Chapter 6

Jasper

When we arrived at school Edward and I got out of my car and walked toward the side door entrance. Edwards's body was so close to my own his chill breath ghosted on the skin of my neck and cheek. Surprisingly though no one even noticed our arrival, it seemed to be out shined by a new arrival. He was nowhere to be seen. I assumed it was a boy, because everyone was looking at an extremely impressive and huge motorcycle. Not impressive enough as to rival mine,but still nice just the same. Edward didn't seem to give our new student much thought. I on the other hand was curious as to who he or she was. I shrugged it off for now, and turned and made my way to school.

Edward and I were walking side by up the stairs to the door. Once we reached to top of the stairs I felt his hand grab hold of mine. Air whooshed out of my lungs, my body tensed up, and I froze in my place. We hadn't really talked about whether or not we would I guess "go public" with our relationship. I turned my head toward him, but I couldn't see his face his head was turned down and his hair was covering his face. He quickly let go of my hand, and murmured a soft "sorry", before quickly disappearing through the door and down the hall.

IDIOT!I shouted to myself.

"Jazz! What's up man? Where ya been?"

I sighed heavily; snuck one last glance at the direction Edward had gone, before slapping a fake smile upon my lips, and turning to face Mike Newton.

"Hey Mike! Nothing much, you? I've been around just had stuff to do, ya know?" I replied.

He nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah yeah man, for sure. It's cool. We missed ya at the game though."

I nodded.

"Have you seen the new kid yet?" Mike asked me as we walked to our lockers.

"No. Who is it? Have you?" I asked him as I started to put my combination in.

"Nope, but I'm sure that Jess knows." He was right about that if there was anything new going on at Forks High she'd know firsthand. "I'll check you later though, right? You'll eat with us at lunch?"

Mike looked so hopeful. Granted sometimes he could get leachy and annoying, he was always loyal and nice.

I nodded. He smiled, slamming his locker shut and trotted on to class.

I followed suit heading towards my homeroom. I sat in the back hoping to be left alone, but I knew it was a lost cause. Soon Jessica and Angela both joined me in the back of the classroom, the latter taking the seat to my right leaving Jessica happily on my left.

"So…"Jessica started leaning a little too close for comfort. She looked at me expectantly. I knew what she was fishing for, and I wish she wouldn't.

"So…what?" I replied. I looked forward to the front of the classroom at the blank dry erase board.

She sighed dramatically shaking her head from side to side. "Jasper! Come on, you know what I want to know. What is with Edward Cullen's sudden interest in you?" I had to stop myself from laughing out loud. She almostwas able to keep the jealous edge out of her voice almost. I searched my brain for a way to make this conversation end, but I could practically feel her determination rolling off her in waves.

"Nothing we were just studying together, nothing major." I said annoyed. I hoped that would get her off my back for now.

She frowned, and scrutinized my face for a bit, before I guess she decided I was telling the truth. I rolled my eyes and zoned out. Jessica and Angela spoke amongst themselves.

I had more important things to think about. What do I do about Edward? I knew I had hurt his feelings, but did he really think it was okay to hold hands in school? Of course I liked him, hell I was probably in love with him. I had only been obsessed with him since I first saw him. I wish I hadn't had a brain fart and had apologized. I sighed to myself. I'll have to make it up to him. If I were not such a fraddy cat then of course I'd want to shout to the entire school that I was with Edward Cullen, but that wasn't that case unfortunately. How would everyone react?

I was broken out of my thoughts as the school bell rang. I shuffled to my feet and headed to my next class.

Lunch

"Yo, Jazz!" I turned to see who had called my name. The voice belonged to one of the people at Forks High that I could actually stand to be around Tyler.

"Hey. What's up, man?" He asked as he made his way over to me.

"Hey." I replied distractedly. I was looking over his head for Edward. Maybe I could invite him to sit with me for lunch.

"Who are you looking for?" Tyler asked as we walked toward the table our little group usually occupied.

I put my bag in one of the chairs on the end of the table, sitting next to it. I looked up at Tyler.

"Huh? Oh, no one. "

"Coming to the food line?" He asked over his shoulder already heading in the direction of the line.

"Yeah, I'll be right behind you."

I looked towards the table that Edward and I had occupied together. Empty.I moved on to the table he usually shared with his family. For a moment I thought that he had left, when I about to lose hope. He walked in alongside his short and spiky haired sister known as Alice. He didn't look my way. His face was hard, and his eyes were cold with no emotion visible.

My body was facing their direction, and I wanted to go over there and talk to him. The blonde one that was sitting across from Edward –her back to me—turned her head in my direction, and glared. My eyes widened, as her glare had me back tracking. I quickly turned and headed in the direction of my friends.

Okay, so hurting Edward also means you pissed off a pretty scary blonde. We'll talk to Edward later.I agreed with my thoughts talking to Edward later sounded best, and also alone seemed safest.

"Hey, Jazz! Look who we found." Jessica greeted with a beaming smile on her face, hooking her arm in my own. I turned to do as instructed and I was met by a tall, silk haired native boy who looked more man than boy. He had broad shoulders, a strong jaw, he was about five or six inches taller than me, which put him at about six foot six or six foot seven, and his arms they were huge with extremely toned muscles. He looked bigger than Edwards's brother Emmett.

"This is the new kid!" Jess announced to practically the entire cafeteria. He didn't seem bothered by it.

He smiled at me out-stretching his hand towards mine. "Hi, I'm Jacob." Jacob. His smile was warm and friendly it made me smile too.

"Jasper, it's nice to meet you, Jacob."

With all the introductions done we all got our food and made our way to our table. I moved my bag to make room for Jacob. He melted right into everything, being funny and smart it was like he had always been here. He was a great addition to the group.

Lunch flew by; before I knew it everyone was separated and headed in their designated direction to go to their next class.

"What's your next class?" I ask Jacob as we both crossed the cafeteria.

He reached into his jean pocket pulling out his schedule. "I've got Biology."

I smiled as we squeezed through the crowd. "Really? So do I, it's this way."

"Cool." He fell into stride next to me.

I wonder why they gave him Biology. Isn't that class full? Oh crap. Edward is in that class.

"Here we are." I croaked out as we walked into the crowded classroom. I throat was dry and tight. Edward.He was avoiding me, and I had done a pretty good job about not thinking about him.

I walked Jacob up to Mr. Banner's desk, introduced him to the teacher then walked as slowly as possible to my desk.

Edward was already there sitting down his head turned facing the window. I sighed for the millionth time today, and took my seat.

"Are you going to talk to me or not?" I asked looking down at my hands in my lap.

It took a moment before he responded. "That depends;" he started voice sharp and cold "are you going to stop talking to me mid word because someone sees you're talking to me?"

I frowned. I knew he had every right to be upset with me, but it still hurt.

"I'm sorry, but I just freaked a little, we never talked about if we were telling people or not-"

"I have to make an announcement to people to be allowed to hold myboyfriends hand?" He interrupted turning away from the window his eyes meeting mine looking through me.

I opened my mouth to respond, but was interrupted by Mr. Banner calling Edwards and mine name. We both looked toward our teacher as he made his way over to us, with Jacob behind him.

"Hey, guys." He greeted. "Since this class is already full, and we now have an odd number of students; you too are my best students, would you mind letting Jacob into your lab group?"

I answered immediately. "Sure, it's no problem."

"Great! Thanks." With that he headed to the front of the class, and began to start his lesson. Jacob grabbed a chair and sat on my right side. He sent me small smile of thank, and I nodded in acknowledgement smiling back. He looked passed me, at Edward, his jaw set, and his eyes narrowed. My brow scrunched in confusion I turned towards Edward and his face was similar to Jacobs except his was a bit more menacing. I would have asked what was going on, but the moment quickly passed and both of them started to focus on class. I started to do the same.