Chapter Three
Getting ready for the party took longer than I expected, by the time I got out of the shower it was already nearly 3 o'clock. Alice and I had both been struck with hunger pains so we decided to head down and grab something from the vending machines. We didn't really want to risk leaving the building because we didn't know our way around yet, we'd leave the touring for when we had time. There wasn't much of a variety so I decided on a cold pasta salad and a bag of cheetos, food for the brain obviously.
Once we'd eaten and settled into our dorm by unpacking a few things, we decided it was time to get ready. Between us we changed our outfits around six times, what we put on was either too casual or too dressy. Or we just simply didn't like.
It was 6pm before we were both happy with what we'd put on, Alice had opted for a floral skirt with a baby pink sleeve-less blouse tucked in, and 4 inch pale pink heels. She looked like she had walked off the pages of a perfume advert, she looked good. I on the other hand, ended up going for comfort over style and had on a thin grey sweater with tight long arms and high-waisted black leather shorts, for footwear I ended up wearing my high top black converse, heels just didn't work well with me. My hair was out, wavy and pushed to the side, there wasn't much else I could do with it because I had forgotten to blow-dry it after I got out of the shower. It had dried naturally instead and so it was a bit of a mess but pushing it to one side tamed it a little. Atleast I hoped it did.
I was in the middle of putting on my graduation present from Charlie, a necklace with a square pendant and a dove painted on it, when Rosalie knocked on the door. She had on black skin tight pants with black shoe boots, and a white blouse similar to Alices, I watched as her and Alice greeted eachother and felt my confidence drop from a 3 to -100. I was going to be walking around with two of the best looking girls I'd ever seen, I'd be the girl on the end that looks like the pity friend. My mood dampened and I suddenly wasn't in the mood for a party.
"You both look amazing, now let's go!"
Rose had to say that though, she was my sister, even if I looked like a hobo she'd say I looked nice. I didn't bother putting on any make-up because there was no point in making an effort to look nice when I was gonna be standing next to these two all night.
It took around 10 minutes to walk to the party, it was being held at a fraternity and the frat houses weren't very far from the dorms. However they were further enough from the college so that it'd be okay for them to throw parties and get away with it.
It wasn't even 8 o'clock but the party seemed to already be in full swing. College kids were scattered across the front lawn of the house, some passed out, others half way there. Music was blaring from the inside, and I was pretty sure that if the party took place anywhere else the cops would have been here hours ago.
"These guys sure don't waste any time in getting started do they?"
I couldn't hide the distaste in my voice and as we got closer to entering the house, I almost felt like turning around and running back to the dorm.
Parties were never really my thing, there was always one too many drunk guys thinking they could hit on you, or touch you, or sleep with you. Basically too many guys who used the excuse of being drunk at a party, to their advantage. The only thing I ever really enjoyed was watching drunk people make fools out of themselves. Now that was what you called entertainment, and I had a feeling by the looks of the things already, tonight I'd be properly entertained.
I trailed behind Rose and Alice as we entered the house, it was packed, and I mean jam-packed. I'd say there was over 200 people atleast and that was just by what I could see.
We squeezed past sweaty, drunk bodies and made our way to the kitchen. Apparently food wasn't on most peoples minds because this room seemed to be the only room that wasn't packed to high heaven.
"What do you think?"
I looked at Alice who had the same look of shock on her face as me.
"Its.. its different." I hesitated on what word to describe it. Truthfully I'd never been to much parties, big shocker right? And the ones I had been to had never been on the scale of this.
"Different, Bella? That's a total understatement! Rose this is crazy, I've never even been to a party like this before, I was scared I was going to get groped on the way in."
"Hey, you know I'd never let anyone touch my baby sis and get away with it."
One of the biggest guys I had ever seen stood behind Alice, he had a cheeky grin on his face which showed dimples, and it was obvious that good looks ran in the family. Extremely good looks. Alice turned around and squealed before throwing her hands around his neck.
I turned to look at Rosalie, ready to give her a look that said 'wow, that's her brother?' But she was too busy staring at Alices brother like he was a piece of meat. What was going on there?
Alice turned back to me and Rose with a huge grin on her face.
"Guys, this is my older brother Emmett. Emmett this is Bella my room mate, and Rosalie, her sister. Oh, wait you guys already know eachother right?"
I extended my arm to meet his and shook his hand, it was a firm grip and his hand seemed massive compared to mine.
"Hi, nice to meet you." He gave me a smile I knew had definitely broken hearts in the past, and turned to Rose before I could reply.
"You're Rosalie, Jaspers friend right?"
He offered Rosalie his hand, but it looked like she was in a daze, I inched towards her and gave her a little push. She snapped out of whatever she was in and returned to her usual self.
"Yeah."
"Well it's nice to formerly meet you."
Rosalie now seemed immune to his charm as she shook his hand and excused herself to go to the bathroom. Alice and Emmett seemed none the wiser but I knew there was something dodgy going on. I mentally reminded myself to ask her about this little scene and watched Alice interact with her brother.
"You know Dad wouldn't like you being at a party, especially on Freshers week."
"Well Dads not here, and we only came to check it out, plus I have Bella with me, something is hardly gonna happen. You're here aswell, like you said, you won't let anything happen to me."
I could tell Emmett was having a hard time refusing his baby sisters charm as he threw an arm around her, grinning.
"Come on, let me introduce you to some of my friends."
Before I knew what was going on Emmett used his other hand to grab ahold of mine and dragged us through the masses of people until we got to a door that led us out into the back yard. He only let go of us once we stood infront of a group of people.
There was around five of them altogether. Three were female and two were male. One of the guys looked asian, while the other was white with blonde hair that had a slight curl to it, he was extremely good looking in a soldier kind of way. The girls were all dark haired, two being brunette and the other having nearly black hair, she wore glasses and a smile, and I automatically liked her.
"Guys this is my baby sister Alice and her friend Bella. Alice, Bella, this is Jasper, Eric, Lauren, Jessica and Mandy."
From what I got Jasper was the blonde, Eric was the asian kid, and Jessica the one who smiled. I was pretty good at reading people and I could tell already that Lauren and Mandy weren't nice people. If I put them into a clique from earlier on, they'd be inbetween those girls who giggled too loud and vied for the athletics attention and the popular girls. Inbetween based on the fact that they had a feeling of desperation to them, and desperate girls were never popular. Just desperate to be popular.
We shook hands with all of them and delved into basic questions like 'Where are you from? What highschool did you go? What are you studying here? Why even come here?'
We'd been standing out there for a good half hour when I felt a drop of moisture on my panties. I'd just gotten off my period a couple of days ago so it couldn't have been that. At that moment my bladder decided it was time to release itself and I realised I hadn't pee'd since yesterday.
I looked over at Alice who seemed to be in an intimate conversation with Jasper, I decided not to interrupt her and excused myself from the group.
Entering the house proved difficult, and finding a toilet proved even more difficult. I pushed past swaying bodies trying to find a bathroom on the ground floor but gave up, and went up the stairs instead.
I regretted not getting directions for the bathroom, there was over eight doors, and I had no clue on which one was going to be my saviour. At this point my bladder was weakening. It was getting harder to hold it in, I needed to find a toilet before I ran outside and comformed to pee'ing in a bush.
I decided to go through door number six because that was my lucky number. If this failed me I'd be abandoning six and choosing a new lucky number as of tonight.
I pushed the door open and was engulfed in darkness. There was no light at all which meant no windows, what room is most likely to have no windows? A bathroom, right? I used my hand to try and find a light switch but instead came into contact with something that sounded like glass when it fell to the floor.
"What the fuck?"
Shit. There was someone in here, surely there couldn't be someone using the toilet when it was pitch black. I heard another voice, a male one, it sounded more like a grunt, rather than a word.
Fuck. Was I walking in on someone having sex?
Suddenly light flooded the room and I realised I wasn't in a bathroom, I was in a store room. Well I wasn't the only one in the store room, and yeah, I had just walked in on people having sex.
A/N -
Take a random guess at who you think Bella has walked in on having sex?
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