Disclaimer: Don't own Twilight. But in my dreams, I kick Edward's ass EVERY TIME!

All mistakes are my own.

EPOV

Son of a bitch!

Just what did Jasper think he was doing? He thought he and his brother could take my Bella away from me? Ha! It's like he'd said to Peter…

The family's on my side.

I turned and ran in the opposite direction. When he left to answer his phone, I followed him. His thoughts (as well as his attitude) had been off lately. I now knew why.

Did Bella tell him what had been going on? That couldn't be it. I'm almost always with her. Monitoring everything she says, and everything she does. There is no way she could have slipped past me. On top of that, I've forbidden Jasper to be alone with her. Carlisle accepted it easily enough. He believes Bella to be my mate, therefore (when it comes to Bella) what I say goes.

I feel my lips curl up in a smirk. Jasper could be such a sap. Carlisle can go on and on all he wants about Jasper's being an empath; that it's everyone else's emotions getting to him.

When in reality, Jasper's a sap and a bitch; an emo bitch at that.

"Hey Edward!" Emmett calls.

I look over to see him covered in blood, his shirt torn, and dirt and twigs matted in his hair.

I smile. "Hey Em."

I jog over to where he's standing over his latest kill, a grizzly bear.

Of course.

He gives me an amused, yet quizzical expression. You look sick bro.

I smirk at him. "Funny."

He shrugs his thoughts smug.

I shake my head as I chuckle; always held the role of the smug pain in the ass brother.

"So…" he trailed off.

I raised my eyebrow at him.

"How's Bells?" he asks.

There went my good mood.

My smirk dropped into a slight frown, and I immediately honed in on his thoughts, looking for the reason behind his question.

But due to my paranoia, I hadn't managed to keep the change in my demeanor all that subtle, and Emmett immediately noticed.

Dammit.

"Whoa, man, what's up?" His thoughts told me of his confusion. Only his confusion. I had no idea if he suspected me of something.

When had Emmett become so observant?

Just as I was about to give some sort of an explanation, Jasper found us.

Well what do you know? Bastard had his uses after all.

"We're gonna be havin' some company for a bit," Jasper informs us as he walks over. "Peter and Char are comin'."

Scratch that.

"Really?" Emmett perks up, quickly forgetting my prior hostility. "That's awesome! Can't wait to take on Peter; show him who the REAL man is!"

Jasper and I both chuckle. It couldn't be helped. Every time Peter was brought up in Emmett's presence, he starts on about wrestling with him, and kicking his ass.

But then I come back to my senses.

Jasper.

Peter and Char.

Bella.

Son of a bitch.