A/N: Chapter 37!

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Chapter 37 - Hangover Central

20th June 2009

Jasper POV

Rosalie and Edward had hired another limo to take us all to their massive birthday party in Port Angeles. One of Emmett's uncles owned a club in Port Angeles that people could hire out for parties. Some strings had been pulled, and apparently there was going to alcohol available.

Rosalie's birthday had been on the eleventh, and Edward had officially turned eighteen a couple of hours ago. They were the last of us all to become eighteen. We'd given our presents to Edward before we left. I'd gotten him a special edition baseball shirt I knew he had been after. I didn't know what everyone else had brought for him. I could only assume that they had given it to him in private.

I had also given Rosalie her present before we left as well, as it hadn't arrived until that morning. I'd ordered her a set of personalised overalls for when she went off to university to do her mechanics degree. She loved them. Emmett thought they matched with his Property of Emmett McCarty badge he'd gotten her for university. He said she was to wear it at all times so that all the guys in her course would know she wasn't available. I didn't see what the others got her, as they'd given it to her on the day.

So we'd all piled into the limousine and had a glass of champagne that Alice downed after the toasts were made. I could tell she was in the party mood for once, since the three girls had apparently had 'fun' getting dressed up. Once again, I was glad I was a guy; you only needed to own one suit.

"Take your time, okay? I'm not going to carry you home later,"I told her jokingly. I could see she was already looking for another glass of something sparkly. She smiled sweetly at me and nodded towards my own glass.

"You gonna drink that?" I raised my eyebrow at her and downed the rest of my glass in one. She stuck her tongue out at me.

The journey to Port Angeles was long enough that the limousine could drop us outside the club straight away. We all climbed out and made our way inside. I was surprised at how many people were already in there, a lot of them I didn't recognise.

Rosalie and Edward disappeared immediately, going to welcome their guests, Bella and Emmett went with them. That left me and Alice, Alice dragged me to the bar straight away, they'd made the brilliant, albeit slightly stupid mistake of making it an open bar.

Once we'd got ourselves a drink, we went and found a small booth near the dance floor.

"Do you recognise all these people?"I asked her – or more like shouted at her, as the music was blaring.

She shrugged. "Some of them are family, there's a load from school, too. Quite a few are from out of school though."

I looked around, I could see Emmett and Rosalie talking to someone – I assumed it was his uncle.

The booth remained empty, and Alice and I sat pointing out people we recognised until Alice nudged me on the shoulder and tapped her empty glass. I shook my head at her amused and finished my own drink before getting up. I pushed my way through the crowd and went towards the bar. I saw Newton chatting up some girl who looked like she wanted to run away screaming. I wasn't sure who it was that invited that douche.

I ordered our drinks, but it took ages for them to be served as there were only two bartenders and about twenty customers. Finally two drinks were pushed towards me and I forced my way back through the crowds trying not to spill them – they were small enough as it is without me spilling them everywhere. But as I got back to the booth we had been sitting at, I found it empty.

I turned back and glanced over the crowds trying to find Alice. Emmett and Rosalie were dancing; I knew she wasn't with them. I saw Bella talking to Angela while Edward was chatting with Ben, so Alice wasn't with them either.

After taking a sip of my drink, I made my way over to the girls' toilets. I wasn't going to in there myself to check so I looked around and spotted Jessica Stanley. She was standing nearest so I went over and asked her to check if Alice was in there. When she came out shaking her head, I started worrying.

Where the fuck was she?

I scanned the crowd again but still I didn't see her giveaway black pointy hair and dark blue dress. My eyes landed on a door near the back, and on a whim, I started making my way towards it, quickly dumping my now empty glass before going outside.

I let out a sigh of relief as I saw her standing against the far wall with her eyes closed, it was only after taking a step towards her that I saw she was crying.

"Alice? What's the matter?" I asked when I finally reached her. She opened her eyes then and stared at me for a long moment.

"You're going to think I'm stupid,"she whined before sniffing softly.

I shook my head slowly. "I very much doubt that."

She wiped her eyes without trying to smudge her makeup. "Some guy came and talked to me… and…"

I clenched my hands into fists, if he even tried it on with her for a minute. I wasn't sure why it made me angry to think that someone might have been flirting with her, it just made me fucking furious.

"He was wearing this shirt that Robbie used to have, it was one I bought him,"she sobbed. I sighed, wrapped my arm around her, and held her against my chest.

"I don't think you're stupid for crying, it hasn't even been a year since he died,"I whispered as I passed her the drink in my hand. She took it, but didn't drink.

"This is ridiculous!" she cried. "I can't go around crying whenever I see something that reminded me of him. I thought things were getting better, but when I saw the shirt it just seemed to get worse again."

I hugged her tighter until she stopped crying again. "You can, and if you have to, you will. No one will judge you for it."

Her arms tightened around me. "You always say the right things to me. I don't deserve someone like you."

She sounded deflated, and I hated to hear her like that. "You're right, you deserve more than the disastrous mess that I am."

She snorted quietly. "Then let us be a disastrous mess together. How does that sound?"

I chuckled softly. "That sounds pretty fucking perfect right about now."

It was silent then as we stood holding each other. This felt pretty damn perfect right here.

"So, how do you feel about drowning our sorrows?"she asked in a strangely optimistic voice, considering what she was saying.

I pulled away from her. "I feel like doing just that."

I held my arm out for her, which she linked hers through mine and smiled up at me.

"Come on, let's get the sorrow drowning underway,"she chirped before we went inside.

We made our way back over to the booth where we found Rosalie and Emmett sitting down.

"Where'd you guys go?"Emmett asked, barely even having to raise his voice.

"Alice felt a bit ill," I shouted. "We went to get a bit of fresh air."

I caught Alice's meaningful look and I knew she was grateful that I didn't tell them the complete truth.

"Where are Edward and Bella?"Alice asked as she swilled the drink around her glass.

Rosalie nodded towards the dance floor, and we all turned to see Edward and Bella slow dancing, completely wrapped up in each other. I couldn't help but laugh, only Edward and Bella would do that.

"You guys want a drink?"Alice asked as she stood up again, I eyed her suspiciously, I hadn't even realised she'd finished her other drink. There was drowning your sorrows and getting completely and utterly smashed. I was sure she was aiming for the latter.

I shrugged inwardly and thought of the saying if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Emmett and Rosalie both asked for a drink each, Alice skipped off ahead towards the bar. I followed, of course, feeling the urge to not let her out of my sight.

Newton was alone when we got there, and after a fleeting glance at Alice, he skulked off towards a group of girls. Obviously someone was looking to get lucky tonight. I shook my head, knowing he hadn't a hope in hell, especially as they would be friends of either Rosalie or Edward. I had a momentary thought, wondering whether Rosalie had pre-warned her friends about him, I chuckled to myself at the idea.

Alice ordered herself a double and passed me the same thing. Clearly she wanted me to get smashed along with her, and I knew that without a doubt, I would.

As the night progressed Alice and I became incredibly intoxicated, but we weren't the only ones. Emmett was worse, and his dancing got more vulgar as the drinks kept coming.

Currently, he and Rosalie were dancing again, or from Emmett's point of view it was a blatant attempt to feel up his girlfriend. I had to chuckle at his shamelessness, he really didn't care who was looking.

"This is a fabulous night," Alice slurred, a goofy smile forming on her face, she looked incredibly funny. I snorted and laughed at her face then managed to spill some drink on my shirt in the process.

"Don't waste it!" she shrieked as she took the glass from my hand and drank the rest. I glared at her, my lips forming into a ridiculous pout. She smiled at me, blinking her eyes angelically.

I rolled my eyes and stumbled off my chair in search of a new drink, but when I got to the bar the person behind the bar, Stefan his name was, stared at me, his eyebrow rising in disbelief.

"Son, I think you've had enough, don't you?" he said, an amused tone in his voice. I groaned and turned away from him, Alice had drunk my last drink of the night. I looked down at my watch, bringing it so close to my eye that everything blurred. I didn't have a clue what time it was.

"Jasper," Emmett roared from right behind me, making me jump out of my skin. "We're going, the limo is here."

I stared at him, wondering how the hell he could talk straight when everything else he did screamed drunken fool.

I went to find Alice who was standing, or more precisely, being propped up by Bella who in turn, was leaning on Edward.

"But why do we have to leave?" Alice grumbled, pulling another one of her strange faces. I started laughing uncontrollably to myself.

"It's gone two in the morning, Al," Edward answered. He was the least drunk of us all. Clearly he was the only one who could read the time. "Its coming up to closing time, plus the limo doesn't run past three," he continued, pulling Bella and Alice towards the door.

I don't really know how, but we all managed to get into the back of the limo without anyone falling over.

My head was spinning as the limo pulled up outside Alice's house. I was nearest the door which meant I had to get out first. But as I did, my foot caught on the edge of the door, and I tripped then fell face first onto the pavement.

I heard Emmett's booming laughter as I pulled myself up. "He's alright!" Alice screamed unnecessarily as she stepped over me. There was a chorus of "goodbyes" as the limo pulled away and drove down the road.

"I love you, guys!"

We both turned around to see Rosalie standing half out of the roof window. She had her hands in the air and started waving them at us.

"We love you, too!" Alice shouted back at her before jumping up and down on the spot. Rosalie disappeared moments later. I could only assume she'd been pulled back inside.

A second later, Alice squealed, "piggyback time." As she jumped, or more correctly, climbed up my back and wrapped her bare legs around my waist. I grabbed onto her just above the knee and held on tight before she fell.

"Onwards, Mr Jasper," she commanded as she pointed towards her front door. I took a step forward, the whole floor swaying beneath me, and when I reached for the gate, it appeared that I was using more than one hand to pull it open. As soon as I was through, I foolishly tried to close it behind me; that was when we fell backwards.

Alice screamed dramatically, even though she didn't touch the ground. I felt her bury her head in between my shoulder blades as we burst into fits of laughter. I knew later I'd be in pain, but right now, all I could do was laugh.

As our laughter died, the front door opened, the bright light from inside shone down on us. I had to look away as it was rather dazzling.

"We're saved!" Alice exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air. "Hallelujah!"

I started to laugh again as Jackie made a tutting noise and crossed her arms in front of her.

"Get in here, now. Both of you," she instructed, not sounding happy at all. I unwrapped myself from Alice's legs and stood up, somewhat unsteadily, then turned back to Alice. She was still on the floor, and her dress was hitched up around her waist from when she had jumped on me. If I was sober, I would have thought that nothing was left to be imagination.

But I wasn't, and instead, I rather unabashedly allowed my eyes to scan the entire length of her body. When my eyes met hers once again, she was watching me, a strange, lazy smile on her face.

"Help me up," she said, sticking her hand out in front of her. Taking her hand in mine I pulled her up, but as she did so, she stumbled and fell forward into me. A giggle escaped her lips as she righted her and looked up at me.

A second later, she reached up on her toes, curled her hands in the lapels on my blazer and kissed me. It lasted maybe two seconds at the most, and when she pulled away I leant into her without thinking.

"Thank you," she said after she'd fully pulled away. The way it came out was as if she were thanking me for passing her something. She rocked back onto her heels, let go of my blazer then walked by me into the house.

I stood staring at a spot ahead of me, licking my lips into my mouth. She'd kissed me. My mind was clouded, nothing was coherent. All I could think was: she'd kissed me.

When I finally turned around, she had already disappeared inside, and all I could see was Jackie standing in the doorway watching me.

I didn't say anything to her as I, too, stepped inside the house. I wanted to find Alice, but at the same moment, Jackie started talking.

"Alice upstairs already," she told me, her voice sounding distant, thoughtful. I nodded, looking up the stairs as she finished. "You can stay here tonight; I'm not letting you walk home alone like this."

"Thank you," I managed to get out as I stepped towards the stairs. But she stopped me. "Make sure you tell your mom where you are, I don't want her worrying."

I nodded yet again and slowly made my way upstairs. I pulled my phone from my pocket and typed a message to Mom, surprising myself that I managed to press all the correct keys.

When we got to Alice's room, I found her sneaking around on our tiptoes, as if she didn't want to wake everyone up. She was going way over the top and ended up making more noise than before.

I didn't stop her though, and merely watched her. She'd kissed me, and it looked like she thought nothing of it. I sighed, kicking off my shoes and allowed my blazer to slide from my body and fall into a heap at my feet.

With one last look at Alice, I walked towards her bed and collapsed on top of it.

Even before I opened my eyes I could feel the headache latching its way into my brain, but whoever it was that was playing with my hair, was helping. It felt kind of soothing.

I opened my eyes slowly and jumped out of my skin as I was greeted by a foot lying on the pillow only a few centimetres away from my face.

"What the?" I grumbled as I allowed my eyes to travel down the leg that was joined to the leg in my face. It was then that I realised Alice's other leg was sprawled out across my back, and her toes were currently in my hair. Aw crap.

I shifted slightly, reaching with my hand, clasping it around Alice's leg and pulling it off me, I laid it down next to her other leg. But the movement woke her up and she jostled, turned over and fell off the bed with a loud bang.

"Shit," I muttered as I leaned over the edge of the bed to look at her. "Are you alright?"

She groaned and reached for her head. "I think I even had a headache in my dream."

"My headache has a headache," I muttered in response. I chuckled, but the jostling made my own headache worse. "No laughing," I mumbled as I pulled myself out of the bed in search of some aspirin or some magic hangover cure downstairs.

I made my way downstairs and walked towards the kitchen, only realising too late that there were far too many voices in there.

"Oh, here he is," Emmett said; his voice was far too loud. "Plus he's doing the walk of shame no less."

I glared at him from the doorway. "What are you doing here?" I asked, looking between him and Rosalie. "And why does he not have a hangover?" I said as I came to sit next to Rosalie.

"Beats me," she replied, rubbing her own forehead at the same time. "We actually came over here to give Alice a copy of the pictures. It also happens to be quieter here than at his."

I nodded, remembering what it was like at Emmett's. There were far too many siblings in one house.

"Here you go," Jackie said as she handed me some aspirin and a glass of water. "I think I'm going to call this place hangover central."

It was peaceful for a moment as I swallowed the pills. That was until Emmett started talking again.

"So," he began, I didn't like the mischievous tone in his voice. "Did you have a good sleep? I hope it wasn't too uncomfortable. You know you could have topped and tailed..."

Jackie let out a quick laugh as she cooked breakfast. I looked away from her to glance at Emmett. My eyes narrowed as I watched him take a camera out from his pocket. He began scrolling through the pictures until he stopped on one and started grinning.

"Emmett," I warned. "What have you done?"

He grinned at me, sliding the camera towards me. "Take a look for yourself."

I reached for the camera, cautiously turning it over and looking at what was on the screen.

"You bastard," I exclaimed as I saw the picture of Alice and me in her bed this morning. It looked even worse from an outside point of view. Alice was half sprawled on top of me with her leg hitched across my back and into my hair. Her arm was hanging off the edge of the bed in a drunken manner. It looked as if she'd collapsed onto the bed.

"If I wasn't feeling so rough I would kill you right now," I continued, shaking my head in amusement.

"I'm sorry but we had to get photographic evidence of you two to show Edward and Bella," he told me in a very matter of fact voice.

"You're going to show Edward and Bella what?" Alice asked as she stepped into the room. She had changed clothes, but she hadn't done her hair, which was in quite messy disarray.

"The photo of you and Jasper this morning," Emmett explained. He smirked deviously as he held out his hand for the camera. I grudgingly gave in and place the camera in his hand. The smirk grew wider as he handed the camera to a cautious Alice.

As she glanced at the camera her eyes widened then glanced at me briefly before looking back at the camera.

"Oh my God," she whispered. "I can't believe I slept like that, hell, I don't even remember getting into bed."

Jackie turned around then and looked at Alice. "Do you remember anything from last night?"

Alice frowned. "I remember being at the party, and then in then in the limo. Did someone fall over?"

Emmett snorted. "Jasper fell out the limo."

My gaze snapped in his direction, wondering if he was making it up. But the look on his face told me he wasn't lying, plus, that paired with the fact my knees were aching.

"What are you, Jasper? Do you remember anything?" Jackie continued, breaking the conversation about me falling over. There was something in her voice, it was more than curiosity, but I overlooked it as I tried to remember back to what had happened as we left.

Finally I shook my head. "I don't remember anything after we got into the limo to go home. Why, what did I do?"

A grimace spread across my face as I pictured many different embarrassing and vulgar things I could have done.

"Oh, nothing, I was just wondering," she said simply. I noticed her gaze flicker to Alice before she went back to cooking breakfast.

"You two should look at the pictures from last night," Emmett said, breaking the silence. "There are some really funny ones."

"Let's have a look at them, Alice, I haven't seen any yet," I told her; even though I wasn't sure I wanted to see them. She came over and stood next to me, and then began flicking through the photos.

At first there were a lot of pictures taken whilst we were all at Rosalie's house. The ones that followed were from the limo. I think those were the last photos where we didn't have a drink in our hands.

Emmett was right in that there were some funny ones of me and Alice. I think we were even arguing over a drink in one of them. But the funniest one was probably of him and Ben doing a massacred version of the YMCA dance.

But it was when a picture of Alice and me flashed up on the screen that we both stopped and just stared. It was a close up picture; obviously we had taken the photo ourselves. My arm was slung over her shoulder, with a drink in both of our hands, but that wasn't what made us stare. We both looked happy.

Alice turned to me, a soft smile on her lips. "I really like this picture," she murmured. I couldn't help but smile.

"Me too," I replied, staring at her for longer than what was necessary.

When we looked away, Rosalie and Emmett were staring at us, a faint smile ghosted across Rosalie's face as she turned to look at Emmett.

"What?" I asked, my brow furrowing in confusion.

"Nothing," Rosalie replied, shaking her head quickly. The same smile was still on her face even when I looked back at the camera.

Jackie turned around then, placing a massive plate of steaming bacon and eggs in the middle of the table.

"Tuck in," she said as she turned back to the cupboard to pull out some plates, as soon as she placed them on the table Emmett reached for one and put an egg and three slices of bacon on his plate.

"Emmett," Rosalie said, shaking her head at him before taking a slice of bacon for herself.

"What?" he said as he took a bite of bacon. "She said tuck in!"

Jackie chuckled and told him that it was okay. "Don't you want any Jasper?" she asked as she poured herself some coffee.

"No, I don't feel like eating right now," I told her, pulling a face at the plate of food. "I think I will be going soon, I really want a shower. I feel kind of dirty for sleeping in the clothes I wore yesterday."

"You would feel dirty for sleeping in the same bed as Alice," Emmett joked then pretended to cower when Alice shook her fist at him.

"I don't know how you guys put up with him," Jackie muttered as she watched us from the counter. "Especially you, Rose."

"Oh, he has his good moments," she replied as she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. The smile that formed on his face made him look like the cat that got the cream.

I looked away, suddenly feeling the impulse to go home. "I think I'm gonna head home," I told them as I stood up. "Thanks for letting me stop over."

"No problem," Jackie and Alice replied simultaneously. I smiled at them both before leaving the room and going upstairs to gather my things. I couldn't help but chuckle to myself when I found one of my shoes under the bed while the other being lodged behind the trash can.

When I went back downstairs, I said my goodbyes. Alice walked with me to the door, and as she hugged me goodbye, I got the distinct impression that she didn't want me to go.

"Thank you," she murmured as she pulled away. I had a sudden sense that we'd already been in this situation not long ago. "I can at least remember that I was the one who suggested getting as drunk as we did. I had fun though, so I'm glad you're there."

"Me too," I replied, smiling. Then for a reason unknown to me, I leant forward and kissed her gently on the cheek. When I pulled away, she was staring up at me, looking slightly shocked. But when the corners of her mouth turned upwards I exhaled slowly.

"Goodbye, Alice."

With that, I turned around and left. As I made my way down the path, I looked back over my shoulder and smiled when I saw her still standing there watching me walk away.

"And where have you been?" Mom asked as soon as I stepped through the front door. She had her arms crossed in front of her as she spoke.

"I was at Alice's," I told her, frowning as she continued to stare at me. I did send her that message, didn't I?

I decided to risk it. "I sent you a message, what more do you want?" I said then winced at the effect it had on my hangover.

"Yeah, it came out something like 'I'm at Alice, don't wait me'," she said, the corners of her mouth quivering as she spoke. I could tell she wanted to smile. "And you spelt Alice, don't and wait incorrectly."

"Sorry," I replied, my expression sheepish.

"Yeah," she said, shaking her head at me in amusement. "Good job Jackie sent me a message as well."

After a moment, she changed the subject. "So, did you have fun?"

"Yeah, it was really good," I told her, a genuine smile forming on my face. "I really enjoyed myself."

A/N: So, do you think Alice's mother saw?

I know quite a few of you have been saying 'when will they kiss?' or 'I hope they are together soon', and I always replied saying that it wasn't going to happen soon. But after a talk with vegetarianvamps, I decided to change it around.

Yes, they DID kiss, but no, this does not mean they will be together from here onwards, nor does it mean they will be admitting their feelings for each other. The reason for this being they don't have feelings for each other, nothing more than platonic. There are small changes you'll notice, but in their minds, they're not falling for each other…yet.

The kiss happened because they were drunk; Alice would not have done it if she wasn't. Drunk kisses happen, remember that. Besides, it was a quick kiss, sometimes even friends could share, and it's not as if they got all hot and heavy on the doorstep, and I'm here saying it meant nothing, when clearly that would have been a load of bull.

However, just because they don't remember the kiss, it doesn't mean it'll be forgotten. I'm only saying all this because I don't want you to be reviewing in a couple of chapters complaining that nothing has happened concerning the kiss.

Sorry for leaving a big author note, I just want you guys to understand, that's all :)

These two past chapters were happy, right? Don't expect it to last. The next ten (or more) chapters are full of angst. *smiles* I'm an angsty bitch, and I love it.

Please review! Teasers will be given if you do. My aim: 475 reviews.