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Chapter 10
Jasper's POV
What the hell! She jerked away from me. Had she changed her mind? Did I scare her? Damnit I shouldn't have told her those things!
"We've been waiting by the car for like twenty minutes." Emmett had been talking. Wait what was he saying, how long had he been there? Where had all the people in the gym gone? We'd been so wrapped up in each other that we hadn't even heard the bell ring.
Real great protection skill Jasper! I scolded myself. If something had been coming for her I would have been completely unprepared. I had to get control over this situation and quick. Whatever this situation was.
"Sorry Emmett." Bella told him as she quickly got up and stumbled her way to the girl's locker room, her face the color of a tomato.
I didn't know what to do. I just sat there stunned at my own behavior. I had started to lean in before she jerked away. I almost kissed her. What had Emmett seen? Oh god he would tell Alice.
I flitted to the locker room and changed in less than a minute. When I came back out Emmett was still standing there, looking very disgruntled. "What the hell do you think you're doing bro?" panic, fear, and confusion were rolling off of him in waves. "That's Edwards's girl! And your wife is sitting out in the car waiting for you!" he kept his voice low so it wouldn't carry into the locker room where Bella could hear.
"She's not his girl!" I grumbled, why was that the first thing I responded to? "And I wasn't doin' anything. She was cryin' and I was comforting her!" that was my story and I was damn sure sticking to it!
He looked at me in with obvious disbelief, "Why was she crying?
"She asked me about my past, after I told her she just started cryin'" he thought about my explanation and seemed to except it.
"You should have edited for her man. She didn't need to hear all the dirty details." He scolded me. "Did you scare her?"
"I don't think so. I didn't feel any fear coming off her all, just sadness, and pity." I said in a sad voice.
He patted my shoulder, "Sorry man, I didn't mean to jump to conclusions." The trust I felt coming from my little big brother was so pure and strong. I wanted to kick myself; I didn't like lying to him. Was I lying to him though? I was losing my freaking mind.
"Hey Em, I know I didn't do anything wrong but we need to keep this from Edward okay." Once Edward seen what Emmett seen he'd know exactly what had been about to happen. He would tell Alice, I was praying like crazy she hadn't seen it in a vision. I hadn't made a decision to kiss bell my body had just been going on auto pilot. They couldn't be mad at me any way right? I hadn't actually kissed her.
"Yeah, I think you're right. The way Edward acts about her, he won't believe you. He'll assume you were doing something wrong and freak. Also I don't think he'll be very happy about you telling her about the wars. He'll think it scared her. I really don't understand his issue, it's like he thinks she's made out of glass or something. "Emmett was a lot more perceptive than any one gave him credit for. I was betting he really didn't believe my story about just comforting her, but he wasn't going to rock the boat and freak. "How we going to do this though? He'll see it in my head; I'm not as good at blocking him as you guys are."
We had all managed to figure out how to block Edward from certain thoughts we didn't want him to hear over the years. He couldn't see them unless we thought about them, so we all thought of anything but what we didn't want him to and he hated it. Emmett was horrible at it. Alice was best at it. She had even found a way to do so that it annoyed Edward. She'd would sing childish songs, or think highly inappropriate thoughts at him. When he would protest or scold her for it she would tell him to stop being a creepy eavesdropper. I scoffed at that, like it was any different that looking into every detail of every ones lives to see their decisions so that you could tell them what decisions they should make and how to live their lives! I thought bitterly. Where the hell had that thought come from?
"Well if you just bolt home they'll think something is up and he'll come looking for you demanding to know what it is." Edward was always that way, when we tried to avoid him. Demanding we tell him what ever was wrong even if it was personal. "Just keep touching her for now, he won't be about to hear you."
"Yeah because that won't make him crazy jealous. Not to mention that Rose will rip Bella's head off if I can't keep my hands off of her." he was right Rose was known for her tempter when it came to other women and her Emmy. And of course Edward would assume the worst if Emmett became permanently attached to Bella. I was pretty sure Bella would become fed up with it as well.
"Just make it playful then I don't know. And I would be forever just until we can get home then you can lock yourself in your room with Rose until you forget it!" I rushed it out at him quickly because Bella was coming now. He'd think of something. And locking himself in his room with Rosalie wouldn't raise any suspicions; they sometimes locked themselves up for days at time. The noises we heard from them when they were in there would put the animals at the zoo to shame.
God if you let Emmett be able to pull this off I swear I'll send you cookies. I prayed. I really didn't want to fight with my wife or my brother. I wanted to fix it. I did still want that right? I had no idea what I wanted anymore. I knew I at least didn't want to hurt either of them though.
Bella's POV
Oh how embarrassing! I thought as I changed back into my regular clothes. We had only been talking and he had been consoling me while I cried, but I knew what it had to have looked like. I knew what I wanted it to have really been. That's what Emmett would have seen. The two of us sitting close, staring at each other, his arm around me, and his hand on my face. He thought we'd been kissing.
How did we get so wrapped up that we hadn't noticed everyone else leave? Fix this Bella fix this now! You've just started something with Edward. Alice wants to be your friend. You don't want to hurt either of them. Just go out there and act like nothing happened, maybe he'll do the same. Nothing had happened anyway. We were just two friends consoling each other. Yeah let's stick with that story.
When I walked back out Emmett and Jasper were having a very quiet tense conversation. They both turned to me and smiled like nothing was wrong though. "Come on Bells I'll give you a piggyback ride to the car." Emmett smiled playfully.
"I'm quite capable of walking thank you." I tried to walk around him but he blocked me.
"If you say no I'll just put you over my shoulder again." He seemed even happier at that prospect.
"Come on Bells just humor him or we'll be here all day." Jasper smiled just as brightly as Emmett, but there was something off about his smile. Like his was forced or something. I wasn't sure what was up, but I relented.
I handed my bag off to Jasper and Emmett bent down so I could climb on. I felt like a little kid on his back. He was so much bigger than me. I wrapped my arms around his tree trunk of a neck and he hooked his hands under my legs to help brace me and then he was off running at vampire speed again. Jasper was right behind us. I hoped everyone was out of the school, I didn't want to be the reason they were ousted. It had been bad enough when they had started tossing me round like a ball this morning.
When we got to the parking lot Alice and Edward were there. Alice siting cross legged on the hood of the car, Edward pacing back and forth on the driver's side.
He smiled when he saw us. "Hey you little spider monkey come down from there." The comment was playful but it still cut close since I was still a little angry about the schedule shifting. Oddly I wasn't angry at Emmett. I figured he was just doing as he'd been told. I had no doubt he'd been duped into thinking he was doing right thing.
It wasn't until we were right there in front of Edward that I realized the need for Emmett to touch me. Edward could hear him while I touched him. They were worried how Edward would react to Jasper and I being so close. I kept my arms wrapped securely around Emmett. "I'm not ready to get down yet" I gave a nervous little laugh. "I like being about to see the tree tops." I joked about Emmett's height. Edward didn't look happy but he let it go.
My phone rang and vibrated in my back pocked and someone fished it out making me squeal while I was still attached to Emmett's back. Jasper handed it to me. I flipped it open but couldn't see through Emmett's head. "What's that say Emmett?" I asked as I held it in front of his face.
"I don't mind if you go to your friend's house. It will make me feel better knowing you've got some company when I'm working late. If you decide to stay the night call me and let me know. Love you Dad. Awesome slumber party!" he jumped up and down making me a little queasy.
"Emmett let me down before I puke down your back." He plunked me down but put an arm around my shoulder hugging me to his side. I didn't fight it.
"Yay!" Alice squealed I got an uneasy feeling. I just knew she had some very definite ideas about what went on at a slumber party. I was also pretty sure she wasn't going to take no for an answer about them either. "Oh I can run to the beauty store over by Newton's and get stuff for a facial and a mani and a pedi! I'll get bad romance movies and we'll have such a great time!"
"Um, okay." Didn't even have the heart to try and tell her no. She looked so happy as she made plans, and really what did it hurt.
"Great! Let's go!" she sprang from the hood. "Shot gun!" she was in the front seat before any one could argue. It still didn't keep Edward from growling at her.
"You know, "I said as Emmett helped me into the car. "If you keep insisting on growling at every one every time they do something that isn't to your liking, I'm going to get a squirt bottle and start spraying you every time you do it."
Once we were in the car Emmett turned to me quickly and captured my hand. I looked at him surprised until he smiled "Thumb wrestle me Bella." He was crafty I'd give him that. I could feel Jasper press his leg against mine. I wondered how he'd managed Edward not reading it in his head before now.
"I'm not an animal!" Edward grumbled starting the car.
"Then stop acting like one!" Emmett was kicking my butt at thumb wrestling. His hands were so much bigger than mine that his almost completely engulfed mine. But I kept playing, acting as if I was enjoying so we could keep of the facade. I wondered what we would do when we got to their house. I was pretty sure Rosalie would rip my head off quite literally if Emmett couldn't stop touching me. "Hey I need to stop by the house for clothes and my truck." I decided I would go ahead and head down to the Quileute reservation to see Jacob tomorrow. I needed to get it over with and find out where we really stood as friends and it would give me a good excuse to leave. I was sure the longer I was with them the more girly things Alice would subject me to.
"I can take you home tomorrow; you won't need your truck." Edward said but headed to my house any way so I could at least get my clothes.
"No its ok, I'm going to meet my Dad down at the reservation tomorrow any way. It will just be easier for me to leave from your house and head over there." I was turned sideways in the seat, my back against Jaspers arm to give him more contact, still playing with Emmett. I wasn't really paying attention when everyone got tense. Jasper stiffened at my back, Emmett squeezed my hand just a little tighter. It wasn't painful but it was noticeable.
"What are you meeting him there for?" Edward was trying hard to keep his voice conversational and failing.
"He's going fishing with his friend, and I'm going to see my best friend that I haven't seen in a really long time." I was getting a little nervous as the tension level in the car clicked up another notch.
"And who is your friend?" his voice was definitely not just conversational any more. He sounded strained like he was having trouble holding in his anger. I still didn't look away from mine and Emmett's hands. I ignored his reaction. I knew he would know about the wolves, I just hadn't thought it would matter if I knew them.
"Jacob Black." The tires of the car squealed as he stomped on them. My body started to lurch sideways between the two front seats. They only thing that kept me from continuing forward and going through the windshield was Jasper. He slid one arm around my waist and the other over my shoulders and across my chest pulling back pinning me to his body.
"What the fuck Edward!" Emmett wailed "you could have hurt her! You were just yelling at me about being careful with her and you almost put her through the windshield!"
All I could do was clutch Jasper's arm and stare wide eyed in shock at Edward as he ignored Emmett. His face twisted in shock and rage as he'd turned to stare back at me. "You cannot go to the reservation." It came out in a low commanding voice. My shock was quickly fading into anger.
"Edward." Jasper said in a warning voice.
"What is wrong with you?" Alice looked just as shocked as she rest of us.
"Don't you know who she's talking about?" his rage shifted to the little pixie. I was suddenly scared for her.
She however paid his murders look no mind. "Yes, I know exactly who she's talking about. What of it?"
"Do you know what kind of danger she would be in? She can't go! What if he lost control?" his face was inches from hers as he yelled at her.
Emmett hit the back of Edwards's seat hard to get his attention. "You need to shut your mouth before you say something stupid." His voice was almost as dark as his enraged brother's. "I won't let you Rose or the rest of us in danger over your prejudices."
"No she needs to know! She needs to know what kind of freak he really is. Maybe then she wouldn't be so stupid to want to go down there and endanger her life like this!" he was leaning far into the back seat now.
Emmett looked like he was ready to leap on to Edward and tear him to shreds, but I got there first. I pushed Jasper's arms away wincing just a little. There might be a bruise or two he had held me a bit too tightly. I shrugged it off and leaned into Edwards face so he would focus on me and only me.
"Look here you over bearing glitter jock, if you think kissing me last night was some sort of contract with me signing over my free will to you, you have another thing coming. Just because it was fun and yeah believe me I enjoyed it, it doesn't mean you own me! You will not tell me what I can and cannot do. If you can't get your shit together you won't only be getting no more kisses from these lips," I pointed at my face, "but you can stay away from me all together! I've made it seventeen years without someone there to hold my hand every step of the way and I think I'm doing just fine! If you're looking for some poor little damsel in distress to rescue at every turn then you're looking in the wrong spot buster! I don't need rescuing! "I thought about it for a second, it wouldn't be betraying Jacobs's secret. They obviously already knew. "And if you're referring to the fact that Jacob and his friends are the local werewolf pack then you're a little late to the party because I already knew that. I've even seen him shift twice!" I thumped him on the end of the nose as a growl trickled out of him. It hurt my finger tip but I ignored it. "Stop that!" we glared at each other for another minute. "Emmett, get out!"
He didn't ask questions, he just got out and took my hand to help me out of the car. Jasper came out his side of the car and Alice got out as well. I looked around; we were only about a block from the house now I'd walk. As I did I realized that the three of them were following me. I stopped and Emmett had been so close behind me that he almost fell over me.
"What are you three doing?" I asked them.
"We," Alice gestured to the three of them, "are on your side of this argument. He's just being stupid and pigheaded. We like the wolves; we have a treaty with them. As long as we don't hunt humans and we stay off the reservation we can live in peace. We just have to let them take out any human vampires coming through munching on the human populous. And some of them seem to enjoy our company as well. Emmett even plays fantasy football with one of them. What's his name Emmett?"
"Seth." Emmett smiled. "Don't let him get you down Bella, he's just an over protective ass." The car sped by us and screeched to a halt in front of my house." Please don't cancel our slumber party over him. I really wanted to see what a facial was, my definition and what Alice is taking about can't possibly be the same thing." He grinned at me evilly.
"Gross Emmett! Does Rosalie know she married a perv?" I had to laugh at his absurdity.
"Yup, and she loves every second of it." he bend down closer to me and winking. I knew he was just trying to make me laugh and pull me out of the funk Edward had put me in.
"Alright," I turned to walk to my house. I had to meet their parents any way, and I wasn't going to let Edward ruin my friendship with the others. "Let's go get my stuff, you guys can ride with me if you want, but it'll be a tight fit." If Edwards's car had been a sardine can yesterday, my truck would look like a thimble crammed with piranha, happy playful piranha.
Edward's POV
My three siblings got out of the car with her! I can't believe they are taking her side! It's one thing for Emmett to play that stupid fake football thing with one of them; it was a whole nother issue all together when they were asking me, no telling me that there was no problem with Bella going to see them. And the way she had spoken to me! My mother never spoke to my father that way. Up until the last night Alice never spoke to Emmett that way. Sure Rosalie spoke to Emmett like that sometimes but someone had to keep him in line, he didn't listen to any of us.
I sped around past them and parked in front of her house waiting for them. Just calm down. You just have to figure out how to handle her. She's an odd but interesting girl. She never does what any one expects; you just have to adjust your tactics. Come at it from a different angle, you can still protect her. I used the rest of the time I had as they walked to the house to ponder over all the different options.
When they were finally reached her house I was calm and sure that I could avert her attention somewhere else besides the wolves. She was a human after all, she'd be easy to distract. I got out and leaned against the car calmly as she went inside and the others milled around in the yard. I let their thoughts slide through my head. I wanted to know what they were thinking; I wanted to know why they were siding with her.
Jasper was amused picturing the tiny girl going after me the way she had. He kept cycling the whole thing through his thoughts over and over again as he leaned against a tree in her yeard with his arms crossed over his chest.
Alice was going over plans to make sure Bella had a good time and contemplating what colors would look right on Bella if she could talk her into a full makeover. Something else caught my attention in Alice, in the back of her mind she was singing. I focused on that. she only did it when there was something she wanted to hide something from me.
"This is the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it forever just because; this is the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it forever just because." When she cycled through it a few times she started singing it in French.
I started to demand she tell me what she was hiding when Emmett's thoughts hit me. He was bouncing nervously back and forth from foot to foot. His eyes were darting around from the ground to the sky looking down the street, anywhere but at me. "Nope! Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. I'm not thinking of it. I'm not thinking of it! shit he's looking at me. Think of something else! Rosalie! Rosalie naked!" Well if the three of them had a secret it wouldn't be hard to get it out of Emmett. It never was.
"Emmett!" the second he turned to look at me I saw it. Jasper sitting with his arm around Bella, my Bella! He had a hand on her cheek, much like I'd done last night, and he was starting to lean in when Emmett caught them. She jerked away from him and fled. I saw it all even the weak excuse Emmett had bought.
Emmett saw the look of rage on my face and he knew he'd let it slip. "I'm going to find Rose!" the coward fled.
"What was that about?" Alice asked. Yeah like she didn't know. Why was she being so calm about it why hadn't she tried to tear the girl apart?
I looked at Jasper and knew he knew exactly what it was all about. I flitted to stand in front of him, we were inches apart but he stayed leaning against the tree casually like nothing was wrong.
Jasper's POV
Damnit Emmett! Why couldn't he just think of something else? No worries God I'll still send the cookies, I know you tried your best. It's no one's fault that Emmett can't hide things or lie to save his life.
Edwards rage prickled along my skin. He'd seen exactly what I knew he would. The truth, but I still had to try. "It's not what ya think it is." Why was I even trying? Now that i was thinking about it too he could see it in my head he knew what I was going to do.
"What's going on!?" Alice demanded stepping up next to us.
I could feel it he was vengeful. He was going to tell her. Whatever was already going on with Alice would get worse. I didn't know if there would be any repairing this.
"He tried to kiss Bella!" He growled glaring at me.
"No I didn't! I was just tryin' to comfort her."
"Why were you comforting her?" Alice said her voice a little low but other than that nothing had changed in her demeanor. Her emotions were just as all over the place as they had been jealousy, confusion, joy, guilt, excitement, indifference again.
"Wait if you didn't know about this and weren't trying to hide it from me?" she was probably hiding the same thing she was hiding from me and I wanted to know what it was. "You shut the hell up! You have no right to know any more, you cheated on your wife!" Stupid mind reader.
"Like you have a right? You're always poking around in our head looking for what ya can use against us or bring up later whenever you're pissed!" I growled back at him. I was still standing against the tree so that if Bella peaked out she wouldn't know we were fighting, again. "And I didn't cheat on my wife! I Swear Alice I didn't do anything I was just comforting her." I pleaded with her to believe me.
"It doesn't matter Jasper." Still indifference. "Why were you comforting her again?"
Her indifference was worse than if she'd hit me or ripped my arm off. She didn't care. My wife didn't care anymore. My heart broke. "She asked me about my past." It came out in a dull dead voice.
"You should have edited it for her. "She scolded me the same as Emmett had; she felt pity for the girl. I wondered what they thought I'd told her. Did they think I gave her a play by play of tearing people to shreds? I wouldn't do that to her.
"Well what you did was just as bad! You shouldn't have told her anything! Now she probably thinks we're all monsters like you!" Edward responded to my thoughts again.
I snapped, I was so sick of his shit! We'd put up with it for decades. Constantly putting us down for things we thought about, looking down on me for having more difficulty abstaining from human blood. He was cocky, with a holier than though attitude! I don't know why it had taken me this long to realize I hated my brother but I really did.
I didn't think about it I just let my body react so he wouldn't see it coming and be able to get away. He was a hell of a lot faster than the rest of us. If he rand I'd most likely never be able to catch is ass.
My hand shot out and wrapped around his throat, and I bared my teeth at him dripping with venom. "Listen here boy! I'm about damn tired of your bullshit! Ya cause problems every time you don't get ya damn way! You fly off the handle every time you can't control a situation, and now you're trying to turn my wife against me!" he grabbed my wrist with one hand trying to pry my hand away from his neck, he brought the other up to hit me and I grabbed his wrist before he could and twisted the arm at a painful angle. If he tried to get away I was going to take the arm and rip a piece of his throat out. It would kill him but he'd be hurtin. "I'm not going to kill ya this time because it would hurt the others, so ya better thank your god that I love them! Now ya need to pull on your big girl panties, straighten your shit up and stay the hell away from me because next time ya pull this shit on me I'm going to tear you to fucking pieces and burn you!" I tossed him roughly at his car denting the passenger door with his body.
"Stop this now!" Alice scolded both of us. "Bella will hear you and you'll scare her! Edward, Jaspers right you need to stop this! And not just with us, with her to! If you keep this up you'll scare her away from us. She's going to be my fiend for a very long time and I don't want you to ruin that for me!"
Edward growled. We understood her insinuation. Bella would be one of us one day. I felt some joy in that that I couldn't explain. I just chalked it up to being excited that I was getting another sister. Hmm sister. The left a bad taste in my mouth for some reason.
"She shouldn't have to be like us!" Edwards voice and emotions were sad. "We could make sure it doesn't happen. We could protect her." his voice was hopeful that we'd agree with him. Well like hell I would! If she wanted to be changed tomorrow I'd do it in a minute if for no other reason than to piss Edward off at this point. He growled at my thoughts, I flipped him off.
"I said stop it!" she stomped her tiny foot. "Edward, the only other for sure future I've seen for Bella is that she will be one of us or she'll die."
His sorrow was almost crippling. "Most people do." It was almost a whisper. None of us had chosen this life, we hated it at some point, but most of us got over it. Rosalie and Edward were the only two that held on to the pain and sorrow. If I wasn't so pissed at him I'd pity him.
"Edward you need to go somewhere, compose yourself. You'll scare her like this. If you care for her at all you'll go and let me and Jasper take care of her." he started to argue but she put her hand up to stop him and point at his car so he knew there was to be no more arguing.
He went. "You're going to fix my door or I'll drive your car off a cliff!" he snapped as he got in and left.
We stood in silence, Alice was sad. If for Edward, or Bella's fate, or for whatever was going on between me and her I didn't know. "Alice," I hedged. I was going to apologies again; I was going to beg her forgiveness.
"Don't. I don't want to talk about it." indifference again. "I'm going to tell Bella that I'm going to get run home and get Rose to go to the beauty store with me. I don't really want to be around you right now." Her words cut me like a knife. "Get her to the house safe." She left me standing there as she flittend into the house to talk to Bella. Then she was gone. She hadn't told me goodbye. She hadn't kissed me. She just left me standing there.
"Well I really know how to clear a front lawn don't I." Bella's voice came from the porch. I needed to get it together; I didn't want to make Bella uncomfortable.
"It's not you. Alice just wanted to hurry to the store and Edwards still being a baby. Emmett just wanted to go fondle Rose." She laughed buying my lies. "Let's get going, your dinosaur over there looks like it might have a heart attack before we get there." The truck was ancient looking. Not as old as some that we had but it looked its age, and ours, well they looked as well preserved as we did. I wasn't even sure her truck could go over twenty miles an hour. It might take us all night to get there.
"Don't hate on my baby, she's got personality." She joked. I liked her smile, it was contagious, and it made me smile to. "Which is more than I could say for Edwards prefab, tin can!" she was still mad at him. Well good at least we had something in common.
It didn't take us all night but it was a slow go compared to our cars. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be though. I enjoyed Bella's company. She was witty and smart. She made me forget some of my cares as she joked about Emmett, made fun of Edward.
"So what do ya do for fun Bella?" I wanted to know more about her.
"I like to read, I love to cook. Um , I don't know, I like to sketch. I'm sure you noticed but I'm not much for sports."
"Yeah I think the coach my just let ya ride the bench all year and let you pass just so he doesn't have to worry about injuries and law suits." I laughed. She'd been rough on her team mates. She hadn't hurt any of them but it didn't seem to be for lack of trying.
We both laughed. It was nice to laugh and have it be genuine. I so very rarely had the chance to do it. Definitely not much lately. Hell I couldn't even remember the last time I really laughed. We carried on like that all the way to the house, laughing, joking, talking about her mom, her dad, her life back in Phoenix. We talked about how she knew Jacob, how much she missed him, how much it had hurt when he'd abandoned her. I wanted to hold her then. Her sorrow was so strong at losing her friend. But she pulled it back quickly. She was excited for tomorrow. She was hopeful that they could renew their friendship.
He damn well better make things better for her. If not I'd go down to the reservation and pull his tail off and give it to her for a trophy. I told her so and she laughed. By the time we pulled into the driveway I was feeling better. More light hearted. My pain over everything happening wasn't gone but Bella seemed to have a natural ability to make me forget for a little bit.
I carried her duffle back into the house as she ogled the house. It was impressive. Three stories and an attic and basement. The place was huge. It was more window than wall especially around the back of the house. It had six bedroom, each one with a full bathroom attached, one for each couple and then Edward plus two guest rooms. Carlisle, Edward, and I each had our own study. Esme had a design room where she kept and worked on floor plans for each of our homes. We had several in many states and countries. She was always decorating or remodeling one of them. Alice had a large room just off of our room that she used to design and make clothes. We had a huge kitchen that only got used when Esme was making snacks for visitors. We had a living room big enough to throw a rave in. I told Bella all of this as we walked around the wrap around porch on the first floor, we had one on each level of the house. I was hoping to distract her so she wouldn't hear the noises that sounded like someone might be being killing a cat from the direction of Emmett and Rosalie's room.
"What do Emmett and Rose do for entertainment?" she asked since I hadn't mentioned any extra accommodations for them.
"Well Rose and Emmett prefer a more physical past time." I winked at her and she blushed. I loved when she blushed.
I was hoping so hard she didn't hear the two upstairs. Luckily they had finished and showing by the time I took Bella inside. I couldn't hear anyone in the house other than Rose and Em, so I set Bella's bag in the bigger of the two spare bedrooms, it had a full bathroom attached. The other only had a half bath and Esme would have my head if I didn't try and give our guest the star treatment.
"Where is every one?" Bella asked as she looked around the interior with wide appreciative eyes.
"Esme went with Alice cuz Rose was busy. Carlisle got held up at the hospital but he'll be here soon. Edward isn't back yet. " Emmett grinned from ear to ear as he came down the stairs his hair still a little damp.
"Gees Emmett what were you doing up there it sounded like you were killing a cat!" she laughed at him blushing at her own joke.
"Well when I hit it I hit it good." He smiled making her go beet red.
"Yeah you just keep telling yourself that Emmy-pooh." Rosalie was coming down now. I was worried she'd be rude to Bella making her uncomfortable but she surprised me. "Don't you just hate it when they get such big heads about their performance?" she smiled at Bella playfully.
If Bella blushed any more her face might explode from the heat. She was as red as she could possibly go. "I wouldn't know about all that." She laughed nervously. And then changed the subject quickly. "Emmy-pooh?" she laughed at Emmett.
"Don't you start to." he grumbled rolling his eyes. He hated most of the pet names rose used for him and we all loved using them on him to, to irritate him. "So what do you want to do till everyone gets here?"
"I don't know what is there to do?" she was a little nervous. I pushed some calm into her. I wanted her to be comfortable in our home. From what Alice had said it would be her home to one day I presumed. "Thanks Jasper." She felt me pushing the calm at her, which surprised me. Most people including most vampires were never able to notice.
I didn't use the gift to affect others emotions as much as possible. After my early life I hated the thought of controlling someone. I only used it when I had to, or when one of the others asked me to give them a little calm if they were stressed. I was too afraid that if they felt me using it on them that they would accuse me being like Edward and using my gift against them. I was glad that Bella understood that, that wasn't what I was trying to do, and that I was only trying to make her more comfortable.
"I got video games." Emmett supplied sounding like a little kid.
"Lead the way." I was pretty sure she would give Emmett almost anything to make him happy. She already loved him. It was a sisterly love though. She was amazing.
"You guys go ahead. I'm gonna to run up and change and I'll be right back down." I flitted up stairs happier than I'd been in last few days, hell happier than I'd been even before that.
Before the tiny human had entered our lives, it had been pretty damn dull. We had all been just going through the motions here. I could feel it from a few of the others to. Edward and Alice mostly. Carlisle and Esme seemed content tough, as well as Rose and Emmett. I had been trying to think of ways to pull Alice out of her boredom when this girl popped up. Maybe a second honey moon or something.
I pushed thoughts of Alice out of my head for now. I didn't want to go down that road right now. I wanted to stay happy; I wanted Bella to have a good time. That certainly wouldn't happen if my bad mood started leaking out all over her.
However it seemed Alice was determined to creep in and ruin it for me. The minute I entered our room I knew something was off. The book I'd been reading wasn't next to my side of the bed. We didn't use the bed for sleeping, but Alice liked having it. We used it very rarely, for its recreational uses, and I laid in bed sometimes and read while Alice was in her designing room. My cowboy had that I'd had since before I'd even been turned was no longer sitting on the dresser any more either. I opened one of my drawers my clothes were gone. I walked into the closet thinking maybe Alice had changed her mind and packed me a bag to go with her. but the only bags there were still hers and all of my clothes were missing from the small portion of the closet that had been mine.
I flitted out back down stars and into my study that was between Carlisle's study and the spare bedroom I'd put Bella in. My hat was on my desk with my book. I opened the store closet and all my things were there. My wife had thrown me out. I felt numb. She didn't care. She didn't want to make it work. My wife who I had loved and cherished was throwing me away.
I wouldn't car either I decided. I pulled a plain white tee-shirt and jeans out of the closet and changed. I turned the gas on in the fire place and lit it. I threw the ugly button up shirt and khaki pants Alice had laid out for me to wear this morning into flames. I watched as they burned. I would not care. I told myself sternly. If she could throw away everything we had together then so could I. if this was just some weird thing where she needed her space for whatever the hell was going on in her head lately I didn't care. She wouldn't tell me what was going on so that I could help her, she'd been distant and pushing me away little by little even before Bella showed up causing her to have this new mystery vision. I would not care. I didn't care.
I would ignore her funky ass moods, I would dress how I wanted, I would find things to entertain myself instead of always doing what she wanted. I would be myself. I realized in that moment that I had missed myself. I missed who I had been before Alice came along and changed my whole world.
I shut off the gas to the fire place and went back down stairs. Emmett was pulling out his boxes of video games, showing them off to Bella. She picked up a controller that Emmett had crushed in one of his excited fits. "What happened to this Emmy-pooh?" she laughed, she was sitting cross-legged in the floor next to the boxes.
"He gets mad when he loses and overly excited when he wins, and not just with the video games." Rosalie was joked. She was sitting on the couch with her legs crossed reading a magazine.
Bella laughed and blushed again. Rosalie smiled at her. Emmett sat down with her and began digging through the tote box for good controller. "I'm not that bad." he defended himself, but pulled out four more broken controllers before he found a good one. "Jaz get your ass in here and defend me!" he called over to me when he noticed me standing there.
Bella turned and smiled at me. Her smile was beautiful. Yeah I would do whatever made me happy. I walked over sat down cross-legged beside her.
So here's chapter 10 I hope you guys enjoy and thank you all for your great reviews. I'm sorry for the wait on this on. It's been a busy weekend.
Ok so I was just wondering what you guys though about the flow of this story am I going to fast or am I dragging it out to much or are we going on about right?
Also I noticed in chapter 8 that I was bout 10year off on Alice and Jasper's relationship. Sorry.
Any way please enjoy. Feel free to comment and review.
Next chapter we'll get to see Carlisle and Esme.