Originally, this was a cute little one-shot. Now it's gonna be a story. And it's dedicated to renabear.
Summary: Bella has a disturbing dream about Jasper, just before she has to spend two whole days and a whole night alone with him. Well, interesting things are just BOUND to happen.
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Chapter Ten: Compare
This time, there was no dream. I woke up, and it felt like it had been only seconds ago that I had fallen asleep against Jasper, again.
I sat up and stretched, and he chuckled.
"What's so funny?" I asked. I turned to look at him. He grinned at me.
"Oh…nothing." He said, still grinning. Then he brought his hands up to my hair, and gently started to comb his fingers through it. I gasped at the feeling…it felt so…so…wonderful…I closed my eyes in pure ecstasy.
When he stopped combing my hair with his fingers, I actually whimpered. He only chuckled again.
"Your hair…was sticking straight up." He said in my ear, his voice a seductive purr.
I blushed. "Well, what do you expect? Humans need to sleep." I said, sticking my tongue out like a five-year-old.
He just laughed and got out of the bed. I laughed too and followed him. Then I stretched again and gathered up my toiletries and clothes, to take a shower.
Jasper wet the opposite way down the hall, and I went to the bathroom. I put all my stuff down, stripped of my night clothes, and got into the hot shower.
I let the water work its way down my body, relaxing me more than anything else could.
I started to think about Jasper and Edward as I washed my hair with strawberry scented shampoo.
Edward was…well, he was Edward. Perfect. Wonderful. Mine. But Jasper…Jasper was new, and different. I didn't know what to expect from him, like I did Edward.
Did I really tell Jasper I loved him last night? I wondered as I rinsed my long brown hair.
If I hadn't dreamt it, Jasper had said he loved me too…but no, the whole thing with Jasper was just…wrong. He was fiancé's brother. And he was my best-friend's husband. So really, us being together was totally and completely wrong.
Wait, since when did I start think of me and Jasper as together? Well, sure, the guy had kissed me, but so had Jacob and I had never considered me and Jake to be a couple…
Crap, now I was confused, and my nice relaxing shower was ruined. I sighed and turned the water off. I grabbed a towel and dried myself.
I felt like there was something important I was supposed to remember about today too…
The family was coming back, which meant Edward was coming back. But no, that wasn't it.
I got dressed and put my stuff away, and then walked down stairs. Jasper was reading a book. I couldn't see the title, but he seemed absorbed in it.
Or so I thought until he looked up, smiled, and said, "Good-morning my angel." I raised my eyebrows at the new nickname.
He frowned. "Um…I meant to say Bella." He said. Hm…he had said that in the garage yesterday after our kiss…
"Um, okay…what's today's date?" I asked absently. I was his angel? Hm…
"It's the thirtieth. Why?" He asked. I blanched.
"Because, this is the day Alice and I go shoe shopping. Which means I'm going to die a slow, painful death." Was joking, and I laughed a little at the end. I was afraid though. Alice, in a store with nothing but shoes. I could imagine very many things that would be worse than that.
"Yes, that does sound horrible. But you know Alice will enjoy it." He said, chuckling.
I was about to suggest that he come along and let her dress him up when the front door burst open.
"What will I enjoy?" Alice asked, her eyes a nice butterscotch color as she smiled and ran to hug Jasper.
He hugged her back.
"Torturing me." I said just as Jasper said, "Shoe shopping."
Edward came in, and laughed. "They're the same thing to you, aren't they Bella?" He asked as he hugged me. I hugged him back, glad to feel his stone arms wrapped around me. Although Jasper's grip was stronger…
No way was I comparing my fiancé and his brother. Nope.
"Oh, come on Bella! You have to have the perfect shoes for your dress!" She squealed, bounding up and down next to Jasper.
"Why? No one's gonna see them anyway. It goes all the way to the floor." I said, stating a known fact.
Alice was about to retort, when Emmet suddenly said, "Well, Edward's gonna see 'em. Especially if all you're wearing are those shoes!" He said, laughing as Edward went after him. Rosalie, whom I hadn't noticed appear, shook her head at them.
"Just look what you're marrying into Bella." She said, smiling in a friendly way.
I laughed. "Just look what you're already married into!" She laughed with me and Alice. Carlisle and Esme came in then, and smiled to see us all getting along. Well, except for Edward and Emmet, who were wrestling on the floor.
"Come on Bella, we have to get an early start if you want the perfect shoes!" She said, dragging me to the door. Suddenly Edward was there, blocking our path. He smiled at me and kissed me.
I kissed back, and became a little breathless. But it was no where near the kiss Jasper and I had shared…
There I go again, comparing them!
Edward smiled at me, my favorite crooked grin, and then he looked at Alice.
"Oh and why not?" He asked, obviously he had read her thoughts.
"Because it's a girl thing!" She said, and then she ha picked me up and she was running to her Porsche. Edward laughed from the porch of the house and waved as we drove off.
"So Bella how was your weekend?" Alice asked.
I shrugged. "It was fine. Not as interesting as that though." I said, laughing. Alice laughed too.
"So, Jasper behaved?" She asked, eyeing me as we sped down the road.
"You would have seen if he hadn't." I pointed out. She was silent for a moment, and I wondered if she had seen something…like our kiss.
"True. And I didn't, so I guess everything was alright." She said, grinning. I nodded. We arrived at the mall, and I groaned as she led me in.
EDWARD'S POV
I waved as Alice took off with Bella.
So good to see everyone getting along…That was Esme, happy that all her children were getting along.
Edward…Esme and I are going to…retire early tonight. Carlisle thought at me. That was his little 'warning' to me, so that I would know not to listen in. Or, more accurately, to block their thoughts.
They slipped from the room then, hand in hand.
We all watched them go. Emmett, of course, was thinking…dirty thoughts. Rosalie was thinking Emmett had better wipe the silly grin off his face. Jasper was thinking about…numbers. Very long numbers.
As Rosalie and Emmett left, I sat next to Jasper on the couch.
"Jasper? Why are you thinking in numbers?" I asked idly, flipping through the pages of a magazine.
He shrugged. "No reason." He said casually, still thinking in numbers.
I frowned into the magazine.
"Alice had an interesting vision while we were away." I said, looking up at him.
What?! Damn! He thought, and then it was back to numbers.
"Oh really?" He said nonchalantly.
I tried again. "Yes. It was about you and Bella." I said smoothly, looking right at him.
He looked away from me. She couldn't have seen…damn it! Again, back to long, complicated numbers.
"Seen what Jasper? You kissing my fiancé?" I asked, my voice a deadly hiss.
Now he looked right at me, and lost all pretenses of not thinking about it.
"Yes. She couldn't have seen that, because if she did, she would have killed me as soon as she saw me. And probably Bella too." He said. He sounded angry and fearful, but I got the feeling he feared for Bella, not for himself.
After all, if Alice had seen that then there would have been no safe place on earth to hide either of us.
His thoughts confused me. Bella had done nothing. She had been asleep.
"Why would Alice do anything to Bella? She knows it was only you." I said.
He frowned. "What are you talking about? She had a vision about what happened in the garage, right?" He asked, and then bit his own tongue.
"No. She didn't. Why, what happened in the garage?" I didn't so much say the words as growl them.
Nothing happened…get out of my head! Think numbers…think…no, don't think… He thought. I growled louder.
"You had better either think or tell me." I snarled, inches from his face. He snarled back.
"No." He said. But his thoughts were another matter…
He and Bella in his car, kissing feverishly. His tongue in her mouth, tasting her…something I had never done, because I was afraid to hurt her. But the worst thoughts…were those of her kissing him back. Willingly.
"What the hell did you do to my Bella?" I snarled.
He snarled back. "Nothing she didn't wish. If she hadn't wanted it, she could have stopped me." He snarled right back at me.
I lunged at him. How dare he kiss my Bella! He grappled with me on the floor, until Emmet and Carlisle pulled us off of each other.
"What has gotten into you two?" Esme yelled at us. I just glared at Jasper, and he just glared back.
"If you touch her again, I will kill you." I said in a low, menacing voice.
"That's her decision." He growled, glancing at the door. I looked, and saw Alice, looking pissed off, and Bella, looking indecisive, tears streaking down her face.
"Bella!" I said, going to her. Jasper followed me to her as well.
"No…leave me alone! I…I have to think about…things…" She murmured, and then she turned and ran out the door.
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