Chapter 7

Jasper

Class with both Edward and Jacob passed slowly and awkwardly. The silence at our table was heavy with tension, which had me extremely confused. To my knowledge Edward and Jacob didn't even know each other, so they had no reason to be this hostile towards one another. When the bell finally rang I silently cheered to myself. I grabbed hold of all of my things quickly, slipping them into my backpack. I slung my bag over my shoulder, and when I looked up I found both Edward and Jacob waiting for me, by the door.

"Hey, Jasper. What's you next class?" Jacob asked as I made my way over to them.

"I have AP American history." I replied, as I walked passed both of them out into the hallway, moving out of the way for the students entering the classroom.

"Really? Well, that's great, so do I. Want to walk together?" He asked sweetly, sending a smile my way.

I turned towards Edward his face was hard. He looked at me, waiting for my response.

"Umm, no thanks, I'll just meet you there." I said, walking to Edwards's side.

"Alright then," Jacob said over his shoulder, walking away, but not before he gave Edward a look I couldn't quite decipher.

Edward stood stiffly watching Jacobs figure retreat down the hall. Edward and I started walking along side each other, with about a foot of space separation between us, we were both silent. I wanted to talk to him, but school was not the place. Before I knew it we were standing in front of Edwards's next class. He looked up at me with a semi- smile that didn't reach his eyes.

"We'll talk later." He said before entering his class. I quickly walked to my class, beating the late bell.

"Hey, Jasper," Jacob said from his seat in the back of the class. I smiled at him, silently thanking Mr. Smith for not having assigned seats, and headed to the seat beside him.

"Hey." I replied.

"All right class get your homework out, I'll be coming around to check it in. While I'm doing that, do I have any volunteers? I need some papers passed out."

Jacob turned in his seat, facing me. His face held a small smile that seemed to always hold residence upon his lips. I smiled back at him.

"So, how has your first day been going?" I asked.

"Not so bad, I think I'm actually going to like it. Though, I don't think that I'll be able to be as cheery every day, having to commute back and forth between La Push and Forks."

"Yeah, I can see what you mean,-" I wanted to ask him why he transferred, but Mr. Smith had begun to start teaching.

Class went by quickly, with Jacob and me laughing and joking about the silliest things that I hadn't laughed about in ages. We also got on to the subject of our bikes. While I had only just bought mine from what I saw at a show, Jacob had built his own from scratch. He told me that he was currently working on bringing an old Harley back to life.

"No way! Man, that's amazing." I raved to him as we started to pack up our things.

"Yeah, it hasn't been easy getting the parts in all, but it's coming along just fine. You should come by and check it out."

"You mean it? I'd love to see it."

"Yeah, I mean it's really not much to see, but you should defiantly come by. When are you free?" He asked, after the bell rang.

Today was Friday, but I couldn't go today even though I really couldn't wait to see Jacobs work in progress, I still had to fix things with Edward, tomorrow hopefully Edward will have forgiven me by then so we could do something fun together.

"How about Sunday?" I asked him.

"Sure Sunday is fine, what time?"

"Anytime really, what's best for you?" I said as I watch Edward make his way to the parking lot, mindlessly I started to follow his direction, with Jacob by my side.

"Is noon too early for you?" I asked.

"No. Noon is great. See ya then!" He said to with excitement in his eyes.

"Alright then." Were my parting words.

I walked out into the parking lot; I headed to my car where Edward stood waiting for me. He was standing on the driver's side; once I stood in front of him he held his hand out to me. I frowned, but without fuss I relinquished my car keys to him, and walked over to the passenger side. After I opened the passenger door I saw Edwards's siblings across the lot, all watching us. The littlest one with short black hair Alice was beaming in our direction, the blonde still was sending me her evil eyes of fury, while the big guy Emmett was wearily watching the blonde watch me. Edward turned in their direction, and almost immediately they all turned away from us and got into their own car. Once we were both in my car and Edward had started the engine, I buckled my seat belt and asked him where we were off to.

"Just a place I know." He said mysteriously.

We sat in silence as he drove to our unknown destination. I twiddled my thumbs in my lap as I watched, out of the window, forks disappear behind us. The mild light that had once been present during the day was quickly fading into the darkness of the impending night. I sighed to myself slumping in my chair, and began to hum to myself, the Jeopardy song.

Dun nun dun dun nah dun nah dun dun nah dun nah dunt dun dun nah dun nah

I looked over to see a soft smirk on Edwards's lips.

"We're here." He put the car in park and took the key out of the ignition. My eyes widened as I looked out of my window. We were stopped on a patch of dirt on the side of the road. I turned to Edward, but he was already out of the car, on my side opening the door. I got out of the car shoving my hands in my jean pockets. I looked around where we were, there was a trail opening along the line of trees, off the road. I started to walk towards the trail, assuming that we were taking it, but I felt something grab hold of my left arm stopping me. I turned to Edward confused.

"We're not taking the trail. Follow me." He said.

I did as he told trying to keep up with him, without tripping on the fallen tree branches. I felt incredibly awkward unsure of what was going on exactly. For all I knew he could be taking me out into the wilderness to murder me. I'm not sure how long the hike took but it sure did feel like days. Edward had yet to converse with me; however, he did so often check back to make sure I was alright, and helped me when the bottom of my jeans got stuck.

"Jasper, we're here." Edward said.

I walked my final steps outside of the trees, and was greeted by acres upon acres of grass. In the center of the green field stood a small cottage.