I tuned out from the monotonous voice of the alcoholic man trying to teach me about the Civil War. He was currently explaining the assignment for the week- something that had been written on the board the entire period whilst I listened to his pulse.

I shook myself before anyone could notice the venom pool in my mouth had begun to overflow. I needed to hunt. Badly. "How long do you want the assignment to be?'

The human half-jumped startled by my voice. I got the feeling he had been completely in his own world. "At least four thousand words, Mr Hale."

The class groaned.

Alice was waiting for me when I left the room. She looked tense.

"I've been bombarded by visions all period. Edward's been planning on how best to suck the Swan girl's blood."

"I'll cover him. If he lets me have an arm."

She hit me, hard. "Jasper! We can't let him do this. He'd hate himself; us, everyone and you know it."

"Alice calm down. Nothing's going to happen right now."

"How do you know? He could be sucking her blood right now in a class room of dead students and their teacher."

My throat burned as the image floated into my mind. It's better to feed from a live human but I was past being picky. "I know because our dear brother is coming towards us now."

If I had looked dangerous before it was nothing to how Edward looked now. His eyes were the blackest I had ever seen them (or anyone else's for that matter) and his lips were pulled back into a snarl giving his face a feral appearance. My brother looked completely homicidal. "Where are you going?"

He growled something about biology before stalking past the pair of us heading towards the office. "This isn't going to be pretty," I whispered as Bella Swan followed behind him.

"Calm him down Jasper!"

I frowned sullenly. "If I do, he will kill me. We all promised not to abuse our powers."

"This is not abuse of out powers Jasper Hale!"

As Alice grumbled, Rosalie came silently up behind us; the pout she was displaying caused a wave of excitement to rush in my direction as the poor human boys of Forks High hoped she had had a nasty argument with Emmett. "He hasn't killed her yet?"

"Rose!"

"What? The sooner he does it, the sooner we can move on."

"I like it here, Rosalie. I like staying in the same place for a while."

Rose rolled her eyes at Alice who simply sighed. "Well, he is going to kill her sooner or later anyway. It's just going to cause us problems whatever way you look at it. If he won't get rid of her, I will."

I snorted. "Someone's jealous she's not the centre of attention." I dodged as a perfectly manicured slap came in my direction. "Touchy, touchy."

"Stop it, both of you."

"We should wait in the car, it won't be long." I reasoned, relieved to find my siblings were following me out to the parking lot.

Emmett was waiting for us when we reached the Volvo, smirking at me as he cracked his knuckles. "Ready for a rematch, brother?"

I rolled my eyes testily. "I won fair and square, Emmett. Besides, I'm not in the mood."

"You're just worried I am going to beat you, like I would've done last night."

"Emmett! Give up would you?" Rose snapped, opening the door to Edward's car.

I slid silently into the car, leaving room for Alice as I tried to tune out Emmett's incessant moaning. She patted my knee before twisting to catch a glimpse of Edward storming towards us at anything but human speed.

Edward climbed into the car, gasping for air as if he had just escaped suffocation.

"Edward?" Alice's voice was laced with alarm as she spoke; it was clearly taking every ounce of her being to keep from shaking our brother for answers.

He didn't answer. Instead he just shook his head, ignoring the rest of us as he caught sight of Alice in the mirror. It was obvious they were having a silent conversation.

"What the Hell happened to you?" Emmett demanded, thankfully distracted at least from the moment from the rematch he was craving.

Again, Edward didn't answer he simply threw the car into reverse, swinging the car round before accelerating out of the parking lot as if some invisible demon was chasing him. By the time we reached the first corner of the road he had the car travelling at seventy. It wasn't surprising, if Edward was nothing else, the boy was a speed demon.

I turned to look at Alice, unsurprised to find I was not the only one doing so. She shrugged, ignoring anyone but Edward. I fought back a growl; the silence was beginning to irritate me beyond reason.

"You're leaving?" she whispered.

My head snapped in Edward's direction. What? I thought irritably, knowing he was bound to ignore me.

"Am I?" He hissed. I was lost; whatever those two were seeing they weren't explaining it very well.

"Oh."

Edward's dark eyes met mine for a moment before returning to the road.

"Oh," Alice said again.

"Stop!" Edward groaned.

"Sorry," the little raven-haired pixie beside me whispered. Her eyes were wider than I had seen them in a long time. Clearly the vision had shaken even her. "I'll miss you. No matter how short a time you're gone."

I noticed Emmett and Rosalie exchange an apprehensive glance as we reached the turn off for the long drive to our house.

"Drop us here," Alice instructed. I looked at her in confusion. "You should tell Carlisle yourself."

As Edward nodded he brought the car to a sudden, squealing stop, allowing myself, Emmett and Rosalie to get out silently. I looked at Alice expectantly. She was going to explain this to us as soon as Edward was gone.

She ignored me and touched our brother's shoulder. "You will do the right thing," she murmured. Her words came out as a direct order rather than as a vision. "She's Charlie Swan's only family. It would kill him too."

"Yes." It was clear, even to me, that Edward was only agreeing with the last part of Alice's statement.

She sighed and slid out to join the rest of us, her eyebrows pulled together in anxiety. She caught my hand and dragged me into the woods, Emmett and Rosalie close on our heels, before Edward even had time to turn the car around.

Alice huffed as I stopped abruptly just outside the house. "What's going on?"

She smiled sweetly, attempting to reach my height as she balanced on the tips of her toes, moving in for a kiss I rejected harshly. "I'm serious, Alice."

She settled for kissing my cheek. "Inside."

XXX

A/N Hi, that was my chapter (Kim) If you can't tell who's written it, the parts by me will be the ones that ramble a bit because I'm not very good at writing in first person, furthermore, my chapters will be all the even numbered ones. Please R&R tell us if you loved it or hated it… Thanks for reading.