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"Bella!" James, my stepfather, screeched. "Get down here, you ungrateful little—"

I shut my door and turned back to the computer.

Clumsybella7: Sorry. g2g. Stepfather's calling.

Rosesarered: ugh. Same here.

Shopaholic4life: I have 2 do my homework.

Clumsybella7: Rose? You done?

Rosesarered: *nods head*

Clumsybella7: *sigh* I'm not

"Bella!" James screamed again. "You get down here now, or your precious little computer will be disabled by morning!"

I sighed and typed in one last message to my best friends, Rosalie Hale and Alice Brandon.

Clumsybella7: See ya 2morrow.

-Clumsybella7 has logged off-

I raced down the stairs from my tiny attic room to the hallway where my stepfather was waiting, tapping his foot.

"What took you so long, girl?"

"I had to turn off my computer, James." I murmured.

"Speak louder, girl! I can't hear you!"

"I had to turn off my computer, James!" I shouted.

"Don't you shout at me, girl! Shut up and scrub the floor!" James yelled. He stomped off, muttering something about how I was an 'ungrateful little wench.'

I sighed heavily and rolled up the sleeves of my ratty brown t-shirt. I plunged the small sponge into the bucket of soapy water and got to work.

This was how it was every day since I was six. I was born with two wonderful parents, Charlie and Renee Swan. Then, when I was four, Charlie died of a heart attack. Renee was inconsolable for months, until she met James. He had two daughters, fraternal twins my age, named Victoria and Tanya. Renee remarried him after six months. It wasn't too bad while Renee was still alive, but when I was six, she died in a car crash. I was left in the care of James and I have been like a personal servant to him, Victoria and Tanya for the past ten years. My life has been hell. The only people who helped me through it were my two best friends, Rosalie and Alice. Rosalie knows what it's like to be me, since she has a similar problem. She was an only child, but her mother and father both died and she was adopted by a single woman who treated her like James treated me. Alice was the only one of us with a birth parent left. She actually had both her parents. Mark Brandon, her father, was a highly temperamental man. He drank a lot and smoked. Whenever he got drunk, he took it out on Alice. She had the bruises to prove it. Her mother, Mary Brandon, was shy and meek. She was too weak to stand up to her husband when he beat Alice. She never told anyone because she knew the beatings would be even worse.

I sighed as I continued to viciously scrub the floor. I had no hope my life would get better, none at all. James constantly reminded me that as soon as I was eighteen, I would be kicked out onto the streets to fend for myself. I had no college savings. I would probably scrape up enough money to share a small apartment with Rose and Alice, and we'd find jobs. If I was lucky, I'd marry a coworker or something. But my life wouldn't get better.

My social life right now at school wasn't fantastic, either. Rose, Alice and I were members of the most unpopular clique. Only lowlifes like Mike Newton, the supposedly gay pervert, and Eric Yorkie, the pimply math nerd, were in that group. My stepsisters were in the highest group, with people like Jessica Stanley and Lauren Mallory. That group also contained the dreamy jocks Edward Masen, Emmett McCarty and Jasper Whitlock. I'd never told anyone besides Alice and Rosalie, but I had a secret crush on Edward, who was a major hottie—and a major player. All three of the boys were. Rose had a crush on Emmett and Alice had a crush on Jasper, and just like me, their secret crushes never left our little circle. But that was because we told each other everything. We had no secrets between us.

Alice, Rose and I had been best friends for as long as I could remember. But I can still remember the day we met.

Flashback

"Hey! Little punk! You got money?" a random boy who looked about thirteen yelled.

"Yes," I said, confused.

"Give it here, then," the boy said, holding out his hand.

"My mommy said not to." I whimpered. This boy was scaring me.

"My mommy said not to." the boy imitated. "Well, you know what, little punk?" he sneered at me.

"What?"

"I don't give a damn about your mother. Give me the money!" He punched me and I reeled back.

"You stay away from her!" This high little voice shrieked. A ball of black hair and red dress rushed at the boy and next thing I knew, he was standing back, whimpering in pain and clutching his stomach.

"Leave her alone!" A blonde girl added. She stepped up and kicked his shin.

"Aah! Crap!" The boy screamed. He turned tail and ran, the rest of his gang following him.

"Are you all right?" The blonde girl asked.

"Yes. Thank you," I whispered.

"I'm Rosalie but you can call me Rose. This is Alice. We're best friends," she explained. "What's your name?"

"Bella, Bella Swan." I answered.

"Hi, Bella!" Alice chirped. "I think we'll be great friends!"

End flashback

And Alice's prediction came true. We were best friends from that day on. We were inseparable, joined at the hip. We comforted each other through all of the bad times each of us went through, and believe me, there were plenty.

At school, we protected each other from the creeps trying to get us to go out with them. Mike Newton, Tyler, Crowley, Eric Yorkie…all of them had their piggy little eyes on us. We'd made the mistake of dating them once to try and make them lose interest. I went with Mike Newton, Rosalie went with Tyler Crowley and Alice went with Eric Yorkie. I shuddered. I did not want to think about that night.

"Bella!" I heard Tanya scream. "Come iron this! I'm wearing it tomorrow!"

"And make dinner! I'm hungry!" added Victoria. I sighed. I knew that at least I'd get a homework break while my family was eating. I wasn't permitted to eat with them. I usually heated up leftovers and brought them up to my room.

"All right! I'm coming, Tanya!" I yelled. I raced up the stairs to my stepsister's frilly pink bedroom to iron out the supershort skirt she wanted to wear the next day.

After I was done with that, I went back downstairs to the kitchen. I threw together some spaghetti bolognese and salad, and made crème brulee for dessert. The stepsisters always demanded fancy food.

"Dinner's ready!" I called. I placed it on the table and heated up some of yesterday's chicken. I brought it up to my room before the family could start shouting how horrible my food tasted.

I got homework out of the way fairly quickly. The year was winding down, so teachers didn't give that much homework. Senior prom was in only two weeks. I probably wouldn't be going. Even if James let me, I didn't have anything to wear.

I sighed again, a deep, slow sigh. I logged onto my computer. 'Rosesarered and Shopaholic4life are logged on' a message flashed.

Shopaholic4life: OMG! I have fantastic news!

Rosesarered: Well?

Clumsybella7: What is it?

Shopaholic4life: Jasper smiled at me today! AND HE SAID HI!!! ;-D

Rosesarered: That's all?

Clumsybella7: That's great news, Ali!

Alice got worked up over the silliest things. You just had to try to calm her down, although that wasn't easy. She was always hyper.

Rosesarered: Ali, sorry to burst your bubble, but isn't he dating Lauren?

Shopaholic4life: A girl can dream, can't she? I mean, Emmett's dating Victoria, and you like him!

Clumsybella7: But that's all it ever will be. A dream.

Clumsybella7: I'll never be with Edward because he'll never break up with Tanya.

Shopaholic4life: You never know what's going to happen 

Rosesarered: I do. I will stay unpopular for the rest of the year, I will be kicked onto the street when I'm eighteen, I will rent an apartment with you two, and I will grow into an old, sad, single trollop.

I sighed. She was right. That's all that would ever happen to me, Rosalie and Alice. It would be the story of our life. There was no hope.

Oooh! James is such a bitch! So are Victoria and Tanya! What will happen? Keep a lookout for the second chapter on my profile and Aloumii's and fullmoon7777's if I don't update soon!