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Song: #1 Crush by Garbage

Chapter 1:#1 Crush

. . I could barely pay attention to my professor. The staccato tapping of my pencil was the only thing I could focus on to help calm my anxiety from the text my friend Alice sent me.

Call me ASAP. It's urgent! Was what she said. Normally I wouldn't be nervous about this. Whenever she said something was "urgent" it was because she ruined her shoes or something. But this one however was different. I knew this because when I woke up this morning, something felt off from the start. I couldn't pinpoint why. There was somehow a shift in the air. My hair would stand on end. I felt like I needed to constantly watch my back. There was one point in my life that I felt like this everyday. But that was supposed to be behind me now. I hope.

I rushed out the classroom as fast as I could, nearly dropping my iPhone in the process of taking it out of my pocket. I hurried and found Alice's number in my contacts and clicked her name. She picked up on the first ring.

"Bella!"

I cut to the chase, "Alice what is so important that you need to tell me?"

"You're going to want to get out of public right now. Meet me at our dorm and I'll tell you."

"Alice you're really starting to scare me!"

"Please just meet me there. Hurry!"

I practically sprinted to our dorm room. I didn't bother putting my phone away. My heart was beating so fast and the adrenaline caused me to run faster than I ever had in my life.

Our dorm room was all the way across campus. I was silently cursing how crowded it was on campus that very moment. I kept running into people, receiving dirty looks and the occasional "fuck you's."

When I finally made to my dorm I was immediately pulled inside by Alice. I stumbled slightly on the way in. If I were able to look at myself at this very moment, I know I'd look like a complete mess. My hair all over the place. My forehead shiny from a light sheen of sweat and my cheeks so red it looks like I have rosacea.

But I didn't care at this moment.

"Alice, what the hell is going on?" I practically shouted.

The next words out of her mouth caused my whole world to stop. It felt like my heart was about to explode from how hard it was beating and I knew if I didn't control my breathing right now, I would pass out. Just two little words were my undoing and everything I tried to escape from was all for naught. Just two little words of, "He's here."

It was silent after she spoke those dreaded words. How could this happen? How did he find me? How does he always find me?

I took deep breaths and let them out slowly. "Are you sure, Alice?"

"I'm 100% positive," She answered. Her voice was full of remorse.

I felt the tears start to build up in my eyes. God, I couldn't breathe!

"H-how do you know?" I asked.

"I saw him," She said. She opened up her arms to offer a hug. I ran towards her open embrace and she held me tight. I cried into her shoulder, no doubt ruining her shirt with my mascara. "I'm so sorry Bella," she continued. "I don't know how he could have possibly found you!"

I laughed humorlessly, "He always had a knack for finding me."

It had been two years since I've last seen him. Edward. My tormentor. My stalker. Throughout my entire High School experience, Edward Mason would stop at nothing in trying to be with me. Any other girl would love it. He was popular, rich, the star quarterback and amazingly handsome. Girls always thought I was crazy that I never gave him a chance.

"Did he see you?" I asked Alice.

"Yes. He looked me right in the eyes and gave me this scary smirk. I was shocked for a little bit. I couldn't move because a million thoughts were running through my head. But once I came to my senses, I just ran. He didn't follow. Just watched me with that same scary smirk. That's when I texted you."

"He couldn't know I'm here, right?" I looked up hopeful. I tried to come up with the most random college to go to and didn't tell anybody Alice where I was going. I didn't tell her until after school was out though. I didn't want it getting out where I was going. Besides my parents, Alice is the only one I ever told that I'm going to the University of Alaska. I made her swear that she wouldn't tell anybody where I was going. She swore and decided to apply to the same college as well as others. We were so happy when we found out we both got into the same one.

"He shouldn't," She said more confidently than before. "He only saw me. There's no way he could know that we went to the same school. Maybe he's just visiting. I know that he has some cousin that live out here."

I mentally kicked myself. The Denalis! They would sometimes visit during winter break in Forks. How could I be so stupid and forget that I applied for a college in the same state of Edward's family?

I groaned, "I don't know what to do Alice!"

"Don't worry," Alice said with conviction in her voice. "I will get to the bottom of this, I promise! Just lay low for a while. Maybe take some days off from school? Just until I find out why he's here. You've done a great job so far staying away from people so that no one knows you. If he asks around I doubt anybody would know where your dorm was."

Her words made me feel a tiny bit better. She was right. Maybe he was just touring the campus. I nodded in agreement.

"I have to go to my last class for the day," Alice said, pulling away from me. "Are you going to be alright?"

"Yeah," I said sniffling. "English Lit. was my last class. I'll just take a nap and try to get my mind off things."

She nodded, "Good idea. I'll see you later hon." She kissed my cheek.

"See ya." I said, walking over to the door and locking it behind her.

My nerves were all over the place when I climbed into bed. I tried my best to think of happy thoughts and maybe find a silver lining in all this mess.

I took a deep breath and lied on my back. It will be alright. I told myself before falling in a deep, needed sleep.

An incessant knocking woke me from my slumber. I groaned and rubbed my eyes. Not again! I thought. Alice must have left her keys here again.

The knocking kept going. Louder this time.

"Hold on Alice!" I yelled. I slowly dragged myself out of bed and tip toed around the shoes and clothes on the floor.

The knocking kept going, louder and louder every time.

"God dammit, Alice hold o-!" I stopped instantly what I saw who was at the door. I felt my heart lodge in my throat and I felt like I was going to vomit. My worst nightmare has come back to haunt me.

The familiar smirk said, "Hello Bella."

AN: So why is Bella so afraid of Edward? A little bit more of their history will be in the next chapter.

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