What a day, I've spent the whole day getting teased by Emmett, he's made far too many remarks about mine and Alice's private time. For instants, the love bites on Alice's neck that was fun, getting told to keep my tongue to myself in the middle of English, having students who were sat near us give me a strange look.
I don't think that I have ever been so embarrassed in my whole enter life. Luckily school was coming to an end, and from the look on Alice's face she couldn't wait to get home, probably to beat Emmett up or to just lock the two of us away in her room, away from him and his jokes.
We were all on our way to the car park, and Alice was rushing to her car, Emmett was following her.
"So do mum and dad know about your nasty bites?" Emmett asked wriggling his eyebrows at her.
"No Emmett they don't, and I would love it if you kept your big mouth shut." Alice told him in an angered tone, she was getting extremely pissed off with him.
"Emmett, why don't you stop being immature." Edward said as he got his car keys out and wondered over to his car with Bella and Rosalie. Emmett turned to Edward to throw an insult back at him, but was cut short by Rosalie.
"Emmett, car, now!" she yelled and grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the car. I watched Emmett get man handled into the back of Edwards Volvo, and then glanced over at Alice, who was unlocking her car. I walked over to the passenger side and got in, Alice quickly struck up the engine and was reversing out of the car park onto the main road.
"You ok?" I asked her as we drove down the road.
"Perfect." Alice replied, her tone dry.
"Anything I can do to make it better?" I asked her, she turned to me and her eyes softened when she realised she was about to take her anger out on me.
"Sorry Jazz, he's just pissed me off. I shouldn't take it out on you." she muttered, I reached over and took her hand in mine and rubbed the back of her hand with my thumb.
"Its ok babe." I said, giving her a reassuring smile, Alice smiled back at me and we were thrown into a comfortable silence for the rest of the ride home.
We had beat the others back as they had to drop off Bella and Rosalie, we walked through the front door into the living room, neither of us was surprised to find John, Keith and Bill in the house talking to Carlisle and Esme.
"Hey you two." Keith said waving his hand at us.
"Hey." I muttered back to him, I had a strange feeling that we were going to start being watched again and that last night the two of us not being disturbed was just a one off.
"What's going on?" Alice asked her parents. Carlisle looked at Esme and then back at us.
"We were just discussing the security plans, John, Keith and Bill will be around the premises until Jasper's step dad is caught." Carlisle said, Alice looked up at me with a weary look.
"Its for the best." Esme said softly to her daughter, I just wrapped my arm around Alice's shoulders and pulled her closer to my side in a quiet reassurance.
She clung to my side gently and her gaze fell to the floor. I looked at John.
"Has there been any signs of him?" I asked, John sighed heavily.
"No, not yet. But if he's going to do anything it should be soon, and when he does, we'll be ready for him." John's voice was firm and confident.
I could feel myself become annoyed at the news and at the fact that all we could do was wait, we couldn't run, we couldn't do anything. It was all out of our hands, the ball was in my step father's court. And I hated that.
"And we think at this point in time, it would be wise for the two of you to stay within a good range of us." Bill said, Alice's head lifted up at this point.
"So what, now we're being babysat 24/7?" Alice was almost yelling, she hated being watched as much as I did.
"I'm afraid so, only until we find out where he is or what he's planning." Keith said in a soothing tone, trying to calm Alice and I down.
"I know what his plans are, we wants to kill us both." I said raising my voice.
"That's why its best if the two of you keep a low profile." Bill told me, matching my tone of voice.
"We're still going to the dance on Friday night, you cant stop us." Alice pointed out, she was right, we'd sneak out if we had to.
John sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Fine, on the condition that we accompany you both." John breathed out.
"Since when did our lives turn into an negotiation, do we actually have any free will of our own anymore or are all our choices going to be made by you lot!" Alice yelled.
"Alice calm down sweetheart." Carlisle said calmly, taking a few steps towards us and looking into her eyes.
"No, I don't want to calm down, what I do want is all this to end so me and Jasper can get on with our lives." Alice spat back at her father.
"And that's why we're here, to help put all of this to an end." Keith spoke.
"Well your doing a great job apart from the fact that this guy is still out there!" Alice yelled at him, she was loosing her temper big time, and I don't blame her, she's done nothing wrong, she doesn't deserve any of this.
"How long do you think this will go on for, a few more days, weeks, months, years. Are we going to have to go to college with you three, or go to work ever day having you lot follow us around?" Alice continued. The room fell silent, she had a very good point, if this didn't end soon, how long will it go on for.
After a few minuets of the house being deadly silent, Edward and Emmett came through the front door.
"Hey guys!" Emmett boomed as they walked up to us all, they both quickly clocked onto the atmosphere.
"What's going on?" Edward asked in a worried tone.
No one spoke, I looked at Edward and noticed that he was soaked. I then looked out the window, the weather had changed dramatically from when I was last outside, it had gone almost dark out, and the rain hammered against the windows and back door, the sky was filled with grey clouds as darkness filled the sky. The room was still quiet and the tension flying off everyone was immense.
We all jumped slightly when the phone rang, everyone looked at each other. Carlisle eventually walked over to the phone on the table next to the sofa and answered the phone.
"Hello" he said, he then turned to John, I watched as his hand moved down to a button on the base putting the phone on loud speaker so we could all hear.
"Who is this?" John asked as he walked over to the phone base.
"I think you know." said the voice from the other end, I recognized the voice, it was him.
"Hello, Jasper. I hope you don't mind me ringing you, but I just thought I would check up and see how you are, I noticed that you came back from Seattle. I must say that I've missed keeping tabs on you, instead I've just had to watch your girlfriend. Hello, Alice how are you." we were all quiet, we looked at each other for a moment.
"Anyway, enough with the small talk lets get down to business shall we. Jasper, I'm tired of waiting around and I know full well that you are too, so why don't we make this easier for the both of us and why don't you be a big boy and meet up with me. Ditch your bodyguards, just you and me, one on one. What do you say?"
I looked at John who shook his head at me, telling me not to even think about it.
"I know your thinking about it Jasper, I can see it in your eyes." I instantly looked out the window, it was dark but I could see a faint figure in the distance, in the clearing in front of the trees that lead into the forest.
"That's it boy, come and get me." my step dad was tormenting me now, I was restraining myself so much.
John, Bill and Keith all looked out side to see if they could spot him.
"Come on Jasper, if you don't come out here on your own right now, little Alice will pay the price for it, and let me tell you that the price on her pretty little head is big. No, not coming I am ashamed, to think you would rather put your girlfriend in danger than end it all right now, what kind of man are you. I mean it was bad enough that you left her here all alone whilst you ran off to Seattle, leaving me to watch over her with a careful eye. How bad would you of felt if you got a phone call when you were in Seattle, finding out that Alice had been raped and brutally murdered, how would you of lived with yourself. Well I can see your not going to move an inch, so I guess I'll just have to wait for another time, then I can have Alice all to myself, and you can watch if you so wish." that did it, I was going.
I ran full pelt, opening the back door into the pouring rain, I sprinted off into the woods, I could see him run deeper and deeper into the darkness. I watched him turn left as I closed in on him, I turned left following him and I was suddenly thrown backwards as something hard hit me in the chest.
I hit the wet floor with a thud, the mud made it difficult to get back up on my feet. I could only just see my step father's face, as quickly as I could I got back on my feet and lunged at him.
I swung for him with my right hand, he blocked my punch but he didn't block my left fist as I punched him hard in his face. He stumbled backwards and I swung low, punching him in the stomach with my right fist. He grabbed my wrist and used his other hand to punch me in the face, I ignored the pain as best as I could as I brought my knee up to knee him in the stomach, he quickly grabbed my leg and pulled it out from under neither me.
I fell back down to the floor, within a few seconds my step dad was stood above me and punched me in my face continually, I could feel the warmth of my blood start to mix with the rain water on my face and flow down my cheek. I pushed myself back and brought up my foot, kicking him in the stomach and pushing him back far enough for me to get up.
Once I was up, I was soon on my knees as he kicked me hard in the stomach winding me, he then kicked me in the chest I fell back but put my hand out behind me to push myself back up. I got back up on my feet and lunged at him, I repeatedly punched him pushing him up against a tree. I let all my anger loose on his face, I reached back to hit him again but as I swung he ducked and my fist went straight into the tree behind him.
I winced at the pain as a burning pain struck through my hand. My step dad must have used this time to move out from under neither me, I was thrown at the tree as his foot was forced against my back, I turned to have his foot boot me in the gut again, and again. I struggled to breath as I was on my knees clutching my stomach. He grabbed my hair and forced my head back so that I had to look up at him.
"Sorry Jasper, but I think we should wait a little longer, this just isn't as fun without Alice watching me kill you." and with that he pushed my head down straight into his knee cap. I fell backwards from the pressure and landed in the mud, my eyes shut tightly as the pain surged through my body. When I reopened my eyes he was gone.
"Jasper!" I heard Emmett yell from somewhere amongst the trees and darkness. I slowly got back on my feet, using the tree to support myself better, I then saw Emmett come rushing through the trees towards me.
"Jasper, are you ok? Where is he?" Emmett asked me growling slightly at his last question, he looking around for him.
"He's gone, and yeah I'm fine." I said standing up fully, I glanced around and noticed John and Bill come rushing over towards us.
"I take it he's gone." Bill muttered, I just nodded not really having the breath to speak.
"Come on, lets get back there's nothing we can do now." John said in a defeated tone, and then we started walking towards the house.
Once back inside we found Alice and Esme sat on the sofa, and Carlisle, Edward and Keith looking outside.
"Jasper, are you ok?" Carlisle asked me, Esme and Alice's heads both turning at our entrance.
"Yeah I'm fine." I muttered
"Well you don't look it." Edward stated and then walked into the kitchen. Esme stood up and walked over to me, she gently guided me to the arm chair closest to Alice. It hurt to sit down but I gritted my teeth through the pain.
Edward soon came back into the room with an ice pack.
"Here" he said and offered it to me, I placed the ice pack on my forehead as most of the pain was coming from my face. I caught Alice out of the corner of my eye, she was watching me with an upset look upon her face. I removed the ice pack and turned my body so I was facing her more. I knew that I was the reason she looked so upset.
"Alice…" she cut me off.
"Don't Jasper. Just don't, I asked you to not do anything stupid and I asked that you wouldn't go after him. You promised me you wouldn't do any of those things, and yet you just ran off after him" Her voice was low, but full of disappointment.
"Alice I know I promised, I didn't think and…" I tried to explain.
"No, your right you didn't think, but didn't it even occur to you that you were breaking all those promises?"
I couldn't answer, because I didn't know what to say. I just ran my fingers through my wet hair.
Alice just sighed and stood up, she walked over to the stairs, I quickly got up and went after her.
"Alice wait" I said, she turned on the stairs and looked at me.
"Jazz, I'm really tired, I'm just going to go to bed. I'll see you in the morning." and with that she walked up the stairs.
I looked over my shoulder to see everyone watching me, feeling very uncomfortable and upset with myself I slowly went upstairs to the bathroom. I spent a good half hour in there just cleaning myself up, I'd gotten changed and washed myself up, cleaning the small cut on my forehead and all the grazes on my arms and legs. My chest and stomach was red and angry, there was a small amount of swelling as well.
My eye was sore and red, that only meant a black eye in the morning, great. My knuckles were cut and wouldn't stop bleeding from where I hit the tree. My lip was cut and my nose had been bleeding but it wasn't broken, I had a nice bruise forming on my right cheekbone as well, and plenty of bruises forming on my back and on my legs.
Once I'd left the bathroom, I had to pass Alice's room to get to mine. I stopped outside her door, I went to open it but it was locked. She obviously didn't want to talk with me. I just lightly knocked on the door, I could hear her inside, she was near her door that I knew.
"Alice, its me, I know you don't want to see me right now, but I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry, I really am and I'll hopefully speak to you in the morning. I'm so sorry." I muttered through the door. I lingered outside the door for a few seconds and then I headed back towards my room. I walked into my room and closed the door behind me, I removed my shirt and slung it on the floor. I let myself collapse on the bed, the pain that went through my body was high and breathtakingly painful, but I only had myself to blame, so I put up with it.
I closed my eyes ready to spend a night on my own with only my guilt to keep me company.