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Chapter Seven – Advice from Emmett, as Weird as that Sounds
APOV

The silence stretched on. Jasper shifted where he stood. I could hear the clock ticking away on my bedside table. I heard the door downstairs open.

"Alice? Are you home yet?" I heard my mother call out.

"I 'spose I'd better… get down there…" I muttered. Jasper nodded. I quickly left the room. So many questions flittered through my head. What were me and Jasper now? What was going to happen? Did Jasper kiss me because he likes me… as more than a friend? Or some other reason? My head felt like it was going to explode with all these unanswered questions. As I reached the bottom of the stairs, Emmett was leaning there with his eyebrows raised.

"Oh, good, your home." My mother said, "Emmett is running down to the store and I need you to go with him, Rose took Bella shopping." I nodded and left the house, Emmett silently trailing behind me, completely out of character.

We got into Emmett's mother of a truck, and as soon as we were down the driveway he started talking.

"Do you have any idea what not telling Rosie about your little secret is doing to me?" He asked me suddenly.

"Erm… no?" I answered. How could keeping a secret be so hard?

"I tell Rosie about everything, keeping secrets isn't fun." He said, sounding like a child. I sighed.

"Look, Emmet, can we talk about Jasper some other time?" I asked him. Emmett looked at me curiously.

"Why not pixie?" He asked. I defiantly stared out the window, determined not to say anything. "You like him?" My eyes widened, but because my face was to the window, he couldn't see it, "No… that's not it, you're confused about him… has he kissed you yet?" My eyes just about popped out of their sockets and I completely forgot about my no reaction façade and turned to look at Emmet, wide eyed. "So he did kiss you?" Emmett asked again. I hung my head. "Want me to beat him up for you?" Emmett joked.

"No. It's not like that… I think…" I said, confused. What was it like? I had wanted him to kiss me, and I think he wanted to kiss me. But now things were just awkward.

"Well, what was it like?" Emmett persisted.

"Why am I explaining this to you?" I mused to myself, "I wanted him to kiss me, but then things got awkward and he won't even look at me…" I explained. We had arrived at the store and Emmett and I walked in.

"Well, talk to him." Emmett said in a low voice, as we walked around trying to find everything my mother needed.

"But everything so awkward!" I protested quietly, while reaching for a carton of milk.

"Do you want me to talk to him?" Emmett offered. I thought about it. "Wait, are you seriously considering taking me up on that? I was kidding!" Emmett said when I didn't respond, "Well, I guess I could talk to him if you really wanted me too…" He amended, "Do you like him pix?" Emmett asked.

"Well… yes. If you did talk to him, say, hypothetically, you wouldn't scare him would you?" I couldn't believe I was considering letting Emmett talk to Jasper, last time they had been in the same room, Emmett had Jasper pinned up against the wall by his throat.

"Do you really want me to talk to him?" Emmett asked, coming over to help me get a bottle of cooking oil down from a high shelf.

"Thanks. I may be crazy… but yes? As long as you don't scare him." I said. We loaded all the items onto the counter, paid and walked out, as Emmett helped me into the high truck he held out his pinky,

"No scaring the poor guy then, not again." He smirked and I hooked my pinky through his. "I still don't like not telling Rosie about this though." Emmett muttered as he climbed into the driver's side.

"I'm sorry Emmett, but you just can't, she might tell mum…" I begged.

"Say no more, say no more. I'll keep my trap shut for a bit longer." I let out a sigh of relief.

"Thanks Emmett."

JPOV

That was very awkward. I felt like such a dick. Why did I have to go and kiss her like that? She probably thinks I'm a freak now.

Alice got called downstairs and I heard her going out with Emmett. When I heard her mother mention Emmett I reflexly raised my hand to my throat. I walked back into Alice's closet and sank to the floor amongst the small bundle of stuff in my corner. There was a pillow and sleeping bag, my backpack and safe from the crushing shoeboxes, my old iPod and my phone.

I lay down on my back. I couldn't forget the feeling of Alice's lips against mine, her small weight on top of me. I sighed and cast my mind around for another topic. One that didn't involve me fantasizing about kissing Alice. The feel of her hair in my hands or her hands gripping my shoulders… no. Stop. New topic.

While I sat there trying to think about anything but Alice, I heard a car pull into the driveway, and then Emmett's booming laugh. I heard them entre the house and then Emmett saying to Esme,

"Here you go, Mrs. Cullen, Everything you needed, just as you asked." I could imagine him sweeping a gallant bow for her.

"Oh you are a dear, Emmett; just bung those in the kitchen if you wouldn't mind?" Esme asked.

"Certainly Madam." Emmett replied.

"Emmett," Alice spoke up, "When you're done could you come up and fix that mirror for me?" She asked him.

"Sure pix." A few moments later there were light footfalls coming up the stairs, accompanied by Emmett's louder ones.

"Jasper?" I heard a tentative whisper coming from outside the closet. I hauled myself to my feet and went to lean on the closet door.

"Yeah?" I asked. Alice gave Emmett a meaningful look and pranced off toward her adjoining bathroom.

"Um, Emmett, the wooden backing of my mirror really is cracked… could u fix it for me? I'll be in the shower." Emmett nodded and held up the toolbox in his hand, grinning. Alice gave me a small embarrassed smile and disappeared into the bathroom, I heard the lock click. It was just me and Emmett. I wasn't sure whether I should be scared.

Emmett was ignoring me at the moment; he pulled the full length mirror off the wall and laid it down face down in the floor. Then be beckoned me over.

"Hold these." He said, holding out half a dozen nails. He took a hammer out of the tool box and began to re attach the wooden backing to the frame. After working in silence for a few minutes, Emmett turned to me. "So you like Alice yeah?" He asked me, I would be lying if I said I wasn't surprised by this turn of conversation. I nodded to him mutely. "Thought so. Kissed her yet?" He looked over at me, and at the look of surprise that was surely on my face. "Of course you have, judging by the look on your face." He laughed.

"Yeah, I have kissed her," I admitted, "but now things are just awkward." I told him.

"Yeah, pix mentioned that." So when something had Alice troubled, she ran to her big sisters big boyfriend? "Did you tell her that you liked her?" Emmett asked me.

"Well… no. I don't think she would like me, not in more than a friendly way at least." I said.

"Try telling her. Have you seen Rosalie? Blond bombshell that she is. I thought that there was no way in all of heaven and earth that she would ever love me. But Cullen women never do what you expect them to do. And our resident masochistic lion, Edward? It took Bella forever to convince him that she loved him, really. He never thought that he was good enough for her." Emmett told me, "So if you want my advice, and I suggest that you take it, tell her before she does change her mind."

"Thanks Emmett. When you're not holding me in the air by my throat, you're a good mate. And you look out for Alice."

"You better believe I do. And let me make something perfectly clear, if you do tell pix that you like her, then you break her heart, you will not only answer to me, but Edward and Rosie as well. Got that?" He threatened.

"Um… sure." There was no way I was going to cross Emmett. I helped him hang the mirror back on the wall and Emmett trooped downstairs and I sat on the bed, waiting for Alice to emerge from the bathroom.

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