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I was sitting in my Civil War history class, chewing on the eraser of a pencil, when Alice's pixie like face popped in the door, telling Mr. Houang that the dean needed to see Isabella Swan. Getting up, I smiled sweetly at Jasper, who had turned around to stare at me.

"Alice Hale! What the fuck do you want?" I whisper-yelled outside of the door.

Alice quirked an eyebrow, and asked, "What happened with you and Jasper this morning?" The way she asked made me feel defensive, but it made me laugh because she broke me out of class to ask me this.

"Nothing, Alice, nothing at all," Smiling at her pixie face, as the bell rang, my free period had begun, so I uttered a 'bye' to Alice, and headed toward my hiding place; the library.

Looking up from my book, I saw a familiar blonde haired Texan talking to Jessica, and they looked extremely into the conversation. Jasper said something; obviously really funny, and Jessica's loud nasal laugh floated over towards me.

You know the feeling people get when someone else has something you really want? Jealousy, right? Well, that's the feeling I got when Jasper kissed Jessica. Full own, with lots of tongue.

How dare him! HE IS MINE. How dare Jessica?

Face it, Swan. Jasper never wanted you anyway. You don't compare to him, in any shape, form or fashion, why do you even like him?

I don't.

I can't.

I shouldn't.

I'm not going to.

Stop lying to yourself…

"Earth to Bella?" Jasper's beautiful toothy grin appeared in my line of sight.

"What do you want, Hale?" I said, disgust coming off of me in waves, he'd be very oblivious not to feel that.

"What's wrong, Bellsy?" He said, looking genuinely worried, which disgusted me even more.

"Screw you, Jasper." I said my pulse quickening.

"No, seriously, Bella, what's up?" I rolled my eyes at this.

"Not this conversation, fuck off Jasper." I got up and walked off on that note, not before being caught by the arm by Jasper, but I didn't even meet his eyes, he could probably feel the hurt I was feeling, and I hoped it choked him, the same way it choked me.

On the way to the apartment I shared with Alice, and that asshole, I called my best friend; Emmett.

"Hello?" Emmett's gruff voice rang out through my Blackberry's speaker.

"Emmett, it's Bella, do you mind if I crash at your place for a couple of nights?" I bit my lip, waiting for his answer.

"What happened with Alice and Jasper?"

I blew out a gush of air, and told him the whole story, leaving out no detail, and Emmett didn't interrupt me, even when I started tearing up.

"We're not even together, Emmy, these feelings are irrational, and make no sense."

"So, you're going to run away from your problems, Bella? You're going to cry over a guy whose only skill that I see is to hurt you? Bells, you're stronger than this, and you deserve better." Emmett said this with meaning, and it made me remember why I fell in love with him all those years ago.

Emmett and I have been best friends since we were at least 5 years old, when he beat up a little boy who was calling me names on the playground. We became even closer in high school when he found out his mother had cancer. I was the only one he had as a true friend. During our senior year, his mother died, and Emmett took it the worst way any person could've. He left for the Marines not long after, and when he came back, I found out about a world I thought only existed in books and movies, and that's how I met Alice, Emmett had met her while internet dating, but nothing more or less had come of it, and they just became friends. My feelings for Emmett have gone away since then, but the memories we have together will always be there.

Out of all of my friends, I was the only human, and sometimes I thought of being human negatively, Emmett always said if he could have his humanity back, he'd give any and everything, it'd make me feel good for a while, but then the thoughts would just come back.

"I know, I know, Emmett, but I… just… I don't know."

"Stay with Alice for the night, see how things flow, alright? I'm always a call away, and you know this."

I smiled sadly at this, wishing I could hide in a dark corner on the bottom of the world.

"Yes, Emmett, I know. "

"I love you, Bella, stay safe."

I wish those words would have come out of another person's mouth, but I knew that would never happen.

"I love you too, Emmy."

"Call me if you need me?"

My phone was beeping for a while now, I just figured it was the battery dying, but looking at it now, I saw that Jasper was calling…

How the fuck did he get my number?

Alice.

"Yeah, I'll call you, Emmy, talk to you later!"

Hanging up, and clicking over to Jasper, I sighed silently.

"Bella? Finally you answered, where the fuck have you been?" He asked full of worry.

'Where the hell do you get off asking me questions like you're my father or something? Why the hell are you even talking to me?"

I could care less about his worry right now; he could choke on blood for how much I cared right now.

The phone was silent for a bit, and it sounded like he was taking unneeded breaths on the other side of the phone.

Now he's making me wait?

I hung up on him, and then realized I had parked near a coffee shop, looking through my purse for my wallet I got out of the car and proceeded to take my mind off of my whole situation with the sweet smell of coffee beans.

Getting back in the car, I looked at my phone:

6 missed calls from Jasper

1 new voicemail

I erased my call history, and checked my voicemail, already knowing it was from Jasper.

Pressing the appropriate buttons to get to the voicemail, I listened for a while but there was just still silence, when finally Jasper uttered three words I never expected to hear:

"Because I care…"

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