The second the teacher had finished assigning the page numbers to read in our text book and urging us to use our class time wisely, every student began socializing completely ignoring the thought of doing any homework while at school. Well, everyone except Jasper who hadn't even shown up in class yet. I stared at his empty seat in front of my own.
"You okay Bells?" Alice nudged me, breaking my staring contest with an empty chair.
I shook my head clearing my thoughts, "yeah, sorry thinking of a project I have to do with Jasper tonight"
"Oooh, a project you say" she winked dramatically nudging me in the side again.
I giggled fakely but she didn't pry any further. She continued telling me details about the party this weekend that Emmett was throwing, how anyone worth knowing in Forks would be there. I responded with the acceptable amount of oohing and ahhing as Alice continued her rant, all the while trying to ignore the ache in the pit of my stomach. I felt awful for how I had treated Jasper just now but he made everything so much more complicated than it really needed to be. I hated the thought of being just another girl to anyone but I loathed the thought of people in school thinking that I was that type of girl also. I tried to not think about it since clearly I wasn't going to be seeing him until the end of the school day anyways, doubting he'd make an appearance at lunch either.
The rest of the day passed by relatively quickly though and my mind was clear of Jasper for the most part. Edward sat uncomfortably close to me at lunch but I decided not to voice any discomfort not ready for another confrontation today. Jake was gushing back and forth with Alice most of lunch anyway almost as excited as she was about the upcoming party tomorrow night. When the day finally ended I was both grateful and miserable; happy to be out of school but also dreading the thought of seeing Jasper again. Alice quickly knocked me out of the thought jumping onto my back in a forced piggy back screaming "mush! mush!" as I made my way towards the parking lot where I shook her off. "That's as far as you go fatty!" I poked her tummy as she giggled happily.
"Soooo, you need a ride to the house of rose?" her eyes sparkling as she looped her arm through mine guiding me towards rose's convertible.
"Looks like it" I frowned unable to hide it anymore.
Rose was already in her drivers seat as her boyfriend Emmett was leaning over whispering things into her ear. She giggled sweetly swatting him playfully. "Emmy you can't say that we are at school!"
"Ewwww, TMI!" Alice shrieked in disgust opening the passenger side door.
Rose rolled her eyes, "Ewwww, you are in the back loser!" she scolded Alice pinching her arm as she stood up to sit next to me in the backseat so Emmett could ride shotgun.
"So Bella, you excited for my UH-MAZING party tomorrow night?" Emmett turned back with a million watt smile from ear to ear.
I laughed loudly, it was difficult to stay upset when talking to him, all through lunch he was the only one who was able to make me laugh literally out loud. I could see why Rose was so smitten. "Obvi!" I faked my ditziest valley girl accent which seemed to satisfy him as he returned with an equally fake gangster accent,
"Iced out errthang!"
We all broke out into a fit of giggles. Rose took the cue blasting some Chris Brown and speeding out of the parking lot towards her mcmansion.
"Soooo, ladies who are your plus ones?" Rose locked eyes with my own in the rearview mirror as she drove.
"As if, who am I going to take... Mike Newton?" Alice made a fake gagging gesture from the backseat.
"I'm sure he has SOME charm" Rose returned heavily laced with sarcasm. "Bells, you going with Newton?"
"Am I even meant to know who you are talking about? New student status here remember!" I yelled over the music.
"Your lover will be there though!" Rose broke out in a fit of giggles from yesterdays scandal.
"WHAT? Second day at school and you got a lover?" Emmett's head whipped back so quickly to meet my eyes with curiosity.
"NO!" I shrieked swatting Rose's head.
"Not the hair or I will turn this car around missy! AND YES! She has taken a LOVAHHH" she giggled pulling into her driveway where Jasper sat on the front steps fiddling with his ipod. "OH LOVAHHHHHH!" Rose called loudly shutting off the car as we all piled out. Jasper looked up with a look of confusion and stood up to greet Emmett in one of those intricate hand shakes all guys seem to just know.
He nodded his chin towards Rose, "What's with you?"
She was sending him a death glare as she walked past him to go inside as Alice trailed behind her closely. Emmett shuffled slightly offering a meek, "You know I drive that girl insane" he offered a greasy wink at the end for added effect. Jasper looked disgusted at the thought of his sister and Emmett so he left it alone and turned his attention to little old me. Wonderful.
"You ready?" he offered coldly. I nodded silently as I followed him up towards his bedroom. Once inside papers were lined up neatly along the floor along with pens and supplies. I sat down pulling out my binder from my book bag as slowly as possible. It was so tense and I could feel the hostility in the air chocking me.
"So, where are your parents?" I offered finally after what seemed like hours of silence.
"My dad works out of town a lot" he returned coldly clearly not interested in talking, "I printed off the information, I'm just reading it and highlighting anything we could use."
"Okayy..." I grabbed a stack of papers closest to myself and began reading. After an hour or so of highlighting my phone went off inside my bag. I fished it out quickly grateful for the distraction, he continued reading unaffected by the only noise in the past hour.
'hey gorgeous' it was from Edward naturally. I bit my lip reluctantly, not sure if I should respond since he clearly liked me more than I liked him. I flipped it shut and set it down next to my bag. Jasper looked up momentarily only to look back down once he noticed that I had returned to highlighting. We remained silent for another twenty minutes until I had finally had enough. I started taking the papers and shoving them in my bag and getting up, "Just text me what you need me to do, I'm sure you can get the number from your sister" I offered, having enough of the silent treatment for one night.
"I thought we were going to finish this tonight?" he seemed surprised that I would want to leave. Which I couldn't understand why he thought this was going well...
"Well, you clearly don't want to talk to me so I don't see how this is really going to get done anyways" I waved my hand showing just how hopeless I felt.
"My bad" he offered shrugging seemingly exhausted with me and returning to his own papers. Clearly I was free to go. I made my way towards Rose's room where they stood closely to her television playing wii. Emmett screamed at the game loudly cursing it in it's inability to cooperate with his actions. I sat down and watched happy to be free of project duty, after a few minutes of bliss watching Alice struggling to work her remote I felt a dip in the bed next to me, "Can we talk?"
I was so confused with these mood swings I felt like I couldn't keep up with his multiple personalities. One second he was nice, the next a jerk, then distant, he was everything and I was tired. I had been a bitch but he was being a jerk. "I don't know, can we?" I stood up silently and left the room waiting in the hallway as Jasper followed me out. He closed Rose's bedroom door behind himself, not that it really mattered. They seemed way too engrossed in their gaming to notice my arrival or departure much less a conversation in the hallway.
He nodded towards his room down the hall, "No, talk to me here Jasper" I crossed my arms in defiance.
He rubbed the back of his neck, "What? I need to finish the project. This weekend is going to be shit and I don't work well when hungover"
"We don't work well together, so I'm sure whatever you agree I do as my part is fine" No way in hell was I going back into his bedroom for another hour of silence.
"Stop being difficult" he rolled his eyes clearly annoyed at my decision.
"I'm not, I'm just tired of this Jasper. It's been two days and I am tired of dealing with your games"
"I'm not the one playing games, you came into my room last night remember?" for someone who didn't want to talk to me he sure had a lot to say now.
"It was a dare! I told you that"
"Yeah, because why would you ever be interested in me right? How stupid of me!" he shouted back. So much for shutting the door for privacy.
"I'm not that kind of girl! Ugh, you aren't listening to me at all."
"Yes I am! I'm right here so explain it to me. I've got nothing else to do here!"
"I just want you to stop being hot and cold. If you want to talk to me, talk to me don't give me awkward one liners and disappear. Don't assume you know what I want either"
"So what, you will just tell me what you want from now on?"
"Yes! At least then there isn't any miscommunication from my end that way" I sighed exhausted at how this was turning out.
"And mine?"
"Yes, tell me what you want too."
"I want to finish the assignment tonight" he finished curtly
"I want you to talk to me instead of sitting in silence"
"I can do that" I turned on my heel heading back towards his room when he grabbed ahold of my wrist turning me back. "What? I thought we were going to finish the assignment?"
He shook his head, "No, leave your bag let's go somewhere"
I quirked an eyebrow at him confused at what 'somewhere' could imply.
"We'll watch a movie and talk, you wanted me to talk right?"
So, I'm trying to finish this story again. I hope to get some more feedback because it would actually help me in getting this story going again. Thanks for reading as always :)!
