Nia's Author's Note:

Okay, I am so sorry! I've been so busy recently that it's taken ages for this chapter to come out! Entirely my fault, sorry!

Alice POV

"Hello beautiful." Jasper whispered in my ear, holding me close.

"Hey." I replied, snuggling into him.

We were at a coffee shop not far from campus, called The Bean. Our first night in our new room had been...interesting. The sleep had been good; what had come before and after was not good. Rosalie and Leah had argued twice, once in the morning and once the night before.

The night before, Rosalie had been adamant that we all needed to go out together. Leah had passed again.

"Why can't you be grateful we're asking you to hang out?" Rosalie had growled, frowning at her.

"Because I don't want to hang out with you tonight! I'm tired, I don't want to be here, and you asking me non stop doesn't really help, Blondie!" Leah retorted, frowning right back at her.

"Don't call me Blondie, you Dog! Go cry after your stupid frog!"

We'd all scampered back to our rooms after that, not going out anyway. I'd had to listen to Rose moan and groan about Leah, and no matter how much I loved the girl, I wanted to stab myself in the ears by the time she was done.

The morning after, Rosalie had gotten up early to use the bathroom first. Well, early wasn't that early, 'cause I was already up, as was Bella.

"Where's Leah?" I asked Bella, munching on my toast.

"No idea, she wasn't there when I woke up..." Bella said worriedly.

"She'll be fine."

"What if she got upset 'cause of Rosalie and ran away?" Bella said running a distracted hand through her hair.

"Leah didn't run away, Bella," I said, patting her on the shoulder. "She's fine, maybe she's gone to see her friend..."

"Alice, I talked to her last night. I'm worried about her. She could have gone anywhere..."

"You talked to her?" I said excitedly, expecting gossip. "About what?"

"Alice, not the time..." Bella moaned, running a hand through her hair again.

"Bella, Leah has not run away!" I repeated. "Stop being worried!"

"Actually, Leah did run away...but she intended to come back!" Leah's rough velvet voice came from the doorway, where the tanned girl stood, her hair scraped back and her long legs on show in a pair of running shoes and shorts.

She could easily be a model; I bristled in envy. My stumpy legs could never match up to hers!

"I went running." She explained, looking at our dumbfound faces. When we didn't answer, she sighed and walked off to the direction of the shower. "I'm going to go clean up."

Soon, the sound of the shower running awoke us both from our thoughts.

Well, it awoke me.

"So, is now the time to talk about...whatever it is that you talked about?"

Bella sighed, a sure sign that she was giving in. "Well, she's had a pretty rough time of it..." she began, but then Rosalie staggering out of our room shut her up.

"Whasss the time?" Rose slurred, rubbing mascara from her eyes.

"8.30" I answered promptly.

"Mm going in the shower." She grumbled, shunting off in the direction of the shower.

Bella and I sat in silence for a few minutes, before staring at each other in alarm and hearing,

"GET OUT OF THE DAMN SHOWER, DOG!"

and an answering, "WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT BLONDIE?"

I rushed in, followed by Bella. Rosalie was in the bathroom, having bashed the door open, banging on the steamed-up glass door where Leah remained hidden.

"GET OUT! YOU'RE WASTING THE WATER!" Rose screamed, banging on the door again.

Bella pushed her back. "Rose, stop, she was here first!"

"SHE'S IN MY DAMN SHOWER!" Rose protested.

"No, Rosalie, it's not your shower! Stop screaming!"

Leah was still in the shower stall, the top of her soapy head visible in the space between the ceiling and the glass.

"Yeah, and we're in here while Leah's in the shower, do you know how creepy that is?" Bella'd added.

Rose had stomped out, and Bella and I apologized to Leah, who shook it off.

"No worries. Most of the guys in La Push have caught a glimpse anyway."

Which, obviously, left me wondering what kind of place La Push was. I'd only been there when it was sunny to tan a little and hang out with the girls in the sea. But if they'd all caught a glimpse...

"Woah," Emmett said loudly, his eyes widening. "So you, Bella, Rose and Leah were all in the shower together?"

"Alice! She didn't mean it like that!" Bella protested.

"We weren't in the shower with her, dumb ass! Just in the room!" Rose growled.

"Can we all calm down?" My beautiful boyfriend said, clutching at my waist almost frantically.

"So.. you girls weren't all in the shower?" Emmett clarified, ignoring Jasper.

"Correct." Bella huffed. Emmett's face changed in disappointment.

"Soo.. What's going on tonight?" I asked, changing the subject.

"I don't know.. Only a couple more days till classes start. I'll probably be checking out the campus." Bella shrugged.

"Only a couple days. You said it yourself Bella, and you want to spend it looking around?" Rosalie asked. Bella flushed.

"It's not a bad idea." Edward shrugged. " It would let us be able to find our classes faster."

"Who cares." Rosalie muttered. Before anything else could be said, the door of the coffee shopped opened. A young man walked in and looked around. His eyes landed on our table. He smiled and walked over.

"James my man!" Emmett boomed. I looked over at Emmett, confused.

"Roommate." Jasper whispered in my ear, as if he had read my mind. I glanced over to Edward and noticed that he had suddenly seemed very hostile. His arm was firmly wrapped around Bella's waist, and his eyes narrowed as he watched James take his seat.

"Hey, what's up?" James asked.

"Nothing, trying to figure out what to do tonight." Emmett sighed. James nodded and looked at us.

"James, we'd like to introduce you to our girlfriends. This is Alice," Jasper started, giving me a quick peck on the head. "that's Rosalie," He said, jerking his head towards Rose. " and that's Bella." He finished, nodding towards her. We all smiled at James.

"Nice to meet you ladies, I'm James." He said. We sat In silence for a moment. Bella looked at Edward confused, he hadn't relaxed his position. "So you guys are looking for something to do tonight?" James asked.

"Sadly." Rosalie said.

"Well, my girlfriend Victoria," James began. Edward seemed to relax suddenly as he heard this; I guessed that he was threatened by James. "Is having a welcome back to school party tonight, you guys should totally check it out."

"Sounds good to me." Rosalie said. We all nodded in agreement.

"Awesome. The party starts at nine." James told us, getting up from his seat. "Block 7 room 713. Anyway I gotta go help Victoria get ready for the party. See you guys there." He said before leaving.

"Can you guys believe we are already going to our first College party?" Bella squealed lightly.

"Don't get your hopes up too high love. College parties are probably over-rated." Edward said.

"You never know Edward. Anyway, since this is our first party, we," I said pointing to the girls, "need to get ready. So we will see you at 8:45."

Before anyone could protest, I got up from my place on Jaspers lap and grabbed the girls and pulled them out of the shop. We all giggled, excited that our first party was tonight.

Once we got to our room, all the lights were off. Leah wasn't there, which was a relief, since it meant no fights. We each walked to our rooms.

"Bella, bring all your possible party outfits here!" I shouted. A couple minutes later, Bella came in, her arms full of clothes. She made her way towards our bed. Suddenly, before any of us could make sense of what had just happened, clothes flew everywhere, and once the air was clear, there laid Bella, her foot in the air with a dress caught on it.

"Oops." Bella said, flushing. I laughed and walked up to her and helped her get up.

"Typical Bella." Rosalie sighed. She walked over to her side of the closet and looked through her clothes.

"I don't know what to wear." She sighed.

"I think I'm just going to wear plain black dress." I said. The both whipped their heads around and looked at me. "What?"

"Alice Brandon, first party in College, and your only wearing a plain black dress?" Bella clarified.

"Yes, Bella there are rules for what to wear at your first College party." I told her.

"Like what?" Rosalie asked.

"Well, never, no matter how long you spend getting ready, ever make it look like you spent more than twenty minutes getting ready. Also, never dress to glam. It'll make you look like you try too hard."

"I thought you always had to dress nice to make a good impression at your first party?" Bella asked.

"Of course you do Bella, but you can't try to hard."

"So jeans and a tank top is fine?" Rosalie asked.

"Yep. Maybe something else.." I said. I wanted over to my closet and rummaged through the over shirts I had. I gasped when I saw it.

"What?" Bella asked. I pulled it out. Rosalie and Bella gasped.

"Oh my god! As if you kept it!" Rosalie gushed. She took the jacket from my hand.

"Our Blue Babes jacket.. I haven't worn mine since the end of the year." Bella said.

"Me either." I agreed. Rosalie just nodded her head.

"One minute." Bella said. She ran out of the room. Rosalie and I heard clothes splutter everywhere coming from Bella's room. It went quiet for a moment, and Bella came back, wearing her Blue Babes jacket.

"I forgot how comfy this jacket was." Bella said, hugging herself.

"Rosalie, do you still have yours?"

"I think I remember packing it." Rosalie said. She went over to a box that was still unpacked and opened it. She began to rummage through it.

"Anyway," I said to Bella, turning my attention to her, "what do you want to wear?" I asked her. She bit her lip for a moment and looked at her clothes.

"Well.. I kinda just wanna wear a tank top and jeans." She said. She held up a hanger with dark jeans on it.

"Go change." I told her. She nodded and walked over to the bathroom.

"Any luck?" I asked Rosalie.

"No." She fumed. She ripped open another box and began looking through it. I sighed and walked over to my closet. I opened it and pulled out a short shapeless black dress. I took it off the hanger and threw it on the bed. Bella came out of the bathroom. I looked at her.

"Looks a little plain like that.." I told her. What would look good with what she was wearing? I glanced at the Blue Babes jacket and back at Bella. I picked it up and threw it at her. She stared at me.

"I can't wear this alone.. I'd look like a loser." She said.

"I'll wear mine." I told her. It would look cute with my dress.

"Aha!" Rosalie said triumphantly. She pulled out her jacket from the box.

"Rose what are you wearing?" Bella asked.

"Probably a skirt and a shirt." She shrugged.

"And your jacket." I said.

"Why?"

"Bella and I are wearing ours."

"But we aren't in high school anymore." Rosalie said.

"So? High school wasn't the Blue Babes.. We were." Bella said.

"And nothing is ever going to change that." I continued. Rosalie stared at us for a moment.

"What shirt should I wear under it?" She asked. We all smiled and looked around for possibilities.

After hours of getting ready (which we would never admit), we finally arrived at the party. And even after ten minutes of telling the boys that yes we were actually wearing our Blue Babes jackets, they still walked staring at us as if we were walking in our underwear. When we arrived to the dorm room, we knocked on the door. The door opened revealing a tall girl. She had wild red curly hair, and deep brown eyes. Her features were sharp, but her skin looked smooth, with freckles on her nose.

"Hello." She said.

"Hi. Uh, our friend James told us about this party.." I trailed off.

"Oh, are you boys Edward, Jasper and Emmett?" She asked, completely ignoring me.

"Yeah, thats us!" Emmett said. The girl smirked.

"I'm Victoria." She said. She opened the door wider and stepped aside, letting us in.

Bella's Pov

"I'm Alice, this is Rose, this is Bella, he's Jasper, he's Emmett and the last is Edward."

"Er, great...so...how do you guys know Jamie?" Victoria asked.

"He's our roommate," Jasper offered.

"Great guy," Emmett added.

"Yeah..." Victoria said distractedly.

Victoria was interesting to say the least. She was running her hand through her hair constantly as we sat on the couch, and seemed to have taken a shine to Edward.

Well, more than a shine.

More like a torch being poked as far into your eye as it can go until it pretty much blinds you.

"Oh, Edward, you're so funny!" She crooned, kicking her bare legs into the air. She was wearing a pink shift dress that clashed horribly with her hair, and was wearing silver sequined shoes – she'd definitely tried way too hard.

"What the hell?" Alice hissed to Rose. "What he said wasn't even funny in the least!"

I frowned, leaning over. "What did he say?"

Alice scowled. "He said 'how's your first day been?'!"

"Are you kidding?" I squealed, louder than I'd intended.

Victoria sent me a death glare, then smiled falsely. "I don't think he was kidding, Becca, but he's funny all the same, aren't you Eddie?"

"It's Edward," I said, at the same time Edward said, "It's Bella.

We both smiled at the other gratefully.

"Oh, okay Bree. No problem Edward, do you want me to get you some punch?"

She flounced off, and I stood staring at the girls in shock for a minute. "What the hell has she been taking?" Emmett said, making a face.

"I know..." Alice sighed.

Victoria was back before we had a chance to run away, tottering along in her terribly high heels. As she leaned over us to reach to Edward, she collapsed onto me with punch glass in hand.

"Oh my gosh, Bethany I'm so sorry! Here you go, Edward." The glass was still full, and I thanked the lord that the contents of the plastic cup hadn't spilled on me.

"Er, thanks." He said awkwardly. "And it's Bella, short for Isabella."

She turned to me, mock horror plastered on her face. "Izzy, I'm so sorry! I completely thought your name was Bianca!" I frowned, and she continued. "Edward, maybe you'd like to hang out with me, get to know me better?"

I almost growled.

She took him by the hand and led him away. I stood, glaring after them furiously.

"She's trying to steal him from me, isn't she?" I said through clenched teeth.

"I call revenge." Alice said, nodding.

"Me too. Are you, or shouldn't I ask?" Rose smirked.

"If a Blue Babe is in, we're all in."

We stalked away, and I heard Emmett laughing. "There is no way I'm going to miss this!"

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