A/N: I do not own any of the characters. They all belong to the wonderful Stephenie Meyer. I also do not own any songs or websites mentioned. They belong to their respective owners.

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Chapter 1: Strike A Pose

BPOV

Finally. High school was over. Summer was actually 3 months long for a change. In September, which sadly was already only a week away, I'd be taking my first semester at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Summer had gone by too quickly, but I was more than excited to start college.

Alice Brandon, my best friend since I was 12, and I had both gotten our acceptances the same day. Of course, we immediately set up a sleepover and chatted excitedly about how far we'd come and what cute boys we had to look forward to meeting in college.

There were slim pickings in the town we grew up in, Forks. Alice's older brother Emmett was basically the cutest guy in town, but I only thought of him as a brother. Alice and her family were beautiful.

Alice was a small framed girl, standing at about five feet tall. She had short, black, spiky hair, and brilliant dark blue eyes. Her brother, Emmett, stood at about six foot three and he was muscular. He had dark brown, curly hair, but he had light blue eyes, like his mothers. To Alice and I, he was like a giant teddy bear and our bodyguard. He had graduated last year and was already attending Cornish.

Alice and I decided that tomorrow, we would go shopping for all our dorm necessities: bedding, mini-fridge, laptop accessories, stereo, new clothes, desk items, etc. We had to get new clothes because, I mean, how do we expect to impress big Seattle boys wearing the same clothes we had in high school? Alice had always had a great sense of style, but she still wanted to amp it up, make it more adult like, and a little more alluring to the boys.

This idea also meant that she would be redoing my complete wardrobe to her liking and standards. I for one had been perfectly comfortable in band tees and jeans along with my slip on vans. Of course, none of this was acceptable for Alice. This was going to be one hell of a shopping trip.