A/N: I do own a copy of Twilight; however, I don't own the actual rights to said book … :(

Thanks to Just Call Me Mrs Lupin (my sister)and Pouncing Padfoot 146 (practically a sister) who are awesome and proof read this!

Also a special thanks to all my reviewers, 174 reviews! You all are AMAZING (yes you are so amazing that I bolded, italicized, capitalized AND underlined the word) Really, I wouldn't update nearly as quickly if it weren't for you all … you make my day and make me so happy when I read your comments even if they are just "update soon" it shows you care! So keep it up:) ((Also, thanks to all who have favorited (yes I just made up that word…) the story – that's awesome too! But please comment if you haven't – I'd love to hear from you!))

Chapter 5: Bella?

BPOV

"Bella, Alice, over here," Mike yelled while waving his hands frantically around in the air to capture our attention.

"Come on, Alice," I said and pulled my friend through the crowded cafeteria, finally making it to the table in the back corner where I was quickly embraced by my boyfriend.

"Hey Mike," I said giving him a quick peck on the lips and then sat down at the table where my food already was.

"Hey Bells, I already got you and Alice your food. I knew you'd need it after shopping with this one" he said pointing his thumb in Alice's direction. Alice glared in his direction, but laughed anyway.

"I'm not that bad, but I am starving so thanks Mike" Alice said while stuffing her face with the chicken sandwich in front of her.

"So, Mike who are your friends?" I said pointing to the others at our table. There were tow other guys there. One had dark brown hair, hazel eyes and was grinning at Alice and myself. The other was an average looking Asian guy, with shaggy black hair and a great smile.

"This is Eric," Mike said pointing to the boy with the great smile, I smiled at him in return, "and this is-"

"Tyler, Tyler Crowley," he interjected, "nice to meet you Bella." He was looking me up and down and making me quite uncomfortable, "Pleasure meeting you too Alice," he said briefly glancing at her.
"It's nice to meet you too," I said, shifting slightly in my seat. "So, Mike this is your roommate, hu?"

Mike looked at Tyler then me, then Tyler again. "Yes … yes, he is," Mike said almost nervously, "Well we ought to be going, come on Eric and Tyler," he said giving Tyler a quick glare when he thought I wasn't looking.

"Bye Bells," he said kissing me quickly, "Bye Alice."
"Bye boys," Alice said giggling. As soon as they walked away she turned fully towards me and said "Oh my goodness, Bella! Tyler was totally checking you out, and Mike was shooting daggers at him the entire time."

"That was so awkward," I said blushing slightly. Why would he be starring at me when beautiful Alice was sitting right next to me?

"Well, hurry up will you? The activity fair is already going on down on the field." Alice said finishing off her coke.

"Alright, alright, I'm ready." I stood up and followed Alice to the trash can where we disposed of our trays and then proceeded through the double doors and down to the field.

"So," Alice said while we were making our way down the field "I heard there is going to be a dance later tonight, kind of a welcome dance to meet people. I was thinking we should go."
I glanced over to her; she knew I hated dances with a passion, why would she ask me if I wanted to go to one? "Alice…" I started only to get cut off by her.

"Bella, I know you don't like dances very much, but it's a good way to meet new people! We can check out the boy scene too, and I don't want to go alone." Alice pleaded, starring at me with her puppy dog eyes, the ones that she knows I can't resist.

"Ugh, Alice, although I hate dances, and I will probably end up hurting myself as well as most surrounding me, AND although I am sure we won't meet any cute guys there… I will go with you, but only because you are my best friend and I can't resist those stupid eyes of yours when you beg!" I sighed, defeated.

Alice hugged me, "You won't regret it!" she said as we walked onto the field. "So what clubs do you want to join?"

"Um, I'm not sure?" Really, I wasn't planning on joining any clubs, but knowing Alice, that wouldn't work.

"I think we should join the Sprit Club, and then probably some sort of community service club…" She began to look around at the many signs and booths, searching for something to meet our needs. "Oh my gosh! Bella, I just had the most brilliant idea, ever!" Alice said, excitement showing across her face.

"What?" I asked skeptically, usually a brilliant idea to Alice meant awkward situations, and a horrible time for me.

"We are going to rush!" Alice jumped up and down.

"WHAT?! Alice, in case you haven't noticed, I'm not exactly your standard blond hair, blue eyes beauty who loves to party, why the hell would I want to join a sorority!?" I practically screamed.

"Bella, Bella, Bella, sororities aren't just for blonds, and they don't judge on eye color either. Come on, it'll be fun!" she said, skipping to the sorority sign up booth.

I trudged along behind her, what else could I do, while mentally thinking of as many ways as possible that I could get out of this later.

When we got to the sign up booth, a tall blond with blue eyes greeted us, what a surprise.

"Hello, my name is Rosalie, are you two interested in joining a sorority here on campus?" she asked, scanning us up and down.

"Yes we are. I'm Alice, and this here is Bella, how does the process of joining a sorority work?" she questioned.

"Well, after you sign up here you will be contacted by a girl know as the Rho Chi, who will tell you a little about each sorority here on campus, what they are known for, etc. Then you will go to each house for a party or meeting or some sort, where you will mingle with current sisters and if you impress them, later on you will be invited back. Eventually, a sorority will place what is called a bid on you and if you want to join that house, you accept it. After about another month or so, assuming you don't screw up majorly, you will be accepted into the sorority as a full time member!" Rosalie said. "The process is fairly simple"
"Is there um, hazing?" I said this would be an easy way out; surly Alice wouldn't want to go through a hazing process.

"Nope, we leave the hazing to the men, we girls are far to mature for that, don't you think?" Rosalie asked rhetorically.

"Well, this sounds like so much fun. Where do we sign up?" Alice asked eagerly.

"Right here," Rosalie said, pushing a piece of paper towards us, "just write down your e-mail, phone number and name and you'll be contacted by a Rho Chi in the next two weeks."
"Sounds great," Alice said signing both her name and my own and filling out the required information. "Well, we ought to be going," Alice said after finishing the form, "have to be getting ready for the welcome dance tonight! It was nice meeting you Rosalie, I'm sure we'll be seeing you around in the future" she shook Rosalie's hand and then pulled me away.

"Bella, this is so exciting! I've always wanted to join a sorority!!" Alice squealed.

"Yea, Alice. It sure will be an, um, exciting adventure" I said while still racking my brain for a way, any way, to get out of this – sadly I came up with nothing.

"We have to get back to the dorms, stat. I can't believe it's already 5:30! That only gives us like an hour to get ready! AH" Alice said as she began to walk faster towards our dorm.

I matched her pace, and soon what would have been a ten minute walk became a three minute near sprint to our room. Once we got into the room, Alice shouted something about taking a quick shower and then ran down the hall into the bathroom.

While Alice was gone, I decided to call Mike.

"Hey Mike" I said

"Bells, hey um, how are you?"
"I'm good, getting dragged to some dance tonight with Alice. You want to come?"

"Well, I want to come Bella, of course I want to come, but I actually have other plans for tonight. Tyler and me are, um, just going to do some roommate bonding, and you know, play video games, Tyler has this weird idea in his head that he can beat me at Halo 2, I however, plan on proving him wrong tonight."

"Ugh, fine Mike. I just don't see why you'd rather play video games with your roommate, the guy you have been hanging out with all day, instead of dancing with your girlfriend, who you saw for what, ten minutes, earlier today at dinner." I said, not hiding my irritation and disappointment.

"Aw, Bella, you know I want to dance with you. It's just, I already promised Tyler, and what kind of friend would I be to back out last minute on him?" Mike said, softening his voice.

"I guess …" I said, "But promise me tomorrow we'll hang out."

"Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow will work. I'll call you in the morning! I love you Bella, I have to go though." Mike said, hanging up his phone.
"Love you too," I said even though the line was disconnected. Something was wrong with Mike, he wasn't acting like himself. I didn't get a chance to ponder what was wrong though, because a very wet and very frantic Alice came running into our room.

"Bella, shower, now and quickly!" Alice demanded and I quickly took my towel and showering items and went to the bathroom.

After the quickest shower of my life, I was back in the room.

"Good job, Bella," Alice said checking her watch, "now get dressed in the clothes I laid out for you while I finish my makeup, then I'll get started on you."

"Wait, what? When did I agree to you giving me a makeover?" I asked Alice. She gave me one of the looks I fear the most, the death glare, making it clear that she was in no mood for the fit I was about to throw. With that glare fully noted, I silently began to change into the low ride jeans and flowing dark blue shirt Alice had laid out on my bed.

Just as promised, as soon as I finished dressing, Alice made me sit down on the chair in front of the full length mirror Alice had bought and she began to do my hair.

"What do you think Bella? Hair down and light curls? Or up in a high, sophisticated pony tail?" Alice pondered.

"I think whatever you think is best." I said, trying to speed along the makeover process.

"Light curls it is then" Alice said as she immediately began to pull my hair this way and that drying it. After the drying stage was complete, she pulled out the curling iron and hair spray. Ten minutes later my brown hair was cascading down my back in a way only described as beautiful.
Next, began the make up. I closed my eyes, not wanting to see what Alice was doing to my face, only opening them when she asked me to so she could put on two coats of mascara. The entire process was a quite one, Alice too focused to talk, while I was too scarred.

After another fifteen minutes, my transformation was done. I opened my eyes slowly, and looked into the mirror. As always, I was completely shocked. I looked amazing, like a completely different person. The make up made my brown eyes pop, and enhanced my lips and cheekbones as well as gave me almost a glowing effect.

"Alice, I look great! You're amazing" I said, pulling my best friend into a hug.

"It helps to have a beautiful canvas to work off of, you know Bella." Alice said returning my hug.

We quickly checked ourselves again in the mirror, to make sure we looked good, and headed out to door at 6:25 sharp.

We walked into the dance at 6:35 and went straight for the drink table.

"So Alice, I don't see any of these cute guys, you promised me." I joked.

"Just wait Bella, just wait. I have a feeling some will show up soon enough." Alice said knowingly.

"Alice, is there something you aren't telling me?" I questioned.

"Well, I might have ran into two gorgeous guys earlier today who are meeting us here in a little bit." Alice quickly said.

"And you didn't mention this to me before because…?"

"I don't know! I'm sorry! But wait until you see them Bella! One, who by the way I call, is a tall blond who is obviously toned, and he was so cute. When I talked to him, he was nervous or something, because he kept stuttering and loosing his voice and just looked at me, penetrating my eyes the entire time, it was like he was reading my soul!" she signed in contentment. "Oh, and the other one, was just as tall as him, only he had bronze color hair and the cutest half smile I've ever seen. Just you wait Bella!"
"In case you forgot Alice," I said "I do have a boyfriend already. Does the name Mike ring any bells?" I laughed.

"Right, well just because your dating Mike doesn't mean you can't appreciate another fine example of the male species." Alice giggled then turned towards the door, suddenly smiling broadly. "There they are" she said out of the corner of her mouth.

I looked in the direction that she was looking at and saw two guys, as perfect as she has described, walking towards us. I couldn't help but smile as I saw them get closer and closer and before I knew it they were in front of us.

"Jasper, Edward, you made it" Alice said and then quickly introduced me, "This is my best friend in the entire world Bella, Bella this is Jasper and Edward." She said pointing to each respectively.

I looked up at each of them and said a quick "Hello," before looking back down at the floor, blushing. As soon as I felt the red disappear from my face, I looked back up to see Alice and Jasper no where in sight, and an Edward starring straight at me, almost questioningly.

"They went to go dance," Edward said, answering my unspoken question, still looking at me confused.

"Oh, ok" I said looking at him, closer this time. Something about him looked familiar, like I knew him before or something…

"I'm sorry, this may sound extremely strange but, do I know you from somewhere?" Edward asked.

"I don't know" I was relieved that I wasn't the only one thinking he looked familiar, but still didn't know where I knew him from. I was racking my brain for some sort of connection when suddenly it dawned on me, Edward; the only Edward I have ever known was Edward Masen, from my childhood. I looked at the Edward and in front of me, and saw that it was in fact Edward Masen, he had the same boyish features he had so many years ago, although I could tell he was much more mature. "Edward, Edward Masen?" I questioned.

"Yes…" Edward said, still not figuring out where he knew me from.

"Oh my god, it's me Bella Swan." I said, watching as the realization hit Edward.

"Bella! Oh my god, it's been too long!" he said stepping in to hug me "I can't believe we lost touch after you moved. Everyone was so sad that you left, and I really meant to stay in touch, but wow! You sure have grown up" he said pulling away from the hug to have his eyes travel up and down my body. Only this time, instead of when Eric did it earlier, I was happy.

"You have too. What is the chance we'd go to the same college?" I said in disbelief, "Do you keep in touch with anyone from our old neighborhood anymore?"

"Yea, course, most of everyone still lives there, they are all doing well. You should go up there and visit them sometime; I know they'd enjoy seeing you again. You are sort of a legend up there, with that move you and Emily pulled during that last capture the flag game." Edward grinned remembering it.

"Yea, I can't take credit for that though, it was all Emily's idea."

"Well, either way, it was brilliant, the wish thing was horrible though," he shuddered, "the girls made us all be their slaves for a day, we had to play Barbie, house and make them dinner, only to have them criticize the entire meal." He sighed, shaking his head.

"Hey, I never did get my wish! Thanks for reminding me," I said playfully.

Edward's eyes grew huge and he started to back away in fear. "Oh no…"
"I'm kidding Edward, really do you think I'd make you pay up on a bet we made six years ago?!" I laughed.

"Well, maybe you shouldn't say that so soon, you never know when you may want to make a wish" Edward said omnisciently, looking down at, well if I didn't know any better, I'd say he was starring at my lips.

"So, how have you been?" I asked.

"I've been good, I played on varsity basketball all throughout high school, and I am actually going to be on the school team here when the seasons starts."

"Really? That's amazing! Wow, I always knew you were good at basketball, but wow. I'll have to come and cheer you on at your games." I said.

"Yea, I'd really like that." Edward said.

"Hey Edward, Bella," Alice said walking up to us holding hands with Jasper.

"Alice, I already know Edward," I said, "we used to be friends back before I moved to Michigan."
"Really?" Alice asked, looking at Edward then at me, then back at Edward "That is so weird!"
"Tell me about it, so are you two having fun?" I asked, raising an eyebrow in Alice's direction.

"So much fun, hey Bella, do you have to go to the bathroom?"
"Sure, we'll be right back," I said to Edward and Jasper, and followed behind Alice.

When the door shut to the bathroom, Alice turned towards me and began to talk a mile per minute "Oh my gosh, Bella! Jasper is so amazing! He is funny and sweet and smart and nice and cute and he totally gets me and he's single. He's also a great dancer and when I told him about my slight shopping obsession," I could help but laugh at that "he didn't laugh" she said glaring at me, "or look scarred or anything and he offered to go with me shopping sometime saying he needed new clothes. Although, I must say, what he has on tonight looks great, although I think he'd look great in a paper bag."
"Wow, Alice, that's awesome!" I said sincerely.

"Uhhu, so now that I got all that out, what about you and Edward?"
"What about me and Edward?" I asked

"Oh come on, it was obvious the way he was starring at you that he likes you. And you have history together; you were obviously brought back together for a reason. Fate, its fate I tell you!" Alice said

"Alice, first of all, there is no such thing as fate, we make our own choices and I like to think that I don't have my life predetermined already by some unknown force. And secondly, he was not starring at me, and if it was it was because he was merely in shock that we met up again after all these years."

"Oh, don't you give me that. I predict that you two will end up together by the end of this school year," she said confidently.

"Oh, and I'd never bet against your predictions, Alice" I said sarcastically, "Plus, as I remind you for the second time tonight, I have a boyfriend already."
"Fine, Bella, fine. But mark my words, there is something more then friendship in those eyes of his when he looks at you"

"Consider them marked," I said quoting Pirates of the Caribbean. Alice giggled and we walked out of the bathroom and back towards Jasper and Edward who were casually leaning again a table in the corner.

"Hi again" I said to the guys standing in front of us.

"Hey," Edward said looking at me strangely again, I blushed and looked down for the second time that night.

"Hey Bells," Alice said. I looked up to see Jasper and Edward exchanging a look, something I can only describe as panic and realization. "Why don't-"
Alice was interrupted by Edward "Bella, are you by any chance dating a guy named Mike?" he asked.

"Yea, why?" I asked, nonchalantly.

I saw Edward and Jasper again exchange the look while Edward responded coolly "We just um, met him earlier today along with his roommate, Tyler."

"Um, Alice, can Edward and I talk to you real quick?" Jasper asked, pulling Alice away before she had a chance to answer.

"We'll be right back Bella," Edward said, "why don't you go get a drink or something?"
"Um, ok," I said, as I walked to get some water.

That was strange, why did they need to talk to Alice privately? I didn't worry too much about it, because I knew Alice would tell me later on in our room tonight, it would just take some convincing for her to tell, or if I got desperate enough, a little blackmail.

Not more then two minutes later, Alice, Jasper and Edward came up to me, all with grim looks on their faces.

"What's wrong you guys?" I said, getting nervous. It was only on rare occasions when Alice wasn't smiling, and when she wasn't, I knew something horrible happened.

"Bella, the guys here just told me something. Something you need to know, but I'm not sure how exactly to tell you." Alice said, playing with the sleeve of her shirt nervously.

"Ok…" I said, waiting for Alice to go on.

"Bella, honey, Mike is cheating on you. That's the reason why he couldn't come to the dance tonight, he's busy entertaining two girls in his dorm room." Alice said, looking straight into my eyes, looking for some sign of my reaction.

I cast my eyes downwards and muttered a quite "oh" and before I knew it the tears began to flow. Alice quickly engulfed me in a hug and whispered words of encouragement into my ear while I saw Edward and Jasper standing there looking at me with pity.

"Wh-what did I do wrong? Why would he want to cheat on me" I asked Alice.

"Nothing, nothing at all sweetie, he's an idiot, a jerk, you don't some guy like that."

"Alice is right, Bella, he's a jerk and an idiot for cheating on you," Edward said.

"Alice, can we just go back to our room? I'm not really in the mood to be here right now, especially with all these people around. They are starting to stare." I said.

"Of course, Bella lets head out now." She said releasing me from the hug but putting an arm around my waist, leading me out of the room. "I'll call you later Jasper" she said when we reached the exit.

I don't remember much of the walk home, I just remember crying. But soon my self pity took another form, anger and I decided I would get revenge on Mike, if it was the last thing I'd do. I would break his heart like he broke mine; make him wish he'd never cheated on me.

By the time we reached the dorms, I had a plan, the perfect plan to get back at Mike.
I told Alice about it and she smiled like a proud parent, "Wow, Bella, I didn't know you could be so cunning and evil. You do know this will involve a shopping trip, though, right?" Alice asked.

"Yes Alice, I realize that, but it will be totally worth it. Call the boys; we'll need their help if this is going to work."

"Ok," she said while dialing Jasper's number "Hey, Jasper, we need you and Edward to do something for us…" she said as she began to tell them the plan.

A/N: So that was a long chapter. Hope you all liked it! Next chapter is going to be amazing, I can't wait! AH! And hopefully you can't either:) Revenge is so sweet …

Hate it? Love it! Review please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!