A/N: I DON'T OWN TWILIGHT, I DO OWN A MOUTAIN OF GIFTS I NEED TO 'S SOME CUSSING BUT THAT MOSTLY BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT TEENAGE BOYS DO. AS ALWAYS THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS THEY'RE LIKE THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
"There's Alice dear, she's with Sue and Charlie." Mom said pointing out the tiny girl to me. The auditorium was already dark as we took our seats. Rose made me sit next to Alice. Some soft music filled the room and a Candlelight Carol started.
The show choir stood out with their red dresses and Santa hats. All the other girls wore long black gowns and the boys' suits were normal black tuxes.
"When you're all grown up my dears." The girls started singing, a song from Babes in Toyland, that's a little different. The girls mostly song and boys only joined in on the chorus. After the song finished the show choir and the older choir left the stage leaving the freshman and sophomore choir. They performed the Little Drummer Boy.
They finished their song and then the men from the show choir walked onto the stage. Edward was with them he had enough gel in his hair that could have caused a fire hazard. They had the awful gold jackets on and did a version on an Elvis dance to Blue Christmas.
"Those are some really terrible jackets." Alice whispered to me as we clapped. I nodded remembering how Bella laughed at me when she first saw it.
The older choirs entered as the men left the stage. They sang the First Noel. It was beautiful and made a few people cry.
"Oh here comes Isabella." Alice chirped clapping her hand in a hyper fashion.
They performed Santa Baby, and Bella was amazing. She made the cutest faces as she kicked and spun around. There were other girls there but all I could see was Bella as she twirled a large candy cane around. When they finished the crowd exploded in applause. They ran back stage to put their candy canes up and came back out with the girls from the other choirs. The men came in from the back surrounding the audience again. They sung A Wonderful Christmas Time. The effect was amazing the song seem to echo off all the walls.
After that song the girls from the other choirs left the stage and then joined the men that surrounded the audience as the men from the show choir jumped onto the stage, the jackets flipped around so it was black again. I didn't want to watch what happened next. My eyes were already glued on Bella I couldn't see anyone else.
They started performing Baby Its Cold Outside. Bella was being spun into his arms. He had his pervey hands all over her.
"They're so cute together, don't you think?" Alice whispered to me as she put her hand on top of mine.
I swallowed a large gulp of bile and anger. I took my hand from her a faked a stretch to not offend her too much. "I guess."
"I just love watching them do this song together." She whispered again. Her hair was shorter than mine. Don't know why that bothered me but it did.
"Bella is very talented." I said hoping she'd stop talking. Bella was sitting on his lap now and he went in for a kiss. How can Mrs. Webb get away with this? They kept dancing together and the song ended with his lips on her cheek and she was smiling. The lights went out and the audience began screaming clapping and cheering. I was sitting drawing blood from the inside of my mouth. had the audience join the choir in a couple of carols and then the show was over. We all went into the hall way to wait for Bella.
"Mom, dad over here." Alice yelled at a nice looking couple that had a large bouquet of roses. They joined us and gave Alice a hug.
"Where's that brother of yours, I got the flowers he left at home." The man said, he saw Edward and ran off to give the flowers to him. Edward smiled and ran back stage. The older man joined us again.
"Daddy, this is Jasper, he's going to take me to the formal tomorrow." She squeals out as she hugged my arm. I tried to keep from rolling my eyes and groaning.
" ." I said as I shook his hand. " ." I kissed her hand.
"Oh please, call me Esme and this is Carlisle." The lady said she seemed really nice. "I've heard Isabella talk about you. So you're the famous Jasper." She had a knowing look in her eye.
"Yes ma'am." I notice Bella and Edward coming from backstage she was holding the giant bouquet of roses and he had his arm wrapped around hers. I nudge Rose and dropped my flower into her hand and she did the same move passing it to Emmet.
"There's my favorite sister." Emmett bellowed stealing her away from Eddie boy. "You were great." He handed her the single flower. Her face lit up and she pressed her nose into the petals.
"Oh, Emmett it's beautiful, thank you." She gave him a big hug crushing the fancy flowers Eddie gave her.
"You both did amazing." Esme said giving Bella a hug. Carlisle patted Edward on the back and said the same thing.
"Thank you." Bella whispered with a little blush across her cheeks. Edward wormed his gangly arm around her waist. I wanted to punch the guy in the face but Rose took my hand.
"Anyways we were all going to go out for pizza. Is that okay Charlie?" Rose asked giving him her best puppy eyes. He smiled at her and nodded.
"That sounds fine. Baby girl you were amazing. Make sure you are all home before midnight." He said as he gave me a sad smile. He and Sue both gave Bella a hug and Charlie snuck a few bills into Emmett hand as they left.
"I guess the kids want some time alone honey." Esme said, "Alice I expect you home before ten, you know the rules." Her voice seemed to turn almost hostile in that last sentence. "Jasper it was great meeting you." And just like that the cheeriness returned she was one weird lady. They gave Alice and Edward both hugs then left.
"So do you want to ride with us?" Alice asked with a saccharin voice. Panic set in I looked at Rose and could tell her wheels were turning fast.
"Sorry sweetheart, brother of mine is too tall for a little Volvo. Anyways we promised mom we'd bring her a video of the performance." Rose said lifting up her camera as proof.
"Oh, okay we'll go get a table." She said sounding a little dejected.
"Oh Rose can you take these to my house on your way home, they need some water."Bella handed the flowers to Rose and then we left. Alice drove like a bat out of hell and we were home in record time. Rose ran in and dropped everything off and got back in the car. She drove to the pizzeria and we parked.
"Rosie babe, do we have to come in, I mean we could sneak off for awhile." Emmett said as we all sat in the car dreading going inside.
"I ain't leaving my brother to that she devil." She said hitting him upside the head. I gave her a smile.
"Hey man she has to go home at ten. Y'all can leave when she does." I said still not wanting to get out of the car.
"Let's get this over with." Rose said as she opened her door and stormed inside. Bella waved at us and we all sat down in the circle table. Alice move her chair closer to mine and I picked up the menu and glared into it.
"I already ordered the drinks and some bread sticks." Bella said as Edward slipped his arm around her shoulders.
"Good, I'm starved. How about we get a beef and cheddar pizza?" Emmett said glaring at Edwards arm.
"That's sound good." I said putting the menu down. Alice put her hand on top of mine again. I froze.
"Actually Edward and I are vegetarians. I don't get how anyone can eat meat. It's so barbaric." Alice said leaning her head into my shoulder.
Rose started laughing really hard and I kicked her under the table.
"I mean do you know how they get the meat, it's so gross I don't get how you can eat meat knowing what they do." Alice continued.
"I'll have you know that." Rose started to say something but I kicked her again. She glared at me.
"So Alice where are you guys from." I said trying to change topics.
"Oh, Chicago." She replied softly and looked ashamed of something.
"Where have you been?" Edward asked with a condescending tone.
"My grandfather has been sick so I went to help him out." For some reason I didn't want to tell them the whole story.
"How is papa Jack?" Bella asked with a sweet voice.
"He's doing a lot better; he'll be here for Christmas." I said giving her a sweet smile." He's going to drive my truck up here."
"That's good." She said. We ordered two pizzas and we all ate in relative silence.
"Alice it's almost ten I need to get you home." Edward said as he paid the bill.
"Fine." She all but stomped her foot.
"I'm going to stay here. Do you think you could come back and join us at the lights in the park?" Bella asked Edward as he got up.
"I don't see why not, you sure you don't want to come with us Isabella." He said kissing her forehead.
"I'm sure I want to spend some time with my brother." She said. Alice and Edward left and three of us let out a sigh.
"I don't eat meat it's so gr-oss." Rose said in a mocking tone."Bitch needs to have steak shoved down her throat."
"Rose" I said in low tone lifting an eyebrow.
"I'm sorry guys, the whole family doesn't eat meat." Bella whispered at the table.
"Its fine, lets head to that Christmas lights." I went to her chair to help her up. I offered her my arm and she took it.
"Thank you." She said leaning against me. "For being so nice to Alice she's had trouble making new friends."
"I'll always do whatever you ask, you know this." I said putting my free hand on top of hers.
"Alright I'm going to drop y'all off okay." Rose said as she close her car door. She drove us to the light show. "We'll be back at eleven thirty. Love you" They speed off leaving us to look at the lights.
"I missed you." She whispered putting her gloved hand around my arm.
"I missed you darling, so things look pretty serious with you and Edward." I asked half wishing I didn't.
"I don't know, I mean we've been hanging out a lot and he asked me to the formal. Everyone at school already thinks we're dating. It really pisses off Jessica." She said with a small laugh.
I just nodded as I walked us to the giant light tree in the middle of the park. She gasped as we went under it looking up.
"Makes me a little dizzy." She said leaning against me to keep from falling. "Jas, look there's mistletoe up there." She pointed to where all the lights connect at the top. There it was oversized and plastic and I had to laugh at the chessyness of it.
"You know what that means." I laughed out hoping she's laugh too, because in all seriousness I needed to kiss her.
"Oh really?" She said turning to face me. She had a blush creeping across her cheeks. She leaned a little forward. "Well we can't break an ancient Christmas tradition." She smiled and the blush was flaming across her face now. I leaned forward and tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear leaving my hand on her neck.
"No we can't" I could feel my heart pounding, I was finally going to kiss her. I leaned forward my lips were almost on hers when her phone went off. She snapped opened her eyes and grabbed the phone turning around.
"Hey, yeah we're here. We're at the giant tree in the middle. Okay see you soon." She stood a few feet away from me. "Yeah so Edwards here. Um yeah. I'm cold, are you cold? Let's go get some cocoa. It's cold right?" She was rambling now and some beads of sweat were forming on her hairline.
"Yeah, Bells, I'll go get it okay." I bite my lips into my mouth and walked over to the little shed selling cocoa. I got three of them because I'm a nice guy who is also a fucking idiot. I saw them under the tree and he was giving her the mistletoe kiss that was meant for me. I wonder how mad she's be if I poured the cup over his head.
"Hello Jasper, thanks for the cocoa." He said taking two of the cups from me. I just nodded still biting my lips.
"Not a problem." I sneered out. "Yeah, I'm going to try to go find Rose." I stormed off to another part of the park. I ran into Angela and Ben.
"Jasper." Angela exclaimed pulling me into her arms. Ben and I shook hands.
"Hey man, glad you're back." Ben said as we all sat down at a bench. Angela brothers ran around us laughing and shouting.
"Hey boys come here." I said as they both lined up in front of me. "Looky here, I have two crisp ten dollar bills. Do you know anyone who would want them and that likes snowballs?"
"Jasper really?" Angela said giving me a disapproving look.
"We do, we do." They both exclaimed nearly jumping out of their coats.
"Alright, alright. Now there is a boy and girl my age. He has some funny colored hair. And the other girl has pretty brown hair."
"Do mean missy Belly and her boyfriend." One of them said with an innocent voice.
"Yes, them." I put a hand on either one shoulder. "Now anytime they try to get all mushy I need you throw snowballs at them."
They both started laughing and agreed to what I said. I handed them the money and they ran off to do my dirty work.
"Really Jasper, was that necessary? They would have done it for free. Joshua is convinced he's going to marry Bella." Angela said with a laugh.
"ugh another man after my girl." I groaned out as I put my head in my hands. Angela rubbed my back.
"That Jake kid is also convinced Bella is his girl, got into a fight with Josh about it." Ben said laughing at my pain.
"Ben can you go get me some pop corn or something." Angela said shooing Ben off.
"Hey Jasper. How are you really?" She said rubbing my back some more. Why was everyone asking me that?
"Honestly, I'm an idiot. I had all that time and I wasted it." I said pulling my head out of my hands.
"That for damn sure." I looked at her with shock. I've never heard such language from her. "Seriously Jasper we all watched this dance you two were doing around each other for years. It's your own fault someone cut in."
"Thanks for the pep talk." I said wanting to leave now. I could hear Bella yelling at the boys from far away.
"Jasper, fight for her. I don't like them. They're changing her." She said as she got and went to find Ben.
Just found bells, lets get out of here..why is she covered in snowballs.-Rose
I chuckled to myself and found everyone by the tree in the middle.
"I can take her home it's no problem." Edward said still trying to brush the snow off of him.
"Yeah I live next door you live across town. We're taking her home and we must be going now curfew and all." Rose said nearly ripping Bella from his side. I really love my sister sometimes.
"Edward its fine I need to be getting home, I had a great time. See you tomorrow at seven?" He leaned forward and kissed her cheek.
"Of course Isabella. I cannot wait till then." He was just trying to piss me off now. We all got into Roses car.
"So how much did you pay the Webber boys?" Bella said as she sent me a glare.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I put my hands up and Emmett started giggling.
"Sure you don't" She hummed out looking out the window. We all drove in silence to the house. Emmett and Rose got out and I walked Bella to the door.
"That was really stupid of me I'm sorry." I said I wasn't sorry but I was sorry she was mad at me.
"Its fine "She was pouting now. "Look I have to go in now." She went to open her door.
"Bells, wait." I grabbed her arm to look at me. "I'm really sorry okay, please darlin don't be mad at me."
"Jas, really I have to go" she had tears in her eyes.
"Bells." I still had her arm even with her pulling away from me. "I just want."
"What? What is it that you want. For the first time ever someone express an interest and me and you can't let me be happy." She was half crying half yelling at me. "No guy has ever looked twice at me and you are acting like a spoiled five year old. Grow up Jasper." She had now started hitting my hand on her arm so that I'd let her go.
"I just want you to be happy." I whispered to her wanting so bad to hold her to me.
"I am happy." She yelled her words slapping me in the face.
"That's all I want." I whispered grabbing her hand. "That's all I ever want for you darlin."
"Then let me be happy." She ripped her hand from me and stormed into the house.
I made it to my house and saw Emmett and Rose sitting on the porch.
"Sorry brother." Rose said putting her hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry. She's happy, he makes her happy so I have to accept that." I whispered patting her hand.
"Bull shit, you don't believe that anymore then I do." Emmett said as he kissed the top of Roses head.
"Love you, see you tomorrow." Rose said as he left, we walked inside and saw my mom sitting on the couch with three cups of tea.
"I heard you and Bella shouting." She said patting the sofa across from her.
"It's fine mom." I said sitting down taking the cup. Rose sat down next to her.
"Baby boy, I love you. Please don't run again." She whispered putting her hand on my knee.
"Mom, I know what I want now. I'm going to fight for what I want. " She was smiling at me as I got up and walked up to my room.