Chapter Seven.
Bella POV
I was shocked that my Texan god was Jasper freaking Hale. He was more charming than I could of ever guessed, when we started walking towards our next class together I felt like a woman from an old western movie that has the handsome man wooing her for her hand.
I looked up at Jasper with eyes that I knew would scream adoration and maybe some other feelings I didn't particularly want to think about.
"We've arrived Bella, shall you pick our seats?" His voice was soft and warm. I started to respond to him but a giant shape picked him up and began to run away with him on his shoulder, I was so shocked that all I could do was gape at the scene before me. "PUT ME DOWN EMMETT." Jasper's tone of voice was stern, strong and all together commanding.
Emmett I could only assume was the giant man-child that was holding Jasper, he didn't seem to notice that his attentions were unwanted by my lovely Jasper. "I missed you bro!" Jasper managed to worm his way out of his iron grip, how I couldn't see.
"Yeah, yeah Emmett. You only saw me an hour and a bit ago." He rolled his eyes at his brother.
"I missed you baby bro." Even though Emmett was a couple or inches bigger than Jasper, he leant down and batted his eyelashes at us, his golden eyes brighter than Jasper. Wait, their eyes are both golden, but they're not related?
"Are you both wearing contacts?" The looks on both their faces was comical, eyes wide in surprise.
"Uh, yeah little one. Both wearing...contacts." Emmett looked almost sheepish, he was scuffing his shoes along the group, so contrite.
"Bella, this is Emmett, although he is the size of a bear and same age as myself, he has the maturity level of a 5 year old." They were both smirking to each other. "Emmett, this is Isabella Swan, or also known as Bella. She's who I met when I was meeting Peter." Who was Peter?
"Pleasure to meet you little B. Shall we go to Government studies?" Emmett got over his previous contriteness and was back to a jovial person.
"Sure Emmett." Jasper reached down and picked up our books, I hadn't even noticed that he had neatly placed our books on the ground. How did he do that? I couldn't hear Emmett running up, and I didn't even see Jasper bend down to place the books on the ground. Weird.
We all walked into the classroom, handed our slips to the teacher Mr Jefferson and picked out three seats towards the back, Emmett took the middle left seat, pulled my hand into the solitary chair next to the wall and made Jasper sit in front of us. "Little B, you're being taken under my wing for this class. Get you out of the stuffy wings of Jasper." He rolled his eyes towards Jasper and winked.
"Oh, okay." Jasper handed me his books and I felt a small surge of calm, concentration and positivity. "Although, wouldn't you like to try talking to us behind the teacher's back? It'll be a term long challenge." I shrugged, I was hoping to spend more and more time with Jasper, and whilst Emmett looks like a fun guy, I'd much prefer his brother.
"Ah you're not getting me to move Little B. Nice try though, I'd be happy to challenge you to something else though." Oh game on sunshine.
"How about…" I place a finger on my chin, mock concentrating about a perfect challenge. "A paper football competition." Big guy surely would destroy more than he'd hit through right?
"Oh game on Swan, I'm a sports pro!" I felt every head turn towards the door once again, a statuesque blonde walked in and after handing her slip to Mr Jefferson she turned and glared at Emmett. "Oh shit." I heard him whisper, Jasper was chuckling, his body making his chair move slightly.
"Did you forget someone Em? Maybe my lovely sister?" Jasper winked to me, and waved to his sister, who completely ignored Emmett and sat next to the spare desk beside Jasper.
"Rose babe, I'm sorry." He reached out to touch her, and I couldn't see why but he quickly shrank back in his seat. Feeling back for him I tapped him on the shoulder, his muscle felt like stone under my light poking.
"Big E, did you want to play or not?" I held out my hands making two 'L"s with my hands, had a few small ripped up pieces of paper made into tiny footballs. With a small smile he did the same thing, I flicked a piece of paper towards him and just fell short of the goal.
Government studies was the same as it had always been, they discussed the differences in the political parties, it was not something that could distract Emmett and I from our game, we were tied 5-5 and with 5 minutes to the bell it was first to get a goal wins. We came up with the prizes for winning, and Emmett agreed that he'd be a slave for a day whenever it was required, and if I lost I had to follow him around the whole day ignoring Jasper and telling him how awesome he was. I laughed at his suggestion.
With a flick of my finger I saw the paper ball heading towards him, and noticed it was heading directly for the middle of the goal posts, and celebrated my victory by jumping out of my seat yelling YES at the top of my voice.
"MISS SWAN." Flushing bright red my hands quickly fell straight down to my side and I couldn't even look at the teacher to see why he was so angry. "Are you telling me you WANT to be demonstrate how we arrived in the country!"
"No Sir! Not at all! I was just thinking how much fun it would be to be a class activity?" I struggled badly to come up with a good enough reason for getting distracted, Emmett was nearly falling out of his chair with laughter, Jasper was chuckling with a hand over his mouth, Rose look amused.
"Well, I'll keep it in mind for the next lesson Miss Swan." With the bell ringing to signal end of the lesson and start of lunch everyone filed out quickly, I fell into my seat hands on my head.
"Did you really like student projects Little B?" Emmett pushed me, he must of thought it was soft but it threw me from my hair, to which he laughed even harder. "Where the hell did you find this chick?" Emmett grabbed my hand and pulled me up.
"Emmett, remember where you are and how strong you really are." Rose grabbed my hand after I was righted, wrapped her arm through mine and started to walk outside the room. "Don't forget the books boys. We'll meet you at the table for lunch."
This was the moment that I was able to look back on all three of the Cullen`s kids so far, Jasper was perfect to a fault, blonde hair, straight nose, chiseled chin and jaw, golden eyes that seemed to make your heart melt at every moment he looked at you. Emmett was a big lug, massive and obviously full of power, his skin Cold like Jaspers but hard as stone, he had the heart of a child but strength of a bear. Whilst his eyes were a lovely golden they didn`t make me swoon the same way as Jasper.
Rose as Emmett called her was different again, beautiful and blonde, at least 5`10" she had the type of beauty that every girl in the same room as her, took a massive hit to their self esteem. Now she was arm in arm with me, and I felt like an errant child who would lose their way if left alone.
"Bella." Rose's voice was soft, like a melody played on a harp.
"Yes Rose?" I refused to look into her eyes, maybe if I just didn't look at her she wasn't so beautiful.
"Thank you." Well, so much for not looking for her. When I looked up at her I was shocked, not at her beauty but for her thanking me
"For what?" Bella, you need to stop comparing yourself to her. You're beautiful in a different way. Shut up Isabella.
"For making Jasper happy, I haven't seen him this animated in a long time, it's delightful. Emmett is an idiot that's more than true, but he was happy playing that little game with you. Anyone who can make them happy, is more than okay in my books. Welcome to my little family Bella." She gave my arm a quick squeeze.
"Oh wow Rose, thanks. It means a lot."
We walked together in comfortable silence towards the cafeteria, it was humbling to know even on my first day I was making an impact on someone, and it was pleasing to know that I could tell Charlie I've made at least one new friend. These gorgeous people were my friends, now all I had to do was get closer to Jasper.
AN:
Again! Thank you!
All feedback, compliments/complaints are taken on board and though about for the future.
I did have one reader who made a comment about trunk vs boot & I'm sorry if this bother's you, if I was able to PM you I'd explain the difference in our culture's writing, but I am Australian and ultimately when writing I need to stick to our vocab and meanings for words. So all I can ask is you overlook this, and if need be mentally replace the word if it continues to bother you.
Australian translations.
Pick up truck = UTE
Trunk = Boot.
Candy = lollies.
Soda = Soft Drink
etc, etc, etc.
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Annoyedprincess.