Jasper got through the rest of his first day without a blip and he felt quite happy as the day ended that it had been a success. Other than the minor Edward blip Jasper had had a great day and he enjoyed teaching all of his classes, luckily he hadn't encountered one he didn't like yet. He checked out his timetable and saw that he had Edward's class a few times a week, he realised this was probably because they were seniors. He packed up his things in to his satchel and made his way out to his car, he drove himself home and collapsed on to the sofa when he got there. He quickly checked his phone and saw that he had messages from his family and his friends all asking how he had done on his first day. He quickly texted out a genetic reply to all of them but one and pressed send, he then rang the one person who he could talk to about all of this stuff with Edward.
"Hey Ally, any chance you wanna pop round for a take out tonight and a catch up? I kinda need to talk to you and get some advice." Jasper asked, Alice agreed that she would be round in about an hour and they would have dinner and a chat.
Jasper spent the hour getting a shower and getting changed out of his formal clothes and in to his sweats and a tee. Exactly an hour later Alice strolled through his door, she never did seem to get the hang of knocking. Not even after she walked in on him in college with a guy who he was seeing, now that had been embarassing. This is why he knew he could talk to Alice and she wouldn't judge him, and she definitely would not tell anybody else. Least of all Emmett, he was pretty sure he would die of mortification if Emmett found out. She plopped herself down on the sofa and they got through all of the small talk and ordered dinner, they decided on pizza.
"Right come on boyo, out with it, I know there's something bothering you." Alice sat looking up at him expectently.
"Okay. Well. It's kinda hard to know where to start so i might just have to get it out. I found Edward, you know the one night thing, he's a student in one of my history classes, I found out when he walked in to my classroom and plonked himself in a seat pretty much a metre from me. How I didn't freak out and run from the school i will never be able to figure out, and i just have absolutely no idea what to do about it other than avoid and forget really. I mean don't you think that's the best thing to do? We never really knew eachother, and there's no point in bringing it up really because nothing can be done to change it now, you know?" Jasper rambled all of this out, so embarassed that he had to come clean about something like this to anyone at all. But the stress of holding it in and trying to figure out what to do about it was eating him up inside and he just had to get it all out.
"Woah, woah slow down! So the guy is in your class? How old is he exactly first off?"
"He's 17 i'm guessing, he's a senior so he's either 17 or 18."
"Well then at least that makes him legal, would have been a complete nightmare if he had been a junior or something. So did he recognise you? I mean you did say that you both had fairly a lot to drink that night and maybe he didn't remember you at all, no offence or anything Jazz."
"No he definitely remembered me, i could see it in his eyes straight away. Plus when i looked through his history book after his lesson he had written sorry really small in the corner of one of the pages, i think he meant that for me."
"Oh dear, well that is a bit of a predicament Jazz i gotta say. And i also gotta say, sorry for this, but it's also quite hilarious. Or it would be if you didn't look so terrified right now. Well it seems to me that he is embarassed that he did this to you, embarassed that it happened. So your avoidance and forget thing may actually work because it doesn't seem like he is going to bring it up any time soon, and if he does you can just tell him how it's inappropriate for you two to talk about it now that you're his teacher. I mean you obviously can't avoid the boy himself, you're still his teacher and you still gotta help him if he needs it, but you can avoid discussing or mentioning what happened."
"Thank god you thought that to, i thought that would probably be the best thing for it too but i just needed to get a second opinion. It's been eating at me all day."
"Well, i mean, this can work Jazz but only if you want it to."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?! I love this job, i want to keep it for a long time." Jazz could feel himself getting angry.
"Calm down Jazz, I didn't mean anything by it but you must see where i am coming from. The last few weeks you have mentioned this guy, and the connection that you two had. I mean you told me it had been the best sex you have ever had. I just don't want you to do anything silly."
Jasper could see the concern written all over her face, she really did care about him and just wanted what was best. And it's not like this thought hadn't occurred to him either. He had talked about Edward a lot and when it first happened he was so desperate to be able to find this guy, but he supposed now he would just have to put it behind him. Whether or not they really did have a connection had become completely irrelevant, there was no way he could do anything about it without risking the one thing he had studied for for years.
"Okay I'm sorry Ally, I know i got a bit defensive there, sorry for snapping. It's just that I did think about this earlier, but there is no way of going about this without jeapordising everything i have worked so hard for. It took me years to get to this point and there is no way that i want to risk losing any of it."
Just as he was talking about this another thought occurred to him that had him gasping in horror, he could not believe that he hadn't thought about this before now.
"Oh my god, Ally i think he might have been a virgin. I hope against hope that he wasn't but i guess i'll never know because i sure as hell am not going to ask him."
Just then the doorbell rang and Jasper went to get the food, he paid the guy at the door and took the food in to the living room. They ate their food and chatted some more, avoiding completely the subject of Edward anymore that evening, Jasper didn't think he had the strength to discuss with anybody the idea that he may have been a virgin before that night. Though if Jasper was honest the thought of him kept popping up in his mind at random intervals, he just hoped that wasn't his first time. No body should lose their virginity to somebody they barely knew who they had picked up in a bar. It got quite late and Alice decided that it was time for her to take her leave, or else she would not get up for work in the morning and neither would he. He made a joke that it might be preferable to actually facing Edward. After she had left he cleared up the pizza boxes and threw them in the bin, he then proceeded to walk through to the bedroom and climbed in to his bed. He was nervous about seeing Edward again the next day, but felt a little better now that he had talked it out with somebody else. The last thought before he drifted off to sleep was of Edward and if he had thought any more about Jasper.
