Alice Whitlock was sitting alone in the dark when her husband arrived home. Her eyes were red rimmed, and Jasper dropped to his knees in front of her, anxious to find out what had happened to upset her so much.

"Darlin', what is it?" he asked her.

"Oh Jazz, when did I go so wrong?" Alice asked him.

"What do you mean, Darlin'? He asked her.

"How did I become that hateful person? How did I become someone who delighted in someone else's pain?" she cried.

Jasper held her in his arms and let her cry. He had no answers to those questions. He was simply glad that she was seeing it for herself. He didn't know how she could have been so nasty to Bella when she arrived in town either. He didn't see why that was affecting her so much now. When Alice had calmed down, she started again.

"I don't even know how to make it right," Alice sighed sadly. "A simple sorry can't make up for all I've done."

Jasper was confused. All she'd done? "What do you mean, Darlin'?" he asked her.

"Oh, Jazz," she sighed. "I have to start at the beginning."

"Okay," he said.

Alice pulled out of her husband's arms and stood up and started pacing. She had played every moment over in her head for the last few hours and knew she needed to admit her part in this. She just didn't know it would be this hard.

"It all started over four years ago..." Alice began, confessing all of her sins to her husband. Jasper sat in stunned silence for most of Alice's revelation. She admitted helping Rosalie to try to blackmail Emmett to come home.

"I thought it was the right thing to do," she cried.

"So she was never really interested in Royce?" Jasper asked.

"Of course not," Alice sighed. "She knew it would drive him crazy to know that she was with his most hated rival."

"And you helped?" Jasper asked.

"I thought it was the right thing to do," Alice said.

"Hurting Emmett was the right thing to do?" Jasper asked, disgusted that she could think that.

"He was supposed to come back to her," Alice cried. "It should have worked."

"But when he didn't even call after their first few dates," Jasper said. "She should have called it off."

"She was going to," Alice said. "I thought that Emmett was just being stubborn and that she needed to do more..."

"More?" Jasper said. "You mean sleep with him?"

"No," Alice cried. "Well yes, sort of. I meant a real relationship."

"And then she ended up engaged to him and living with him," Jasper said.

"We were sure the news of her engagement would have done the trick..." Alice said.

"So for almost two years Rosalie used him?" Jasper asked.

"He used her too," Alice defended. "He never loved Rose. Him being with her was all to hurt Emmett too."

"And that makes this right?" Jasper asked her.

"No!" she cried. "But I was desperate too. We were getting married and I didn't want Rose to come to our wedding without a date..."

"That's why you got involved in the first place," Jasper scoffed. "For the wedding?"

"He was your best friend. He was supposed to be in the wedding," Alice defended.

"And you don't think he would have done all he could to have been there?" Jasper asked.

"He didn't come did he?" Alice defended.

"He would have," Jasper said. "He planned on it but called me to say that he was backing out so that there wasn't any drama seeing as he and Rose were no longer together."

"He would have?" Alice asked sadly.

"He wasn't even overseas at the time. They were stationed in Florida for three months," Jasper huffed. "He just stayed away so that our wedding wasn't filled with awkwardness."

"No!" Alice cried.

"Yes!" Jasper said angrily. "My best friend refused to come so that you could have your best friend at the wedding without the drama that would cause. Now I find out that the entire thing was engineered by you and Rose?"

"If he had come home, they could have gotten back together," Alice cried. "You should have told me."

"They would never have gotten back together," Jasper huffed. "Rosalie's selfishness ensured that! She never even thought about him, about what he wanted or needed. It was all about her! And all about you..."

"I wanted him home for you too," Alice cried. "He was your best friend and yet he was putting other guys in front of you."

"Do you think I was threatened?" Jasper asked.

"I would have been," Alice replied.

"I wasn't," Jasper said. "Not for one second. I was happy that he had guys with him that he cared about, that he had real brothers."

"And they were there for his wedding and you weren't," Alice said.

"And I would have celebrated with him when I met her," Jasper said. "If my wife hadn't grown a second head and attacked the woman and her newborn baby."

"Rosalie was hurting," Alice defended. "She had waited so long for him."

"Yet he knew nothing about that!" Jasper said. "Just how did she get Emily and Embry on her side after Royce? Was that a set-up too?"

Alice was silent.

"Did you help her?" Jasper asked.

"She loved them," Alice defended. "She wanted to reconnect with them."

"How did you help?" Jasper asked, wanting to vomit.

"I set up times for Rose to run into Emily..." Alice said.

"You used your mother?" Jasper said, shaking his head. "You used her friendship with Emily..."

"When Emmett came back we could have been fun, all together again," Alice said. "I just wanted it to be like it was..."

"We aren't in high school anymore," Jasper said. "Oh my God! High school! How many times did you help her manipulate him there?"

"He wouldn't listen to her," Alice cried. "I just wanted them to be as happy as we were."

"That wasn't your call to make," Jasper said. He looked at Alice and began to realize that he didn't really know her at all.

"I'm sorry," Alice cried.

"And what about me?" Jasper asked. "Did you manipulate me too?"

"No!" Alice cried. "I've never..."

"Don't lie!" Jasper bellowed. "Don't lie anymore."

"Jasper," she cried. "I love you."

"Do you?" he asked. "Do you really?"

"OF course," she squeaked. "I have loved you since I was a child. You are my everything!"

"Am I really?" Jasper asked her.

"Please!" she begged.

"I don't even know you anymore Alice," Jasper sighed. "I don't know if I ever did."

"Please don't say that!" she cried.

"Why not?" he asked. "Why can't I speak the truth?"

"I'm still me," she cried.

"I can't deal right now," Jasper sighed, turning away from her. "We are expected at your parent's house tonight for a big family dinner. We'll deal with this later."

"Will Rose be there?" Alice asked.

"Rose is not family," Jasper said coldly. "And once your parents, Emmett, Edward, Emily, and Embry find out exactly what she's done, I doubt she will even qualify as an acquaintance."

"Are you going to tell them?"Alice asked. "I don't want them to hate me."

"No, Alice," Jasper said. "I'm not going to say a word. You are."