Don't blink

Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you

Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half

Of fifty years is there in bed

And you're praying God takes you instead

Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think

So don't blink

Kenny Chesney- Don't Blink


JPOV

I woke up still on the floor and slid Isa off my lap as I stood up. I stretched hearing my bones crack and checked on Seth. He was still asleep on my bed. I lifted Isa off the floor and put her next to him before going to take a shower.

When we came up to bed last night, Seth was curled up in my bed. I had homework to finish and Isa wasn't too sleepy.

We fell asleep watching one of her favorite movies on the bean bags on the floor in my room.

I showered quickly washing my hair and wrapped a towel around my waist. I was brushing my teeth when Isa ran into the bathroom.

"Gotta pee." She said when I gazed at her.

I rolled my eyes at her when she sighed. "Hello to you too."

She finished and flushed the toilet. "Hi; I'm going back to bed. Seth isn't up yet." She said washing her hands.

I nodded and followed her into the room. "You are staying here all day?"

She shrugged as she climbed back in the bed and pulled the comforter over her and Seth. "I guess until you come back. I don't have anywhere to be until four and you come home at twelve."

I nodded as I pulled on a pair of jeans. "I have nothing to do after class so it doesn't matter."

"If anything I'll take Seth with me if I go anywhere."

"I'll switch seat before I leave if you're not taking the car."

She shook her head as she lay down and hugged my pillow to her chest. "I'm taking the truck."

I raised a brow at her as I put in my tongue ring. "Why?" I asked when I finished. "Better yet how are you gonna deal with Seth; you can barely get in it on your own."

"Rude; I can get in it on my own. I just like you helping me. Just make sure you switch his seat."

I nodded and put in my eyebrow ring. "Anything else, princess?"

"Not at the moment; I'll call if I think of anything." She giggled. "Are you dropping Rose?"

"She's not going to school today."

"Right. Well you should get going babes." She yawned. "I love you and I'll see you when you get back."

"I need my watch off your hand." I said as I pulled a shirt over my head.

"Grey boxers love; so fucking sexy." She said holding out my watch.

I laughed and kissed her forehead. "I love you and I'll see you later."

"Bye babe." She giggled waving at me.

I quickly switched Seth's seat and jumped in my truck. It started with a nice purr and I sped off towards the school.

I sat in the back of the class as was usual and put my head down.

"Jasper Whitlock." The teacher called.

"Yes ma'am." I answered covering the words with my accent as I lifted my head.

"This is for you." She said holding out a box.

I took the box from her and put it on my binder as she started class.


After I finished with all my classes I sat in my truck with the box. I opened it and pulled out an envelope with my name on it.

I opened it and began to read.

Dear Jasper,

I know you probably never want to hear from me again and I honestly don't blame you. Ten years ago I made the biggest mistake of my life, walking away from you and your mom. After years of extensive therapy, rehab and years of regretting everything, I feel that it's time for me to meet you face to face to see the person you have grown to be. I know that you may never forgive me and I don't blame you because I can't forgive myself. I see you on magazines and on the internet with Isabella Volturi and I wonder if you ever think of me the way I always have you on my mind.

Walking away from you and Lillian ten years ago after telling you, you were a mistake was the biggest regret I have and I hope you at least want to meet with me.

From Tyler.

I stared at the paper in my hands. After ten fucking years this asshole wanted to talk to me. I can't even fucking think correctly. I need to go home.

I sped towards the house and noticed Isa's truck wasn't there but ma's car was.

"Ma." I called as I walked in the house.

"Kitchen." She answered back.

I walked into the kitchen and dropped everything front of her as I sat across from her. "He's a fucking asshole and if I see him at any point in the near future I will kill him." I said as calmly as possible.

"What?"

"Read the letter."

She read the letter quickly and put it down. "Jasper this box has a bunch of shit in it." She said as she looked through the box.

"I wouldn't even know; I never looked." I said putting my head on my arms. "I fucking hate him."

"Jasper I wouldn't expect anything less; he told you he wished you never existed and you were eight. He's an asshole to think you'd want to see him after ten years but he does and honestly if you meet with him and you hit him, punch him in the face for me twice." She said as she reached across the table and touched my hand. "He gave you the same bear you had when you were little and a bunch of your old toys."

"Why does he even have all of that shit; I don't even care to know honestly. This is all a bunch of shit and I'm asleep at the moment." I said pulling at my hair. "I'm still on the floor with Isa asleep."

"Jasper you're going to pull your hair out. Stop and listen to me." She said rising and walking around the table to stand in front of me. "Tyler is an asshole but not for all of this. He's trying to right a wrong he didn't know he made until a few years ago. He wants to meet you Jay; he wants to get to know the person you are now. You can either show him that this is bothering you like you're showing me or you can show him the 18 year old you grew to be; the one that cowboy'd the fuck up and ran this house, runs this house. Jasper you do more than he ever did when he was here. You take care of Seth like he's your child and you make sure Rosalie is good, whether you like her for the day or not. You make sure I'm good before you take care of anything you need. You made your own money and you put half of it into this house; you buy groceries and you make sure this house is spotless. You cook dinner when you know I'm tired and you always, always have a smile on your face when you do anything in the house, whether you wanna do it or not."

She pushed my hair from my face. "Jasper you do more than I expect from you and you stepped up when he left. You didn't cry about it and you didn't dwell on it for too long. You became the man of this house a week after he left, even if you didn't know it." She sighed and cupped my face. "Jasper you are my first born and I am so proud of you. You run this house and still go to school; yes you did some shit that made me want to kill you but at the end of the day they made you who you are at the moment and I love it. Seth loves it and Rosalie appreciates it. Isabella is so in love you Jasper it's ridiculous and she knows how much you've done in this house I'm sure of it. She's marrying you because of who you are Jasper."

She sighed and kissed my forehead. "I love you Jasper and it really sucks that he chose now to want to do this, when you're over it and you moved on from it but you'll be fine."

I hugged her tightly. My mom was everything to me whether she knew it or not and I always wanted, needed, her support. "I love you ma." I whispered against her shoulder. "I know I don't ever tell you enough but I do."

I felt her tears on my shirt. "I know you do Jasper." She whispered. "I know you do."

"Jasper." I heard Seth scream as the door opened.

"Seth stop running in the house." Isa scolded from the door.

I pulled away from ma as Seth ran into the kitchen and came to a stop in front of me.

LPOV

I walked over to the counter as Jasper positioned Seth on his lap and wiped my face.

"Hey bud." Jay said lifting him onto his lap. "What's up?"

"Jasper Isa punched Rose in the face." Seth answered excitedly, all the words running together. "And Rose said a lot of bad words."

"Really?" Jasper said exaggerating his shock as Isa walked into the room with a large stuffed shark and an Applebee's bag. "What happened?"

"Rose called Isa a bad word and Isa told Rose to leave her alone and Rose threw water on the both of us." He frowned. "But Isa punched Rose in the face when Rose pulled Isa's hair when Isa was walking to my room." He finished happily.

"What?" Jasper gasped. "What did Isa say?"

"Nothing she just walked away." He said as though Isa was supposed to say something. "But we went to the aquarium and I got a shark."

He turned and Isa held out the shark for him.

"Cool; what'd you name it?"

"Kenny and the penguin is named Mumble and the lion is named Alex."

"Awesome; did you have fun?"

"Yep; we saw a lot of fishes." He said launching into a detailed explanation of his day with Isa at the aquarium.

Jasper listened intently and asked a bunch questions. He didn't fake his interest in the conversation like Rosalie did.

Watching the two of them brought back the tears from earlier and I felt Isa hug me. "They are too cute." She whispered.

"They are." I whispered back. "Jasper has to talk to you later tonight."

I felt her nod against my side.

"Did Isa take you to see the clown fish?" Jasper asked bringing our attention back to him and Seth.

"Mhmm and the fish like Dory." Seth said nodding. "And we saw the sea turtles."

"Cool. What else did you do today?" Jasper asked holding out a juice box for Seth.

"We went to Applebee's and Isa took me with her to the studio."

"What you do at the studio?" Jasper asked Isa.

"I had to meet with The Summer Set." Isa said dancing over to him, her skirt trailing behind her. "It was fine we just wrote and Ms. Jess Bowen played with Seth on the drums, right Hun?"

Isa kissed Jasper's cheek and whispered in his ear. He nodded and kissed her lightly.

"I love you too." He said quietly. "We'll talk later." He turned to Seth. "Seth what do you wanna do now; I'm all yours."

Seth thought about the question. "Can I share you with Isa?" he asked.

Jasper laughed and nodded. "You can share me with Isa."

"Good because you can't bake and I wanna make mommy a cake." Seth said decidedly.

Isa giggled her childlike giggles and took him from Jasper who pouted playfully. "We have to go to my house though."

"Okay."

"Which car do you want to take?" Jasper asked standing up. "My truck or Iz's."

"Isa's."

They both nodded and Isa turned to me. "Do you wanna come with?" she asked.

I looked at Seth. "Can I come, Seth?"

"Yeah." Seth nodded playing with Isa's necklace.

I grabbed my keys off the table. "Ma you can take my truck." Jasper said clearing off the table and putting the food from Isa and Seth in the fridge.

I nodded and took his keys from him. "I hate driving it."

"Only because you have to change everything about it." He said lifting Isa bridal style and carrying her and Seth out the door.

"You sit so far from the wheel." I said as I locked the front door.

"Because I'm so tall ma; Isa hates driving my cars too."

"She's not even half your height." I said watching him strap Seth in his seat. "I doubt she can even see past the wheel sitting in the seat."

"I can't which is why I drive my cars unless I don't feel good and he drives his." Isa said slipping into a pair of sky high black ankle boots. "My seat is too close to the wheel for him."

Jasper handed his phone to Seth as he stepped away from the door and spun Isa to face him. "Who's driving?"

"I am, unless you wanna change the seat." She answered looking up at him even in her sky high heels. "I need gas." She pouted.

"Here." He said handing her some cash. He bent and whispered in her ear and had her blushing a light pink.

"Stop." She giggled as he pulled her closer to him. She said something to him and he looked down at her.

"Later." He promised. "Seth wants a cake."

"I want a kiss."

He raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh?"

"Oh." She whispered something else which caused him to sigh.

JPOV

"Oh; Jas something is bothering you and I have a feeling this going to be the most sober you'll be all night." Isa whispered to me.

I sighed and pulled her as close to me as I could, crashing my lips to hers as my tongue twirled around hers. I tasted every inch of her mouth.

When we needed air I pulled back and started kissing her jaw line as my hands gripped her tighter to me. I pushed her against the side of her truck as I kissed her neck. She had one hand on my shoulder and one in my hair at the base of my neck, running her nails along my scalp.

Her hands roamed my chest before slipping under my shirt and scratching my abs. Isa pulled away from my lips and started kissing my neck throat and found her way to my ear sucking the lobe into her mouth.

"Thank you." She said breathlessly into my ear.

I sighed heavily and pulled back. "I love you." I said against her forehead. "So fucking much Iz."

"I love you too Jas. Forever." She said against my neck.

I helped her into the driver's seat and slid into the passenger side. "You good Seth?" I asked him.

"Yep." He answered back never looking up from my phone.

Isa sped to the gas station and jumped out of the truck. I watched her walk into the building, her skirt billowing around her forever long legs.

She pumped her gas and climbed back into the car and drove towards her house.

"You need like ADHD medicine I swear." I told her letting her lace our fingers together.

"But I don't have it; I just can't focus, or sit still for too long." She said.

I kissed the back of her hand. "I love you." I said against her hand.

She smiled at me. "I love you too." She said with a hint of her accent. "Oh and I have a present for you."

"Should I be worried?"

"No."

"If you say so."

She came to a stop behind my truck. She hopped out and made her way around the truck to take Seth out.

I followed her into the house and to the kitchen. Seth ran off with James and Isa pulled a tray of sushi out of the fridge.

She ate a few pieces before Seth bounced back into the kitchen.

"Seth what kinda cake are making?"

"Strawberry." He answered around the mouthful of candy he was eating. "With strawberry frosting."

"Can Jasper make the frosting; I'll make sure to put everything in the bowl so all he has to do it mix it, so he can't mess it up."

"Okay." He said. "But if it tastes bad I'm blaming you."

We all laughed. "Okay babes, let's get started alright."

They started the cake and Isa handed me a bowl with a bunch of things in it. "Just mix it together." She said. "Don't do anything but mix it."

I rolled my eyes but complied and started to mix it. One by one everyone drifted off to do different things leaving only me Isa and Seth.

"I'm done." I said once everything was mixed.

"Good; the cake is baking. Put half of it in this and put it on the side then put the rest over there." Isa said handing me a sandwich bag and a spoon. She sent Seth to find ma.

I did as I was told and sat next to Isa when I finished. "Tyler sent me a letter." I said into her ear and caught the plate of sushi she dropped as well as the chopsticks before they could dirty her white skirt.

"No?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because he's a fucking asshole. Because he wants me to punch him in the face." I said feeding her the sushi. "Because apparently he's a couple years clean and wants to make amends for telling me I was unwanted ten years ago."

"What do you want?" she asked me taking the sushi from me and setting it on the table. "What do you think about it?"

"I want to punch him in the throat." I said shrugging. "I think I definitely will punch him in the throat and I think I want you with me if I do meet him."

"I'll be wherever you want me babe you know this, but I can't let you punch him in the throat twice; maybe once in the throat and once in the mouth."

I laughed and shook my head. "Only you can make me laugh when I get like this Isa." I told her leaning my forehead against hers. "I love you."

"I love you too Jas and I'm extremely happy I can make you laugh when you're like this. If I couldn't we'd both be in jail right now." She giggled and kissed me. "Go take out the cake." She whispered just before the oven timer beeped.

I stood and pulled the cake out of the oven resting it on the counter.

"Come here." She called.

I walked and crouched in front of her. She ran her fingers through my hair and cupped my face. "Yeah love." I whispered.

"If Tyler was to walk into the room right now what would you do?"

"Probably punch him in the face and then ask why he left and punch him in the face again if he gave me a fucked up answer." I shrugged.