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A Battle, Not the War

The rest of gym passed by in a blur and so did the rest of the day. When I was getting into my car Jasper blew me a kiss and said "Goodbye Darlin, till tomorrow" and drove off. I got in my car and drove home after that, all the while thinking. Mainly I was thinking that I couldn't believe how much had happened in two short days. But I would take it as the change and challenge that I had been looking for when I left my mom and Phil. I had come looking for something new and exciting and I had certainly gotten that. It brought a whole new meaning to that old phrase "Be careful what you wish for."

I was also trying to comprehend how Jasper had so thoroughly bested me. It had never really happened before, so it was a very new experience, and I was sure that I wasn't enjoying it. I tried to come up with something to do about it. But eventually I had to let those thoughts go on the back burner as I did my homework and made dinner. By the time I was getting ready for bed, I still hadn't thought of anything useful. The only clear thought I had was that I was going to have to seriously up my game to defend against him, let alone being able to win this little game. That was the thought that was most concrete thought in my head as I drifted off to sleep. I would not let him win, in the end I would come out on top, no matter what.

When I got up that morning I was feeling quite confident, or at least not as shaken as I had been. He had gotten to me so bad because I wasn't use to losing. But I reminded myself that he had won one battle, not the war. I would show him that his minor win yesterday meant nothing and that I was not someone to be trifled with. With that clear thought in my head, I got dressed as carefully as I had yesterday.

I picked out another silk top but this one was a red baby doll fit with a sweetheart neckline. I put on a black silky pleated skirt that went half way down my thighs and black leather boots that went over the knee enough that they almost touched the bottom of the skirt and had red silk ribbon ties that laced up the back of my legs. I looked like I was about to go clubbing instead of to school, but I wanted to look my hottest today. Yesterday I had thought I had dressed well and it did distract him a little. I was hoping this little number would really mess him up. Besides I was still feeling a little insecure and I liked to dress up to help boost my confidence.

Not to mention that it would help with the plan that my mind had come up with as I slept. Today I would not pay any extra attention to Jasper. I would treat as he was just one of the crowd, as if he didn't matter anymore than the rest of the boys. And the rest of the boys I would pay a lot of attention to. Jasper was use to girls falling all over him and giving him all the attention he wanted. Something told me he would not like being ignored and being treated as if he were not God's gift to women. Oh yes I would flaunt what he wanted in front of him, but not let him have it. He had taken me for granted and needed to be punished for it. I was going to use the forbidden fruit tactic and something told he was going to fall for it hook, line, and sinker.

I drove to school feeling upbeat and confident, I had a plan and it was going to be fun to execute. When I got to the school I looked not for Jasper but the other Cullen's and parked next to them. As I got out Emmett whistled and said,

"Daaaaayyuumm giiirrrll you look like you're dressed to kill, you be lookin' hot!" and he gave me a low wolf whistle.

I laughed and said "Why thanks, but you're not really my type." I said with a wink to Rosalie.

"Ohh I think I know what your type is." He said with a meaningful look at Jasper who was a couple of rows over from us with his little hoe posse.

"Emmett you couldn't guess my type even if I spoke in really small words and used colorful pictures." I said smugly.

"Whooo wow man she really got you there." Edward said while laughing.

"Whatever dude." Emmett said sullenly and proceeded to pout.

"Annnnnywaaaaay moving on, not that you look bad or anything, quite the opposite really, but uh Bella why you are so dressed up?" Rosalie said with a huff at her boyfriend and a questioning glace to me.

"Well to get back at Jasper for yesterday, I dressed up and am going to ignore him all day and flirt outrageously with everyone else." I said with an evil smirk.

"Oooooh he won't like that" Alice said with a smirk to match my own. "No he won't like that at all."

"Dayum, you're evil when you want to be, remind me to never piss you off for real." Emmett said with a look of impressed horror on his face.

"Agreed" said Edward with a similar look on his face. With that last comment the bell for school to start rang.

"See ya all later" I said while waving and walking off with Alice to first period. I felt strangely satisfied, their reactions told me that my plan was going to work even better than I had thought it would.

I was sitting on top of Mike Newton's desk while he was sitting in it and flirting pretty heavily with him and a few other's that had gathered around me when Jasper came in. Mike's desk was in the same row as mine and Alice's but a couple up from them. So Jasper would have to walk right by us to get to his desk, which is why I picked it. I was almost surrounded by guys but Jasper still tried to get my attention. I studiously ignored him and I saw a glimpse of his face before I turned back to the others and saw a look of utter astonishment in his eyes. I quietly laughed to myself and thought "Game On."

He went back to his seat and I continued to flirt until the teacher came in and told me to get back to my seat. I sashayed my way all the way back and sat in my chair with a sort of flourish and a wink to Alice. Jasper tried to get my attention all though class but I pretended to focus really hard on the lesson and that was pretty much how the rest of the day went. He would try to get my attention and I would do my best to ignore his existence. He seemed to give up toward the end of the day and I thought I had won and that he was thoroughly discouraged, but I really should have known better.

I did this same thing for the rest of the week and by Friday Jasper had seemed to have totally given up. It was because I was so confident of my success that I accepted Alice and Rosalie's invitation to spend the weekend at their house. My Dad was actually glad that I had made such quick friends, so that he could go fishing all weekend and not worry about me being all alone the whole time. So at the end of school on Friday Alice and Rosalie came with me to my house so I could pack and then we went to their house. Though this time I drove myself since I still wasn't quite over my scary experience of when I had let Alice drive me.

Even though I had already been here once the beauty of the white mansion caught me again and I had to stop and stare for a good solid minute before I could follow the rest of them through the front door. Alice took me up to the guest room that they had made up for me that was just down the hall from her and Rosalie's room, but sadly it was right next to Jasper's room of course.

"Sorry about it being so close to his room, but the other ones that aren't being used are on the third floor and I didn't think you'd want to be that far from us." Alice said with an apologetic smile.

"No this is fine, I plan to spend most of my time in your guy's rooms so it won't be that bad." I said while keeping a confident smile on my face but inside I was having a small panic attack. I just knew that me being this close to him would be a bad thing. I was so distracted by my panic that I didn't even look at the room; I just dropped my stuff on the bed and came back out.

"So what do you guys want to do now?" I asked without giving myself away.

"Well you're the guest, you decide." Rosalie said

"Aww you're going to make me do all the work, no fair!" I said while giving her my best pouty face which didn't seem to faze her.

"Girl I deal with Emmett 24/7 your pout is no match for his and I am immune to his as well." She said with a smirk.

"Yeah give it up Belly Bear; Rosy has a heart of stone." He said and stuck his tongue out at her and then proceeded to run away as she tried to hit him. The rest of us followed laughing back down to the living room, where we found Emmett pouting and rubbing his arm and Rosalie looking satisfied.

"Well I guess since we're all in the living room, why don't we watch a movie." I suggested

"Sounds great, since you're the guest you pick." Edward said and led me over to their movie wall, and the wall part was not an exaggeration. There literally were shelves built into the wall and it was covered in hundreds of movies.

"Jiminy Christmas do you own all movies ever made?" I said with astonishment

"Hah well actually these are just some of our collection, we actually have a whole other room that holds the rest." Edward said with a tinge of embarrassment to his voice.

"You must be joking, this is only part of your collection? There are like hundreds!" I said still completely shocked.

"Haha nope there are 7 of us and we all really like our movies." Emmett said while laughing. "And if we're really all going to watch a movie then we should go to the Theater." He said with a wicked a wicked gleam in his eye.

"What are you talking about? Why would we want to leave when we just got here?" I asked thoroughly confused. Rosalie answered because Emmett was laughing too hard, which just added to my confusion.

"What Emmett was trying to say was we have a room that is much more comfortable and has a TV even bigger than this one and is completely decked out and we call it the Theater." Rosalie said with a glare at Emmett and another good whack to his arm.

"What do you mean by completely decked out?" I asked curiously.

"Oh you'll see." Emmett said with a mysterious glint in his eye.

"But before we go there you need to pick a movie or several, whatever you like." Edward told me

"Well since there's no way I can pick without it taking me an hour I'll just ask if you have something and we can go from there." I said

"Sounds good, what would you like, I'm sure we have it, and if it's not down here then it'll be in the Movie room." Edward said with a smile.

"Well if you have a TV that's bigger than this massive one, then I have to see my favorite movies on it, which are the Pirates of the Caribbean movies." I said with something very close to glee in my voice.

"Hell yeah! High five Belly Bear! I knew I could count on you not to pick some kind of stupid sappy love movie!" Emmett said excitedly.

"That's a fantastic pick! Johnny Depp is sooooooo hoooot!" Alice said just as excitedly

"Eh I don't know about that I mean I love his acting as Captain Jack, but for looks I definitely prefer Orlando Bloom." I said

"Mmm yes I must agree, he is simply scrumptious." Rosalie said

"Well looks like we're all in agreement I'll get the movies and you guys show Bella the Theater." Edward said.

"Well actually I would like to change into something more comfortable if we're going to be watching movies all night." I said

"Sounds like a good idea, how about we all change and meet there?" Edward suggested.

We all agreed and went to our respective rooms. When I got to mine I realized that Jasper hadn't been with us and now I knew that he had gone straight to his room apparently because I could hear the music thumping through the walls. I changed quickly so he wouldn't catch me in my room and went quickly to Alice's room, and we went to the Theater together with Rosalie.

When I got into the room all I could do was openly stare for a few minutes. If someone had tried to kill me in that moment I'm not sure I would have noticed. The wall across from the door was all TV, it was literally from ceiling to floor and wall to wall flat screen television. I had never seen something so big in my entire life, but when I could finally tear my eyes from the gargantuan screen I saw the floor next. It was covered in pillows, cushions, blankets, bean bags, mattresses, and pretty much anything soft and squishy you could think of. Next I saw the right wall that had what must be all their different game consoles and media players. It looked like they had everything from a game cube to the newest Xbox 360 and everything in between and it was all top of the line of course. Last I saw the left wall that was again covered in shelves of movies. Rosalie saw me looking and said:

"These are our absolute favorite movies and that's why there are less than down stairs."

"My god if you say this is less then I can't imagine what this Movie room must look like." I said still in shock and awe of the room.

"We'll show you it sometime this weekend, but for now let's watch the movie." Alice said excitedly and we all settled down comfortably.

We started out all next to each other in a big group, but slowly the other's paired off in their respective couples and left me alone. Which I was fine with because I was so enraptured with the movie, because of the enormous TV and amazing surround sound and high definition, it was almost a completely different experience and like watching them for the first time all over again. I was so captivated that when we were about half-way through the second movie and Jasper decided to make his appearance that I didn't even notice, at least not until he flopped right beside me on some cushions. He was so close that the side of his body brushed along mine when he moved to get more comfortable.

"What do you think you're doing?" I said as I started to move away.

"Well Darlin you've been so effectively avoiding me all week that I figured I had to something drastic to get your attention. I didn't think I'd be able to get you alone quite so easily but here we are." He said while flashing his signature grin.

"That doesn't mean you have to fall on top of me!" I said outraged.

"Oh Darlin when I fall on top of you you'll know it." He said with a smirk and a wink.

"First you're disgusting and you'll never get that chance and second didn't you think there might have been a reason for me to be ignoring you? Like maybe to show you that I wasn't interested and get you to leave me alone?" I said sarcastically

"Aww don't be like Darlin, I mean it really hurt you've that been shunning me all week and on top of that dissing me for those total nobodies." He said in his usual teasing and derisive tone but something in his eyes gave lie to that tone. He was trying to make light of it but there was something in his eyes that said maybe it really had hurt. I only saw a flicker of it and then his eyes went their usual teasing gleam. But I had seen something and that made me truly curious, but I continued the banter as if I hadn't seen anything.

"Who? You hurt? Why would you be hurt by just not getting attention from insignificant me, when you have the rest of your little hoe club?" I said derisively but all the while I was watching his eyes for any sign of that flicker again.

"Come on Darlin you know that ain't true, you know you're special." He said teasingly again, and like he was trying to make light of it, but there again I saw a flicker of some deeper emotion before he could control his eyes again. This time it had been so fast that if I hadn't been looking for it I would have missed it. Hmm this was very interesting, I wonder if he'll respond to this:

"Well I know I'm special, but just not special to you in any way. I mean why would you need me when you've got the rest of the school's girls falling all over you like rabid dogs. It's quite disgusting really; I mean do you like getting all their hopes up but never really fulfilling them?" I said teasingly and kind of lightly so that it would take some sting out of the words. I wasn't truly trying to be mean; I actually did want to know the answer to this question. It would tell me important things about him and how far I should be willing to go to try to fix him, and if he could be fixed at all.

"No no it's not that, to tell you the truth I'm actually a little tired of it all." He said sincerely which completely shocked me so I tried to seize the moment and get some more truth out of him.

"Well then why not just pick one of them, I mean if you picked one then the other's would prolly give you space right?" I asked

"Perhaps but I haven't found any of them that I would like enough to truly date." He said sincerely and with serious eyes.

"Wow really none them are good enough for you?" I said trying to figure him out.

"Nope not a one…well not yet anyway." He said still with serious eyes, but then he got up and started to leave, but of course he had to say one more thing.

"See ya later Darlin, if you get too lonely tonight just know that my bed is open and that offer of being on top of you is still very available." He said with a wink and a laugh as he dodged the pillow I threw at him, and then left.

He could try to distract me with suggestive comments and teasing behavior all he wanted. He had shown me a different side of him, even if it was only a brief glimpse. I knew now that he wasn't just this obnoxious jerk and maybe just maybe there was something to save after all.

AN: Well I know that it's been a long time since I updated, but all I really have to say for myself is that life got in the way. Also last time I thought I knew where I was going with this whole thing, but apparently not. I'm pretty sure I know this time and I hope you guys are happy with where it goes. So things are starting to heat up yeah? Tell me if you like this other Jasper or no? This weekend she spends at their house is really going to change things and hopefully you guys like how it changes. Till next time and please review, it always brightens my day x)