Alice went to school the next day with James. She had to make a good impression that she was taken now and all for Jasper.
They did a quick kiss goodbye and Alice left for her first period class. There she met Jasper outside the classroom, dressed in khaki pants, a button up work shirt with a brand new sweater vest over it. His hair was greased back and he looked nice and not nerdy. "Wow! Jasper! What's with the new threads?" she leaned in to his ear and whispered, "I thought you weren't spending of your savings account for things like this..."
"Oh. Well Alice. I kind of wanted to tell you why I am dressed this way," Jasper said.
Alice smiled curiously, letting Jasper know that she was listening. "I got a girlfriend..." Jasper said.
"Oh Jasper! I'm so happy for you! When did you meet her!?" Alice said excitedly.
"Last night at the poem readings at the book store. She was sitting in the corner all by herself and so I thought I would go over there and keep her company. It went up from there..." Jasper said.
"Oh that's wonderful Jasper! But why the new threads?"
"Well, I thought she wouldn't like seeing me in old, nasty hani-downs all the time so I went out and bought a new wardrobe basically. Do you think she'll like it?" Jasper asked walking into the classroom with Alice.
"Of course! Who wouldn't!? I bet all the girls are falling over you now!"
They both laughed and took their seats.
After class, Jasper ran off and said, "I got to go meet Maria! Why don't you come with me and meet her!?"
Alice followed and Jasper finally met a girl with long straight black hair. She almost looked spanish. "Alice, this is Maria. Well, she's my girlfriend and Maria, this is Alice. The girl I was telling you about last night. She's my best friend since Kindergarten," Jasper said.
They two girls shook hands but Alice noticed that the instant she touched Maria's hand, it was ice cold, maybe even colder. "Nice to meet you. Jasper talks all about you..." Maria said.
Alice was unsure of Maria. "Nice to meet you too..." she said faking it.
"I'm glad you two got to meet. You know Alice, I haven't met James yet. How about we do a double date after school?" Jasper asked.
Alice didn't even think twice when she said, "Sure!"
For some reason Alice felt jealous. Maybe it was because Maria was prettier then her? Or maybe because Maria would be a better "friend" than Alice? Who knows, either way, Alice was jealous.
She met up with James after all her classes. "Hey there Ali. What's up?" James asked noticing Alice walking his way.
"You want to go on a double date with my friend and his girlfriend?" Alice asked quickly.
"Sure. I would love to meet them. Where at?" James asked.
His friends, VIctoria and Laurent as Alice figured out, was giggling and chuckling behind James.
James quickly turned around and said, "Shut up!" and then turned back to Alice, "Let's go somewhere private..."
Alice agreed and James led her to a janitor's closet. "Like I asked before those two were being rude, where at?"
"I don't know. I do know that Jasper wants us to meet by the woods. Is that ok?" Alice asked.
"Sure Ali. I like those woods."
As they approached the woods. There was Jasper and Maria making out behind a tree. Not noticing that Alice or James was coming yet, Jasper pushed Maria away and said, "I don't feel comfortable doing this with you yet. Infact, I don't feel comfortable doing it at all. We just met yesterday Maria. I don't want to take things too fast," Jasper said.
Maria let him go from the tree. "Alright Jaspie, whatever pleases you!" she said in a high pitched, babyish and somehow sexy voice. This made Alice's ears steam and yet, she still didn't know why.
"Oh! Alice! I can explai-" Jasper was cut off.
"Oh no worries Jasper!" Alice said faking her happiness once again, "She's your girlfriend. You two go nicely with eachother!"
She faked a smile and Jasper believed it but Maria just gave Alice a stern look. There was a moment of akward silence when Alice said, "Jasper, this is James. James, this is Jasper."
"Nice to finally meet you. Alice says you two have been friends since Kindergaten?" James asked.
"Yes and this is Maria. Maria, James," Jasper said scooting Maria towards James.
"Oh, we already know eachother," James said smiling.
"You do?" Jasper and Alice asked confused and at the same time.
"Yes, we use to date eachother ourselves. Funny, how our new lovers brought us together again..." Maria said.
"Yea, funny," James said.
They stared at eachother for a while.
"Hey, can we go to the mall and eat?" Alice asked generally.
"Sure," James said looking toward Alice and walking to her.
He wrapped his arm around Alice's shoulders and walked her to his car. Maria just took Jasper's hand and held it, swinging it slightly as they walked to Jasper's beat up truck.
They headed to the mall.