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"Damn it Jasper, ask her out already!"

Jasper looked towards his brother, Edward, and laughed a little. "Yeah, like she'd give me the time of day!" he sighed, leaning back in his seat, trying to look anywhere but at the back of Alice Brandon's head.

This was the only class he shared with her; she'd been put up a year in Math as she was rather gifted when it came to that, but he did see her almost every day after school; her best friend Isabella Swan was a year older than her and was dating his brother, Edward.

Alice and Bella were usually round at his house; his Mother Esme was rather fond of the little Brandon girl and got on rather well with her Father, Frank Brandon.

"You might be surprised Jazz." Emmett said, giving a shrug of his broad shoulders. "She might go for the nerdy types."

Emmett was his other brother though not really...the situation was rather complex;

Jasper Hale and his twin sister Rosalie were the adoptive children of Esme and Carlisle Cullen who were the biological parents of his best friends Emmett and Edward Cullen.

Though he was adopted, though he had a different surname, he never really knew any different. He'd been with the Cullen's since he was a few weeks old. There was no sign of his parents but Esme's suggestion was that when they found they were having twins, it all got a little hard for them so they gave them up.

Jasper was resentful towards his unknown parents yet Esme had often told him not to be, they may have been young, may have been scared; it was better that they give him and his sister up for a better life than try and care for them themselves if they weren't up to the job.

Emmett was the oldest of the children, by a year, though he'd been held back a year; having trouble with the academic side of learning due to his devotion to the sporting side of it, his parents were a little disappointed that he was abusing his studies but were proud that he was trying hard with what he was dedicated to.

Edward was the same age as the Hales, just a few months older. Jasper thought it was noble of Esme and Carlisle to take in two more newborns when they had a new born child of their own. He'd heard the story many times;

Esme adored her two baby boys; one and a half month old Emmett and her couple mouth old Edward, though the moment she saw Rosalie's little face in the nursery she fell in love instantly, then she saw the bright green eyes of Jasper and fell in love, again. When told they were orphans she decided then and there that she'd take them home no matter what anyone said...though of course she had to talk to Carlisle about it eventually and being the kind soul he was, he agreed.

"She's coming round tonight right?" Edward said doodling in the back of his book. "Bella is." He smiled, thinking of her. "See if she likes you as much as you like her." He chuckled.

Jasper just rolled his eyes looking away from Edward.

It was all much too hard for him, he never was really one with woman, hadn't really had many relationships but he wanted Alice as his own. She always made him smile!

He'd known her for a few years now and he was pretty sure the moment he saw her he had feelings for her, but being the awkward idiot he was he never did anything about it, he treated her like his little sister. It'd be difficult to get her to change her view on him. He could try though!

He looked up to the front of the class hearing the phone ring and watched their teacher Mrs Davis picking it up.

A frown creased his features seeing the look that crossed the teachers face; she looked like she'd seen a ghost.

"Alice." Mrs Davis spoke, getting up and moving towards Alice's desk. "Ms Jones wants to see you, you're not in trouble, don't worry." She smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes, she looked devastated.

Ms Jones was the head of the school and though she'd been told she wasn't in trouble Alice couldn't help but think she'd done something wrong, terribly wrong.

"Okay erm..." she paused as she got to her feet, focusing on getting up without tripping; it was hard enough being a year younger than everyone in this class, but she was also so small, hardly any of them took her seriously! "Should I take my things?" she wondered, looking up at the clock, there was a whole half hour left yet, she wouldn't be that long would she?

"Take them with you sweetheart." Mrs Davis smiled that odd smile once more before picking her bag up and handing it to her.

After thanking the teacher, Alice left and slowly made her way up towards the head teacher's office.

She was terrified! She'd never been called to the head's office before.

What could she have done?

As she walked she thought through the past few weeks, trying to see if anything she'd done could cause her to get yelled at but the second she reached the office all those thoughts vanished.

In front of her was the Ms Jones and behind Ms Jones was a tall police officer.

Crap.

"Come in Alice."

She nodded a little and went inside slowly after the head and the police officer.

"Sit down."

She did as she was told and looked up at the police man, feeling her heart beating ten to dozen, feeling the sweat starting to run down the back of her neck. She always got this way when she was around any form of authority. Alice was a bubbly person, a confident person, but there was just something about police men, teachers or anything else that could punish her that freaked her out.

She watched the man for a while before looking down, her long dark locks falling forwards over her shoulders, hiding her face. "What's going on?" she asked quietly, staring at her knees as if they were the most interesting things in the world.

"My name is Officer Endsor." The policeman spoke moving to kneel down in front of the small girl, pushing her hair back so she looked up at him. "I have something to tell you and in these sorts of situations I've learnt it is best not to beat around the bush." He nodded and after getting no response out of her, he carried on. "Your Father was in a car accident Alice." He saw her face fall and squeezed her shoulder gently. "I'm sorry, but he didn't make it."

In that moment her life was ruined.

Her Father was the only thing she had; her Mother had walked out on them when she was a baby, Grandparents were dead and she had no aunts or uncles.

"No!" she snapped, getting up, pushing her chair backwards and moving away when he tried to touch her. "No...No you're wrong." She exclaimed looking up at him then over to Ms Jones seeing the concern crossing her face. "You're wrong!" she shouted, slapping his hand away. "He's not dead...he...he can't be dead." She sunk back into her chair then, dropping her head into her hands as the tears started to roll.

Ms Jones moved towards Alice's side and put her arm carefully around her shoulders.

"I know darling, it's awful I know." She soothed, not really quite sure what to say to her. "You can stay in the staff room until the end of the day if you wish then we'll sort care out for you."

"I don't need care!" Alice shoved her arm off, getting up and grabbing her bag. "I'm going back to class...I can't just...just sit around." She went towards the door, blocking out whatever they were saying.

She was in the hallway within seconds and practically ran all the way back to her Math class, bursting in, ignoring the whole class staring at her.

"She's back." Emmett pointed out the obvious, ramming his elbow into Jasper's ribs to get his attention.

He cursed under his breath and kicked his brother's shin before looking over towards the door seeing Alice there, her face blotchy, her eyes red, tears streaming down her face.

He needed to go to her...needed to stop her crying. It hurt him to see her that upset, she shouldn't be upset, she was too nice, too kind, too good to be upset.

"Sit down." He heard Edward hiss and realized he had actually stood up. He looked down at his brothers then back to Alice.

Their eyes met for a moment and she smiled, but it was awful, it looked like she was going to throw up! She broke their eye contact when she sunk down into her seat.

Jasper copied her and sat back down looking at his brothers. "What do you think is wrong?" he asked, looking back to Alice seeing her shoulders shaking, either laughing or crying, he was almost a hundred percent sure she was crying.

"I don't know, maybe she got some bad news." Edward offered unhelpfully. "She might tell us tonight, she'll probably tell Mom."

Esme was practically Alice's mother, she hadn't had one for most of her life and when she got friendly with Bella and started hanging out at her house, she formed bond with Esme, went to her for advice, cried into her shoulder when she was upset over guys or girl stuff, it was her she went to when she first started her period, she was much too embarrassed to go to her Father about it, it was nice that she had a Mother figure in her life.

"Hmm maybe." Jasper muttered resting his head on his hands, staring over at Alice seeing her slumped against her desk.

He'd help her, he'd do anything it took to make her smile again but the first thing he had to do was to find out what was wrong with her.


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