"Jasper!" I heard a familiar voice yell across the quad at Forks High school. I stopped, turned, and smiled at my best friend and his girlfriend hurrying towards me. 14 year old Edward Cullen and Alice Brandon were freshmen, and being the first day of school, that was a very dangerous grade to be in.

"Hey guys, what's up?" I grinned, knowing exactly what they were trying to do. "I'm not going to let you hide behind me all day, you know."

"But Jasper!" Alice's voice trembled, and that hit me hard. Alice had always been like a sister to me.

"Alice, you do know they won't mess with my friends, don't you?" I had always been protective of people I cared for and everyone in Forks High knew that. So it made me the second most feared in this school. I always got a kick out of that.

"So!? This is high school! I miss my little school now!" She all but shrieked, a fearful look in her gray eyes.

I playfully rolled my eyes, a sarcastic remark ready, but then my eyes fell on a beautiful brunette who had to be a freshmen. She couldn't have been taller than 5'2. She looked to be trembling, much like Alice, as two senior boys grabbed her backpack and proceeded to dump it on the muddy ground. I almost intervened, but then I saw an angry looking Rosalie Hale, and she beat me to it.

Rosalie said a few words that shall not be repeated and threatened to cut off a few...ahem...necessary, limbs that were crucial to a male. When the boys didn't back off like they should have, Rosalie's super-strong boyfriend, captain of the football team and Edward's older brother, Emmett showed up. This got the seniors so shaken up that they actually ran off...crying! It was always surprising to me that Emmett, a junior for crying out loud, got such an amusing reaction like these. And this time he didn't even say anything!

Emmett bent to pick up the ruined papers, like the girl's schedule, and her backpack. And much to my surprise, Rosalie, one of the meanest and crabbiest girls in school, wrapped her arms around the girl. I heard her ask, "You alright, Bella?"

I blinked, digesting this small piece of information. Huh, Bella. It fit her perfectly when you thought of the Italian meaning.

Then her voice, so soft and innocent, replied," I'm fine, Rose. Thanks you guys." Then in a small voice she asked," Can I hide myself in your car or something? Dad never has to know. Right, Emmett?"

Emmett laughed," Sorry kiddo, but do you really think it would be Rose that spilled the beans?"

"You're right. Em, stay away from Charlie. You'll ruin it for me...again." Bella said this with a huge teasing smile.

"I will not and have not ever 'spilled the beans' to Charlie! You did that to yourself out of guilt!" Emmett said, wrapping a protective arm around Bella's shoulder and the other around Rosalie's waist.

Next thing I knew, they were heading this way and my heart was doing funny things.

Alice grinned knowingly at me and said in a sing-songy voice, "Somebody has a cruuuush."

"Shut up, Alice." I growled right as the three got to us.

"Hello freshies!" Emmett told Alice and Edward.

"Emmett, leave them alone." Rosalie told him, smiling.

"Yeah!" Edward said, smugly.

"Someone else will get 'em." Now this was the Rosalie that I knew.

"Gosh Rose, I sure do hate you sometimes." Alice scowled." And let me guess, Bella will go home unharmed?"

Rosalie nodded her head." Of course, you idiot. She's practically my sister. I have to share a room with her."

Rosalie had lived with Bella's dad, Chief of police Charlie Swan ,since she was ten and Bella was seven. Rosalie's dad had been arrested for child abuse and for...violating, to put it nicely, Rosalie. Since then, Chief Swan had adopted Rosalie and taken care of her since.

"Bella, this is my wittle bwother," Emmett said, playfully, "Edward and his girlfriend, Alice Brandon. And the idiot gawking is Jasper Whitlock."

Bella smiled shyly at us, but when her eyes met mine she blushed. I raised my eyebrow in question. Then, looking at Emmett, I replied, "For your information, I was not gawking. I'm surprised you even know what that means."

"Hey! I get good grades, thank you very much."

"Uh-huh." I nodded my head to make him happy.

"I can still take you out, buddy!" He took his arms away from the girls and put his fists up.

"Sorry, I don't waste my time with idiots." I smiled to let him know I was teasing.

The warning bell rang and we all scrambled to our classes. I went to Biology and listened to the same speech they gave every year on safety. Yay.

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