Alright folks, I know I ditched on you and I'm sorry for the first time in my life writing isn't easy. I am without insparation, and I don't understand why I'm writing all the time but nothign that has anything to do with anything else. Nothing I'm doing is connected. Anyway, I finally got this one out for you, so let me know how happy you are I've gotten up and come back to you :)

Peace

He curled his fingers in a mock of a wave at her, and Alice just smiled, trying not to seem think about what Edward had last said to her. Several people were openly staring at them, while most were doing it discretely, a flick of their eyes while chatting to a friend at their own lockers, or a gaze that lingered too long while they looked for someone. But Edward watched Alice, as if there was no one else around, and it was perfectly normal to be leaning against another person's locker, like he did it all the time.

"Good morning." He said brightly, and o-so southern-ly as he held out a cup with steam coming over the top.

"What's this?" She asked, as she took the cup, and it warmed her fingertips that she hadn't realized were cold.

"Some coffee, I brought it for Jaz, but he said you needed it more then he did this morning, and I don't really want to think about what that means..."

"How did he know I would need coffee?" She snapped, suddenly wondering if Jasper had seen her with Jacob, and even more suddenly if not frighteningly, she wondered why it would matter if Jasper saw her with Jacob, it wasn't like she had a thing for either of them, Jasper was much too hard to determine without proper thought, and she didn't have the brain power to think due to lack of sleep, and Jacob was too much like a big brother...

Alice's train of thought violently derailed, and she circled around the word in her mind 'brother', tears sprang to her eyes, and she stared into her coffee.

All of the sudden Edward's hand was on her elbow, and he turned her to face the lockers, and leaned close to her, as a tear finally rolled over.

"Are you okay? Do you not like coffee that much?" He breathed looking over her shoulder, at the people no doubt staring at them now.

She laughed mirthlessly, and shook her head, and he promptly took the cup from her hands, and deposited the coffee into a trashcan, Alice watched sadly, she had wanted that coffee, "I'm fine. It wasn't the coffee, thank you for bringing it for me," Edward threw a glance over his shoulder to the trash can, and then looked back at her, concern creeping deep into his emerald eyes, "I just didn't get a lot of sleep last night, I'm being emotional is all."

His gaze stayed with her as she straightened, ran her thumbs beneath her eyes, and told him again she was fine. Alice didn't have to look at him, watching her, to know Edward knew she was lying to him, and know that he was also trying to figure out why. But she didn't look him in the eyes, instead focused her hands on her lock, three to the right, sixteen to the left, twenty seven to the right. She told herself over again in her head, as she messed the combination twice, why did Edward have to smel so much like Jasper, or stand so close beside her to where she found herself completely emersed in it.

Finally yanking her locker free of its stubborn latch, retrieving several books, she shoved them haphazardly into her backpack, and slamming the locker door and rounded to face Edward, "I swear, I'm fine," She told him, Edward giving her no reason to think he believed her for even a moment, "Just an off morning." She said grimly, and nodded towards the hallway telling him silently she had classes, and he nodded his understanding.

She slinked around the corner, and stood back against the wall dropping ehr backpack at her feet. She had to keep it together, she couldn't break down at school, and especially not around Charlie. Alice filled her lungs with a deep breath, and imediatly wished that she hadn't. She almost choked on it, knwoing why it was that she could feel someone watching her now.

Opening her eyes, Jasper had his hand out to her, and held within his grasp was a stream cup of black gold. She had to stop herself from ripping it from his grasp, and greedily swallowing all of it, and she managed to smile andtake it from her calmly.

"Don't worry, it isn't the trash coffee." He said quietly, leaning against the wall beside her.

She laughed and nodded, taking a sip instantly feeling calm this was what she had needed this morning, "Thanks." Alice didn't ask why he knew she ahd needed coffee that morning, or more importantly why he knew that Edward had thrown hers away because if she were honest she was a little afraid of the answer.

"Are you alright?" He asked her in a whisper, his breath smelling of mint, tickling her neck.

"Yeah, why?" She asked, taking another hungry sip of the coffee.

He arched an unconvinced eyebrow at her, and swiped his thumb under her eye, where a remnant of a tear still clung. She looked down and used another longer drink as an excuse to say nothing, "It's nothing honestly I'm fine. I just...I don't know this morning has been long and it's barely started."

Jasper nodded, and looked away from her to something that was down that hall, the bell rang somewhere in the distance, adn he pushed off of the wall, He turned and started to say something to her, but didn't, he stopped his mouth slightly open, and just stared like he had never really looked at her before. She had looked up at him and there eyes connected. People milled past, and watched them watching each other. Alice would never remember how long they stood there, if she blinked or even breathed, all the would be able to recall of that moment is that something changed. Something clicked in ehr mind, cal it fate, blame it on that stars whatever your belief may be aside. Nothing between them was ever the same.

"I should get to class." He said finally, dropping his gaze, and for the first moment he seemed, nervous even bashful that he had just looked at her. Alice nodded, adn started to bend to pick up her bag, but he held it out to her already having retrieved, she wondered when he ahd done that, she hadn't noticed him stoop to get anything.

"Thanks." She said simply, taking the bag from his outstretched hand. They didn't touch that time, he didn't make any ploy to make her touch him as they exchanged her bag, and she wondered why, but by the time she looked back up from her hands he was gone. Down the hall pausing as he turned a corner, the hallway nearly empty by that point, mouthing to her.

"Feel better."

Alice wasn't sure why it had struck her as anything, hadn't Edward just said this to her? He had meant it just the same, as a comfort to her when he didn't know what was wrong, but she supposed it was the stare. The stare that told her plainly, nothing would be the same.

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