This will be a story of various observations of Jasper from Bella to Charlie to Alice to Edward to Maria and then to even Jasper himself. Interested? Request a character to observe him next.
Disclaimer: This is based off of Stephenie Meyer's saga: Twilight.
I had to get out of there. Alice was overwhelming, but more so now than ever. A pedicure, really? Of course Alice had to know that a tomboy like me was completely against anything like what she had scheduled minute-by-minute for this slumber party. Like always, I missed Edward and doubted on his promised speedy arrival back home.
There were three minutes. I had three minutes to leave the room before Alice came banging on the door asking if I were all right. I told Alice I needed a human minute, so I would go to the bathroom and make a quick decision to the left to go grab my car and maybe meet Jake? I'd be to the border before Alice would take her mind off of what color nail polish would look best on her tortured best human friend.
Darting around the corner, believing I was home free, I ran right into Jasper, who stiffened at the impact though it didn't harm him. I stepped back and he reflexively held out his two arms, gripping my shoulders to keep me balanced.
"I'm sorry," he apologized in a thick southern twang, which fascinated me. I knew of his background and yet he had been away from the south for so long… still, I supposed that all immortals would like to keep a piece of their roots with them throughout their eternity. Wouldn't you?
Still, his southern accent came across through polite gestures. I used to wonder why such a serious guy was so compatible for someone so bubbly as Alice, along with my entire lunch table when I had first been introduced from afar to the mysterious Cullen family, who looked as if they were all different variations of Michelangelo's David.
Now I could picture it. From these small exchanges we shared, I knew that it was his complete respect for women, especially for me since the incident on my previous birthday, which won Alice over. Not to mention, every girl loves a bad boy and although now his scars were invisible, I knew there were more than I had seen.
"Running from Alice, I presume?" he asked with a somewhat proud grin. His hands retracted once he was sure I was stable.
I was caught and I couldn't really manage a simple response, so, I nodded and ran my fingers through my hair without thinking. Luckily Jasper had built up somewhat of immunity and I made a mental note not to do that again..
"Follow me," he ordered, turning on his heels and going down the stairs, past the living room, and toward the garage, but he abruptly spun around again, pressing a finger to his lips. I stopped in my tracks after struggling to catch up with his graceful strides that melted into one another and looked up with Jasper to hear nothing, though I was sure Jasper heard Alice either pacing or onto us.
"Would you?" he asked, holding out his arms. In any other circumstance, I would've politely declined, but I'd rather leave than be tortured with girlish slumber party rituals. I nodded and before I could utter a word, I was in Jasper's arms. They were colder than Edwards, more rigid, his hold more awkward than Edward's had been. I was being brought past the garage and into the woods only a mere ten or fifteen feet before he put me on a moss-covered rock and walked a few paces away.
It was a small clearing with a trickling pond, deer scattering from sight as Jasper followed the pond to it's nearest edge. A creek emptied out into the pond that gleamed from the sunlight pouring through the small openings of the trees. Jasper seemed to avoid any glimmer of sunlight from hitting his skin as if I were superstitious of the result. He stayed cautiously concealed in the shadows.
Catching my breath and reminding myself to close my eyes next time – though time and time again I would end up forgetting – I smiled and gasped out a, "thank you."
Jasper chuckled. "Why do you think I was told to stay behind?" he asked with a roll of his eyes. "Edward told me specifically to take you away when you were overwhelmed." Of course he did. "Though I'm sure Alice will be here scolding me like a schoolboy in less than three minutes. She knows perfectly well where both of us are."
Still, he stayed extremely far from me. Obviously the short trip being so close to a human with such an intoxicating smell as I was what drew the newest vegetarian away from me, but it was still quite awkward.
"I'm sorry once again," he apologized, dipping his head away from me. "You're feeling quite awkward and the most I can do is subdue that, but—"
When he turned to meet my gaze, his eyes were ablaze, both frightening and frightened, both deadly and deadened. I froze in my place, not sure what my emotions were, but knowing he was well aware of them.
"Don't be frightened," and now his eyes were pleading. "I won't harm you, Bella, that I am sure of. I couldn't for Edward and most certainly not for Alice. It is my biggest regret that I have ever considered the thought to harm you when you have brought my family so much—"
"Pain?" I finished cynically.
"Joy. Bella, I don't know if you realize what you've brought everyone in this family…" I stared at him amazed. Here was the one Cullen, except Rosalie, who I found to loathe me, but he was explaining that I was a good thing to his family full of vampires. He was explaining that although he had nearly killed me last year, that he was extremely sorry, that he was extremely blessed for what I have given his family? But what have I given them?
If I thought Edward could dazzle, Jasper's charisma sent me consumed in each word falling from his lips.
"You've given Emmett a new hobby," he said with a smirk, which had me laughing. He took a step forward with each family member he listed. "You've given Rosalie closure, she accepts you no matter what she says otherwise. You've given Edward a love and by that, given Carlisle and Esme happiness for their son's reason for life. And Bella, you've given Alice a friend, someone she can truly rely on to be a dress-up doll and also someone to talk to, someone to look forward to being siblings with. Alice has always been one for the family sense."
I watched him speak to me, getting closer with each mention of his siblings' names. The only thing I could think to say was a sarcastic joke, "Did Edward tell you to say all that, too?"
He smirked and took another few steps back, hesitating before allowing one hand to hit the sunlight. Instead of reflecting on a smooth prism, diamonds of color darted off in jagged directions on his scarred skin, each beam crisscrossing and cutting off the other's path. That's why he had been so cautious to stay out of the sunlight.
Before I could speak, a blur of grey, blue, and black collided into Jasper. "How dare you kidnap Bella when that job was already mine!" Alice squealed, jumping on Jasper's back.
He laughed and held her tight, shrugging his shoulders. "You're smothering the poor girl," he noted and Alice scoffed.
"Smothering her? Please!" Jasper swung Alice off of his back and she stood on his feet. Her arms still wrapped around his neck, they stood staring at each other in their own complicated silent conversation. It felt extremely private, but I couldn't look away.
The doubt I had earlier of how compatible they really were was gone. The look he gave her now, she tight hold he held on her waist, how he grabbed one of her hands and held it to his chest, which Edward had done on occasion and I'd imagine a beating heart, and the way he stared so lovingly, so consumed by Alice explained everything.
Sunlight fell through, exposing the two of them as the inhuman creatures that they were, one covered in smooth diamonds, the other in ragged patterns of light. Alice looked up and smiled at the exposure they had. When she looked down, she looked over Jasper's shoulder as if noticing that I was there for the first time.
Embarrassed, she climbed out of Jasper's embrace, stepping in front of him, but he kept his arms around her waist, his head at the crook of her neck. Alice wrapped her arms over his and smiled.
"How about that pedicure?"
Because I know most of you probably skipped to reading the story rather than reading the italics in the beginning: This will be a story of various observations of Jasper from Bella to Charlie to Alice to Edward to Maria and then to even Jasper himself. Interested? Request a character to observe him next.
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