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"You have ice cream on your nose." Jasper leaned forward and licked the tip of Bella's nose. She giggled. I wanted to vomit.
My date looked at me expectantly. I had the feeling she was going to dip her nose in her ice cream so I could be disgustingly cute and lick it. No freaking way was I putting my tongue near anyone's nose.
"Do you need a napkin?" I passed her napkin from the dispenser on the table. She didn't look pleased. I went back to my mint chocolate chip deliciousness and tried to ignore the fact that Jasper and Bella were paying more attention to each other than the ice cream dripping down their cones.
One year since we met Bella at the Laundromat. One year of her dating Jasper and showing absolutely no interest in me. I was surprised at how strongly I felt for her. Jasper and I were a lot alike; Bella wasn't the first girl that we'd both been into, but usually it wasn't difficult for me to step off if the girl showed more interest in Jasper. Bella was different though.
To most, she looked like the average girl next door; brown hair, brown eyes, pale skin, short. But when you got up close and actually looked at her, you noticed the small things. The reddish tint in her hair when the sunlight it hit. The freckles around her nose. The moles on her neck that looked like a constellation of stars. The slightly crooked top canine tooth that she tried to hide around strangers. The silvery scar on her chin that she got from falling off her bike when she was eight.
I was staring at her again. I squeezed my eyes shut and rubbed them. When I opened them again, Jasper was watching me. "You all right, man?" he asked.
"Yeah. Brain freeze." I explained lamely. Jasper wasn't stupid, he knew how I felt about Bella. My sisters knew too, they figured it out after only about five minutes of spending time with us. Apparently, I was total shit at hiding it. They all said Bella didn't know, so either she was utterly oblivious or she was as in love with Jasper as I was with her.
The good thing was Jasper and I were family. With our birthdays only a month apart, we grew up together, best friends forever or however that saying went. A girl could never come between us; he knew he could trust me. I may love his girl but I loved him more, as unmanly as that was to admit.
My date, Leah something, was sitting quietly, looking a bit disgruntled. I couldn't blame her, Bella felt it was her duty to find me a woman and was constantly setting me up on random blind dates. The first few dates went okay; there were a couple girls that would have probably worked out, had I not been distracted by my feelings for Bella. Jazz couldn't seem to convince her to stop though.
"Bathroom. Be right back." Jasper kissed Bella's cheek and left me alone with her and my angry date.
"How's your ice cream, Leah?" Bella asked. She didn't like uncomfortable silences. I had noticed during these dates that she would do all the talking if I was slacking. Which was often.
"Fine." Leah's tone was clipped. Yup, she was pissed. Could I really blame her, though? She probably got roped into this date by Bells expecting some charming, funny, smart man or however Bella spun it and instead she got me. An unkempt computer nerd in love with his best friend's girl.
Bella appeared flustered. Could she really not grasp why all these dates went so horribly? She turned her head to watch out for Jasper and some of her hair went into her melting cone. I reached over and gently plucked the hair of out the ice cream, wiping it off as I tucked the strays behind her ear. My fingers lingered longer than they should have, I knew it. Leah knew it too, because she uttered an "oh fuck this" and left abruptly.
Bella whipped her head around either at the noise of Leah's chair slamming against the table or at the feeling of her hair being touched and noticed my hand was still in the air. "What the fuck?"
"Uh…your hair." I stumbled, "Your hair was in your ice cream. I got it out." I felt like a toddler expecting a prize for doing something good. "Look mommy! I fed myself like a big boy!"
"Oh. Thanks. What happened to Leah?"
"She left. I don't think she was having a good time." Bella looked crestfallen at the thought of another date ending badly. "She wasn't really my type, anyways. It's not a big deal." I shrugged.
"I'm beginning to wonder if you actually like women, Eddie." She joked.
"Oh trust me, I do. Just not the ones you think I like."
"What do you like, Cullen? Blonde with big boobs? Redheads? Or do you have some kind of Freudian complex where you only date girls that look like your mom? Because I don't think I can be a part of that." Bella stuck out her tongue, feigning disgust and I laughed.
"No. I don't want to date girls that look like my mom, or blondes with big boobs because that would be like dating my sister. What about redheads with big boobs? Have you found any of those?" She smacked me on the arm and called me a perv. I grabbed her hand and held on to it. She didn't pull away or seem surprised. I guess I touched her a lot more than I thought I did, she was so comfortable with me holding her hand. "How about you stop setting me up on blind dates."
"Aw. I just want you to be as happy as me and Jasper." She pouted a bit. Damn. I wondered if Jasper ever sucked on that bottom lip and what she tasted like. Bad thoughts, bad thoughts!
"I know, but I'm not really interested in dating right now." Which was almost the truth. I wasn't particularly interested in dating anyone other than Bella, but since I couldn't do that, why put another girl through my bullshit?
"You should listen to the man, Bella." Jasper suddenly appeared and I dropped Bella's hand, feeling guilty. "I see another date has split. That's like what, the third one? Clearly, he's not into this."
"Ugh whatever. No more blind dates." She grumbled. "Well since we are down to a trio now, I say we go back to my place for horror movies and junk food?"
We all agreed and left for B's apartment. Bella walked between us, her arms linked with ours. It was nice, just the three of us, and it would have to be enough for now.
sooo. bits and pieces.
Eddie hasn't figured out how to deal with his feelings yet.
Jasper's Girl chapter nine to come soon!
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