DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM TWILIGHT. THEY ALL BELONG TO STEPHENIE MEYER. I'M JUST MANIPULATING THEM TO DO MY BIDDING!

JPOV

Hmmmm….waking up to, or should I sy being woken up by Rose jumping up and down on your bed exclaiming that we had no school because a storm had knocked out the power made me feel happy and sad at the same time.

I was happy because it meant that I didn't have to go in and take that Calculus test I hadn't studied for but I was sad because I wouldn't be able to see my little pixie until tomorrow.

"Get up, Jazz! Get up, Jazz! Get up, Jazz!" If I didn't know better I would say that Alice had somehow made her way here, braving the storm.

But unfortunately, I did know better and I knew that it was only my twin sister. It seemed to me that she was channeling my girlfriend this morning. Maybe it was just behaviour due to the fact that she had been friends with her for so long. Alice was finally starting to rub off on Rose.

"Go away, Rose!" I moaned, pushing my head underneath my pillow and pulling my duvet over the top, trying to drown her out. I should know by now that nothing will stop Rose when she wants something.

"Jazzy!" She whined, and she stopped bouncing up and down. I could even picture her pout in my head. The pout that was even enough to break the usually indestrucible Emmett into doing what she wanted. With Rosalie being this was, it was not going to be a good day in the world of Jasper.

"But Jazzy! We don't have school today!" She whined, making it sounds as though that was a good enough reason to get out of bed. To me, it sounded like the perfect reason to stay in bed. The only was I would get out of bed, was if I was to see Alice today, and with the storm being the way it is, yes, I could hear it even through the windows, pillow and duvet, I had a feeling that that was not going to be happening.

"Yes, Rose." I mumbled, knowing she could hear me through the covers and pillows that were piled on my head. "School. Off. Jazz. Sleep."

"Oh come on. How often is it that we have a free day to ourselves?" She was still using that whiny voice. That voice always worked on other people, not matter who they were, but for some reason I was immune to it. People say that it's because I'm her twin, therefore I have an inbuilt immunity to Rose.

Not many people saw this side of Rose. Before Edward came along it had just been Alice, Emmett, Bella, myself and our parents that saw this side of Rose. She had been guarded about her behaviour when he first arrived but after a week or so she began to loosen up, and he had also been privvy to the "loopier side of Rose" as Bella called it. It had freaked him out to begin with, seeing as she was normally, cool and catty, but after seeing it a couple of times he had found it as amusing as the rest of us.

"And what do you expect to do with it?" I freed my arm of the tangle of blankets and the duvet and pointed in the directio of the window. "When it's like that?"

"It's not going to be like it all day," She countered, matter-of-factly.

"How do you know that?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

"Alice." We both stated at the same time.

"So when does she say it's going to stop?" I asked, my head still buried under a mountain of pillows and blankets.

"She says that its going to stop raining in about an hour, but it's going to remain overcast and thundering." Rose seemed very happy at that statement and I knew it was because she was going to be able to see Emmett after all today. "So come on. Up you get, oh twin of mine! By the time we're ready, the rain will have stopped and Alice will be here." I smiled at the thought of seeing my little pixie today after all.

She jumped off of my bed and ran out of the room, but not before threatening me with the ice if I wasn't out of bed in thirty seconds. I shot out of bed. I made the mistake of calling Rose's bluff on the ice threat when we were four and I have yet to make that mistake again. Emmett makes it frequently, but then again, Emmett has the memory span of a goldfish.

I grabbed my towel and wandered into my ensuite. I was so glad that I had an ensuite. When we moved into this house we made a deal. Because there were four bedrooms overall but two of the bedrooms were ensuite and then there was a main bathroom we decided that I would have the ensuite, as would my parents, but then again that one was a given and Rose would have the larger main bathroom. We didn't have any other siblings so she had that bathroom to herself, which suited us both fine. Don't get me wrong, I love my sister dearly and I would be lost without her, but there is absolutely no way in hell that I could share a bathroom with her again.

I turned on the shower and turned the temperature right down, so it was freezing cold. I stepped into the shower and was instantly jerked awake at the iciness of it. Feeling more awake, I turned up the temperature so that it was a nice and soothing heat, just hot enough to cause the glass to steam up but not hot enough to turn me into a lobster.

Feeling more refreshed. I stepped out of the shower and towelled myself dry. Wrapping the towell around my waist, I walked out into my bedroom and into my walk-in closet. Grabbing a casual blue button-down shirt and my black jeans I got dressed and made my way downstairs to get myself some breakfast.

Grabbing myself some cereal, I looked at the clock and saw that if Rose was right about Alice's prediction – and Alice is hardly ever wrong – she had fifteen minutes to get ready before Alice arrived.

Ten minutes later Rose sauntered down the stairs, looking good enough to turn even the highest paid supermodel green with jealousy. Not that I like my sister that way, but she was attractive, I knew that. Hell, I've had to put up with her followers since Junior High. I swear, the amount of guys she has following her, she could start her own love den, female patrons only of course. But my sister is a one man woman. And it's him she dresses to impress, no one else, the others around her just get a good show.

I thought a bit about our group and I thought that it was a really great thing, Edward and Bella getting together. Even though he was still guarded and had a large secret that he insisted on keeping, telling us that it was better if we don't know, he was a good guy. I could tell that he was going to be good for Bella. He was going to be for her how Alice is for me, or how Emmett is for Rose. You can just see it. They way they clicked the first day they met. The were two halves to one whole.

I'm not gay or anything, but I'm not ashamed to say that Edward is good-looking. Emmett has said so too. But unlike others we know who would use it to their advantage and earn a reputation as a player, Edward has made it clear from the beginning there was only one girl he had eyes for. Even if he wasn't aware of it.

He was smart too. You could always see that there was some kind of analysis going on behind his eyes. Like he was working things out in his head. He was incredible in Calculus. I mean, I'm a Senior and he's in my class, and he's the top of the class. He's got a real head for numbers. I could see him starting up his own business and making it huge someday. Not many guys around like Edward. Which made me even more glad that he had fallen for our Bella and that she had fallen for him.

There was a quick knock on the door and I leapt up to get it, knowing that it would be Alice standing on the other side. She was standing there grinning from ear to ear.

"Jazzy!" Yeah, Rose was definitely channeling Alice this morning. She reached right up, standing on her tiptoes and wrapped her hands around the back of my neck, pulling me down for a kiss, which was something I was definitely not going to complain about.

"Okay, if you're done." I heard Rose say in a bored tone. I looked up at her and shot her a look that said "as if you can talk" and she shot me a smug smile back. "Can we go?" Alice nodded, grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the door.

"Where are we going?" I asked, following Alice to her Porsche. How she had done it I don't know, but she had managed to get the Porsche altered and turned into a four seater instead of a two seater. Probably so that she and Rose could drag Bella out on shopping trips and still have an extra seat spare for all the bags that didn't fit in the trunk.

"Bella's!" She replied bouncing up and down. Any normal person, aka person not used to Alice, would think that she had permenantly overdosed on caffeine. But anyone who knows my Ali, knows that she's like that all the time.

That's another thing that amazed me about Edward. He became used to Alice and her hyperactivity pretty much within minutes of meeting her. After the initial shock of meeting her, and with her being the bundle of energy that she is, that is something that everyone who meets goes through, he had settled down and accepted her hyperactive nature as though he had known her for years.

He just seemed to gel with the group. It was like he was the missing puzzle piece. He completed the group. We've had a couple of people try, namely Mike Newton, Eric Yorkie and Tyler Crowely, all three of whom have tried to get with Bella and not gotten anywhere. With Edward it was different. He was the right person amongst all the wrong ones.

On the way to Bella's we noticed that we were being followed by a huge white Jeep. I saw Rose's eyes light up as she realised that Emmett was behind us. I think that had we been further away from Bella's house, she would have made Alice pull over and let her out so that she could ride with him, but I think even Rose saw the redundancy in that idea seeing as we were only a street away from Bella's now.

"Oh My God!!" Rose exclaimed. "No way!"

"What? What?" I asked thinking that there was some emergency, but then again with it being Rose it could be a chipped nail.

"A Mercedes Guardian!" She squealed, pointing at the black car that was driving down the street away from us. "Those aren't supposed to be available over here yet. Not for another year or so actually." See, despite her appearance, my sister know the inner workings of any engine better than most mechanics and knowing her she would hunt high and low for the owner of that car so she could have a look under the hood.

"Hmmmm…………" Alice made a disappointed noise as she pulled up outside Bella's house.

"What's up babe?" I asked, looking over at her, seeing her brow furrowed in confusion. I took her hand in mine and kissed her knuckles before she made to get out of the car.

"I'm surprised Edward's isn't here." She mused, turning off the ignition. "I would have thought he'd be here by now."

"Yeah," I did notice that there was another car sitting in the driveway, though, at the complete opposite end of the scale to Edward's brand new silver Volvo S60R. This car was an old Volkswagen Rabbit and I knew exactly who it belonged to. "But look who is here."

"Jacob," She mused. "I wonder what he wants."

"Do you really have to guess?" Rose quipped as she slid out of the car and walked over to meet Emmett who was climbing out of his Jeep. She was no doubt telling him about the Guardian that she'd seen. Apparently, that car was a big deal or something. I don't know. Gimme a motorcycle any day and I'm happy.

Rose did have a point. It was no secret that Jacob liked Bella. The only problem with that was that Bella like Jacob, but only as a brother. He had never been able to grasp the concept of Bella telling him no. It made me wonder how he would, or how he had reacted to Edward's arrival. He wouldn't like it, that's for sure. He would probably form some sort of animosity towards Edward before he had even gotten to know him and I knew the reason for it as well. It was because he had money, which wasn't fair on Edward.

Yeah, Edward had been raised with money, but he didn't flaunt it. Sure if one of us was short a few dollars for something then he would offer the money but that's just him being a friend, not a showoff. Edward didn't like to draw attention to the fact that he had money. And you could tell by the way he was that he didn't like a lot of attention. He and Bella were a lot alike in those ways. Edward had even refused to sing karaoke, which was not an easy feat when Alice was pestering you, but hed done it.

We got out of the car and walked up to the house, Rose and Emmett close behind. I was right, they were discussing the arrival of the Guardian in Forks, and they were wondering who's it could be.

We were surprised when it was Jacob who answered the door and not Bella. He stepped aside and let us in, with a scowl plastered on his face. We all walked into the living room to see Bella sitting there, curled up on the sofa, her face tear-streaked. Alice and Rose were by her side in an instant.

"Bells, honey, what happened?" Rose asked, running her fingers through Bella's hair, Bella's head on her shoulder.

"What's wrong, sweets?" Alice asked, taking hold of her hand.

The answer she gave us shocked us all. One word.

"Edward."

I heard Emmett growl from behind me. I turned around and he looked like he was going to blow a gasket.

"Em, calm down." I told him giving him a pointed look. I pointed to the chair and he grudgingly sat down. "Bells, honey, what happened?" I sat down on the sofa next to her, while Alice moved to sit on the floor at her feet, her hand still tightly grasping Bella's.

"He was an ass that's what." I heard Jacob say from the doorway.

"Jacob, could you give us a few minutes please." Rose told him, making it sound like a demand rather than a request. Rose and Jacob had never gotten on. Sometimes it was quite amusing but at the moment, Rose was right. Jacob would just have some sort of vendetta against Edward because Edward's Bella boyfriend. Or was, maybe. I don't know. We needed to find out what happened.

"Bella, baby." I rubbed her arm gently. "You need to tell us what happened."

She nodded and preceeded to tell us how Edward had phoned her this morning, and he had come round. She told us how they had decided that they were going to watch a movie and she was on her way upstairs to go and get it, when he asked her about his journal that had gone missing the previous night. I was confused as to why he would ask Bella about it, then I remembered, Bella had been alone in his room before we had left. I guess he figured that she may have seen it somewhere other than its usual spot.

She then told us about how she gone up to her room, trying to find the movie when she had noticed a book that she'd never seen before. She was curious so she opened it and decided to read it, see what it was. As you do with a new book. It turns out it was a journal, and only when Edward came up to her room to see what was taking her so long with the movie, did she realise that it was his journal.

She said that Edward jumped to conclusions and accused her of stealing it the night before, before she left. Upon hearing that, Emmett jumped out of his seat, ready to go around there and beat the crap out of him.

"Emmett, sit." Rose commanded him. Although she too was livid with Edward, she wasn't as quick to act as her other half was. "Are you absolutely sure Bella." Bella didn't say anything, she just nodded, tears falling down her face.

I was angry with Edward now, and I just wish I knew what had possessed him to lash out at Bella the way he did. There must have been something huge happen recently for him to be on such a tight rope.

We sat there in silence for about half an hour, the only sounds being Bella's sobs and Rose and Alice trying to comfort her.

"That's it!" Emmett stood up. I made a move to stop him but he held up a hand, silencing me. "No! Jazz, do you not remember what he promised us only last night!?" He really was livid now. "I'm sorry Bells, but I gotta go teach that jackass you call a boyfriend a thing or two about how to talk to a girl."

"Emmett, don't hurt him, please." She pleaded with him and he nodded at her. She didn't look convinced.

After Emmett stormed out, we were all a little hungry so I went into the kitchen and made us all some sandwiches. Everyone ate in silence, silently willing Emmett to return, telling us that he hadn't laid a hand on Edward. Something we all knew was not going to happen. Emmett was not best known for his diplomacy skills. That was more my job within the group.

He came back about half an hour later, still in a bad mood, although it was somewhat lifted, and replaced with slight confusion.

"Em, what happened?" Bella asked, eagerly as he walked in the door. "You didn't hurt him did you?"

Emmett shrugged, not looking at any of us. He sat down on the chair and his brow furrowed even more.

"Baby, what's wrong?" Rose moved over to sit on the arm of the chair, and run her hand through his slightly curly hair.

"It's just something that Edward said." He mumbled.

"What did he say?" Bella asked but Emmett shook his head, as if telling us that he wasn't going to say anything until he had worked it out himself.

By this time it was already one o'clock in the afternoon and we were all bored. We decided to watch the movie that Edward and Bella were going to watch earlier. It was A Walk To Remember. It was a sweet but giryl film and Emmett and I compromised that if we sat and watched that with the girls then they had to watch something with lots of explosions in it with us afterwards.

They grudingly agreed and we sat down to watch the movies.

By the time the first movie had finished, Emmett still hadn't lost the perplexed look on his face. I joked that watching something with a lot of fire and booms in it will help him get his mind off of it but his joke was only half-hearted.

What with it being the middle of January it was already dark by the time we finished watching the movie. Jacob said he had to go and get dinner ready for his dad and Bella had fallen asleep.

"We have to find out what's up with Emmett." Rose said, as Emmett carried up Bella up to her room to sleep, a determined edge to her voice. "Now!"

"I agree." I nodded along. "Edward must have said something quite significant to have gotten Emmett all worked up like that."

"Definitely." Alice agreed. She was also not best pleased with Edward. He had hurt her best friend and that is not something that she easily forgave.

Just then Emmett came back down the stairs and the three of us rounded on him. "What happened when you went to see Edward, Em?" I asked. Of the three of us who wanted to know, I was the most calm. Hell, out of the whole group, I was the most calm, even when I was the one who was worked up.

Emmett took a deep breath. "He said a couple of things actually." We all looked at him, urging him to continue. "Well, when I went in I didn't exactly keep my promise to Bella and not not touch him, if you get what I mean?"

"You hit him? Emmett!" Rosalie stomped her foot, getting annoyed. Yes, Rosalie stills stomps her feet like a little girl. It's a faily occurance, get over it, bigger problems remember. Focus.

"No. I may have shoved the door open as soon as he unlocked it and slammed him agains the wall." He sighed. "He hit his head on, you know the step that leads up to his kitchen?" We all nodded, rolling our eyes at the same time. "Yeah on that. Well he was bleeding, and I gave him the whole, "you come anywhere near her again and that'll like a bump on the head" speech-"

"Emmett!"

"Wait, it was what he said next that caught me off guard." We waited for him to continue. "He just turns around and goes "Great, another one." as if getting threatened is an everyday occurance for him. Apparently, he's had someone else threaten him recently or so he says."

"Why would he have people threatening him?" I couldn't wrap my head around it. He was one of the nicest guys I knew, todays behaviour excluded of course.

"I asked him what he meant and he just walked up to me and said "Well, let's just say, one of your guesses Emmett. I lied." And the he walked off." He shrugged obviously not able to make sense out of it.

"He lied?" Rosalie was furious now. "Okay he hurts Bella and then he tells us that he broke a promise and lied when we got one of the guesses about him right. That is it!"

"Rosalie!" I called her and I knew that there was no stopping her. She had grabbed the keys to the Jeep out of Emmett's jacket pocket and was out the front door. "Emmett, stay here, don't tell Bella!" I said and I was out the door after my sister, and surprisingly Alice, who had a murderous look on her face.

Nobody said anything the whole ride there. We were all fuming with this guy that we had accepted into our circle of friends, that we had trusted and then we find out that he's breaking promises and lying to us. That is not the kind of friend we need in our group. And that is not the kind of boyfriend that Bella needs. I think I'm going to be seconding Emmett's threat of stay away from Bella.

We pulled up to his house to see all of the lights on. There was someone moving around up there so we knew he was up, we just couldn't tell what floor.

"Um, Rose, how are we going to get in?" I asked her and she threw me a smile I hated. It was the "I can do anything when I put my mind to it" smile. It was a dangerous smile. And she sure as hell could. A minute or so later we were in the house.

"EDWARD MASEN!" Rosalie screamed as soon as she got into the house. Alice and I followed soon after, slamming the door behind us. We stood there for a full minute or so but didn't get an answer. I heard Alice mutter something that sounded like "coward" under her breath. Well you know, with Rose in this kind of mood I am too. "EDWARD!!! YOU GET YOUR COWARDLY ARSE DOWN HERE NOW!" She was screaming at the top of her lungs now.

"Rose, maybe you should calm it down a bit." I told her but she shook her head defiantly. She didn't care.

"No Jasper, I know he's here! EDWARD!" She screamed this right next to my ear and my god that hurt!

"You're right, Rose!" Alice agreed with her. Alice was never really one for violence but if someone messes with one of our friends then that's it. You're dead. "His car's in the garage. He's got to be here." I handed even noticed she'd left I was too preoccupied with Rose.

We walked up to Edward's bedroom, Rosalie in the lead. She threw open the door only to find it empty. This was getting weird.

"What the- Where the fuck is he? EDWARD FUCKING MASEN, WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU! WE KNOW YOU'RE HERE!" This was getting a bit tiresome and honestly, my ears were starting to hurt.

"Rose, will you calm THE FUCK DOWN!" She stopped shouting. For now at least. She knew that when I shouted and swore at the same time I was pissed.

Rose and I were having a heated staring contest when we heard something smash on the second floor. "AHA! See, I TOLD YOU, Jazz!" Rosalie shouted, rubbing my face in it like she used to do when we were little. We all ran down the stairs to the second floor where we'd no doubt find a cowering Edward. Hell, if Rose was in this kind of mood with me, I'd be cowering too. "Where is he? Where is he?!"

"Rose, calm down!" I pleaded with her as I followed her down the stairs.

"No, Jazz! He hurt Bella! And that was the one thing that he promised he would never do." She was right. He had promised only last night that he would never hurt her. Bring on the wrath of Rose! "He broke his promise and now I'm going to- OH MY GOD!!!"

She suddenly stopped shouting and ran down the second floor corridor. Alice and I followed suit quickly afterwards. What I saw made my breath catch. It was Edward, but he had been beaten with something.

He had obviously been tied up as there were large, bleeding burn marks wrapping around his wrists. His eyes and one side of his face looked like someone had been rubbing sandpaper continuously over it for about half an hour and he had a long gash going down his jawline starting at his ear. I didn't notice what the girls were saying to him, but I did noticed the trail of blood that was on Rose's fingers when she took her hand away from his face.

"I'm calling an ambulance! He needs to get to hospital!" I said getting out my phone.

"No!" I heard Edward saying quietly, although it appeared to take a lot of effort. "No, no hospitals."

"Alright," Alice said soothing him. "Rose, you Dad!"

"Yeah, Jasper call Dad. Get him over here." Rose told me and I nodded, pressing speedial 3 for Dad's cell phone.

"Hello?" My father answered.

"Dad?" I asked. "Dad we need you. Now."

"What's wrong are you hurt? Is it Rose?"

"No, Dad one of our friends is really hurt."

"Then he should be on his way to the hospital, son."

"He won't got! Dad, please."

"Alright then, I'll come around and check him out what's his address?"

"Yeah, it's-" I gave him Edward's address."

"And what's his name? I need to check records."

"Yeah, his name's Edward. Edward Masen."

"No," I heard Edward whisperd and I turned to look at him. "No.

"No what Edward?" Rose asked in a soft voice. "He's just telling our Dad your name so that he can check your records."

"No." Edward repeated, shaking his head this time. "Not………not Masen."

"What do you mean "not Masen"?" I asked him. I had my Dad yammering in my ear asking whether or not his name was Masen or whether it was something else. "Hang on a second Dad. Edward, what do you mean, "not Masen"? Is Masen not your real name?" He shook his head slowly. Great, when we thought we had enough on this guy, we find out we don't even know his real fucking name.

"Cullen." He whispered, gulping. "Cullen." He said a little louder.

"Dad?" He answered me. "Yeah, scratch the name Masen. It's Cullen. Edward Culllllohholyshit!" You've got to be fucking kidding me! Our Edward is EDWARD FUCKING CULLEN!!! My Dad was repeating the name in my ear and I told him that it was right. He told me that he would be here in ten minutes and I hung up. I knelt down next to Edward. "Edward? Edward? You with me pal?"

"Jasper, what the hell was that about?" Rosalie was annoyed. "Swearing on the phone to our father. Why?!"

"Rose, did you not hear what Edward said his real last name was?" She didn't answer me but instead gave me a look that said "why don't you clear it up for me". "Don't look at me like that Rose. You heard as well as I did. Edward's last name is not Masen."

"Why would he lie?" Alice asked, confusion lacing her voice. She ran a hand through Edward's hair and lifted his head up, making sure he could breathe properly.

"I think we've found out Edward's secret." I said quietly.

"You have." Rosalie said accusingly, staring me down. "I however have no idea what you're talking about."

"Me neither." Alice agreed, looking at me in the same way as Rose. "And you accuse me of being cryptic, Jazz."

"Rosalie, Alice." I looked between the two of them, willing them to understand. "His secret………he's Edward Cullen."

Both of the girls gasped and looked at Edward, as it clicked in their minds.

I looked at Edward and cursed under my breath.

He was unconscious.

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