Chapter two I have just spit it out. My shift key is on the fritz and it is driving me insane, so if there is something that isn't capitalized and it should be PLEASE let me know, it will kill me if I see it later. Anyway, here it is for your reading pleasure
Peace
Alice wasn't hungry, not anymore. It was strange to even think that she had once been hungry with the way her stomach was turning summer salts, and doing fancy flips. It didn't help that she could feel his eyes watching her, or the fact the Bella's table had gone quiet the moment she sat down, and was now whispering like she wasn't a half a foot away.
Bella had glared at her, but Alice knew better than to say something, she just leaned over her food, and tried not to look at anyone or anything, but it was too hard, the feeling of his eyes on her made her want to meet his gaze. It made her want to be near him again, it made her want to talk to him once more. Which is something she should not do.
The moment she was away from him and could think properly she remembered the name Jasper.
Jasper Cullen was bad news. At least that is what Charlie had told her, when she asked him want to expect from Forks high school, it was odd to put his face to the name Charlie had shuddered at. She thought now he might have been exaggerating about it, her mother had said Charlie blew things out of proportion when it came to Bella, but Alice had thought it wouldn't apply to her.
Didn't you have to have unconditional love for someone to be irrational about them? Charlie had expressed two feelings in the time she had met him. Hunger, which was now her responsibility because Bella was not home at dinner time, or really any other time for that matter. And exhaustion, she knew now that work took a lot out of him sometimes, and not to go too crazy with dinner.
She could still recall the look on his face, when he came home to the chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, green beans and tea she had made the first night she was there. As he stammered through his explanation that he had already eaten at Billy Black's house, all Alice could do was nod, and say she had just made it because she had nothing else to do. But she could still feel the red heat creeping up her chest, and onto her cheeks.
Alice knew he had seen it, because he told her he could still eat, and took a plate full into the den for the game, she had been to upset to eat, and found the food in the recycle bin she had put on the street, the next day as she took out the trash. Leave it to Charlie to not know the difference.
She sighed and rubbed her temples, and closed her eyes. When would lunch be over? It couldn't go on much longer, she threw a hopeful glance to the wall clock and almost groaned. How could she have only been in here for fifteen minutes?
She let her eyes fall, until she was looking right across the room, that was he he locked eyes with her. Blush crept up her face, but Alice was unable to pull her eyes away, there was something in his eyes she had never seen before when a boy looked at her. Something dark, something a little dangerous, but something that when she thought about it made her blush again.
He smirked at her, revealing only the corner of his teeth, and it seemed only then she was able to drop her eyes, and she stared at her food intently, when someone nudged her from the right.
It scared Alice, making her jump but only slightly. Thinking she could pass it off as a bodily function, she looked over and found a petite girl with glasses looking at her, "You're Alice?" She questioned in a whisper.
Alice threw a glance to Bella, but she wasn't there, and a few other people were missing from the table. When had they gone? But it seemed insignificant now, and she nodded to the girl next to her.
"I'm Angela, and this is Ben." She said touching the boys shoulder beside her, and he smiled giving her a halfhearted wave.
"Oh, hi." She spoke in a quiet voice, one that was unfamiliar because she often got in trouble for being too loud.
"Well, I just wanted to apologize for everyone here, we are not used to something like this happening, your--situation is something no one expected Charlie to do so--"
"It's okay," Alice interrupted, not wanting her to go on not having the guts to say it, but she couldn't blame her she didn't really have the balls to say it either, "I know what you mean, I don't hold it against anyone. It must be strange for the town of Forks to see Charlie in that light."
Angela nodded, and Ben suddenly seemed very interested in the straw of his soda, "That and I'm sorry for Bella. It's just she had no idea, and then you show up and--"
"Yeah, I don't hold it against her either, if I was in her shoes I wouldn't like it much." Alice wished the conversation would end, or at least switch to a different topic.
"She'll come around," She said quietly, then as if sensing her unease, "Anyway, some of us are going to go to a movie in Port Angeles tonight. Would you want to come?"
Alice regarded her carefully, "I don't think so. I've got tons of homework because I'm so far behind, and I've got to make Charlie dinner or he won't have anything to eat, so I probably won't have time, plus I don't think Bella would want me there."
Angela shot a look across the lunch room, Alice guessed to wherever Bella had gone to sit, but she didn't look already knowing that it wouldn't be a welcoming sight, "Don't worry about that, it will be a bunch of us so she might not even notice you are there."
The pleading look in her eye almost made Alice cave, but the thought of what Bella might say when she got there, or when they got home was something she did not want to deal with, she was supposed to be doing what her mother told her and getting along with her sister and Charlie, not alienating herself even more.
Family was all you had in this world.
"No, I can't I'm already way behind I don't need to be anymore."
"Alright," She said ignoring the sigh of relief Ben took, apparently he didn't want Bella mad at him either, "Next time."
"Sure," Alice promised barely realizing it, "I should probably get a head start cause I need to find English." She stood, and took her tray of uneaten food and moved to the trashcans.
Angela said something that sounded like goodbye, and when she pushed Ben he mumbled something to, but Alice only waved and found the trashcans. Ten feet from the trashcan, a cool hand slid over hers and removed the lunch tray that no doubt would have clattered the the floor moments later, she gasped, wondering briefly how she had not smelled him before, because now it over powered her senses making her knees feel weak.
He dumped the food, and returned to where she had paused mid-step, "Hello again." Molasses ran over his words, and made them scrumptiously smooth.
"Hi." She choked, and tried to move past him, but he held out a hand, and she recoiled afraid of what might happen should they ever touch again.
"The bell hasn't rung yet," He stated simply, and Alice looked at the clock, know that they had another forty minutes before the bell would sound, and her eyes flicked back to him, and she tried to ignore just how green his eyes were, "Do you need some help finding you next class?"
The temptation to say yes was a strong one, and she knew she had to look away from him if she was ever going to say no, but instantly she regretted that she did, because she found most every eye in the room on them, though Jasper seemed oblivious to this, Alice thought for sure that Bella was the only one not looking at them right now.
She took to looking at the ground, "Thanks but no thanks, I know where it is, I just need to get something from my locker first which is across the school." Alice wasn't sure when she had become so smooth ant lying, she had never been before, but she had lied twice in the last twenty minutes and she had done it well.
He looked confused, like he had never been told no once in his life, and it made her irritated, but she said nothing. Jasper nodded, "Very well, have a good English class."
She nodded, and move past as his arm dropped, ignoring the sensation of their fingers rushing that she was sure she had made up, when a thought struck her. How did he know she was going to English?
"How did you--" She was about to ask, but turning back around she found the space he had occupied mere moment before empty, how did he move so fast? It was probably his long, lean legs, they were just made to make quick, languid, graceful strides.
Stop it Alice! She warned herself again, as she pushed through the cafeteria doors.
Didn't mean to make it so long, but I suppose it's not really a bad thing. Besides once I get Jasper on the brain I can't stop, he is one of my favorites! So push the button of ultimate green and let me know what cha' think
