quirky 'chick' humour) or just continue with the next bit of the story ( where they actually bowl) in Bella's P.O.V? I think im leaning more to Edward's P.O.V as it maked a nice change from writing as Bella all the time, but i'm not sure yet...

I know I'm being very cheeky... but pleaseee REVIEW! :D

Thank you,

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