Chapter Two: Jasper

"Hee hee," laughed Jacob. "That's funny. We said Jasper would read if it was a dude's point of view. And the view is his! Hee hee!"

"Hee hee?" Leah shouted at him. "Really? HEE HEE!"

Jacob shrank into the couch like a good little puppy, and Esme handed Jasper the manuscript to read.

I hated her. I hated her so much.

"Who? And why do you hate her so much?" Esme questioned sternly.

Elisabeth Rose Hale would die. I wouldn't mind killing her. After all, she did try to kill me. During my first hour. Using all those poor, unknowing boys. She just had to be beautiful, didn't she? Didn't she! Maybe it was so because of my past, and I had to be tortured.

"Jasper!" Esme gasped.

"Poor Lissie," murmured Bella. "She had such a hard time with things, and you just have to want to kill her!"

"I meant because of the fact that he feels the need to be tortured because of what Maria did to him, Bella dear," said Esme.

"Oh."

Jasper frowned, scooting away from the two, and Seth bit back a barkish laugh.

"Lissie Hale's getting to you?" Edward chuckled. He's officially on my HATE list now.

"That hurts," Edward said.

"That hurts, Jasper," he told me.

"Oohh," Edward ahhhed. "I said that before my book self. Cool."

Shut up, stupid stalkerish pansy, my thoughts screamed. He was getting on my last nerves, but then again, that was usual. I would kill him along with Elisabeth if I didn't think of Bella as a sister and couldn't kill the love of her life.

"Love you too, Jasper," Bella told her brother sincerely.

I contemplated banging my head into my locker when She walked by, with Alice. My own wife befriended her. That evil, beautiful creature that I want to kill. I hate my life right now.

"You would only hurt the locker, genius," Leah snorted. Out of all the werewolves, Carlisle noticed, Seth was the only one yet to snort.

"He will eventually, I'm sure," Edward told him. It sounded rather random to Jacob at first, but then realized Edward read minds and was answering someone's thoughts.

"Jazzy!" Alice called, waving at me. The tall girl beside her, who was naturally tall already and wearing very high heels, smirked. In a sickly sweet way, she waggled her fingers at me.

"Lissie is the tall girl, right?" Jacob wanted to confirm. He was ignored, and Jasper went on.

Must. Not. Murder. Her. Must. Not. Murder. Her. I could keep chanting that in my head, but that wouldn't help at all. Must. Not. Murder. Her.

"Jasper," Esme chided.

Edward snickered. "Time for lunch, and she's sitting with us."

"By who?" I hissed.

"I'll be sitting beside you, Jazzy dear!" the wicked witch of my darkest nightmares cackled. Must. Not. Murd-

"Jasper, Jasper, Jasper," Bella said, shaking her head.

Edward smacked me. "Let's go." Must. Not. Murder. Him.

"You won't!" Bella screeched.

Leah, Seth, and Jacob were already there at our table. Alice and Lissie still were nowhere to be found when Bella showed up. I sat down in my usual spot, and Edward pulled up an extra chair for Lissie beside me. I stood to move down one, when none other than Lissie Hale sat down right beside me, Alice on the other end.

"Ha ha!" mocked Seth.

"Jazzy." Was she really cackling, or was that just how I heard it in my head?

"Just in your head," Carlisle assured Jasper, smiling a little.

Edward shook his head like I was a complete idiot, and I got my answer.

"Because you are one," Leah said innocently.

She was not cackling like the witch she was.

"She's not a witch, dear," sighed Esme.

"Cute nickname," she said to me.

"He hates it," Jacob told her, and now I wanted to kill him.

"Feeling murderous, Jasper?" asked Seth.

"I'm Jacob. This-" he gestured to the girl beside him, "is Leah, my girlfriend, and her brother Seth."

"Hello." Odd. No coldness radiating from her. She was... Oh. My. God. She was warm! That's odd. She actually said something warmly. I am going insane. I knew too many years of animal blood would drive me out of my head. Like with Carlisle. Who ever heard of a vampire doctor?

"I don't know," murmured Carlisle.

No one. Exactly, so deer blood must have gotten to him. Edward was going to be next, then Esme. I don't care what happens to Edward, but Esme! Not my mother!

"Nice to know you love me," Edward muttered sarcastically. Jasper just shrugged and continued.

"Thnk you for caring," Esme said.

"You've lost it." Lissie's cool, minty breath washed over my ear. "Mumbling on about vampires."

"If it was another human, you'd be screwed," pointed out Bella.

Edward was going to be mad about me letting out the secret. Wonder if he would be a meanie about it?

"Meanie?" Edward inquired. Yeah, bigger words were going to be used on him because he was so smart, such as inquired.

I down at Lissie (barely-she was like 6 feet) and shrugged. "6 foot 2 in the heels," Edward said quickly. I wonder how he knew that. Was he stalking her too. He really needs help. His eyes landed on Alice. Oh... I feel stupid. I didn't think that was possible for a vampire.

"You're always stupid." Jasper didn't know where exactly that came from. A little voice in the back of his head, maybe?

"You forgot the werewolves," Lissie chuckled. "How would they feel? Especially when they're not two feet from us?" She pointed at Leah, Seth, and Jacob.

"She even knows about us?" Leah asked. See, she only gets asked and questioned.

A few gasped, excluding Alice, Edward, and of course Lissie. I think the two freaks out of us knew all along about Lissie's knowing.

"We're not freaks," defended Edward.

Leah collected herself first, and in vain tried to persuade Lissie that she was wrong. But Lissie wouldn't hear it, and was dead set on her theory. Which had just been confirmed by our foolishness. Screw that Lissie. Just screw her.

"Ooohhh..." Didn't know where that one came from either.

"My parents told me a long time ago," the knowing human said reassuringly. "They're vampires too. You know them."

How many vampire pairs are there? James and Victoria, but I doubt they'd even adopt such an evil.

"No, duh," exclaimed Bella. "They're dead!"

The Volturi? Nah, they never would do that. They're smart, and not stupid enough to do such a thing. Carmen and Eleazar would have told us... Rosalie and Emmett. Totally. Rose always wanted a kid, and I wouldn't put it beneath her to take in an orphan, nor would I put beneath Esme.

"Do you always talk to yourself?" Lissie demanded. "Seriously. You're rambling. Yes, Rosalie Hale and Emmett McCarty are my parents! Big deal. Now shut up before someone hears and tells that my supposed siblings are my mom and daddy!" She was getting really whiney sounding. Then, I giggled. Giggled! She called her father Daddy still. How cute.

"Cute?" Bella giggled like Jasper. "That's cute that you think that's cute!"

No. She wasn't cute in any way. She tortured me in 1st hour, playing with those boys' emotions and causing them to feel strongly. And with that, she caused all the girls and girlfriends to become madly jealous, which made the teacher mad. So much emotion!

Edward shuddered. "Sounds awful."

We sat in awkward silence after that, and I was thankful when lunch was over. I couldn't handle sitting next to Lissie Hale any longer. I might kill her, myself, both of us, or Edward and Jacob. Or all four of us. The last idea sounds the best.

"You still want to kill them all?" It was from Alice that time, who hadn't spoken yet. She was almost invisble during the whole thing, watching as her husband, soon to be ex, bashed Lissie Hale.

Jasper shrugged. "I don't know. It says so."

"I think Lissie's point of view will be next," Edward said. "So back to Esme, or does someone else want to read? Alice?"

Alice politely turned her brother down.

"I will," Leah sighed, taking the papers out of Jasper's hands.

A/N: To those few readers, if any: review please. I have none for this story, and only 4 for The Blood Countess!