Chapter Two

-May 2006-
Jasper
I kept up with my brothers as we ran home from our latest hunt. We had gone way out of our way this time out. Alice had seen a family camping in our usual hunting ground, and no one wanted to test my limits with that, so we had gone 50miles north of Forks to the forest.

"I could have had that last one Jasper! Just wait until next time!" Emmett shouted over his shoulder at me when we approached the house.

Emmett's wife, Rosalie, came out from the garage when she heard us. After kissing Emmett, she walked over to me.

"Don't tell me that you got the last grizzly before him." She started with me.

"Ok. I wont." I hid my smile as I started towards the house.

"You are going to regret that Jasper! Now he is going to be in a pissy mood all night!" Rosalie shouted at me.

"Sure he will." I laughed and headed upstairs to the room I shared with my wife, Alice.

I walked into our room and found my beautiful wife lying on her stomach on our bed, going through the latest catalogue from Bloomingdales. Pen in hand, phone next to her on the bed, she was ready for another round of 'Alice's Home Shopping Network'.

I walked over and gave her a quick kiss before heading into our bathroom to clean off all the dirt, mud, and blood that had covered me in the hunt. I showered and changed into a pair of jeans and a plain blue shirt and walked out of the bathroom.

My wife had not moved since I went in to clean up. I walked over and kissed the top of her head when I approached the bed. She looked up and gave me a sweet kiss on the lips and I had a glace at the page she was on and the items that were circled and marked with her various notes.

"Are you shopping for yourself or Bella?" I asked as I sat next to her on the bed, remembering her habit of exchanging Edward's girlfriend, Bella's, 'outdated' clothes in her room for new fashions.

"Bella." She replied as she circled a blue lace top and marked it with Bella's size. "She really needs to get out of that brown phase of hers."

I couldn't help but laugh at my wife's attempts to improve Bella's fashion style. "You know Sweetie, I think Bella is enough of a big girl to be able to pick out her own clothing." I tried to come to the poor human's defense whenever I could. But my wife won every round, so I knew this wouldn't be any different.

"I know. I am just trying to give her a gentle nudge into the direction that is best for her tones and body type."

"Or more like a giant shove Alice!" Bella's voice came from our doorway.

Edward must have just gotten back from picking her up from her father's house.

"Oh Bella! Thank God you're here!" Alice exclaimed and jumped off of the bed. Bella gave me a defeated look in her eyes as she knew what was coming. Alice rushed over to her with the catalogue in hand and pulled her into the room. "I just found the cutest bra that would look absolutely adorable on you! I need your size!"

"No no no!" Edward shouted as he stomped into our room to rescue his girlfriend from the clutches of my wife. "You do NOT need to be buying my girlfriend ANY undergarments Alice!"

"Alice, really, please don't. Its not like anyone is going to be seeing them, so why waste all of that money on it?" Bella questioned. It was not a secret that Edward and Bella hadn't done anymore than kiss, only because Edward was already pushing his limits just being around her. To add that much intimacy would probably make Edward's head explode.

"Oh come on Bella! It is so cute! Look at this! It would look absolutely fabulous on you!" my wife continued. She showed Bella a picture of the bra in question and Bella's face got flustered when she saw it, apparently much more racy than any of her current garments.

Bella sighed and I knew what she was going to say, her only scapegoat out of this situation. "Alice, I'll make you a deal. You don't buy me any underwear, and you can take me shopping and buy me any other clothes you want for one day." Bella shuddered as she spoke the last few words. I could feel her apprehension at what can of worms this would open for their next time out.

"Deal." Alice agreed and shook Bella's hand to seal the agreement. "We can go this weekend!" she declared excitedly as her gold eyes sparkled.

Bella rolled her eyes. "Looking forward to it…" she said with much less enthusiasm than Alice.

Edward pulled Bella out of the room to save her from having to suffer through anymore of Alice's attempts of dressing her up.

Alice plopped back onto our bed and began dialing the order number for Bloomingdales. After she told the poor human on the other end of the line all of the items that she wanted (I lost count after 20), I handed her the credit card and waited patiently for her to finish with the order. When she was absolutely certain that everything would be here by Wednesday, she hung up the phone and looked up at me as she handed me back the card, with a very satisfied look on her small face.

"May I ask as to why you need all of that stuff here by Wednesday?" I looked down at her.

She grinned. "Because I ordered Bella some new shoes from Jimmy Choo earlier and I need to see if the colors match, its not really easy to compare them in the catalogues." She explained.

Edward must have seen it in her mind because the next sound we heard was Bella from his room upstairs. "NO MORE SHOES ALICE!!"

I laid down on the bed and Alice crawled up to lay next to me, her head on my chest in the exact place where my still heart was.

My favorite place in the world.


Ok, lemme know what you think so far. This story is literally something from the tiniest idea I got a couple weeks ago. I really don't know what will happen, so it might get totally crazy at some points, but it is just something to keep me from losing it completely while waiting for Breaking Dawn.