Chapter 21 – Brother.

I was sitting by the river, listening to the calming sound of the water. Jasper was standing behind me, calming me down and hoping I would forgive him. I would forgive him anything, if he'd done something wrong.

"Jasper, you didn't do anything wrong. I love you, now please stop hating yourself." I whispered, my chin resting on my knees. I could hear Alice her thoughts as she came walking to us. They were a bit odd.

"Alice." I said smiling, I had missed her.

"Juliette, Caleb just called.."

She didn't have to say much more, I could see the whole thing in her mind. They had reached Denali safely. Tanya and Kate were taking care of Matt, willing to teach him our way of life. Caleb still couldn't forgive me, which I understood, and he had asked how things were with Edward. He had dared to ask about Edward. Sure, he left me the moment I needed him most, but he was wondering if my brother was alright. Sure he's alright, he just tried to kill himself that's all!

"Calm Jules." Jasper reminded me.

"Did they hear anything from Nathaniel? Chase, has he survived the fight?"

When we got home there was no sign of a fight on our driveway anymore, nothing at all. Alice shook her head.

"I can't see either."

"Yes because of Chase, I know."

"Why don't you call their house?"

"They left, they rejected Caleb..and I think they'll most likely reject their vampire son as well."

"Yes, I'm so sorry about that. He was such an attractive young man." Alice chuckled a little.

"What?"

"Edward's funny." She giggles. I wish I could be so happy with his return but I just couldn't get my mind around the suicide incident.

"What are you hiding from me?"

"Nothing! Don't fish! It's hard enough to keep it from you anyway!" Jasper was laughing as Alice got up and started to dance around.

"Alice please."

"Do you know I stole a Porsche in Italy? It was amazing!"

"Don't care! Tell me what's going on!"

"No, he'll be home soon enough. In about five minutes." She giggled and started dancing back to the house. I followed her irritated, Jasper behind me, laughing.

"You're not even potentially funny at the moment Alice."

"Just wait and see." The harder I tried to read her mind, the more she thought of other things, mainly about how funny I looked when I was curious, and how I should hunt because I didn't look so well.

"Carlisle, could you please tell Alice she's being totally obnoxious." He looked at me and started laughing. Well, just everybody seemed to be in a happy place weren't they?

"Alice, you're being totally obnoxious." He repeated and then he reached for Esme kissing her forehead.

"I know." She smiled proudly. "Oh here he comes! Stay!" she said to me, pointing at my face with a very fierce hand gesture.

"Is she home?" Edward came running into our living room from out the garage with the biggest smile on his face I had seen in a long time.

"Sure. It's not like I have anywhere else to go." I said.

"Come on." He took my hand and started pulling my arm. "And don't read my mind, or Alice's, focus on Jasper or something. Close your eyes." That was easier said than done, I might not be as good at the whole mind reading thing as Edward was, but hearing my brother came kind of naturally.

"Just a little something to cheer you up." He said with a smile "And to say I'm sorry surely."

"Now open them." I was standing in the garage, and next to Edward's special occasion Aston Martin was a brand new silver Audi A5 decorated with a red ribbon which was absolutely hideous. The car however, was amazing. I hadn't driven my old MGB for a while now, the oldie couldn't quite satisfy my sense for speed. He was looking at me, his eyes full of hope and happiness and it was then that I realized that giving me a car wasn't going to make up for the fact he was willing to leave me alone.

"It's nice." I mumbled. Alice stood next to me, shocked.

"Nice?!" she gasped "Jules it's amazing! And he hasn't even told you they did something with it to make it even faster! Plus you're old car is a dump. You can pass that on to that Jacobfriend of Bella, he loves all that stuff." She was babbling on and on and I didn't even listen. I was looking Edward in the eye.

"I'm sorry, I really am. I never should've tried it. I will never, ever, I promise you this on all that I love, leave you or anybody in this family." It was silent for a while But I do hope you like the car though.

"I love it, but you're not getting rid of me that easily."

"I know, that's why we're going to take it for a test drive." He smiled again.

"A test drive?"

"We're going to Denali, I heard some stupid boy decided to hurt my sister. Well, I'm you're brother so I think we should take care of that."

"No, no, no," I whispered stroking the car with my fingers. "He doesn't want to see me."

"Sure he does."

"Edward you don't understand.." I saw that Alice and Jasper backed away out of the garage.

"He's just trying to cope with things.."

"No Edward, he's so angry with me he doesn't want me anymore. He's off to Denali to help his brother while we could've helped Matt just as good. Even better, and he could've stayed with me. But he went, and he didn't even say goodbye."

"Are you absolutely positive you don't want to go to Denali?" I nodded slowly.

"But a little speed wouldn't hurt right?" he smiled and hugged me, I loved that he was around again.

"Shall we go by Bella's house? I missed her." And for the first time in a very long time, I could smile.