Authors Note:
okay so here is chapter 3. this is the longest chapter so far and i hope you like it.
Only like a week until Breaking Dawn! is everyone as excited as i am! haha
Review it please and thank you! Good reviews, bad reviews, critics doesn't matter. and i wont update again till i have a good amount of reviews.
Sarah:)
Bella's POV:
After nearly four hours in the car we finally arrived in Spring Lake. I should be thinking about how thankful I was that I finally going to be able to stretch my legs—which were so stiff that I was wondering whether they even worked any more. But all I could think about was him; and those sparkling green eyes that had me hypnotized the second I looked into them.
Most likely though I would never see him again—realistically how often does someone you pass on the parkway go to the same place you are? Never; it would be a one in a million chance if he happened to be in Spring Lake.
With my luck, which was basically non-existent, my chances of seeing him again were more around negative one in a million.
His eyes, his lips—those lips that I wanted to crush mine against and taste and oh god Bella what are you thinking…you don't even know him and you've already got yourself hyperventilating about him.
I drew in a deep breath and blew it out through my mouth. He is just a boy; a boy that you will probably never see again—I felt a pang go through me at the thought.
This was definitely not healthy. I sighed.
I was brought back to reality by Alice's squealing. "We're here!" she sang as she bounced gracefully out of the car.
I slowly got out of the car—sore from the ride. "Wow" was all could seem to say.
"I know…wow" breathed Rose.
"It's gorgeous! I'm so glad we could get a beach front house. I mean it really just wouldn't have been the same if we were a few blocks back. Thank god we got in touch with the owners in November to make the reservations" Alice rambled out so quickly that I had to strain my ears to catch it all.
It was a two story Victorian style house with a grayish blue exterior. It had a wrap around porch on the first level and a balcony on the second level that would give you an amazing view of the beach that was only around 30 feet from our door step.
However, my favorite part was the tower on the left side of the house that led up to the roof. It was a flat roof that had a fence around it, to prevent anyone from falling off I assume.
I couldn't wait to get to the roof—it would without a doubt have the best view of the sunset and at night you could just lie under the stars.
I turned my head to see that Alice and Rose both had the same smile that I had glued onto my face.
I laughed. "We must look like a bunch of idiots just standing out here and grinning at a house."
Rose seemed to snap at of it first. "Oh…would it be really bad if I said I would have just kept staring at it if you didn't say that," she giggled.
"I am so excited," Alice said as she bounced up and down. "Let's go bring our bags in and look around!"
"Okay Alice, calm down…the house isn't going anywhere," I said. She turned her head and stuck her tongue.
"Don't be such a party pooper Bella. Don't you want to be quick so we can hit the beach!" she nearly screamed.
"We don't want all the good boys to be taken already before we get down there," Rose said as she winked at us as she started laughing and Alice's laugh chimed in.
I just rolled my eyes and smiled. Even if all the guys had been taken they would have immediately ended it to be with Rosalie. She was beyond gorgeous with wavy blonde hair that reached her waist and a body any swim suite model would trade their soul for.
"This is definitely going to be the summer for us—I think we may even find love," Alice sighed with a dreamy look in her eyes.
She was broken out of her trance by my scoff. "Really Alice, love? In the next few weeks—be serious. I will be lucky just to meet someone nice while walking around with you too."
She slapped my arm and yelled my name. "Can you please have some more confidence in yourself? You're gorgeous; and any man—or woman if that's your thing," she swerved out of the path of my arm as I attempted to hit her, "would be lucky to have you. You have to start seeing yourself the way everyone else sees you" she said.
"Yeah Bella," Rose said as she came and put her arm around my shoulder "you're beautiful, and smart and funny—stop putting yourself down."
I glanced between both of them and saw the sincerity in their eyes—but it was still hard to accept. I never knew if my vision of myself as the plain one would ever fade.
I sighed and crossed my arms. "Then why do I always get stuck with the dull guys," I pouted.
Alice and Rose laughed at my infamous stance. "That is because you set your expectations way to low for your own good," Alice said. "And not to mention that eighty percent of those guys you went out with you found in the back of the library—"
"And looked like they hadn't left the library for a few weeks," Rose threw in while trying to contain her laughter.
"Oh shut up you too, they weren't all that bad. There was…" I paused trying to think of his name.
Alice raised her eye brow at me.
"What about…hmm, what was his name," I bit my lower lip. "Just give me a second I will think of one."
"Alright, enough of this—don't work you brain to hard Bella," Rose giggled. "None of those guys were worth your time—this summer our goal will be to raise your standards in men."
Rose chose her men like a successful hospital chose their neuron surgeons—only the best with years of experience—and of course they had to be attractive. If she found even the tiniest thing wrong with someone she was dating she would end it immediately.
She however could risk that sort of pickiness in men. I couldn't. I had to take them for what they had, which is the reason why I usually accepted dates from the men my best friends usually wouldn't.
These dates usually ended around 2 hours after they started—five awkward silences and two disgusting eating habits discovered during dinner too later—that's when I would fake an illness and realize I deserved better. However, that wouldn't last to long and I yet again would be on another terrible date.
Alice came up behind me and Rose and put her tiny arms around each of our shoulders. "Trust me ladies, I have a feeling; I know we are going to find good men this summer. Do you smell that," that whispered and she sucked in a breath "that is the smell of tanning oil and new relationships."
We all laughed and went to grab our bags from the car. "Oh Alice, you and your feelings".
"Hey, don't doubt my feelings, you know that they are always rights," she said with her head held high in the air and a finger pointed at me.
"We know Alice—of course they are" Rose and I said at the same time smirking at each other.
"Humph," was Alice's only reply.
Even though Rose and I wouldn't admit it; Alice did have a freaky way of always knowing things, which is why part of me was hoping that she was right about finding someone this summer because I was tired of dating the wrong kind of men. I just wanted to find the right person for me. However, the other part of me was terrified of finding someone. My parent's marriage hadn't exactly worked out for the better. They had gotten divorced when I was younger—so the idea of that kind of commitment still scared me.
I tried to shake anymore thoughts of a relationship, and men, from my mind as I walked through the door of the house.
The first floor consisted of an entrance hall way which opened up to a spacious family room that was connected to the kitchen—which was also quite large. Then there was a smaller dining room to the right.
Alice and Rose were already sprinting up the stairs to the bed rooms. I took a deep breath and laughed as I jogged slowly, since my balance was no where near good, up the stairs to follow my friends to the second floor that held three bedrooms.
"I call the one with the biggest closet!" Alice announced once she reached the top and I heard doors banging all around.
"Well I call the one with the biggest bathroom," Rose replied after that.
They had each found their rooms as I walked down the hall to the last room that was available. The door creaked open to reveal a medium sized room with a queen bed placed in the middle of it.
I placed my suit cases on the bed so I could get a better look around. The closet was the perfect size for the amount of clothes I had brought, and all the clothes I would probably acquire after shopping with Alice.
Then I went to check out the bathroom to see also that it was the perfect size. I smiled to myself—my room was perfectly fine.
As I turned to go see what Rose and Alice's rooms looked like, I noticed a pair of curtains that fell all the way to the floor and was curious since all the other windows had shorter curtains.
As I pulled the curtains to the side I gasped at the doors that were in front of me. I opened them and walked attentively through them. I had gotten the room with the balcony.
A large smile was tugging at my lips. I had definitely lucked out.
That when Alice and Rose came dancing into my room. "Oh, Bella! How do you like your room?" Alice sang.
"Bella, where are yo—oh my god," Rose said stunned.
"Oh hi ladies," I said in a sing song voice as I turned to face them. "What do you think of the view from my room?" I asked innocently and smiled.
"This is ridiculous! I run up here first and all I have is a big closet while Bella gets a balcony," Alice pouted.
"What aren't you happy for me?" I smirked at them.
"Well I think we know whose room we will be spending all our time in," Rose joked.
I snickered and said, "Well what are we going to do now?"
"The beach." We all said at the same time and laughed.
"Okay, so let's go get dressed and get ready!" Alice squealed. Before she left the room she turned around and said, "Oh Bella, wear the light blue heart bikini we got from juicy couture. You look so cute in it! It is the perfect first day on the beach suit."
She smiled as I rolled my eyes and groaned, "Alice".
"Shush Bella! It looks good on you now go change!" I sighed and grabbed the suit from my bag. "Good," she smiled as she left the room.
After I finished changing I put on my strapless green cover up that reached up to about mid-thigh and grabbed my beach bag.
I tossed in my favorite book, sun screen, my phone, my money; then I grabbed my sun glasses, put the on top of my head and headed down stairs.
I was of course the first one down stairs. My stomach grumbled and I decided that it was a good time to have a quick bite to eat. I grabbed a water bottle for the beach and a big red apple for now from the refrigerator.
When I was half way done with my apple Rose and Alice came down—Rose looking like a Victoria's Secret model in her black tunic that barley covered her ass and Alice in a white baby doll that made her legs look extremely long even though she was tiny.
"Oo! An apple, can I have a bite?" Alice asked.
"Sure, Alice" I laughed. "Actually, you can finish it, I'm done."
She took a bite and with food still her mouth she said "Thanks, mmm yummy," she smiled as she finished it.
Rose and I laughed at her excitement over an apple. "Nice, Alice…next time I would rather not see your food," Rose said as Alice stuck her tongue out at her.
"Everyone ready?" I asked. We double checked our possessions. Then we all lifted up our heads and smiled at each other. We were together so much that we knew we were all ready without even using words.
"Let's go!" Alice squealed.
We stepped out into the blazing afternoon sun and made our way to the cross walk and crossed the street to where the beach was.
A large wind blew my hair back and I took in a deep breath of the ocean air and smiled.
Alice and Rose had already paid for their bracelets to get onto the beach and were waiting for me. I gave the girl my money and was just about to step on the sand when I realized my sun glasses had fallen off my head.
"Oh crap," I sighed.
"What is it Bella?" Alice asked.
"My sun glasses; they fell off my head. I'm just going to go retrace my steps back to the house to see where they fell."
"Do you want me and Alice to come with you?"
"No, it won't even take five minutes. Go get a good spot on the sand and I'll be right behind you guys, ok?"
"Alright, I hope you didn't lose them. You know I love those sun glasses on you."
"That's because you bought them for me Alice," I laughed and rolled my eyes.
She laughed, "Oh yes, your right, no wonder they are so nice." They both smiled as the headed to the beach.
"Alright you sneaky sunglasses, where did I drop you," I muttered to myself. I searched the ground until I saw them shimmering in the sun light about an inch from the road where the cross walk was.
I bent down to grab them, "Thank god I found these…I think Alice would have killed me."
I double checked them for scratches and when I stood up I heard the screeching of car tires and horns going off all around the street. I turned my head to see the cause of the commotion and saw a shiny silver Volvo about five feet from me.
Inside there were two passengers who seemed to be holding onto their chairs for dear life after the sudden stop that the car had made. But I could barley focus on them because the driver with the piercing green eyes and bronze hair was staring straight at me with his mouth slightly open—possibly in wonder.
"Oh my god," I whispered as a felt a smile coming on. He is actually here; in Spring Lake.
I giggled at the fact that the car still hadn't moved even though there was a line of about ten cars behind him, beeping at him to move.
I slowly backed away and turned around; still aware that the car hadn't moved I turned my head around to give the best flirty smile I could before I walked away.
I put my hands on the sides of my face and felt the blush on my cheeks that had been threatening to appear since I saw him staring at me.
I was still in a complete daze as I walked down the steps onto the sand. But the heat of sand pebbles under my feet brought me back to reality as I jogged as best as I could to where Alice and Rose sat.
"Bella, over here!" Alice shouted as she waved her hand in the air motioning me over.
"What took so long? Did you leave your sun glasses back in New York?" Rose asked with a smirk on her face.
I felt my blush return as I laid out my towel and they looked at me with expectant eyes.
"Why are you blushing? Bella…tell us what happened right now!" Alice said as she nearly pounced on me.
I laughed. "Okay, okay calm down I will tell you what happened."
They both sat up from their tanning positions on their towels and I continued to tell them everything that happened from the eye contact on the car ride there to what had just happened.
They were both in just as much shock as I had been when it happened.
Rose whistled and then said, "Jesus, our little Bella just stopped traffic."
"That is so amazing. I can't believe that actually happened Bella! I told you, I had a feeling that we would find men on this trip, and you didn't believe me. I think that is one for Alice and zero for Bella and Rose."
"Alice, I don't even know him. He might not even be interested in me. It could have just been a misunderstanding." As in how could someone as attractive as him be interested in me.
"Stop being ridiculous Bella!"
"Yeah Bells, you said he was staring right at you, I don't think there was any misunderstanding. Enjoy it—embrace it. You are young and hot—you should enjoy being looked at." Rose replied.
"Whatever, go back to your tanning" I sighed as they laughed.
I took out Wuthering Heights and picked up where I left off. However, I could barley focus on the book because my mind kept sending me flashes of those green eyes and the godly face that they belonged to.