Author's Note:

Hi everyone! I hope you guys are having a great New Years! This chapter has Jasper and Scarlett finally meeting! Please review! I will reply through PMs! Enjoy!

Jasper sat rigidly at the cafeteria table, his posture straight and eyes trained on the entrance doors. Alice informed their little group of the surprising occurrence (to anyone besides Alice of course) of Rosalie becoming friends with Scarlett. The two girls shared their first class, AP English Literature, and their fourth class that was before lunch, French 4., and now they were both on their way to lunch. The plan of having Scarlett sit at their table already underway.

"Jasper...you should blink bro." Emmett's deep rumble of a voice broke Jasper out of his staring contest with the lunchroom double doors.

"Noted." Jasper replied with a small smile. He didn't realize until then how stone still he was sitting and slowly relaxed his muscles. He blinked a couple of times to moisten his eyes and started to pick apart his lunch. He could hear Rosalie's voice from the hallway and knew any moment she was going to be walking through those doors with his mate.

"There she is." Alice's voice excitedly spoke. Jasper turned his head so quickly that any normal person would have broken their neck. His eyes quickly searched the small group of students before finding Rosalie, who was smirking at something the girl to her left said. His eyes trailed over said girl's form quickly; her beautiful smile, the brightness of her eyes, the gorgeous auburn of her hair. His eyes went further down, stopping momentarily at her breasts, average for her form but delicious nonetheless, and settled on her full hips and thick thighs. Venom pooled in his mouth and his eyes continued to following her as she walked across the cafeteria to the lunch line. He let out a small groan watching her plush ass as she walked. He appreciated all forms on women, Rose and Alice were equally beautiful to him, but he had to admit he was very pleased with how his mate looked. He was used to thicker women, a man coming from 1800s Texas should be, and he found himself immensely attracted to his mate's full child-bearing hips, despite the fact that he could not have children. The thought alone of grabbing those hips while he thrust deep in her-
"Jazz, control your thoughts please." Edward rolled his eyes at the vulgar thoughts that were coming out of the normally proper gentleman. Jasper, in turn, quickly emptied his head, his mind quiet as he simply stared at his mate without thought. He could grant Edward a little peace for now, but tonight he couldn't promise to have control over the thoughts that might roll through his head.
"Hey everyone, this is Scarlett." Rosalie drawled as she finally arrived at the table, lunch tray in one hand and purse in the other.
"Hi! It's great to meet you! I'm Alice!" Alice stood up quickly and hugged the startled girl. She knew already that Rose and Scarlett were going to be on more friendlier terms than herself and Scarlett, just like Bella would be better friends with herself than Rose. She didn't mind, they were all going to get along fine.
"Bella?" Edward asked lowly in vampiric speed. Alice quickly shifted her thoughts while ignoring Edward's penetrating gaze.
"Nice to meet you." Scarlett answered in a small voice, her hands held tightly onto her bagged lunch while she glance around at the more than possible beautiful family. Self-conscious of herself and trying not to dwell too much on it, she nervously ran her hand through her hair. Simultaneous smiles broke out around the table, Edward finding it especially funny that she had a habit of running her hand through her hair as well, creating a bed-head like hair similar to his own.
"This is Emmett, my boyfriend." Rosalie continued on with the introductions. Pointing to each one, Scarlett tried to remember each of their names. Emmett was the big muscular boy, she used boy to describe his cute dimples and child-like friendliness he displayed at his introduction.
"Wow Rose, you actually made a friend?" Emmett joked with an affectionate smile. Rosalie rolled her eyes and pointed to another man.
"That's Edward, my adopted brother." Edward was handsome in a dark way, like he spent to much time thinking negatively than positively. Scarlett could tell this by his cautious and intelligent eyes that were paired with bed-head that rivaled her own. The realization of what they were smiling at hit her as she watched Edward run a hand through his bronzed hair creating a neat messiness that matched hers.
"Hello." His greeting was simple and she appreciated that, the nerves in her stomach made it hard to speak at the moment.
"Alice has already introduce herself." Rosalie breezed by the small short girl who seemed too happy to be a normal teenage girl.
"And this is my twin, Jasper." It seemed like everyone was holding their breath, metaphorically since they didn't need to breath anyways. Jasper for a moment didn't know what to say; speechless, he searched his mind for something.
"Hello, darling" He spoke a simple greeting, allowing his southern twang to enter his voice. Scarlett stared at the most handsome man she had ever seen. His blonde hair and gold eyes gave him an angelic look that she would have believed if not for his dark pained look he carried. His body was fit with lean muscle and she wanted nothing more than to be wrapped up in those strong arms of his. Her heart stuttered at the sight of his knowing smile, as if he could hear how fast her heart was beating. Realizing that she was checking out the twin of her first real friend sent panic and guilt through her. Coupled with the awareness that she hasn't said anything sent her anxiety off.
Jasper felt her emotions, a frown settling on his face. He reached out and sent a wave of calm only to discover her feelings hardly changed. It was like trying to wade through muck instead of water, it clung to her and was resistant to budge. Her emotions were too strong for him.
"Hi, pleasure to meet you all." Scarlett managed to utter, her voice timid and hesitant. Rosalie took that as a sign to slide into the empty middle seat next to Emmett who was at the end and patted the seat next to her for Scarlett; right across from Jasper. Scarlett sat down, placing her lunch bag on the table as she did so. Jasper felt his hands morph the metal of his seat as her scent assaulted him. She smelled delicious, and Jasper wanted to taste her in a way only her mate could. His eyes turned pitch black and it took everything within him not to jump her.

In the vampire world, it would be normal for them to be all over each other already. Vampires felt and accepted the mate bond more quickly than humans did. The sexual tensions that came with meeting ones mate were overbearing on vampires' senses and were therefore quick to accept it when the knowledge that they were your soul mate came crashing down moments later. But humans couldn't feel this, humans couldn't instinctively know when they met their soul mates. The metal under Jasper's hand bent more, he would have to have her fall in love with him before he could touch her, and he was all too excited to start.

Scarlett on the other hand felt too nervous at the moment to do anything but stare at her clasped hands. Which was a convenient time for Jasper to regain control of himself. She was thankfully relieved when Rosalie struck up a conversation.
"So, an asshole of a human dumped orange juice all over my bag this morning." She complained as she opened up her milk and delicately placed a straw in it. Scarlett smiled at her foul language, and started pulling out her own lunch. Fresh chicken breast and cheese with spinach and light mayo on whole grain bread, some carrots since she had plenty of carbs in the bread, and a bottle of water.
While her mother had thought starvation was the key to weight loss, Scarlett herself knew better. Nutrition was the key and she spent most of her health classes throughout high school in perfecting her diet. It was useless until now, her mother still took away half the portions that she should have had and Scarlett suffered because of it. But she was happy she could finally eat the way she wanted, she missed cooking. And now with the proper nutrition and without her overbearing mother, she could finally go back to sports and working out. Don't want to get too bulky, no man wants a muscular woman. Her mother's voice sang in her head and Scarlett started to feel her appetite go away.

Edward couldn't help but to hear the thoughts that flooded through her mind, quicker than normal for a human but he managed to follow along fine. Hearing the other voice of a woman he could only assume was her mother was unsettling. Most people don't actually hear another voice, not one they themselves didn't create. Hoping to make her feel more comfortable, and in an effort to calm his restless brother who was currently thinking of 50 different conversation topics to talk about, he spoke to Scarlett.

"What kind of bread is that?" Edward asked, speaking over his sisters as they inspected Rose's bag for damage. Scarlett snapped up her head at Edward, a small shy smile played on her lips.

"Homemade, that's why its shaped weird. I baked it myself Saturday." She answered as she started eating her carrots. Jasper was relieved to see how healthy she was eating compared to the rest of the teenagers her age. He had been reading some of Carlisle's health and anatomy books these past few years to better understand the human body. They were even more fragile than he had originally thought, any imbalances to their diet could throw off their whole system. Eyeing her food, he approved of her eating habits although he wondered why she didn't grab a treat. Humans usually had some sort of processed sugar and going long without some usually produced binge eating. Maybe he was just thinking too hard, but he didn't want his mate to prohibit herself.

"You baked your own bread?" Alice asked to try to help her talk more. She discreetly nudged Jasper with her leg, hoping he would start talking soon.

"Yea. My dad loves sandwiches and so taught me how to make him his favorite. He likes a lot of fattening foods on it, so I try to make it as healthy as possible for him. So far he hasn't noticed." Scarlett felt more comfortable talking about her father, the obvious love she had for him was prevalent in her smile and the soft tone of her voice. Jasper admired her love for her father, it was rare these days to find anyone who spoke so loving of anything. He hoped one day she would speak of him with affection.

"You're still missing something from your lunch." Rosalie spoke with a scrutinizing look. While Jasper was grateful with what Scarlett was eating, Rosalie was suspicious. She found Scarlett's eating habits too clean, and witnessing her anxiety attack earlier that morning made Rosalie all that more suspicious of anything abnormal. "You need chocolate." Rosalie continued and moved over her mandated cafeteria lunch dessert, a chocolate muffin, to join Scarlett's collection of food.

Scarlett at first was speechless; if she were back in New Jersey with her mother she would assume this was a test and quickly object it but...she wasn't with her mother anymore. This wasn't a test that she would be punished for later if she failed, this was just a friend giving her some food. When was the last time she had chocolate? Sometime in the early summer when she was here visiting with her father.

"I-Thank you." Scarlett stopped herself from protesting and instead accepted the muffin. "Are you sure you don't want it?" Scarlett asked as she continued eating her sandwich.

"I'm sure." Rosalie answered with a small smile. She was just grateful she didn't have to pretend to eat it again. Carbs always tasted the worse to her, maybe because it didn't have any blood in it.

The lunch continued, Scarlett finished her food and ate her muffin slowly, savoring the taste of chocolate. Jasper was still staring at his mate, words simply evaded his mind as he distractedly searched for something to say. His time was dwindling down, there was only a few more minutes until lunch was over. Oh wait, that's it.

"What classes do you have now?" Jasper spoke suddenly causing Scarlett to jump at the sound. Her stomach churned uneasily as his attention settled on herself.

"Uh-" Scarlett stuttered as she collected her thoughts and tried to remember her schedule from memory. Jasper watched with a fond smile as she furrowed her eyebrows and looked up to the left in thought. "After lunch I have calculus," Jasper perked up at that, they shared a class together. He can at least walk her there...and maybe sit next to her if she didn't mind. "Then gym," Emmett and Alice did a weird simultaneous squeal that left Scarlett giggling, "Then my last class is AP Chemistry." Jasper grinned, he was blessed with two classes with her?

"We have calculus and chemistry together." Jasper shared with an excited grin. A small blush graced Scarlett's features as she felt her mind go blank just from his smile.

"And we have gym together!" Alice and Emmett sang together. Rosalie rolled her eyes at the two but couldn't help the small affectionate smile that graced her lips.

"It seems like the only person you don't have class with is Edward." Rosalie spoke as she broke off some more pieces of her burger in an attempt to look like she was eating. Scarlett, distracted by the statement, luckily didn't notice the lack of eating.

"No, we had music together in 2nd period. You play the piano." Edward addressed Scarlett who seemed to just recognize Edward as the boy who was moodily brooding in the corner of music class, taking the only other piano in the classroom. He was practicing with his headphones plugged in so she couldn't hear what he was playing but by the complicated and speedy hand movements she saw she could tell he was levels ahead of her.

"Not like you, I'm still a beginner." Scarlett admitted with the smile, humbly pointing out Edward's proficiency over her own.

"You're getting there." Edward dismissed her compliment with a wave of his hand.

"So what do you have for 3rd period then?" Jasper asked, filling her schedule in his mind except for that class. Scarlett didn't seem affected by the fact that he wanted to know her schedule, or that he seemed to know the classes that she shared with Rosalie, and instead answered him.

"I take art." Scarlett knew she should have taken a history but considering at her old school she had taken all her history credits, she decided to relax this year a bit and take an art class. Jasper smiled at the realization of her lack of history.

"No history class?" He asked her curiously and watched as her nose wrinkled with disgust.

"No, I finished my history requirements at my old school, I don't like history so I got it out of the way as quickly as possible." Jasper's amusement was obvious, his mate didn't like history. Before he could further the conversation and find out what his mate really did like, the bell rang. Scarlett quickly scooped up her garbage and went to throw it out. Jasper stood faithfully at the table, waiting for her to return for her knapsack. His siblings left quickly, giving him some time alone with his mate.

Scarlett was surprised by how quickly everyone left the table, all but Jasper who was waiting for her. She tried not to think too much of it; of course he would wait for her, they did have the same class. She gave him a shy smile as she slung her knapsack over her shoulder.

"Shall we?" He asked and lead her through the cafeteria doors, his hand ghosting over the small of her back. In another time he would have offered her his arm but for this time he would have to wait until she felt more comfortable to offer his touch.

"Do you like calculus?" He asked in an attempt to breach the awkward silence that settled between them. He could feel her nervousness and tried to calm her. His powers hardly worked, only diminishing her nervousness marginally.

"Actually I do." Scarlett answered with an embarrassed look. She nervously tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and accidentally made eye contact with her friend's handsome brother. The way his eyes seemed to pierce through her halted her breath and she quickly found herself breaking the eye contact and hoping he didn't see her embarrassment. Jasper, however; found her reactions endearing and wanted nothing more then to pull her closer to him so he could get more of her delicious scent.

"Math is fun to me." She continued with a smile. "It's like a puzzle, you only get some of the parts and need to figure out the rest." A blush settled on her face when she realized how nerdy she sounded and was relieved to see, with a quick glance, that he didn't seem fazed by what she said. A fond smile was still on his face and he seemed to never take his eyes off of her.

"That's a way to look at it. Is math your favorite then?" Jasper asked as they approached their classroom, Scarlett slowing as they made their way to the teacher's desk. She thought about his question, she never hated going to math or got a bad grade, or even wanted to skip it before.

"Yea." She said with a grin. "Math is my favorite academic subject, otherwise I would have to say art is." Jasper was aware of the other students coming into class now, their whispers and stares were anything but subtle and he was disappointed to see Scarlett's attention divert to the nosey student body. Her smile started to disappear and he felt as her happy emotions she started to feel, go away.

"Oh, so that's way history got kicked to the side." Jasper teased with a grin in hopes of keeping her attention, and her good mood. The lightness of his tone brought her attention back to him and he was relieved to see her grinning back.

"Ah so I guess history is your favorite subject, sorry to offend you." Scarlett teased back, despite the growing ball of nerves she was happy to see Jasper lingering at the teacher's desk with her. Even though it seemed the student body had nothing better to do then to spy on them.

"Alright class, in your seats. The late bell is about to ring." An african man in his thirties entered the classroom in a rush, sliding his briefcase underneath the desk and digging in his pocket for chalk as he spoke. Jasper hesitated for a moment longer before he followed the teacher's orders and sat at his desk in the back, a single empty seat besides him.

The teacher didn't seem to notice Scarlett at first, he made to go to the board but stopped and turned quickly to her. She smiled and shifted her bag.

"You must be the new girl, what's your name again?" He spoke quickly and without waiting for a reply grabbed his attendance sheet and spotted her name."Scarlett Quinn, nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, sir." Scarlett managed to say her greeting before he was quickly speaking again and lead her towards her seat.

"Good, always good to have new students. We are in chapter 3, you'll be sitting next to Jasper here- a book should be inside the desk. There is- good! Please don't be shy if you don't understand let me know. Now class-" Scarlett tuned out here as she turned her book to the correct chapter and started to copy down the notes he was writing on the board. She enjoyed this teacher so far, he left no room for her to think and with everyone stealing glances at her, and with Jasper sitting so close she could smell him, she needed something to focus on.