Oh my god, he couldn't believe what he was seeing and he was so afraid that he was going to hyperventilate at the front of the class. He quickly tore his eyes away from Edward's and turned his back on the class, pretending that he was looking for the register. He turned back around after he had managed to get himself and his breathing under control. He avoided looking at that area of the room as he gave the prepared speech once again to this class, they all seemed to take it in pretty well and a couple of them even put their hands up to welcome him to the school. Yes, this seemed like it was a very nice class. He took the register, almost fumbling over the name Edward Cullen. That had to be him, it was the only Edward on the register and he heard the quiet reply of 'present.' He carried on with the lesson that he had planned out, he didn't think he had ever wanted the ground to open up and swallow him any more than this. If they found out that he had sex with a high school student he would be fired, well not just fired he would probably also be arrested and sent to jail. He knew that the age of consent was 16 but that didn't make him feel any better about the situation, it would be an abuse of trust whether or not he had known this was to become one of his students. How on earth had they even let him in the club? He realised he was being irrational, of course they hadn't realised he was too young, even Jasper hadn't realised that. He carried on with the lesson and managed to get them all working but really he was working on autopilot, he had no idea what he was going to do about this situation. He didn't want to speak to Edward right now, not with the mind set that he was in. He had never been so mad about anything in his life and he had a feeling he would end up saying something he regretted later on. He knew why he was really angry, not just because Edward hadn't told him his age, he was angry because he had really liked him. He had hoped that they could get to know each other better and something could come of it, well he thought, that isn't going to happen now. He was so relieved when the bell rang out and he could be alone with his thoughts, he didn't even acknowledge Edward as he left the classroom and he ensured that he also left at the same time as the kids so that he had no chance to stay behind to talk to him.

He quickly made his way to the staff room, it was morning break and he needed another coffee already to get through the day. He was surrounded in the staff room by other teachers asking how his first couple of classes went and how he was finding the kids. He answered all of their questions, though he really wanted to just run back to his classroom and be left alone with his thoughts. He managed to worm his way out of the throng with his coffee in hand 10 minutes after he had first entered the room. He got back to his classroom and sat at his desk, he placed his head in his hands and heaved out a sigh. Why couldn't anything ever work out for him the way that it was supposed to? He just didn't know why fate wanted to play this cruel trick on him right now, this was his dream job and he may well have jeapordised it before he had even started it. He rubbed at his tired eyes and took a sip of his coffee, luckily for him the next period was a free one and he had a chance to collect his thoughts and he also took a look at the work from the first two classes. There was some promising looking stuff already. Then he came to Edward's book and he took a look, he seemed really passionate about the subject and he had already written a lot more than most of the other students. He saw scrawled in to a corner of the page one word, sorry. Jasper couldn't believe it, Edward was actually feeling guilty over what had happened. Well, so he should Jasper thought, he was the one who hadn't been honest about himself. Though if Jasper thought about it, he hadn't really asked him any questions about his age, or what he did or anything about himself really so he supposed that he could lay some of the blame at his own feet. Though a 17 year old boy should not be in a club on a weekend drinking alcohol and picking up men, especially not man who was to become his new teacher. Not that Edward had known this, Emmett the idiot had interrupted Jasper before he could tell Edward where his new job was. If he hadn't been interrupted he was sure that Edward would have made some excuse to leave, and this could have simply ended in Jasper admonishing Edward for being out at all and perhaps both of them being a little embrassed that they had flirted with each other in the bar.

He had decided what he was going to do about the whole situation, he was going to avoid it. After all why did he have to confront Edward at all when he was sorry it had ever happened, perhaps they wouldn't have to speak of it at all. Yes, Jasper decided, avoidance was definitely the best way to deal with it. At least this way there was no chance that Jasper would say something to annoy Edward which would result in him going to the principal and Jasper getting fired for sleeping with a student. Technically he had been in the employment of the high school when he had had the fling with Edward, though he had no clue that Edward was a high school student. He doubted that this would make any difference at all, especially not if Edward told his parents or something. Jasper doubted that he was that type of person, but then he barely knew him at all. He hoped that he wasn't about to ruin Jasper's life, and for the time being Jasper decided that he would ignore him completely other than if he had to talk to him for any reason because of his class. Yes, that would be best.

Jasper realised that this was completely irrational behaviour, and it was very unlikely that he would just be able to completely ignore him, besides in his classroom. He still remembered the effect that Edward had had on him, and the electricity he felt pulsing through him when they were together. He could see now why Edward had left in the morning, probably too afraid of whatever guy he picked up figuring out his actual age. He was actually quite pleased about this, just because it meant that it wasn't anything in particular about Jasper that had made him leave. But then if he left because of his age and the fact he was a high school student then it was obvious he knew what he was doing was completely wrong. Jasper realised the more he thought about it, the more he would just simply find reasons to blame either one of them and that was no way to spend a day. It would just have to be forgotten and he would have to have a strictly student teacher relationship with Edward, and that was the only way he could see that this could work. If Edward brought it up with him he would simply have to tell him that it was in the past and they couldn't talk about it, that he was his teacher and it would be completely inappropriate to discuss it any further. Yes, Jasper thought, this is just how it has to be.