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Bella woke up the next morning with a start, feeling a pressure on the bed beside her.
"Shit! Jasper you scared me!" Bella exclaimed, watching as Jasper grinned like a child.
"Sorry, how can I make it up to you?" He leant towards her but she quickly backed away and slipped out of the bed on the other side, backing away from him.
"Erm... Morning breath." Bella made her excuses quickly and ducked into the adjoining bathroom, leaning back against the door when it was closed. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before walking over to the basin and looking in the mirror. She bit her lip at her reflection, her hair was a complete mess and her skin was a little pale but other than that, she didn't look any different. She expected to look different, to feel different, but she didn't. She just felt numb. She knew Jasper was outside the door waiting for her and that made her feel a little sick.
She took a long shower before brushing her teeth and drying her hair quietly, her brain working through all of her emotions and how she was going to cope with the day ahead. When she couldn't put it off any longer, she pulled the towel around her a little tighter and opened the door a fraction. When she saw that Jasper had left, she sighed in relief before going out into the room and changing into black skinny jeans and a white loose fitting tank. She threw her stuff into the duffel bag she had brought with her before leaving the room and shutting the door behind her. As she walked past Edward's bedroom she saw the door was ajar and pushed it open a little but he didn't seem to be in there so she carried on her way down the stairs.
"Hey," Jasper grinned as he walked out of the kitchen. "Do you want some breakfast, beautiful?"
"No, thanks." Bella shook her head, looking into the living room, but Edward wasn't there either. "I'm not hungry."
"You might need it," Jasper said quietly stepping towards her and wrapping her in his arms, kissing her hair lovingly. "Are you sure about today?" He whispered.
Bella simply nodded before pulling away and putting her bag on the floor.
"Is Edward around?" Bella asked as inconspicuously as she could.
"Erm, no. He was gone when I woke up this morning. Maybe he went back to Tanya's?"
"Tanya?" Bella frowned.
"Oh yeah! Edward and Tanya are back together, well, they were last night at least. I knew he'd been happier recently for a reason!"
Bella made a small sound of recognition before walking into the kitchen and taking a seat on the one of the stools at the breakfast bar as Jasper finished his cereal next to her.
Edward must have left the house after he'd left her in the guest room. She'd not had a text or a missed call from him either. Maybe he didn't care about last night as much as she did. Maybe he was just helping her out. If he cared then he would be here to stop her going to Port Angeles with Jasper.
"Are you ready to go, beautiful?" Jasper asked after pushing open the door to the guest room where Bella was getting her stuff together.
"Yeah," Bella said softly and threw her bag over her shoulder.
"Here, let me take that."
Jasper took the bag and walked out of the room and down the stairs with Bella following quietly behind him. She took her phone out of her pocket and checked it one more time, nothing from Edward. If he didn't care then neither did she.
The car ride was peaceful, neither of them really knowing what to say so keeping quiet. Bella turned her head to watch Jasper as he drove. He was very attractive, his sandy blonde hair fell haphazardly over his eyes and he moved his head occasionally to move it away. His similarity to his brother was slim, Edward looked more rugged than Jasper's innocent eyes and Bella smiled at him softly.
"What are you smiling at?" Jasper asked with a small smile, turning his head to look at her quickly before turning his attentions back to the road.
"Just you."
"Why? What have I done?"
"Nothing," Bella shrugged.
"We're here," Jasper sighed as he turned the car into the parking lot of a decent looking motel.
"It's nice," Bella breathed.
Jasper nodded and climbed out of the car, walking around the front and opening Bella's door for her. She got out and stood close to Jasper as he closed the door.
"Thank you," Bella whispered before kissing him softly on the cheek. Jasper frowned in confusion. "For not taking me to the cabin."
"Oh," Jasper said in realisation. "Yeah, no problem."
They walked to the reception and the woman behind the desk eyed them suspiciously.
"We've got a room booked."
"Jasper Cullen?"
"Um... Yeah."
"Here you go," she handed him the keys. "It's all been paid for."
"I know," Jasper nodded with a frown and took the key from her. "Thank you."
"You've paid already?" Bella asked as they walked hand in hand to their room.
"Um, yeah. I just wanted to get the money side out of the way." Jasper shrugged before putting the key in the door and pushing it open.
Bella stepped in and looked around for a bit before turning and seeing Jasper standing at the door awkwardly.
"Are you coming in?" Bella smiled.
"Is it ok?" Jasper asked, not taking his eyes off her.
"It's fine Jasper," Bella whispered and walked to him, taking his hand and pulling him into the room. "Relax."
Jasper scoffed but dropped their small bags onto the floor and shut the door.
"Do you want a drink or something?" Jasper asked as Bella sat down on the edge of the bed.
"No, I'm good thank you."
"Are you not nervous?" Jasper asked with a frown as he grabbed a bottle of water from his bag and took a swig.
"Yeah, but... Well... I feel comfortable with you. I don't want to be nervous all the time," Bella said softly.
Jasper put the bottle back into his bag and shrugged his jacket off, throwing it onto the small chair in the corner of the room. He walked over to the bed and sat down next to Bella.
"I love you," He whispered.
Bella took a shaky breath in and looked at him shock.
"What?"
"Did you mean that?"
"Well... It's what you say isn't it... Before you... You know..."
"So you didn't mean it?"
"I- Bella, I..."
"I don't care if you didn't mean it. Just don't say it again unless you do," Bella frowned.
Jasper nodded and leaned towards her, capturing her lips with his and kissing her forcefully. He groaned and moved towards her more, his hand finding her waist and his fingers digging into her skin.
"Jasper," Bella managed between kisses. "Jasper, wait. Slow down."
Jasper pulled back, breathing deeply. "Slow down..." He nodded.
Bella nodded with a smile and ghosted her lips over his.
Their kiss was much slower and softer this time round and slowly built into an enthusiastic clashing of lips and tongues. Jasper shifted so he was hovering over Bella and pushed her up the bed so that she was lying beneath him. His hands smoothed down her sides and rested on her hip as he began to kiss her neck and across her collar bone.
Bella looked up at the ceiling and tried as hard as she could to feel the way she had the night before. She closed her eyes tight and tried to just focus on the feeling of being touched as Jasper's hand ran up and down her thigh.
She suddenly felt the button on her jeans being popped open and she pushed herself up into a sitting position.
"What are you doing?" She exclaimed.
Jasper frowned, both in incredulity and confusion. "Undoing your je-"
"You can't just do it! You need to give me some warning!"
"Ooookaay," Jasper drew out and pushed his hair out of his face. "Can I take your jeans off?"
"Are you being sarcastic?" Bella asked angrily as Jasper fought to hide a smirk.
"Come on, Bella." Jasper rolled his eyes and crawled towards her. "Let me take them off," He whispered huskily and leant forward to kiss her gently.
Feeling mollified by the kiss Bella smiled and rested her forehead against Jasper's. "Ok."
Jasper smiled and kissed her soundly again before his hands found the already undone button of her jeans. He pulled the zipper down slowly and pulled the jeans down her legs when she lifted her ass a little to make it easier.
"You have amazing legs," Jasper whispered as her crawled back up her body. "You never let me see your legs."
"It's cold in Forks," Bella rolled her eyes and giggled slightly.
Jasper kissed her again but this time it was a hungry kiss, she felt his weight on her and she felt his sudden urgency. He seemed to be in his own world, his hand kneading her ass almost painfully before pushing his hips down onto hers roughly.
"Ungh," Jasper grunted, screwing his eyes shut and pulling back from kissing her.
"Jasper," Bella breathed. "Slow down, Jasper..."
"I can't, God, Bella. I've wanted you for so long."
"Jasper," Bella breathed again, feeling panic begin to rise up within her. "Please stop." She wanted nothing more than for Edward to come bursting through the door and pull him off her but she knew that it would never happen. Even if Edward didn't want her, she couldn't do this with Jasper.
Jasper brought his head down to Bella's neck and kissed it while he pushed his hips into her again. Bella used her strength to push him back.
"Jasper stop. I can't do this. I can't do it." Jasper stopped moving entirely but didn't climb off Bella. "Jasper, get off me, please."
"You're joking, right?" Jasper looked up into Bella's eyes. "We came here for this, Bella."
"Get. Off. Me." Bella said tightly.
Jasper climbed off her. "Did you think I would force you? I would never d-"
"Of course not," Bella said quickly. "I just think... Maybe... I'm the wrong girl."
"You're not the wrong girl, Bella. I want you."
"But I can't do it, Jasper. I'm sorry."
"Don't say sorry to me," Jasper chuckled darkly. "You should apologise to Edward."
"Edward?" Bella blanched.
"You can tell him he wasted his money on the motel," Jasper shook his head with an incredulous laugh.
"Are you laughing at me?"
Jasper turned to Bella, "This was your idea. You told me you'd be ok. I knew this would happen."
"Well I'm glad I'm so fucking predictable." Bella spat, standing up and pulling her jeans on roughly. "Maybe if you weren't so fucking rough with me then I would have been ok. I told you to slow down."
Jasper opened his mouth to speak but Bella cut him off.
"I'm going to call Alice to come and get me. I think you should go now." She took her phone from her bag and pulled up Alice's number wanting to call her but changing her mind so instead sent her a text.
Hey Al. Today's a mess. Could you come pick me up? B xxx
"You want me to leave?"
"Yes."
"We could try again, I'll go slo-"
"Go home, Jasper."
"Can I at least call you later."
"I don't think we should see each other anymore." Bella frowned, swallowing hard. She'd never pictured herself breaking up with Jasper but now that it was happening, it felt right to her.
"You're breaking up with me? Over this?"
"I don't think we're... good together."
"Well this is news to me! When did you decide this? Just since we walked into this room? Because before we came here we were fine!"
"I don't want to talk about this, Jasper. I just want you to go home."
No problem. I know where you are dw, Jazz told me. See you in a bit. Xxx
Bella frowned at the message. Of course Jasper had told her. They tell each other everything. How could she have forgotten.
"I don't understand what's happened today..." Jasper said.
"We've discovered that we're not right for each other."
"No. No. You've decided we're not right for each other. This is all on you."
"Can you just go?" Bella pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration.
"I would have driven you home, you know..."
When Bella looked up, the door to the room was closing behind Jasper. She saw his shadow as he walked past the window to the room before she collapsed onto the bed in tears.
So Edward had paid for the room. He'd arranged for her to have sex with somebody else. He would have done that before they'd slept together as well. She'd offered herself up to him on a plate last night, he probably slept with her out of pity.
Just over an hour later, Bella's phone chirped with a message from Alice saying that she was in her car in the parking lot. Bella sighed and picked up her bag sluggishly before leaving the room, Jasper had kept the key with him and she wasn't sure what he'd done with it but she shut the door behind her anyway.
She walked quickly to Alice's car, not wanting to keep her waiting and climbed into the passenger side.
"Sorry to call you out here," She said quietly with a tight smile.
"Don't be stupid! Is everything ok?"
"I broke up with Jasper..."
"You broke up with him? I thought the whole point of coming here was to do exactly the opposite?"
"Hmm..." Bella murmured and turned her head to look out of the window.
"Ok, no talking. I just take you home."
Bella stayed quiet for the journey home, getting annoyed by Alice constantly changing the radio station.
"How did Jasper take the split?" She suddenly asked seemingly out of nowhere.
"How do you think?" Bella asked, still looking out of the window. "You probably talked to him more than I ever did."
"Is that why you did it?"
"What? No, don't be stupid."
"Well I don't understand, Bella!" Alice exclaimed. "You're not telling me anything so what am I supposed to think?"
"Ugh, can you just pull over and let me out please? I'll walk the rest of the way."
"It's raining," Alice frowned. "And it's about a 45 minute walk from here."
"I don't care. I need some air and the time to think. Can you pull over please?"
Alice huffed and pulled over onto the side of the road. Bella mumbled a 'thank you' and climbed out with her bag slung over her shoulder.
Bella watched as Alice's car pulled away from her and continued down the road without her. She pulled out her iPhone from her bag and plugged her earphones in, putting on some loud music to make her stop thinking. As she walked, she became aware that the music wasn't acting as a distraction. All she could think about was why Edward had slept with her and then let her go off with Jasper without saying another word about it. He must have felt sorry for her. That was her only explanation.
Sooner than she thought, she found herself outside her house. Charlie's cruiser was on the drive way so that meant he would ask her why she hadn't been driven home. She wasn't sure that Charlie would entirely appreciate the truth so before she went in, she had to come up with a feasible excuse that he would believe.
She walked numbly up the steps towards the front door and pushed her key in, turning it and pushing the door open.
"Bells? Is that you?" She heard Charlie's voice from the kitchen.
"Yes, Dad." Bella answered as she dumped her bag on the floor by the now closed door. She heard footsteps coming towards her and looked up to see a confused looking Charlie.
"You got that wet walking from the car to the door?"
"Um, no. I walked home."
"Why? Did you have a fight with Alice?"
"Uhh..." Bella's eyes widened, realising that Charlie's assumption was better than any excuse that she could come up with. "Yeah, something like that." She'd almost forgotten she'd told Charlie she was at Alice's.
"You should have called. I would have come and gotten you."
"Oh, no worries." Bella shook her head dismissively. "I wanted to walk. I'm just going to go and have a shower to warm up." She pointed towards the stairs before making her way quickly up them.
When she shut the door to her bedroom she was suddenly hit with all the emotions that she'd been bottling up inside of her. She hugged herself as she sunk to the floor, tears falling down her cheeks and shivering from the wet clothes she was wearing.
She didn't know how long she sat there before she stood up silently and grabbed her things and headed into the bathroom. She had a long shower but felt nothing.
On Monday morning, after spending the whole of Sunday in her bedroom only coming down to cook Charlie's dinner, Bella arrived at school a little later than usual. Jasper's car was parked in its normal space and he was standing by it, talking to Alice. He was obviously upset but when he saw Bella's truck he looked up at her hopefully. Bella pulled into a space on the other side of the lot and slowly climbed out.
"Hey, Bella... It is Bella, right?" Bella heard. She looked up and saw Emmett's girlfriend walking towards her with a gleam in her eye.
"Y- Yeah."
"Do you happen to know where Emmett is? I'm guessing he's with Edward but I've not heard from him since Saturday."
"Uh, no..." Bella shook her head. "I haven't seen Edward since Friday night."
Realisation struck Rosalie and she turned around and spotted Jasper with Alice.
"That's your boyfriend over there, right?"
"Um, well –"
"You blatantly didn't sleep with him!" Rose scoffed. "Did Edward get to you first?"
Bella's eyes widened exponentially.
"I uh- He- We-"
"Oh my God!" Rose smiled, "He did, didn't he?"
Bella stood, staring at Rosalie in silence. Stunned.
"He's probably with Emmett, celebrating!"
"C- Celebrating?" Bella stuttered, finding it difficult to breathe.
"Oh, this is boring," Rose rolled her eyes. "You know Edward's reputation, right? He fucks virgins."
"V-"
"And now he's added another one to his list..." She looked at Jasper thoughtfully. "His own brother's girlfriend... Amazing."
Bella turned her shocked gaze to Jasper who was looking at her with a worried frown.
"I-" Bella shut her mouth quickly and turned to get back into her truck and drove out of the parking lot.
Jasper was walking through the school to third period when he saw Tanya standing by her locker looking at her phone.
"Hey, Tanya!" He said brightly, even though he was having a crap day he couldn't blame other people.
"Oh... Jazz, hey," Tanya said in surprise. "Erm... You ok?"
Jasper shrugged, "You are though, right?"
"I am what? Ok? Yeah I guess..."
"Well, I mean... Edward wasn't around all weekend so I guessed you'd still be with him."
"With Edward?" Tanya frowned.
"Yeah, you were at our house on Friday, right? Edward's been happier recently so it's obviously because of you."
"I wasn't at your house on Friday, why? Did he have someone there?" Tanya looked rejected, her usual proud stance significantly deflated.
"He said you guys were back together," Jasper frowned in confusion.
"No, we're not."
"But he came to get..." Jasper shook his head. "You know what? Don't worry about it; I've obviously got it wrong."
"Jazz?" Tanya called as Jasper walked away; he turned to look at her. "Who was he with?"
Jasper frowned in thought and then had a dark thought. Images of a petite brunette with large brown eyes flashed through his mind.
"I don't know."
