TPOV:
I turned my car on, and lowered the top down so I could get a breeze. Even though the clouds were still overhead, it was actually hot, well Washington hot. I turned the radio up a little bit, and the song You Gotta Be was playing. I started singing along with it, "you gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger, You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together, all I know, all I know love will save the day."
I looked over at Jasper who was smiling as The Game of Love started playing, and to my surprise he started singing along with it in a tenor voice, at one point I joined in, "It just takes a little bit of this, a little bit of that, it started with a kiss now we're up to that, a little bit of laughs a little pain, it's all in the game of love!" After the singing finished, I looked at him with a smile, "So you like the old music too?" And as the Santana guitarist broke out into a guitar solo, Jasper did with an air guitar solo. I started giggling. "I'll take that as a yes." as he continued singing ignoring my question.
"To answer your question, yes I do like older music. It's ten times better than the crap that people call music today." He said as the next song started playing, it was who says you Can't Go Home? by Bon Jovi. we both started singing, "I spent twenty years tryin' to get out of hits place, I was looking for something I couldn't replace, I was running away from the only thing I'd ever known, like a blind dog without a bone I was a gypsy lost in the twilight zone I hi-jacked a rainbow and crashed into a pot of cold. I been there, done that I ain't looking back on the seeds I've sown saving times spending too much time on the telephone, who says you can't go home? Who says you can't go home? There's only one place they call me one of their own, Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home? who says you cant go back been all around the world and as a matter of fact there's only one place left I wanna go! who says you can't go home! with every step I take I know that I'm not alone you take the home from the boy, but not the boy from his home, These are my streets the only life I've ever known who says you can t go home? Who says you can't go home? There's only one place they call me one of their own, Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home? who says you cant go back been all around the world and as a matter of fact there's only one place left I wanna go! who says you can't go home!" We smiled at each other.
"Oh crap, we're at my house already." I said looking at the steering wheel.
"Wow, you seem rather disappointed to be safe at home." Jasper said, I could feel him looking at me, but I didn't want to risk getting lost in those gorgeous eyes of his, so I continued my staring contest with the steering wheel.
"Well, it's not so much that I'm home, it's more the fact that you have to go." The radio was blaring out, "I may have failed but I have loved you from the start, oh but hold your breath because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you, over again, don't make me change my mind, or I wont live to see another day, I swear its true, because a girl like you is impossible to find, you're impossible, so breathe in so deep breathe me in I'm yours to keep I'll hold onto your words his talk is cheap and remember me tonight, when you're asleep. Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again, don't make me change my mind. Or I wont live to see another day, I swear its true, because a girl like you is impossible to find...Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again, don't make me change my mind, or I wont live to see another day, I swear its true because a girl like you is impossible to find, you're impossible to find." Jasper leaned in closer, eyes closed, and I turned my face to look at him, finding his face inches from mine.
He tensed and then leaned as far away as the car would allow. I couldn't tell if it was the fact that he made me feel rejected, and hurt, or if the anger in his expression was at him for being so close to another girl after recently losing his girlfriend. "M-maybe you should go." I whispered, fighting the urge to cry. 'Why am I crying? I just met the guy a few hours ago, it's not like he could possibly like me. I'm just me, plain average, klutzy me.' I thought and gripped the steering wheel tightly. "Wait...how're you going to get home?" I asked.
"Um I can walk." He said getting out of the car, I followed him out of the car.
"But that'd take you forever to walk all the way back home!" I said, as another song started playing Hard to Say I'm Sorry by Chicago, "Everybody needs a little time away, I heard her say, from each other, even lovers need a holiday, far away from each other, hold me now its hard for me to say I'm sorry, I just want you to stay, after all the hell you've been through, I will make it up to you, I'll promise to. and after all that's been said and done, you're just the part of me I cant let go, ooh, couldn't stand to be kept away, just for the day, from your body, wouldn't wanna be swept away, far away from the one that I love, hold me now its hard for me to say I'm sorry, I just want you to know, hold me now, I really wanna tell you I'm sorry, I could never let you go, after all the hell you've through, I will make it up to you, I'll promise to, and after all that's been said, and done, you're just the part of me, I can't let go. After all the hell you've been through, I will make it up to you, I promise to." and I glared at it and quickly turned the ignition off. "Jasper, would you like to come inside?" I asked, "You can say no if you feel you're not ready to be alone with another girl yet." I said rather quickly.
"I...Taliana," he sighed. Then smiled, "I Suppose I could stay for a little while."
"You don't have to if you don't want to." I said and walked to the front door. As usual it was left unlocked. I opened the door and yelled, "Dad! I'm home!" I received no response, so I figured he was either, A) out drinking, or B) working.
"So where are your parents at?" Jasper asked as he took his shoes off in the small area covered with Linoleum.
"Well, my mom died a few years ago," I said the pain at thinking of my mother almost made me fall down to the ground and curl up in a ball. "And my dad's always working." I continued.
"So you're all alone in this big house?" Jasper asked, apparently sensing my pain and wrapped his arm around my shoulders, trying to make me feel better, it was working.
"No, well, now I am but my older sister used to be here with me. She moved out a few weeks ago." I said. "Are you thirsty, or do you want something to eat?" I asked, trying to remember my manners.
JPOV:
"No, I'm not thirsty," not in the human way at least, I thought to myself, "And I'm not hungry either." I said with a smile. When she mentioned her mother, waves of pain, pain ten times worse than all of my battle scars combined, started flowing out of her like lava flows from an erupting volcano. She walked to the kitchen and turned on the radio that was in there.
Hold On started playing, and Tali started singing along, trying to forget about her pain, " I know there is pain Why do lock yourself up in these chains? No one can change your life except for you Don't ever let anyone step all over you Just open your heart and your mind, mmm Is it really fair to feel this way inside?" After the first verse she started crying a little, so I walked over to her and wrapped my arms around her waist. She leaned her head back against my chest and I rested my head on the top of hers, and whispered, "it's going to be okay," She turned around and buried her face into my chest, continuing the crying. I sent out a wave of happiness, trying to cheer her up and sang the chorus to her, "some day somebody's gonna make you want to Turn around and say goodbye Until then baby are you gonna let them Hold you down and make you cry Don't you know? Don't you know things can change Things'll go your way If you hold on for one more day Can you hold on for one more day Things'll go your way Hold on for one more day one more day." she looked up at me and smiled.
"Thanks." she whispered, and then what she, later told me was referred to as a 'wog', half walked, half jogged her way to the counter and grabbed the two liter bottles of mountain dew, and Dr. pepper, and then combined them into a cup. I laughed quietly and then walked over to her.
"And what is this lovely combination called Taliana?" I asked with a laugh.
"One, you call me Tali, not Taliana. Two, its called Dr. Dew and it tastes awesome!" She said with a grin and then went to the fridge. "Are you sure you're not hungry? Or thirsty? I can get you something." I sighed. And figured, what the hey, If it would make her happy then I might as well do it for her.
"Sure, what're you making?" I asked as I saw some form of meat, two hoagie buns, a bunch of green, yellow and red peppers, some mushrooms and some bread and butter pickles on the counter.
"Steak hoagies!" She said with a big grin.
"Well, I'm not really that hungry. Maybe I could just take a small part of yours?" I offered, not wanting to have to force down a whole hoagie, especially knowing that I'd have to throw it up later.
"Oh, okay." she said with another smile. So she finished cooking, I ate about 1/8 of her hoagie, claiming that I ate before she returned with Rosalie.
"So, that Carlisle guy, he's your dad right?" She asked with her mouth full of food. I laughed.
"Yeah. What about him?" I asked, curious as to where she was going with her statements.
"Well, I was just wondering, why none of you look alike, apart from the amazing eye color." She asked, looking into her cup of Dr. Dew.
"Well, we're all adopted." I said.
"Oh." She said nonchalantly taking a sip of her drink. "FINDING NEMO!" She randomly shouted, making me jump.
"What?" I asked after I calmed down.
"We should watch Finding Nemo!!" She said with a grin.
"Oh. Well I suppose it wouldn't hurt for me to watch one movie." I said with a smile.
We sat to watch the movie, Talian--Tali, saying almost all of Dori's words along with the movie. And then started making obnoxious, "whale" noises at me when the time came. I couldn't help but laugh.
After the movie, she said, "Well, you should probably get going, and I should be getting in the shower." she seemed sad that I had to leave.
"Talian--" I paused mid-sentence when I saw the look she gave me, "Tali," I started over, "I...I'll be honest with you, I really don't want to leave. This is the first time I've had fun in weeks." I said.
"D-Do you want to spend the night? Or is that too much to ask?" She said, sounding worried.
"I'll spend the night if you really want me to." I said with a smile.
Her face lit up at that and she said, "Well I'm going to go take a shower. If you want to you can go back home and tell your family that you're spending the night, and grab a few supplies."
"How long does it take you to shower, Forks is about an hour drive from here." I said, knowing I could make it there and back faster by running.
"I take showers until the hot water runs out. Which is usually about an hour and a half to two hours." She said with another smile.
"Okay then, I'll be back in a little bit I guess." I said and watched her run upstairs. I then walked to the door, put my shoes back on and then ran full speed back home.
TPOV:
I hopped in the shower, thinking 'oh wow, I can't believe I asked him to spend the night, and he actually agreed!' I started singing the song that was stuck in my head, Bubbly. I was about a half hour into my shower when I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. "Jasper, is that you?" I asked turning off the water.
"Jasper? Who the fuck is Jasper?" I heard Seth ask, right outside the bathroom door.
"S-S-Seth?" I asked. Feeling extremely scared. What if Jasper came back, and Seth got mad and beat the shit out of him? I started to have a mini panic attack as I thought about that. Seth opened the door and walked in. 'Shiiit I should have locked that door!' I thought, backing up to the wall in the shower. 'Let's see, I could go for a towel, and then take off around him to try to get down the stairs and get help...but, knowing Seth he'd either throw me right back in here, or if by some miracle I did make it past him, he'd chase after me and my klutziness would make me fly down the stairs.' I thought. I went for the towel, got it, wrapped it around me and then took off for the door. Seth did chase after me and then he grabbed my arm tightly, using his good arm; I noticed his left arm was in a cast, and smiled, silently thanking Emmett. Then he threw me into my bedroom. He locked the door behind him and then shoved me onto the bed, climbing on top of me.
"Liana. Tell me who Jasper is. Is he some other guy that you're dating? Is that why you won't let me take you, because you're already getting fucked by him?" He asked, sounding angry.
"Seth! Jasper's just a friend. He's one of the people who helped me after Emmett broke your damn arm." I shouted at him, which earned me a hard slap across the face, I probably had a red handprint on my cheek. Then he took the towel off of me, and I started squirming away from him. "Seth, please, don't force me into this!" I said, almost crying.
He pulled a few sets of handcuffs out of a bag, I didn't notice it at first, but he had his old backpack with him. My eyes widened as I saw them. He pulled a cloth out of the bag, and tied it around my head, covering my mouth, then he bound me to the bedposts, the cloth muffled my shouts of protest, and I felt tears starting to pour down my cheeks.
He kissed my stomach and I wanted so badly to kick him. His mouth lowered, and he was about to kiss me in a place where I'd never been touched before. My shouts still silenced by the gag.