A/N~ I own a puppy and an impressive DVD collection, but that's it. Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight and we all hail her brilliance! I'm just playing with the pairing ;P

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"$50 tie, $50 tie Emmett where the hell does she think I shop Target? This tie cost at least $75" I whined downing the last of my beer and examining the pink tie with black stripes. Emmett, my best friend, was laughing his arse off."Man Jazz that is cold, you had your arse served to you on the subway by a complete stranger!" Emmett was laughing so hard now he had tears rolling down his cheeks, I may or may not, have told him this story 4 times now and each time received the same reaction.

I still couldn't understand why her reaction affected me so much.

"There nearly ready boys" Rose yelled from the kitchen, Emmett & I groaned in unison. Rosalie watched My Kitchen Rules this year and thought it didn't look so hard so she decided to start cooking for Em, beautiful as she is, a cook she was not!Last night she cooked us pasta and don't ask me how the hell someone fucks up pasta but she did! The noodles were hard as a rock the sauce was claggy and had so much garlic we couldn't eat it. After forcing down three spoonful's of it I promised her wine for a month if she'd let me call a pizza! Needless to say I stopped by the Bottle O on my way over tonight. Em looked at me and winked "we need more wine"…" I heard that!" Rosalie laughs as she passes Emmett and puts down, what can only be described as lumps of concrete, on the table. I look at her and she beams while pushing the plate closer to me "there cupcakes Jazzy try one"

I suddenly realise Emmett's dramatic departure the bastard didn't want to be the first one to try them! I pick up an oddly shaped 'cupcake', I'm not surprised when my cupcake appears to be missing its bottom. I take a deep breath and bite in to the cake, I'm immediately hit with a twangy unpleasant taste which I am assuming is the icing and I try my hardest to get my teeth through it without any success. I pull it out of my mouth change sides and try again, I manage to break a piece off, but it is like chewing shattered glass.

Emmett laughs from the door frame and Rosalie swats him on the head , "Thanks for trying one Jazzy" Rose smiles as she picks up the wine bottle and pours herself a glass…."So who is this women on the subway, do I need to bitch slap her or what?". We all laugh and polish off 3 bottles of wine in 2 hours.

XXXXx Spare Change xXXXX

"Jazz let us call you a taxi" Rosie offers walking me to the door "Ahh Rosie I live 5 blocks away, besides the walk in the cold air will sober me up" I say staggering down the stairs, bugger maybe I drank more than I thought.

"Yeah you better sober up Whitlock, we have to present to the man tomorrow, I don't want to do that hung over again, he threatened to spank us if we did that again!" Emmett hiccupped and slapped a hand over his mouth.
I laughed remembering how Dad hadn't been impressed when Em & I presented our pitch so hung over that we had to wear our sunglasses the entire meeting. To make matters worse Em accidentally hurled on the plans we were presenting, dad looked stern, but laughed as he threatened to put us over his knee and spank us the next time we come in to work hung over. He was kidding, we all knew that, but I wasn't game to chance it, with dad you never could tell.

I turned at the nature strip and waved, it warmed my heart to see Em had Rosie in a bear hug and was rubbing her arms quickly to keep her warm. They waved back and I turned left heading towards the stop lights. If it wasn't so dark and I hadn't just consumed an entire bottle of wine on my own, I would have realised I was heading the wrong way.
I swayed to the stop lights and wrapped my scarf around my neck when a gust of wind made me shiver. It was cold and I was lost I should have called my driver.

When the man changed green I crossed the street and was surprised to see a grotty looking girl with a scrawny dog sitting on a piece of rotting cardboard surrounded by pictures and a note.

"My name is Jane, I'm 12 years old & I live on the street.
I sell my pictures to buy food for me and Alec, purchase art supplies and if I'm lucky pay the
bridge guard to sleep under shelter.
Please have a look at my drawings, I do caricatures too.
Pictures 10 bucks each"

I sighed as I read the note; I honestly didn't know we had such a homeless problem in Franceshka. Until today I had never actually seen a homeless person, I wasn't naive to think they didn't exist, but from the literature I had read they were all drugos or gamblers, not children! I was blown away as I gazed at her pictures, she was really talented. I'd never seen such attention to detail; I could have been looking at a photograph they were that clear. I smiled when I saw her pictures of Bubbadoom amusement park. It was where we went for Emmett's bachelor party, we thought it'd be a good idea to get hammered and ride the Matterhorn till we puked. The attendant didn't share our enthusiasm, though he was happy when I slipped him $1,000 to cover clean up. I laughed at the memory as the girl approached me.

"Hi sir, I could discount them for you if you like, how about the 5 for 15 bucks?" She shivered and shoved her hands in her pockets. I smiled, this girl could be selling her drawings for 100 bucks a piece and here she was discounting them.

"Tell you what how about I pay you ten bucks a picture and you throw in a free caricature?" Her face lit up and she nodded her head excitedly, she offered me a seat on a milk create and pulled out her sketch pad. I cringed looking at the dirty thing; mentally calculating my dry-cleaning bill as I took a seat. The scrawny looking dog opened his eye and appraised me; she let out a low growl, but didn't bite me, probably a good thing, I can't remember the last time I had a tetanus shot.
While she sketched we chatted, when I asked her how she ended up on the streets she told me her parents died in a car crash and since she had no other family she was placed with a foster family who thought children were their own personal sex toys, I cringed when I heard that but was happy to hear she wasn't abused. She ran away her second night there and Alec followed. She tried to send him home, but he wouldn't go so she took him with her. She smiled awkwardly when her stomach rumbled and I frowned, I wonder how long you had to go without eating before that happened?

When she was done I laughed at the caricature, she had me sitting in a sports car, with the top down, a beer in my hand and a smoke in my mouth. She had no idea how closely that picture resembled last weekend.
I thanked her pulled out her payment, as she accepted I wrapped my scarf around her bony neck. She tried to protest, but I wouldn't hear of it, it was cold out and I had more at home. I began to walk away when she stopped me.

"Um Jasper, I don't have change" she stumbled handing the note back. I looked down and realised I had given her a $100. I shook my head and smiled I must have pulled out the wrong note, I know I had a fifty in there somewhere. Looking through my wallet I realised I'd used the fifty to buy wine. 'Hmmmm neither do I Jane" her face dropped, "You'll just have to draw me another picture"
I took a photo of Em & Rose out of my pocket "I'll stop back tomorrow night Jane can you do me a funny pic of these two, preferably in costumes?" her eyes lit up and she nodded her head.
I was about ten feet away when she yelled out "Thanks Jasper, see you tomorrow night" I turned back to wave at her when I stumbled into something which made me fall down. I heard a loud smash and a muttered fuck, and I suddenly felt wet.

I looked up to apologise and came face to face with the Orange haired tiger.

Why don't you watch where the fuck you're going!" I shouted at her trying to get up, but I kept slipping in something. I watched as she went from concerned to pissed in 2.5 seconds, it must have been the alcohol because I thought it was the hottest thing I have ever seen.

"Me" she seethed, "You're the one who ran into me, why don't you look where you're walking. I broke my pot and the soup I had for the shelter because of your stupidity!" she yelled.

I felt Jane's arms before I heard her as she tried to help me up."Jeez Jasper you went down hard are you ok?" Jane asked as she steadied me, she was looking at Alec and smiling, I smiled too seeing the joy it brought to her to have her dog feed. She had amazing restraint if it was me I probably would have licked it off the sidewalk.

"I'm sorry about that" I said wiping liquid on my pants and standing up, I suddenly smelt like cauliflower.
The tiger sighed, "Its ok" we all watched as Alec licked up the contents of the pot she was carrying. Jane steped forward to scoop him up.

"Jane be careful there is glass there you could hurt yourself" the orange haired tiger told her. Jane sighed "I'm fine Bella; gosh I'm not a child stop treating me like one" I smiled at her bravery.

"Yeah I'm fine Jane, thanks for coming to check" I winked at her and faced the tiger "Miss I'm sorry about your pot here let me replace it for you" I took a step closer to the orange haired women and handed her a 100 note. It was the only note I had left in my wallet, I didn't think much about it, I always have a lot of 100 notes. Apparently other people don't because the reaction it brought from her scared me.

"People like you piss me off! You think that you can buy your way out of everything that there aren't consequences for your actions, you think everything can be solved by money. You don't know what it's like to have to beg for money, to be hungry and not know where your next meal is coming from. You spent tonight drinking in a brewery from the smell of you while people in the real world were looking for a dry spot to sleep. You just cost 15 people a meal tonight and you think that can be solved by throwing money at me. Money is NOT the solution to everything Jasper and you would know this if you ever had to live in the real world, but you don't. You wouldn't know what real life was if it bit you on the arse!"

I was stunned, my mouth was hanging open and I couldn't fathom a reply because I didn't know what to say. It was money, no big deal I have a lot of it. I broke her pot and tried to replace it and she…she yells at me? I was so confused. I looked at her and watched as she unclenched her fists and took a breath. She closed her eyes and sighed "Go home Jasper before you get mugged for the money you keep flashing around" I watched as she grabbed Jane's hand and started leading her looked back at me and shrugged, but went with her.

As I turned to walk away I heard Jane say " Bella I don't think he deserved that."…..So the Tiger has a name.

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