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Alice

My first week as the new girl at Forks was better than I expected it.

By Friday, no one really bothered me anymore. There were still some people who tried to get me to spill everything to them, like Bella and Rosalie but I still wouldn't. However, Jasper was someone who I tended to talk a lot to in art class. He was funny and knew how to keep up conversations though I didn't think he thought that about himself.

By the second week, I knew who the bitches were that I should stay away from completely. Some chick named Maria and her clan. Apparently they were the definition of screwing people over and I didn't want to deal with that because it was one of the reasons I was in the shit town in the first place.

Cynthia had made her shifts work around my school days. She would watch Lainey while I was at school in the day then work at night. I started looking for a job that I could do on the weekends to help with the payment because the bar pay for her wasn't anything high and I had a feeling that the child support checks would stop coming soon. There was no way he was going to keep the job that the court ordered him to get.

The weekend went by fast and I was soon walking through the school parking lot and heading to the clinic. I had to give them a note from a doctor stating that it was okay that I take medication during school. I expected the looks and gasps from whoever was reading the note so I was able to ignore it.

School was going slow and I wanted nothing more than to see Lainey. It was times like these when I needed to be with her. That was the only hard part about school now. I would touch my right shoulder every now and then where her name was tattooed and I felt the anxiety go away.

"Alice, are you okay?" Rosalie asked at lunch. I must have been daydreaming, again.

"Yeah, just daydreaming." I laughed it off.

Great, the day I actually do stay and sit with everyone at lunch I become the weird one who stares off into space about the daughter no one knows about.

"I'm going to head out early." I said getting up from the table.

"Okay." Bella sounded confused and had worry in her eyes but smiled anyways. I smiled back and walked out into the cold air. I wrapped my arms around me although it didn't help.

"Where you headed to young lady?" Someone said behind me making me jump.

I turned around to see the blond male and sighed. "Shit, Jasper you scared me."

"Sorry." He said smiling. "But really, where are you going to?"

"I think I'm going to skip." I said without thinking but it suddenly sounded like a good idea.

"Mind if I join?" he asked looking down, probably expecting me to say he couldn't come. But right now, I actually didn't want to be alone.

"Sure." I said smiling at his surprised expression.

We ended up going to my car and listening to music.

"I thought you said you didn't have a car." He said when I turned the radio on.

"It's my sisters'."

He nodded. "I didn't know you had a sister."

"Yeah I do."

"Older or younger?"

"Older."

"Mine too."

"I didn't know you had a sister."

He sighed, "Yeah, Rosalie is my older sister."

"I didn't know Rosalie was your sister." I laughed.

"Why is that funny?"

"It's not; I just don't know I missed that but now that I know, it's very clear. Are you twins?"

He nodded, "She's older by one minute. If only they pulled me out first." He laughed. "It gets to her head sometimes."

"I bet." I said leaning my seat back and staring at the ceiling.

"You know what's even better?" He said looking at me.

"Hmm?"

He reached up and pulled the cover back from the top window and we were staring at the small droplets of water coming from the sky. The clouds were moving over us and I felt relaxed…

Why was I doing this? I was opening up to someone. It was probably good but why? Why him, I barely knew anything about him and he knew absolutely nothing about me.

Then I thought, he reminded me of what I missed and wanted most. What and who I wanted this to be right with. He was just like the beginning of what started this…

"You should go." I said sitting up and making seat fall back into place.

"What why?" He said confused.

"Because I just remembered that I have to get out of school early anyways." I lied looking down. "And you shouldn't skip anyways."

"Neither should you." He said softly.

"Look, Jasper this was great but I really need to go."

He didn't protest any longer and got out the car. I waited until he was all the way to the steps to pull out of the parking lot.

Cynthia was going to kill me for coming home but I couldn't stay there and be around anyone now especially when I was thinking about what I just thought.

How could someone like Jasper remind me of someone like James?

So it looks like Lainey isn't the only thing Alice is hiding from everyone. What could be so bad about James? Review and find out (:

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