After a few minutes of conversation with Rosalie and Alice about make-up I noticed that Edward was staring at me.

"What?" I asked him, irritated.

"I can't hear you!" Edward sounded annoyed.

I rolled my eyes.

"Would you like me to speak louder?"

He snarled at me, annoyed at my sarcastic comment.

"I can't hear your thoughts!" Edward clarified.

"Good!"

I turned back to Alice and resumed our talk on eye shadow.

"What are you thinking?" interrupted Edward.

I groaned.

"None of your business!" I told him turning back to Alice, "anyway I prefer - "

"I hate not knowing what you're thinking! You have to tell me what you're thinking" Edward demanded.

"Fine, you really what to know?" I asked him, he nodded, "I'm thinking that if you don't shut up I'm going to have to kick your arse to Australia and back."

I turned to the others who were surprised to say the least.

"Is he always this annoying?" I asked.

Alice recovered first.

"Well, yes, but normally it's because he isn't talking or he is depressed," she replied, "He lost his mate 90 odd years ago and he hasn't spoken much since. This is the first time the family has been together for a long time."

Alice's smile told me she was happy that they were together but her eyes pleaded with me not to push him over the edge.

I wasn't going to push him over the edge, although that's probably what he needed, but I wasn't going to let his use that as an excuse.

I turned back to Edward, anger simmering in my veins. Anger for his family, anger for the children he could have hurt and anger on Bella's behalf, she wouldn't want this for him.

Bella would be rolling in her grave if she could see him now.

"That's your excuse?" I spoke softly, barely containing my anger.

I felt a wave of calm wash over me.

"Jasper, don't" I warned. That earned me a few strange looks but I was too focused on Edward to care.

"You lost your mate 90 years ago and you think you can break up your family and come to school so thirsty that you could barely make it through to third period risking exposure of not only yourself but your entire family and me. Not to mention all the children that could have died because you couldn't be bothered going hunting," I was talking so quietly that I doubt even a vampire would have been able to hear me if they were over a two metres away.

"You don't know what it's like," Edward accused, voice full of emotion.

"See that's your problem! You're so self absorbed and stubborn that you refuse to see that you're not the only one to have lost a mate. I lost my mate too but you don't see me risking exposure or murder. You should be grateful you don't have to go through this alone, because trust me it's hard. You have a family who want to help you, why can't you see that?"

"Do you know what it's like to get over a mate when you're surrounded by people who have their mates with them all the time?"

"You're right, I don't know but I do know that I didn't need to be able to hear thoughts, feel emotions or see the future to know what you wanted to do in biology. If I wasn't there you and your family would be in a different country by now. Rosalie would have decided to go to some university in England so she could graduate somewhere and Emmett would follow her anywhere, Alice and Jasper would have left because Jasper couldn't stand your depression and Alice couldn't stand seeing you kill innocents and after finally having you all back together again, how upset and disappointed do you think Carlisle and Esme would have been?"

Everyone, including Edward, was now looking at me with open mouths. I couldn't decide whether it was because I wasn't taking Edwards shit or because I had pegged them all straight away. Perhaps it was the Carlisle and Esme thing? Maybe I should have just kept my mouth shut.

Just then the bell sounded. I exhaled, saved by the bell!

No-one moved.

"How did you . . ." Edward started.

"You owe me two flasks full of fresh warm mountain lion blood," I said quickly changing to topic by placing the empty flasks on the table in front of Edward.

"I expect them to be personally delivered to me by midnight tonight. Good-bye everyone, it was nice meeting you all," I continued, smiling as I stood up and hurried off.

"You're forgetting that I don't know where you live," Edward spoke softly and it sounded like he was right next to me. I tensed for a moment before realising that he was still hadn't moved from the table.

I turned around slowly. Edward was smirking, again.

"You don't need my address because you can follow my scent," I said as if talking to a three year old.

"But what if I don't want to?" Edward countered obviously trying to wheedle an address out of me.

But whoever said I was going to make easy for him?

It was my turn to smirk, finally.

"I'll leave the window open," I answered cryptically. I silently wondered if he remembered back that far and why I was being so thoughtless.

I gave a small wave to the table of stunned vampires then left before I my foot found its way any further down my throat.