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-I do own any unrecognized characters. Please do not use my characters or my world without my permission. (Ask I'm likely to say yes.)-

AN:

Another day, another chapter! Hope you all enjoy!

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"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do." – Brene Brown

Kat shot the basket, successfully winning the game for her team. She grins as Jessica and Mike run over to her, cheering. They had been playing against the sophomore 6th period gym class, the winning class, got the pool for the rest of the year. She smirks, giving Emmett a nod, as he stands off to the side with his team. He gives her a thumbs up. She goes in and changes back into normal clothing, heading out to her dad's police cruiser.

"Happy Adoption day, kiddo." He grins at her.

"Thanks dad." She laughs.

"How was school?"

"I won the basketball game in gym… my class gets the pool for the rest of the year now."

"Good job." They pull up at the house. "Let me go get changed and then we can head to dinner at the diner." She nods pulling out her phone, texting Alice. After around half an hour, Charlie finally comes back out, and they drive to the diner. They go inside.

"Surprise!" Kat laughs, shaking her head. She spends the next hour, being dragged around by Jacob and Seth. She can see Billy glancing at the Cullen's every few minutes, frowning. She shakes her head, he'd have to deal with her hanging with them. She ends up with a lot more old books, a few rarer ones from Carlisle, Esme, and Jasper. A leather jacket from Alice, and some CD's from Edward. The party ran a bit late, but when she got home, she found a small box on her computer desk. She slowly opens it. Inside is a rose charm…

"Ainsley…" she mutters picking it up, she puts it on her bracelet. She gets ready for bed, when she comes back to her room, the box is gone, but the charm remains where she had placed it.

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"Having real friends is so much better than having more friends." – Unknown

Most of the summer had come and past. She was 15, and so her dad had let her have more freedom. So long as she responded when he texted, and was home by curfew she could do what she liked… Her and Charlie had gone to see Bella again, this time in Arizona. They spent the end of June and start of July there. Kat had gotten sunburned multiple times, and was honestly ready to be back in Forks. The rest of the summer was spent with the Cullen's or researching ghosts. She was determined to find out what was going on.

It was August now, she was sitting on her bed reading one of her books, when someone knocks on the front door. She quickly jumps up, going downstairs to open the door. Standing in the doorway is Jasper.

"Oh, hey Jasper, what's up?" She asks. He pulls a single Lily from behind his back, holding out to her. She takes it looking confused. "What's this for?"

"I was hoping you'd do me the honor of going on a date with me ma'am?" Jasper asks smiling at her widely. Kat looks down at the flower and then back up at him. He was really cute… or more like hot… and she really liked him…

"I'm sorry, Jasper… I don't think I'm really ready… to date." She says awkwardly, blushing. Jasper nods, his smile failing a bit.

"That's alright, I understand… The flowers still for you." He adds, before turning and walking off back to Emmett's jeep. Kat sighs. And goes inside, putting the Lily in a vase, she takes it up to her room.

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Kat looks up from her book, as her phone went off, she picks it up. A text from Jasper.

'Would you go out with me?' Kat shakes her head, this was the third time he'd asked that month. It was annoying, but also a bit enduring. He didn't treat her any differently when not asking, but wouldn't seem to be giving up. She tosses her phone on her side table and goes back to her book, she would sleep on it this time…

Kat woke to a light next to her bed, a piece of paper floated there, before the light disappeared, and the paper floated to the ground. Kat quickly sits up, turning on her lamp, she snatches the paper from the ground reading it.

'Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. – Unknown' next to the quote is a small sketch of a rose… Kat stares at it, then puts it in her notebook she had started about Ainsley...

"You always did know what to say to me." She mutters with a shake of her head. She picks up her cell phone, opening the text conversation with Jasper.

'Yes.' She sends the simple answer, watching her phone for a response.

'Really?'

'Yes, really.'

'I'll pick you up at 6 tomorrow… or today… It's 4 AM Kat, why are you awake?'

'Human stuff' she smirks down at her phone. 'See you tomorrow, good night.'

'Sleep well darling.' She grins at that, and lays back, slowly falling back asleep.

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"Okay, you look amazing!" Alice says moving back from finishing her hair. Kat looks in the mirror, her hair was done in a simple, yet elegant, braid down her back. She had refused to wear any make-up, but Alice had insisted on doing her hair.

"Thanks Alice, I love it." She looks down at her outfit, a light blue swing style dress, and black flats; she wore a black cardigan over top, with her silver dream catcher pendent, her charm bracelet, and silver stud earrings.

"One last touch." Alice says, slipping a silver star clip in hair. "Now it's perfect." They hear a knock on the door downstairs, Charlie answering it. Kat takes a breath and grabs her black purse, heading downstairs, Alice following behind her. Jasper stands in the doorway talking with Charlie, he is wearing a pair of black pants, a black button up shirt, and a black jacket over top.

"Her curfew is 10 PM, you know this… just, take care of my girl." Charlie says with a sigh.

"I will have her home on time, I promise Chief Swan." Jasper assures him. Kat smiles walking over.

"Hi…"

"Hello." Jasper grins at her. Charlie sighs and looks at her.

"You have the pepper spray I got you right?"

"Dad!"

"I'm just asking." He grins. She sighs.

"Yes, I'll see you later." She goes outside with Jasper. Alice walking off towards home, breaking off into a run once she's in the forest.

"Sorry about that… he's…"

"Worrying about his daughter… It's alright." Jasper holds out his hand to her. "Shall we?" Kat takes his hand, blushing. He leads her to the Mercedes he had borrowed from Carlisle. He opens the door for her. She smile and gets in. He starts the car and they drive off.

"Where are we going?"

"We are going dancing, in port angles."

"Dancing?"

"There's a dance hall we're going too. I thought it would be something fun we could do." He says with a smile.

"Sounds great to me, but I'm warning you, I am not the best dancer." She smiles back, blushing a bit.

"You don't have to be good to have fun." He points out.

"True." They fall silent, Kat watching the scenery as they drive by it, they were going majorly over the speed limit, but she didn't really care, she was pretty sure Jasper had good enough reflexes to keep them from crashing. After sitting in silence for a bit Jasper looks at her.

"Why'd you finally say yes?" She smiles softly her finger running over the rose charm on her bracelet.

"I took a friends advice." She says looking at him. He smiles back at her, reaching out a hand, and taking hers.

"I'll need to thank this friend of yours."

"I'll pass on the message."

"May I ask why you said no?"

"It's stupid… I didn't want to date, because I didn't want to get hurt, to end up with it just being a hookup…" she says quietly. "I like you to much for that…" They pull into a parking lot. Jasper parks the car then turns to her.

"I can promise you, this is more than that, I care about you. More than you could ever know." She blushes at this, nodding. Jasper gets out of the car, going around and opening her door for her, he holds his hand out to her. She grins and takes it. The two go inside, people are dancing to swing music out on the floor. A small bar area is to the side, tables surround the dance floor. They find a table. Jasper takes off his coat, hanging it on a chair. Kat puts her purse with is. Jasper turns to her with a grin. "May I have this dance darlin'." Kat blushes but takes his hand. He pulls her out onto the dance floor, spinning her around, making her laugh.

The next two hours are a blur, as they spin around the dance floor, Jasper teaching her how to swing dance, and many other old dances. Kat looks around as a slow song starts. Jasper pulls her close, taking her hand in his, the other holding softly on her waist. She grins and puts her free hand on his shoulder.

"I don't really know how to slow dance… just what I've seen in movies." She tells him softly.

"That's alright, just… follow my lead." He says looking down at her. She meets his eyes with her own, dark brown, locking with gold. He slowly turns them in circles, his eyes never leaving hers. After a bit he wraps his arm around her waist, and lifts her up slightly, spinning them around. She laughs holding onto his shoulder and hand tightly. When they stop spinning, he sets her down, leaning his head down towards hers. Kat closes her eyes, as Jasper slowly, and very softly kisses her. It only lasts for a few seconds, but it felt like eternity, a brilliant, amazing eternity. The song ends. Jasper smiles at her softly. "We should get you home, we don't want to break curfew." He says quietly. She blinks and nods.

"Y… yeah." She blushes and follows him to garb their things, they walk out to the car, hand in hand. Jasper opening her car door again. "You really are a southern gentlemen aren't you?"

"Yes, Darlin' I am." He smiles at her, and gets in his side. Starting them on their way back. As they drive back Kat smiles, holding his hand watching the trees fly by.

"And then my soul saw you and it kind of went 'Oh there you are. I've been looking for you.'" Kat mutters quietly to herself. Jasper looks at her, smiling.

"Did you say somethin' Darlin'?" She looks at him, knowing perfectly well that he heard her.

"It's a quote I read online once…" She smiles lightly, looking down at their hands. "It's a thing I used to do… when I was younger, I'd say quote's I felt fit the moment…"

"Why'd you stop?"

"I stopped saying the quotes out loud when I was 12… I was with a foster family for a few weeks who hated them… I didn't want to be yelled at anymore." She shrugs.

"I think it's cute…" he says running his thumb over the back of her hand. She blushes.

"Well the quote does fit."

"Yes, it does." He looks at her lovingly. She blushes, biting her lip, looking away. He chuckles. They pull up outside her house, Jasper opens her door for her, helping her out, and walking her to the front door.

"I had a wonderful night, Jasper."

"So did I, so we can do this again?"

"On one condition." She grins up at him.

"Yeah?"

"We're officially dating."

"That I can agree too." He leans down and kisses her softly before stepping back. "Good night, Darlin'."

"Good night." She watches him go back to the car, driving off, before she goes inside grinning.

"So how'd it go?" Charlie asks as she comes in.

"Wonderfully." She says still grinning widely.

"Well, uh, good… good, I'm glad you had fun." He says awkwardly. She laughs and hugs him.

"Good night dad." She heads up to her room, falling back on the bed with a large grin.

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AN:

I hope you all enjoyed, please leave a review with what you thought and any ideas you may have. But please no flames. I am fine with constructive criticism; but please leave it in a polite manner. Simply calling out ways in which my writing style is either not like yours, or that something is not what most would consider grammatically correct because you dislike it is not helpful. Pointing out ways in which you believe I may be able to improve, either grammatically, spelling wise, or even in style can be helpful. Also if a tense is wrong please point it out, this is a rewrite and I changed the tense when I edited/ rewrote it and there are probably at least a few errors I missed. There is no need to be rude and if you simply don't like the story it is your choice whether you read it or not, so simply choose not to, I don't need to hear that you hate it.

~ Kat