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The street was incredibly crowded with convertible cars full of college students shouting out the window at one another. Up ahead, I could see the large university. My heart rate sped up at the sight of it. This was it, then, my first day of the next four years of my life.

"Jasmine, would you calm down? I can feel your anxiousness from back here," Jasper said teasingly.

"I don't think she can, Jazz." Alice laughed. "You know how excited she gets."

I probably shouldn't have opened my mouth then—when I get too excited, I stutter uncontrollably—but I did. "Y-ya-yeah, Ja-J-Jas-Jasper. Y-you kn-know me."

Of course, laughter exploded in the car. I felt the blood rush wildly to my face, probably turning me a very unattractive shade of red. From a peak in the rear-view mirror, I could tell I was right. Oh, how I hated that.

"Breathe, Jasmine," I heard Seth's calm voice say in my ear. "Just breathe. Everything's gonna go great so long as you breathe." I exaggerated a sigh and inhaled deeply before letting all the air out.

"Happy?" I asked, thankfully, without stuttering.

Seth smiled, but said nothing. It wasn't long before Alice swerved her way through the street traffic and parked her Porsche under the shade of an oak tree. Rosalie and Emmett parked but a few feet away. I rolled down my window and was relieved to see that it was a cloudy day. I was worried about the Cullens. I didn't want their—or our, I suppose it was—secret to be exposed. Rosalie and Emmett stepped out of their Jeep and Alice, Jasper, Seth and I stepped out of the Porsche. Though the Cullens' skin didn't sparkle insanely, it seemed all cars stopped moving and all students stopped their actions to turn their heads and stare. I rolled my eyes—what? Had they never seen a group of insanely gorgeous 'humans' before? My guess was no.

"Hey, guys!" a familiar voice called. "I see we've stopped traffic… again."

"Hey, Bella," I greeted her. I gave her a one armed hug and smiled at Edward who was running up behind her.

I could've sworn I heard the jaws of everyone around us drop. Guys started whispering to each other—wondering loudly whether or not Alice, Bella, and Rosalie were taken or not. I even heard some guy give a vivid description of me to one of his friends who nodded quickly at whatever comment it was he'd made. Girls put on their flirty faces and a few tried to walk by Seth or Jasper inconspicuously giggling to try and get their attention. I leaned into Seth and Alice, Bella, and Rose made similar movements. Alice wrapped her arms around Jasper and kissed his cheek as he put an arm securely around her waist. Several whines and groans echoed, belonging to both guys and girls. I heard Bella make a comment about Renesmee—something like, "Do you think our daughter will be okay with your parents while we're here?"—and many "Are you kidding me?!" comments were muttered. Rosalie kissed Emmett fiercely and many onlookers—mostly guys—practically screamed in anger.

I bit down on my lip to hold back outbursts of laughter. As always, a few eyes still remained on me. Apparently, leaning into Seth wasn't enough of a message for these people. The dim sunlight filtering through the clouds wasn't enough to draw any attention to the ring on my finger. I groaned internally. I still wasn't really used to having people stare at me when the Cullen girls were present—even if they were obviously taken. Emmett, Rosalie, Edward, Bella, Alice, even Jasper looked at me, apparently expecting me to do something that would cause another angry outburst. I opened my mouth to say something about our engagement, about how much I loved Seth, anything, when the person I least expected to come bouncing toward me took care of it.

"Jasmine!" Jade cried, hugging me tightly before pulling back to wave at Seth and the Cullens. "Oh, my God, I missed you so much! I've tried calling you, but your phone is always off! Have you and Seth set a date for the wedding yet?"

The last of the groans and whines were uttered, but I scarcely cared. The surprise of seeing my best friend was enough to grasp all my attention.

"Jade!" I gave her another hug and then looked around at the narrowed eyes and angry expressions of clearly pissed off people with satisfaction. A few guys did meet my eyes and they smiled and waved, but they were politely ignored (well, as politely as I could manage, anyway). "What happened? Not that I'm not extremely and completely thrilled to see you, but weren't you going to Dartmouth this year?"

"I was!" she exclaimed. "But I got a late acceptance letter for Harvard and I couldn't resist!" She threw her arms around me again. "I'm just so glad to see you! And, oh, my gosh, I just got the best news! You and I are gonna be roommates!"

I squealed in delight. God, I was such a girl. "That's so great!"

"I know! But, ugh, Asia is out other roommate! How did she even get in here?!"

"Jade, Jade," I said, trying to calm her. "Asia's not going to be rooming with us."

Jade cocked her head to the side in confusion. "But I was just told that—"

"I'm going to be your other roommate!" Alice said in delight, popping up being Jade. Jade jumped about a foot in the air in surprise before turning around—her eyes popping open at the sight of Alice. A grin blew up on her face and she hugged Alice tightly.

"Alice! Oh, I'm so glad to see you!" That was when she seemed to first acknowledge the everyone else. "Ah!" she screamed. "Rose! Emmett! Jazz! Bella! Edward! Seth!" She screamed each name as she hugged them. Rosalie laughed at her enthusiasm.

"I knew there was a reason I always liked her," she whispered to Emmett.

"So, Alice, I hear you're our roommate?" Jade asked, turning back to face Alice again.

"That's right." Alice giggled. "How do you like that?"

"I love that!" Jade laughed. "I like you so much better than Asia! I'd rather room with people who are practically sisters than some royal witch."

I saw Rosalie raise her eyebrows. "Witch?" she asked. "Don't you mean bi—"

"Rosalie!" Alice snapped. Jade had a no-cussing policy. She never cussed, and preferred that the people around her didn't either.

Jade looked embarrassed, but laughed. "Oh, it's all right, Alice," she assured her. "I've gotten better at that."

My eyes widened. "So you cuss now?"

Jade blushed. "Well, I only go as bad as crap," she admitted sheepishly.

I laughed. "Eh, close enough." I gave her another hug before turning to Alice. "So… what do we do now?"

"We need to go register," she said matter-of-factly. "I think the desk for that is over… there!" She pointed to a small booth-like stand that was across the street.

"Oh, okay." Jade started walking. When she noticed we weren't following, she turned back. "Aren't you guys coming?"

"We'll catch up with you later," I promised with a smile. She shrugged, waved, and turned around to keep walking.

"You can go on ahead with her, Jasmine," Alice said, nodding her head toward Jade. "We have a lot to unload here."

"All right," I muttered, but I still wasn't leaving. I peaked over at Seth who was staring expectantly at Alice.

"Seth, you can go with her," she said. I smiled and started walking hand in hand with Seth. When we started losing Jade from our sight, we broke into a slow canter.

"Jade!" I called. "Wait up!"

She turned around, her face looking as if she wasn't very surprised to see us. "Changed your mind?" she asked.

I shrugged. "We weren't really needed as much as I thought."

"Seth!" Emmett's voice called. "Come back here! I need your help!"

I groaned so loud, several heads turned to look in my direction. I squeezed Seth's hand tightly before reluctantly letting go. He leaned down and leaned his forehead against mine.

"It's all right," he whispered reassuringly. "I won't be gone long."

I tilted my head up to kiss him. "Hurry back." And he was gone.

I heard Jade sigh one of those "aw, how sweet" sighs. I turned to glare at her playfully.

"What?" she said, her eyes widening and shrugging innocently. "I think it's so amazing how much you two love each other. It's almost like there's a spell that's binding you together; almost like you were designed for one another."

She had no idea.

I smiled at her, trying not to make it seem obvious that her words awakened the secret in me. It was easy to forget that he loved me because of the imprinting. It all seemed so natural most of the time; as if our love was normal. But, what really tugged at my hidden wounds was the fact that it wasn't normal. He had to be with me, whether he liked it or not. But then, he had to like it. I tried to push it to the thought to the back of my head. I'd gone through this crap before and I refused to relive it.

We were at the stand by now, which I could now clearly see had the words "Student Registration" written in bold red letters on a yellow sign. Someone who looked like they might be a third-year looked up from an orange clipboard and caught sight of Jade and me.

"Name," he ordered from me. I could tell by his tone that he didn't like his job.

"Jasmine Cullen," I muttered. He wrote something on the paper in front of him before turning his body slightly toward Jade.

"Name," he said again.

"Jade Hoang," she answered, clearly disturbed by his poor attitude.

"Your keys," he said, plopping two small plastic bags in keys in front of us. I took the one that had my name printed neatly in black while Jade took the other. The guy handed us each a folder that included a list of our classes, assignments for the year, a calendar, and a map of the school. When we just stood there, he looked up at us again.

"You can go now," he said through clenched teeth. Slowly, we stepped back slowly before turning and practically running away.

"Wow, can you say bad attitude much?" Jade murmured.

"Completely," I agreed. "Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."

We fought our way through the crowds of students, trying to get to the building with all the dorms. (A/N: Ahem, yeah, I don't know what that's called so if anyone knows, do me a favor and tell me?) Once we were inside, we had to battle our way through more people. We climbed several flights of stairs to try and make it to the third floor where our dorm was.

"That tears it," I sighed. "We're so lost."

"I agree," Jade said. She threw her paper down onto the floor before stooping back down to pick it up again. She brushed some dirt off of it that it collected during its few moments on the floor and tucked it under her arm.

"Let's ask someone the way," I suggested. "Maybe someone can help us."

I started walking and Jade walked slowly behind me.

"Or they'll be just as lost as we are," she murmured. I ignored her.

"Let's… ask… her!" I pointed to a girl with shiny red hair that was facing away from us.

"Excuse me!" I called. "Can you help us?" I tapped her shoulder to get her attention. "My friend and I are a bit lost. Can you tell us which way the staircase is for floor three?"

She turned around swiftly, her hair brushing my face. She wasn't facing me completely before I recognized who she was.

Asia.

Crap.

She smirked and her eyes narrowed. "Would you look what the cat dragged in," she said, repeating the lines Tiffany had said to me when we first met. Asia put her hands on her hips and scrutinized me.

"Asia," Jade and I gasped at once.

"Jasmine." She smirked. "Jade. I heard we were gonna be roomies, until that short Cullen chick bought the room off of me. Your family has serious money, Jasmine, more than my own."

"Which is weird because it probably took a lot of money to get you into Harvard." I smirked. She stumbled back a step, surprised, before composing her face again and pretending not to care. She tucked a lock of hair behind her ear.

"You have no proof of that," she said.

"Says you," I snapped.

Her eyes darted from me to Jade.

"Aw, and look who's here," she laughed. "It's little miss Jaded Star." She threw her head back in cruel laughter. "Still buying your clothes from Goodwill, I see."

I felt Jade cringe backward. I stepped in front of her and stretched up to look Asia in the eye.

"Don't talk to her that way," I growled. Man, I could so make one hell of a vampire.

"And you're still protecting one another," she snickered. "How sweet. And where's that little boy toy of yours? Did you get your share of him yet or have you not gotten enough yet?"

Those words. Those freaking words. I could've screamed, I could've cried in anger. But I didn't. Instead, I punched her.

Jade gasped loudly and several people turned to see what happened. When they saw nothing incredibly remarkable, they kept walking. No, it hadn't been as hard as I'd punched Embry, but it was still hard. She didn't exactly fall to the ground with blood pouring from her nose like I'd half expected she would, but she did stagger back about two feet with her hand covering her nose. When she removed her hand, I saw the blood.

Well, crap, I did it again!

"Oh, my God, Asia," I said, walking toward her. "I am so sorry. I didn't mean to—"

"Shut up, Cullen!" she snapped, digging in her purse. She pulled out a few Kleenexes and pressed them to her slowly bleeding nose. "Why don't you… ugh, why don't you just get out of here?"

I stood my ground. I had to help her. This was my fault. I thanked God I didn't knock her unconscious. I would've insisted on helping her had Jade not grabbed my wrist and pulled me away. She started running and I couldn't help but run with her. For being so small, she was ridiculously fast and strong. I looked down. She was wearing high heels. I rolled my eyes internally. That girl would stumble and fall on her face if she was running in sneakers, but she could run a marathon in those six inch heels. No wonder she and Alice got along so well.

We ran up a flight of stairs and miraculously ended up on floor three. Jade dug her key out of her pocket as we searched for the right door. We came to a door that had a purple rimmed white board stuck to it. In red marker, the words "Alice, Jade, and Jasmine!" were written with fancy scribbles and doodles framing them. Jade unlocked the door and let us in. Though the room was almost fully furnished (except for the bottom bunk of the bunk bed, which I imagined was meant to be Jade's) it was empty of people. Alice was probably out somewhere. Jade closed the door again and stared at me. I didn't notice I was crying until she wiped my eyes with her hand.

"Thank you," she said, "for defending me. And I do not blame you for punching her. The sorry bitch deserved it."

I stared at her. "You said bitch." I gasped. "That didn't even look right coming out of your mouth, Jade."

She rolled her eyes. "Not the point. The point is you defended me when you didn't have to. The point is she went way too far. The point is Asia totally and completely deserves to be knocked out right now. I've never seen anyone stand up to her like that. Wait to start out what should be a great school year." She smiled at me and I smiled back through my tears. How could she be so proud of me when I was so disappointed with myself? Goodness, I needed anger management classes.

"Hey," Alice's voice sang as the door closed behind her. She sat down on the single bed across from us. "I heard." Her eyes met mine and I saw no hint of sadness or anger or even disappointment. I actually saw some smug amusement in them and an apologetic look, as well. I smiled, thanking her for not being angry with me with my eyes.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

I nodded and lifted my hand to wipe my eyes. "I'm fine," I assured her. "Just a little… shaken, you could say." And, just to drag the conversation away from what I'd just done, I said, "All this décor is so pretty, Alice. You picked out really nice things."

She beamed. "Thanks. Oh, and, Jade, I found out you were going to be rooming with us about a month ago so I bought some stuff for your bed." Alice gestured to a pile of emerald and white bed sheets. "You can use them if you like. If not, Rosalie had her eye on them, so…"

"Alice!" Jade squealed, skipping over to the covers. "I love it! Thanks so much!" She hugged Alice in thanks for a second before going over to spread them over her bed.

"How did you know I wanted to bottom bunk?" she asked Alice.

Alice smiled. "Lucky guess, I suppose." She shrugged. "This is your bed, Jazzy." She gestured to the one I was sitting on, the single bed. "I knew you'd want this one."

"Thanks, Alice," I said. "These covers are spectacular. I love Ying and Yang." The comforter had the Ying and Yang symbol painted onto it. I loved it.

"Seth was looking for you, by the way," she added as she went to go climb onto her top bunk. I felt my face brighten immediately.

"Where is he?" I asked, almost too eagerly.

"He… um… went out into the forest." Alice picked her words carefully. She glanced down at Jade who showed no sign of thinking her words were odd. She was just flipping through the pages of the latest Cosmo Girl magazine.

"Oh, okay." I pulled on my sweater and grabbed my phone. "I'm gonna go look for him. Be back later!"

Alice and Jade muttered their goodbyes and I closed the door gently behind me. The halls had cleared out by now, much to my relief, and there were only a few students gathered in small bunches talking. A few said their hellos as I walked by, but otherwise, no one made any other attempt to talk to me.

I walked down the flight of stairs that would take me to the second floor. I rounded the corner and heard a blisteringly familiar voice that made me stop in my tracks.

"Why don't we try that just one more time?" I heard Asia say. I peeked over and saw the last thing I would have ever wanted to see.

Asia was kissing Seth.

My hand flew to my mouth to muffle my sobs. It was all I could do to keep from screaming. Seth's eyes opened slightly and I knew he saw me. I didn't care. I turned quickly and dashed down the hall. I heard Seth calling my name, but I didn't care about that either, I just kept moving. The searing pain and agony that shot through my body—my heart, especially—was terrible. Nothing could compare to it. The pain I felt when Thomas stabbed me, when he ripped my throat open hours later, when Aro smacked me, none of it compared to the pain I felt when I saw Asia's lips against Seth's. I bolted toward my room, hot tears stinging my cheeks the entire time.

Author's Note: Yeah, I'm evil, you're gonna kill me, I should sleep with one eye open, blahblahblah, I get it. I know what I was getting myself into with that one xD Anyway, I know I probably said something totally stupid about Harvard so if anyone would be ever so kind to correct me, I'd love that! ^^ M'kay, and also, in case you haven't noticed, ZOMFG I AM SO CLOSE TO 100 REVIEWS IT'S LIKE AMAZING! So, yeah, next chapter, be prepared for much screaming from me if my current 95 reviews increase to something over 100. ily all! -huggles-