Disclaimer: The plot is mine and the rest is Stephenie Meyer's
There is abuse in this story so if you are not comfortable….STOP READING!
Story beta'd by Hannah0707
The weekend passes nicely and I don't see Mike at all until the morning of the first day of school on Monday where he is wearing nice clothes that stick out. I walk over to the bench where he is sitting all alone and wrap my arm around his shoulder."Hey man, long time no see," I say.
"Ha ha, maybe for you Jasper but for me, I saw heaven this weekend." Mike raises his eyebrows up and down and I find a good way to bring up the cocaine incident.
"That's awesome, Mike. You saw heaven and I saw a doctor." I raise one eyebrow and take my arm off of his shoulder.
"Yeah, sorry about that, Jasper. I was too drunk, just make sure not to take another drink from me when I'm drunk again and you should be good for all of eternity. You missed the Cullens too. They came to the party and when I went around looking for you, they all said that you had left or they hadn't seen you. Those two girls you were talking about are smokin' hot and you were right, that one guy is huge!" Mike uses his arms to exaggerate what he is saying while I just nod along.
"Oh I saw them alright. Edward Cullen, one of the guys, was the one who tricked me while I was high to go see his doctor of a dad then I passed out at their place and went home early in the morning."
"That's awesome. They all are a little weird though aren't they? The big guy, Emmett, told me that they were all adopted but some of them are siblings and they are all together which is kind of like incest right? Well, a roundabout way in incest."
"Yeah, roundabout way I guess. They all look the same with their golden eyes and, no homo but they all look like models off of some fashion magazine. Which ones are the siblings?" I ask. And here I thought that I was going to be the one telling him about the Cullens.
"Emmett and Alice are siblings, and the rest of them are all adopted. We have seriously got to get some of them on the football team, we would win state if we had them!"
"You say that like we aren't going to win if we don't have them." Mike shrugs. "Yo, and where did you get those clothes for the first day of school? I know we were supposed to be a little dressed up but I know that you didn't bring anything with you except for the clothes on your back."
He chuckles. "Remember Jessica's older brother who went off to college? His parents still have some clothes in his old room for when he comes to visit, but you know he isn't coming back anytime soon." Looks like Mike has all the company he needs over at Jessica's house. I feel a little jealous but remember that this is a good thing, for Mike at least.
The bell rings and we all head to the gymnasium so that the idiot principal can talk to us about how this year is going to be great, how we are going to love our teachers, and welcoming the new students. He is right about one thing, this year is going to be great…. for the football team! I have been killing it in practice and I know that I will rock all of my games. Principal Greene dismisses us and we all head out to our different classes. I look down at my schedule that I had picked up earlier this morning from , and groan when I see that I have Spanish and then English Literature. English is my hardest subject, but since I get along really well with the teacher, , who has a bit of a crush on me, I usually slide through her class easily with a few winks thrown her way. Spanish is almost just as hard as English, but luckily I am in the lower Spanish class where everything is repeated over and over again so I never really have to listen.
"Hola Bonitos." Señora Roof says to the grumbling class. I sit in the middle of my personal squad of football players. The team has become my friend group and we always stick together. Spanish class is a bore but it passes quickly when all you do is talk to your friends so before I know it, the bell rings and I go to my locker to switch out my books. Waiting for me there is Edward who is leaning against my locker, trying to look like he belongs in this school when that couldn't be farther from the truth.
He belongs on the front of a magazine.
When he sees me, he immediately straightens up and flashes me a pearly white smile that could make a blind man cry. I do a two fingered wave and get into my locker to take out my English stuff while I say, "What's up?" to Edward.
"Oh, I was just wondering if you could help me find my next class." He says this as a question as if I wouldn't help a friend out.
"Why don't you just use your map of the school? I know that you have one because I got one last year too." I think I see a little panic go across his face but it is gone so quick that I doubt it was ever even there in the first place.
"I did have one but I lost it when this girl named Lauren fell on me and I had to catch her." I laugh.
"You should have just let her fall, I say." Edward grins widely at my comment. "What is your next class?"
Without looking down at his schedule he says, "English."
"Great, that's my class too. Sit by me." We fist bump and my hand feels like it has been shocked again. English is the only class where none of my football friends are in the class with me so I am virtually alone, and to make matters worse, it's my worst subject. Mike isn't even in the class with me which double sucks but it's better now that I have Edward, so I can deal with it. It's nice to get out of that group sometimes anyway, most of the jocks are just idiots and it's hard to hold a conversation with them but Edward is a really smart guy and will be a great friend.
EPOV
I knew it, I had mated with this boy named Jasper.
I was only suspicious before, but when we fist bumped, I got that electric feeling again when our hands touched and I had been drawn to him ever since we had followed him to that party on Friday night. I never thought myself to be attracted to men but I had mated on him and I do not regret it at all. The only problem is my family. Alice must have already seen this happening but nobody else in the family knows and I would like to keep it that way. My family is very old so that means that they all grew up homophobic because being gay was scandalous back in our times. I was raised that way as well, but it is not like I could just ignore my attraction for him. I'll have to talk to Alice later about this because if she were to tell Vee…. that could lead to horrible consequences with me in the middle of it.
Jasper sits down at his table and I take the seat next to him and study all of the little white scars that cover him and growl lowly. He must have heard me since he turns his head to me and asks, "Did you say something?"
"Oh, no." I try to come up with something quickly. "I was just wondering if you would like to, um, hang out on Saturday? We could go bowling or to the movies or something?" What have I done? He is going to reject me and see that I was suggesting a date, oh no….
"Sorry but I have football practice on Saturday but maybe you could come to that and show some school spirit, eh?" He nudges me in the shoulder and does a little adorable laugh that I can't help but smile at.
"Yeah, I'll come. Maybe I'll even bring the family."
"You're going to bring your whole family to football practice that none of you are even playing in? That's kind of weird, but do whatever you want to do." comes in and bangs his hand on his desk until the class is quiet. He starts talking about how we are going to be reading over his syllabus as partners today then hands out our papers and leaves us to it. Jasper holds his syllabus up in front of him and watches me.
"Take a picture and it'll last longer." I say goofily and he chuckles.
"Oh, no. I was just waiting for you to read it?" Well that's kind of odd. I look around and see that every group is reading it aloud to each other, I guess it isn't that odd.
"We can switch off in the middle then," I say and Jasper looks a little flustered.
"Why don't you just read it all. I listen better when somebody else is speaking than I do by myself." Auditory learner, I see. I want to know everything about this man.
I start reading and Jasper watches his paper but his eyes are unfocused. He nods every once in awhile so I know he's listening but I doubt that he really is, it is infuriating that I can't hear his thoughts. Mates' powers don't work on their own mate, only on everybody else. That is, if they have a power at all. I know first hand how frustrating that is just by listening to Alice's thoughts.
"Jasper," calls from his desk, "will you come over here for a moment?"
I hate to eavesdrop in on what they are saying but I need to know everything that is going on with my mate at all times. " , have you fixed that little problem that we had last school year?" takes off his glasses with one hand and looks at my mate intensely.
"Sir, I promise I'm going to fix it up, I-I just need a little more time. I have gotten so much better, I swear." Jasper stutters.
"You have been saying that for a while now and we are just getting started with your Junior year now. I don't like to see our football team lose anymore than you do but if you don't get help on this matter, then I will have no choice to pull you from the team so you can work more. I do not want to do this but you have forced my hand at this point and this cannot go on. I suggest that you get a tutor to help you out and if you can't find one then I am sure that the school might be able to help you out. This is something that everybody needs to learn, Jasper. You can't just procrastinate on something so vital."
Jasper sighs, "Yes, sir." and walks back to his seat. He puts his head in his hands and I barely remember to pretend like I don't know what was just saying.
"What's wrong?" I ask.
"Nothing new. told me that I need to get a tutor. It's nothing really." His face flames and I am immensely curious about what the problem is about.
"So then what's the problem? All you have to do is get a tutor." It seems really easy to me.
"Well, my schedule is not very easy to work around. I have school, obviously, and then immediately after I have football practice until seven o'clock and then I've gotta eat something and by then it's nighttime. I just don't have the time until the weekends and even then I have games every other weekend." I have an idea.
"Hey, I'm a really good tutor, I can teach you just about everything. I could tutor you. I know you said your busy everyday after school but that just means that we will have to do it in the morning." I light up at the thought of spending more time with Jasper, and it will even be voluntary so he will be with me because he wants to!
Jasper's head lifts up and his mood becomes more somber at my words and I can't help but feel melancholy that I was the one to put that look on his face. "Edward, I don't think that you could teach me this. Just drop it, I'll figure something out."
"Oh…. all right, Jasper. I am confident that I could help so…. just give me a call if you change your mind." He seems really embarrassed but I really hope that he does call me, it doesn't even have to be school related. Writing down my cell phone number, I give it to him with a smile. I really wish I knew what he was thinking, it is so frustrating not to know what is going on in his head. I really want to ask Carlisle for advice about how to deal with not being able to hear him but I know that if I do, he will want background information then he will know Jasper is my mate and then I will be disowned. I am not going to go there.
"Thanks for the offer dude, but I gotta admit, I'm not going to call about the tutoring deal." I feel a little sad but I think Jasper notices because he immediately brightens up at my expression with faux happiness.
"Hey, but I'll text you about our first game whenever I find out. See you later, pal." We do the weird one arm hug thing that guys do and I absolutely love the connection between us. I'll have to be furtive around my family but I feel like we can make it work if we just try hard enough but there is still one part of this puzzle I still don't have figured out. How am I supposed to make Jasper like me like that?
JPOV
That was really nice of him to say but I don't want to rope the new guy into tutoring some idiot on the football team. If Edward only knew what he would be trying to teach me, he would probably take back the offer anyway. If I am going to get somebody to help me, then it is going to be a professional. That way, nobody at school will find out and I won't become a social pariah.
Lunch is here quicker than I thought it would be and all of my stressing has made me into one hungry man. I get to lunch a little late because I had gone to to tell him that I have a plan and the school doesn't need to hook me up with a tutor. I walk in and hurry to the lunch line for my food and like always, people part for me to go to the front of the line. Sitting at my table, Mike on one side and Tyler on the other, we talk football, like always, but this time I get a little bored. It's all we ever talk about, football this and football that, and I wish that I could be talking to Edward but I quickly shake that thought out of my head. Tyler and Mike have been my friends longer than Edward so I shouldn't wish for that kind of stuff.
"Jasper wake up dude. You've been out of it for like, five minutes. We were going over the starting line up for the game on Saturday." Tyler says while waving a hand in front of my face.
I hear clicking sounds behind me and I turn to see Lauren Mallory in her high heels walking straight at me. That is, if you call swaying your hips walking. I am surprised that the school lets her wear what she does. She is wearing a leather mini skirt that shows the bottom of her ass and a lace shirt where you can see the outline of her nipples through it. First day of school and I'm sure that she is already starting a high school brothel.
"Hey Jazzy poo," Lauren says as she sits in my lap, "I was wondering if you might wanna….meet up after school to study our chemistry." She does this every once in awhile, every other week, and I would get Mike to go to her for me because I don't wanna have sex with that skank, but now that Mike and Jessica are together, I have no other choice but to tell her no.
"Look Lauren, I don't like you like that. Not interested, babe."
"Oh come on, you know it'll be fun with just you and me, and maybe I'll even bring one of my girlfriends too." I decide to play with her a bit.
"Oh, well then count me in. Your house at 7:30 and I'm in baby." I give her a Whitlock smirk that flows through the family and she kisses my cheek before trotting back to her table, a new skip in her step. She just got Jasper Whitlock to agree to have sex with her and you can tell that will be the highlight of her week, if I were to show up that is. You see, I don't do that kind of stuff with the girls here, or anywhere for that matter. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that all the ones I meet are premature prostitutes, so now Lauren thinks that she is going to be the first one to catch me.
I can see the whole table full of Cullens watching me as I roll my eyes and turn back in my seat to eat my long awaited lunch. Creepy.
Lunch is done when I hear the bell and I head out to government then precalculus. I love precal because numbers are my favorite types of words, I get along a lot more with numbers than I do letters because when you speak numbers, you always know the right answer. English teachers want opinions, math teachers want right answers. Opinions are a lot harder to say and then be told if your opinion is right or wrong. Not like I do anything in either class other than talk with my friends, but I still hate English.
Physical Education comes quickly and I find that I have that class with Edward too. We play football and coach says that we are doing it this time of year because it is football season, but everybody knows that it is only because he wants the football team to get as much practice in as they can before the first game comes up. So we throw and throw and we even do a scrimmage for the ones who want to play and I notice that most of the girls and Edward are the ones who sit out for the game. I guess I won't be the one to persuade him to play on the team if he won't even play in P.E. He looks like he has a really good throwing arm though so I make a mental note to ask him about playing later, even if he is likely to turn me down.
We are all dismissed at three o'clock and head down to the locker room to change into our practice gear for football, and regular clothes for the people who don't play football. Eric Yorkie decides to twist his shirt up and smack me across the thigh with it so it turns into an all out free for all in the boys' locker room. Sometime during the war, Edward had slipped out and I had missed my chance to ask him to try out for the team. There is always tomorrow I guess.
After school, practice goes by as well as it always does and I am improving by the day. Coach pulls me aside to remind me about that school problem and I tell him that I have it all under control, and I do…. almost. I make sure to mention that I am trying to get Edward to join the team and Coach says that I should try to get all of those Cullens to show up to practice one day but I doubt that is going to happen.
After practice, Mike and I start to head home and he tells me to drop him back off at Jessica's house again once he gets his new change of clothes. I am a little disappointed that I haven't been getting to spend much time with Mike these past few days but I'm sure that he will come back soon enough. I really am happy for Mike now that he has Jessica but now it leaves me alone with myself and I am not good company for my mind.
So I decide to break out that Sunday paper that we got yesterday and do the puzzles and read the comics before I go to bed. I remember doing the paper with my grandpa every morning when I was a little boy before I was taken away from him. After a while of laying in my bed, I fall asleep easily. I am happy that I don't have a nightmare because Mr. and hate it when I wake up yelling. My nightmares always end up waking the whole house along with me, but usually Mike is here to calm me down. I really do hope that Mike and Jessica don't do this every night just in case I need a friend to calm me down. I focus on what I have to do tomorrow to take my mind off bad thoughts.
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