Backwoods Boy- Josh Turner

Cause I'm a backwoods boy
Grew up on a dirt road
I'm a backwoods boy
With no better place to go
Waitin' on a deer, wishin' on a star
I'll always be true to my heart
Cause I'm a backwoods boy
I'm a backwoods boy

Peter, Charlotte and Carolynn Whitlock watched as a pissed off Bella Swan ran through the hose and to her room with it all ending with her slamming her door shut. Peter had gotten up to go and talk to Jasper but his mother and Charlotte had stopped him before he could. Charlotte had pushed him back down into his seat in the couch.

"He can fix it himself. He's the one who messed it up in the first place." Charlotte said before smacking Peter on the back of his head.

"I was going to talk to him not her." Peter said rubbing his head where she had hit him.

About an hour or so later Jasper had finally appeared. He had come walking through the house looking just as surly looking as Bella had before him. Only he was covered head to toe in mud with his shirt covered in rips along with the mud. This caused everyone (but Jasper) to raise their eye brows as he passed them. Carolynn was to speechless by her son's appearance to say anything.

But surprisingly it was only Peter who realized that Jasper was limping and wincing with each and every step he took up the stairs away from the prying eyes of his family. Peter also thought that Jasper's knuckles looked a little bruised or bloodied if not the both of them and that made him worry really bad for his little brother even more. He's (jasper) has never gotten angry over a single girl telling him no to a date before so Peter knew it was something else.

"Mama I am going to talk to him. Something is up." Peter said.

"What do you mean something is up Peter? I want to know what is going on with my son!" Carolynn snapped.

"Mama you know I'll find out what is going with Jasper. I always do when he gets like this." Peter said trying to calm his mother down.

"Fine just do it and find out what is wrong." Carolynn said looking away from him.

Peter felt bad for his mother. He and his father seemed to be the only ones to calm jasper down enough when he got really angry like he appeared to be when he came home. Peter walked up to Jasper's room and knocked on the door.

"Jasper its Peter I need to talk to you." Peter said.

"Did mom send you?" Jasper asked opening his door.

"No I sent my self. What happen to you?" Peter asked.

"I took a walk by that pond. I got hit from behind and fell down. Whoever attacked me must have thought I was down for the count because I got up and jumped on their back and started pounding on them."

"Jasper by the looks of it they did more than just hit you on the head. It looks like you were stabbed." Peter said.

"I'm fine the guy barely even nicked me." Jasper said relaxing in his chair.

"YOU were STABBED." A voice exclaimed from the hallway.

"Bella." Jasper said Jumping up from his seat in his chair.

"Jasper I can tell from here you need to get that checked out." Bella said pointed to a bright angry red mark on Jasper's stomach. "If you don't I'll tell your mother." She added.

"That would be un-called for." Jasper said wincing as he took a step toward her.

"No it's not. You need to go to the hospital. You could have broken bones or bacteria that can cause a bad infection." Bella said. "I've seen what happens to someone when a stab wound like that goes untreated and you may not apparently care about me but I don't think your mother or brother want to see you on your death bed." She added walking back to her room.

"Jasper you need to pull on your big boy pants and just tell the girl how you feel and quit putting your foot in you a$$." Peter said. "And you better get ready for the Hospital. We'll wait till mama and charlotte go to sleep before I take you because Bella's right I don't want to see my brother on his death bed." Peter said leaving the room.

He walked down the hall to see that Bella had chosen to go to bed early. He wanted to talk to her but kept on going. So he could tell his mother what was up with Jasper (the abridge version of course).

"Peter what did he say?" Carolynn asked when Peter walked into the room.

"He went walking down by that pond and got his boot caught in a mole hole and fell in." Peter lied. He knew charlotte would ask him the truth later and he would tell her but he didn't want to worry his mom.

"Well it's after eight. I'm going to bed." Carolynn declared before disappearing up the stairs.

"So what's really up?" Charlotte asked when Carolynn was out of ear shot.

"I knew you could tell I was lying."Peter told her.

"Now what is up with Jasper?" She asked.

"Jasper was attacked but he doesn't know who it was." Peter told her.

"How bad was he hurt?" Charlotte asked.

"Not bad; just some scrapes and bruises. You know things you could get from working on a farm." Peter explained/lied. "I'm taking him to the hospital after Ma is asleep."

"Why if you said it's not that bad?" Charlotte said.

"Well Bella walked in and saw a particularly nasty scratch and freaked out saying that he needed to get it checked out because an simple infection could develop and kill them."

"She said that?"

"Not in those words but that's what I got out of that but he only chose to go because Bella threatened to tell ma."

"Oh man she's not even dating one of you two and she already knows how to handle you guys." Charlotte said laughing.

"Yeah she does. Mama always said it would take a special kind of girl to handle us."

"Well I'm going to check on the kids. I'll see if your mother is asleep or not."

"And if she is send jasper's but down. Drag him down by his hair if you half too."

"Just like I have to do to you; doesn't surprise me that your brother would be the same." Charlotte replied. "Well Allen's up." Charlotte added when a baby started to cry.

"I'll go up with you. Since Allen will be a handful and Jasper is a handful all on his own."

"Have fun cow boy." Charlottes said departing for the guest room where the twins had been sleeping.

Peter walked into Jasper's room and didn't see and figured he was in the bathroom. The door to it was closed.

"Come on Jasper. Let's go." Peter said rapping his knuckles on the door.

"Dang can't a guy take a piss in peace." Jasper said exasperated.

"Yeah he can but you have a date with the hospital." Peter told him. "Put a button up shirt on. They are going to tell you to take your shirt off so they can take a look at wounds."

Jasper grumbled and walked to his closet and pulled out a blue and white plaid shirt and put it on. He stopped at his desk and grabbed a piece of folded up paper.

"What's that?" Peter asked.

"Noting for you." Jasper told him. "Go say good night to your kids we don't know how long it will take."

"Fine. Be all secretive." Peter said leaving the room.

While Peter was in the guest room Jasper shut his door and slipped the piece of paper he grabbed off his desk under Bella's door and headed down stairs to wait for his brother who came down ten minutes later. It took them fifteen minutes to get to the hospital. Jasper walked in and filled out the paper work and waited to be called.

"So what was that note about?" Peter asked him after an hour of waiting.

"Like I said it wasn't for you so you don't get to know unless the person who it was for decides to tell you." Jasper replied with a sly grin because he knew it was ticking Peter off because he didn't know who it was for.

"Come on Jasper we tell each other everything." Peter exclaimed.

"No we don't. You tell your wife everything not me." Jasper replied.

"Of course I tell her everything if I don't she'll kill me." Peter told his brother.

"Jasper Whitlock." A nurse called.

"That's me!" Jasper said standing up with a wince.

"Follow me." The nurse told him.

Jasper fallowed the nurse through the doors away from the waiting room. She led him down a hall way with sections curtained off. She stopped and opened the curtain on one of them.

"You will wait in here. Please get up on the bed and wait." She said before leaving.

Jasper did as he was told (once again) and slipped onto the bed. He hated waiting in the emergency room because there was nothing he could do to entertain himself and with his luck he usually got stuck next to a sick kid coughing up a storm or they had parents that would not stop complaining. He was just thankful it was quiet at the moment. He leaned back against the bed and sighed.

"Hello Mr. Whitlock. I'm Dr. Cullen how can I help you?"

"I… um… got stabbed in the stomach. It's really not that bad but a friend of mine was worried about infection." Jasper reluctantly told him.

"Can you show me where you got stabbed on your stomach please?"

Jasper just slipped his shirt off because he really wasn't sure how many wounds he had from the knife the assailant used.

"Mr. Whitlock when did you receive these injures?"

"A few hours ago I guess. I'm not really sure. I did get conked on the head with something."

"You should have come in sooner. Because even with just a few hours you have a nasty infection in the wound on you lower abdomen. Around of antibiotic should take care of it." Dr. Cullen said walking around him. "Mr. Whitlock did you hear a gun go off at all?"

"No why?" Jasper asked worried.

"It' looks like you were shot in your back no you could have just been stabbed but the wound is so round in shape that I want you to have an x-ray done just to be sure and if you did get shot I have to call the police."

"Are you sure?" Jasper asked in a strained voice.

"I would bet my medical degree on it." Dr. Cullen replied.

"Can my brother come back here so I can tell him?"

"Sure just let me go get him. It will be awhile till the x-ray tech comes to get you."

"Okay." Jasper replied.

"I'll be back in a few with your brother."

Jasper was only alone for about three minutes when Peter walked behind the curtain that blocked him from everybody's point of view. Jasper could tell that Peter was worried about why he was pulled back.

"I'll leave you two to talk." Dr. Cullen said leaving them alone.

"Why did the doctor bring me back here Jasper?" Peter asked sitting down in the chair.

"He thinks I was shot. He's having me get x-rayed. The wound's on my back somewhere." Jasper said.

Peter shot up out of his chair and looked at Jasper's back. It didn't take long for him to find the circler wound that could be a bullet wound but he wasn't no doctor so he could say anything.

"You know mama's going to kill you for not telling her why you came here right."

"Yeah but I could always tell her I went to check on the animals and go shot while doing that."

"It'd be your funeral." Peter said cracking a smile.

"Alright which one of you is Jasper?" A nurse asked.

"That would be me." Jasper said raising his hand.

"Come on I am to take you to get x-rayed." The nurse said. "You can stay here your brother will be back momentarily."

This chapter picks things up a bit hope you like it and please leave a review.

Maye