To: phantomdiva@julliard.edu

From: tinkerbelle@ucla.edu

Subject: so different….

Chloe,

It's so good to hear from you again. I knew that you'd always be the self-discipline type! I wish I could be. I just look at what I have to study and always seem to find something more interesting to do. I am studying, but it's just so hard to get motivated.

The weather in LA is great, as usual. I love where I live, except for Scary Tracy the roommate. I'm trying to get along better with her. Maybe I should've lived with Mimi? But then again, they say it's a bad idea to live with close friends. Philip was also bugging me to move into an apartment with him, but it's an even WORSE idea to live with close male friends!

I'm finally getting used to the LA traffic. Definitely different than being in Salem! Although most of the time, I still stay pretty close to campus. The parking situation is ridiculous so I don't take the car out all that much. I do go to the beach occasionally, since it's only a ten minute drive away. I've got to have a great tan for when I come back to visit Salem!

Your classes sound perfect for you! Finally you can take the stuff that interests you instead of math and science! I'm taking a writing class, psychology, this awful statistics class and a media class. Can you just picture me as a journalist? Reporting from UCLA, this is Belle Black!!

Yeah, I've talked to Brady off and on. Same old Brady. His new email address is phantomblack@yahoo.com. Do you two think alike or what? That's sort of creepy, Chloe… But you should write him. I know he'd love to hear from you.

High school seems so long ago. So does being Ms. & Mr. Perfect Everything with Shawn. It's weird to think that it's all back in high school and college is totally new – besides Philip and Mimi, nobody knows me… Maybe I should die my hair purple and get a piercing or something to be different than high school? But if I died my hair purple, Shawn would never stop teasing me. Wait, I just realized that he won't know unless I tell him – that's so depressing!

Rush is going okay. I'm in the first round of mixers so far. Everyone is pretty fake, but that's part of the game so I'm playing along with it. Philip is also rushing frats. We'll see what happens with that.

There's a football game this weekend that we're all psyched about. Some guy Philip met has a van, so we're all riding it that to drive to the game. I'm so excited! I bought a new UCLA sweatshirt, a UCLA baby tee and a Bruins hat. I still have the school spirit thing going! Aren't I a dork?!

Wow, okay, I've written a lot. It's so nice to get all this off my chest. How'd your tests end up going? Let me know when you hear from Brady!

Luv, Belle