Chapter 10
September 2, 2008
It's been a month since I broke up with Jasper. I have been so busy with softball and cheer I haven't had enough time to think about it, which I was somewhat glad about. Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen any of the guys for more than a few minutes every so often, there have even been a few days where I haven't seen them at all. Not that I'm complaining, it's nice to not have to worry about any issues there may be with the boys. The few times I've seen Jasper, he has been sort of distant, I can't blame him. After all I did break up with him. Emmett and Maverick are the same whenever I see them, which is good I really didn't want anything to change because of what happened. Rosalie was a little upset with me at first, but after a few days of practice everything with her went back to normal. Alice is still crazy, and I absolutely love it! Edward is, well I don't really know what to say about him, he is the one person who I haven't seen at all this past month. Alice says he's been really busy with baseball and helping his dad out at the hospital. However Alice has said that Edward asks about me quite often, I don't really know what to think of that. Oh and I almost forgot the Hale's, the Cullen's and my dad got me a new truck for my birthday. It's a black Ford F-150, and I love it!
Bella
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"Hey Bells, what are you going to wear tomorrow night?" Rosalie asked as she rummaged through her closet.
"Umm…What's tomorrow night?" I had no idea what she was talking about.
"Fam…Uh," she emerged from her closet. "Did Jasper not tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
"Ok…Well I suppose he didn't." Rosalie didn't seem very pleased with Jasper for not telling me whatever it was he didn't tell me.
"Rosalie, what did Jasper not tell me?" I couldn't help but be a bit frustrated with the situation.
"I'd love to tell you, but it was Jasper's job and I really don't want to make him mad. I can't believe he hasn't told you yet, what on earth could he be waiting for?" I assumed the question was rhetorical.
"Well I guess I should find him and ask him why he hasn't told me what he was going to tell me." I began to walk out of her room, I was almost out the door when she yanked me back.
"Oh no little miss, you will not ask him anything."
"And why not?" I just couldn't understand anything that was happening.
"Because he obviously…look I have no idea why he hasn't told you yet. To be quite honest I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but he made it a point to tell all of us to wait for him to tell you. So yeah I'm not trying to get on Jasper's bad side."
"Jasper has a bad side? Huh I didn't think that was possible."
"Well don't get me wrong, Jasper is a great brother and an even better friend, and he seems to always be calm, but when he gets upset…let's just say it's not the most pleasant thing to witness." I had to laugh at that. I never knew Jasper to be the kind to get overly upset about anything. He would let things roll off him like it was nothing, something any normal person would get upset about never seemed to bother him.
"I don't believe you, Jasper has always been so calm around me. I mean the first time I have ever seen him get even remotely upset was when I…Uh never mind. New subject please." I almost slipped. Everyone, well almost everyone, came to me after I ended things with Jasper and asked me if it was possible not to ever talk about it. I was quite surprised, I mean I figured Alice would want to know exactly how it happened, what was said, you know the usual stuff. But no, not one of them wanted to ever have to hear about it. The only one that didn't come to me was Edward, and I could never figure out why. Then again I haven't even seen him over the past month so maybe that's why he hasn't talked to me about it.
Rosalie was about to say something, when there was a knock at her door.
"What?" she hissed. Rosalie didn't like to be interrupted, ever.
"Uh, Have you seen Bella?" If the door hadn't muffled the voice I would have been able to tell who was on the other side. I knew it was one of the guys, I just couldn't be sure which one it was.
"Who wants to know?" She couldn't figure out who it was on the other side of the door either.
"It's uh…Maverick."
"Oh, yea she's in here. What do you need Mav?" I was surprised she didn't open the door for him, and even more surprised he didn't open the door himself.
"Bella?" He spoke only to me this time.
"Yes, what is it?"
"Um, can you meet me in your room in like five minutes?" Ok this was way too weird.
"Sure, I guess." Rosalie could tell something was up as well.
"Maverick, why don't you just come in here and take care of whatever it is you need to?" She was not pleased with this little game he seemed to be playing, neither was I for that matter.
"NO!...I mean, it's private…Uh family stuff…Just meet me in five, please Bella?" He was begging.
"Ok, five minutes."
"Thanks Bella." He sounded relieved, which was very odd considering he never took no for an answer.
"Some one's acting a little strange." Rosalie said.
"I know. I wonder what his deal is."
"Who knows, boys are so weird. He's probably gonna tell you he doesn't want you dating anyone. Or something along those lines." She laughed.
"I guess, but no he said it was family related. Ugh I hope Renee isn't coming to visit." The thought of the woman, who calls herself my mother, being in the same room as me was just horrible. I haven't spoken to her since she left us, I would refuse whenever she would call. I even went as far as changing my cell phone number, I told Charlie and Maverick that if they gave her my number I would never speak to them again. They didn't want that, so my number has never been given to her, thank goodness.
"You know Bella, you really should talk to her." I said nothing and she continued. "At least tell her how you feel. You can't just forget about her, she's always gonna be your mother. No matter how much you wish she wasn't." She had a point but I would never tell her that. If I did she would force me to talk to Renee, and I'm not having that. "Or we could always plan a trip this way you wouldn't have to be here when she's here." That's more like it.
"Sounds good, I'm gonna hold you to that."
"Yea, yea. I think it's been five minutes, you better not keep Maverick waiting. I really can't handle him being mad." I laughed, I could never understand why no one ever wanted to see Maverick mad. He's a giant teddy bear.
"I guess you're right, see ya." I waived on my way out of her room. As I left her room I couldn't help but think of Renee. I hadn't really had a whole lot of time to think about her, but now every memory I had of her was rushing back to me. It was hard to continue walking towards my room, but I was finally there. My door was closed, normally that would not have bothered me, except for the fact that today I had left it open. Maverick must have closed it behind him. I stood in front of the door for a few seconds; I needed to clear my mind of all things Renee. I exhaled and opened my door, the light was on, there didn't seem to be anyone in my room. I slowly walked in and shut the door behind me. I decided to sit on my bed and wait for Maverick to come, since he was obviously not here yet. I was just about to sit down when I heard my bathroom door swing open, I spun around to see who was in there.
"JASPER! What the hell!" I wasn't expecting to see him. He looked just as surprised as I felt.
"Sorry Bells." He lowered his head a bit, I could only assume he felt bad for scaring me.
"I just about died, you scared me so bad!"
"Sorry." He apologized again. I took a deep breath before I spoke again.
"It's ok just don't let it happen again." I said jokingly, he raised his head look right in my eyes, I could swear he was able to see my soul. Then he smiled, it was nice to see him smile, I beamed back at him. "So what were you doing in my bathroom anyway? I don't think I have anything in there that you would ever find useful. Unless you needed some eyeliner or hairspray." I said still smiling.
"Um…I actually wanted to talk to you about something, if you don't mind."
"Well, I don't but Maverick said for me to meet him in here about five minutes ago, some family thing. Anyway can you make it quick?" He laughed, "What's so darn funny?" I asked.
"I'm the one that was at Rose's door, I pretended to be Maverick are you mad?"
"No I'm not mad, but why? Why couldn't you just say you were…well you?" He seemed to think that was a tad on the funny side as well.
"Rosalie." Was all he responded, not the one I was hoping for.
"And by that you mean?" He was going to tell me, and I was going to make sure he did.
"I don't know." If I had felt like pushing him any further I would have, I just wasn't in the mood to play games.
"Alright then, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?" Time to get down to business. Earlier Rose was about to tell me what this big thing Jasper was supposed to tell me about, but she didn't, always the loyal one.
"Um…Well every year at the end of summer the baseball team throws this end of summer party." He stopped and glanced around my room like he was looking for something to say. Well he surely wasn't going to find it on my bedroom walls, in order to speed the process up a bit, I decided to jump in.
"Ok, so the baseball team throws an end of summer party, and…"
"Right, sorry. Anyway we throw this awesome party and well…all the players are allowed to invite two people of their choice…so I would like to extend to you an invitation." That's all, I thought. "What do you say?" He asked.
"Sure I'd love to go to the party with you." He made a weird face and then spoke.
"Um…actually…I…Uh…I'm going to ask someone else to go with me…I was just inviting you. I'm so sorry I thought you would…Never mind." Well that was a shock, but I was ok with it.
"No Jasper, it's ok. I would love to go, so who are you going to ask?" I really wanted to know.
"Well, I was thinking I'd ask Alice. Is that ok?"
"Of course, why wouldn't it be ok? When were you planning on asking her?" No wonder why he had taken so long to tell me about this party. He didn't want to hurt my feelings.
"I was going to call her after I'm done here." He was happy I wasn't upset with him, and I was happy that he seemed to have moved on from me.
"Well you better get on it, before it gets too late. I hope no one else has asked her."
"No, no one has asked her. That's another thing each guy has to tell the team who their inviting, no one can invite the same person. And to be honest I didn't want anyone else to invite you, is that selfish?"
"Awe, no it's not selfish, and thanks for the invite. Now you better get to calling Miss Alice." He walked towards the door, but before he left he came over to where I was sitting on my bed.
"Thanks for being so awesome Bella." Then he leaned towards me and kissed my cheek. Before I could even react he was gone.
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