Stupid.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
It was the stupidest damn idea ever. I usually went to Rosie's parties just for a chance of seeing her brother. But I never tried to talk to him before because that would be kind of really stupid. I was just a big dumb jocky blip on his radar. And he... he was awesome and funny and seriously hot. Which is probably why I practically jumped him in his room but, at least it worked out in my favor.
Hopefully things would continue that way.
"Oh, for God's sake just chill out. It's just Jasper." Rosie scoffed during English. "I don't get why you're so worked up over having lunch with him."
"What if I say something dumb and he hates me?"
"Jazz doesn't hate anything."
"Will you sit with us? You know like a mutual third party?"
"Ugh, this is so ridiculous." She muttered, "Fine."
Lunch found me at the weirdest table ever. Jasper, my cousin Alice, and Rosie who looked too bored for words. She rolled her eyes at our awkward silence, "So, you guys like the party?"
"Yeah I had fun." I replied.
"I bet you did." Alice said before a bite of salad, causing Jasper to choke on his Aquafina.
"Yeah what's up with that?" Rose asked, nodding from me to Jasper.
"Um." Jasper looked painfully uncomfortable.
"Rose, you want a soda? I'll go get you a soda. Jasper, you wanna help me get a Rose soda?" I said, standing.
Jasper looked between the two girls eager to grill him before nodding and following me to the soda machine.
"Sorry about that. I was just... nervous, I guess." I said punching the diet coke button.
"About what?" Jasper tilted his head, curls falling to the side. Jesus Christ, he was so hot.
"Lunch with you and trying to not make an ass of myself."
He blinked. "Wow, really? You're like, popular." He said it like didn't know already.
"I dunno, you're just really cool. I sound like an idiot." I bent down to get the sodas out the bottom of the vending machine.
"So you like me?"
I felt my face go hot. I avoided his eyes staring at the soda tray in front of me. "Well... yeah?" I asked like I needed his permission to fantasize about him. That would probably just make it even weirder.
"Damn."
"So... before we get back to the table where your sister and my cousin will no doubt embarrass us both, you wanna go see a movie tomorrow?"
Jasper narrowed his eyes and looked me over slowly as I stood. "All right, But I get to pick."
I think I might have sprained my face I smiled so hard. "Sweet."
Jasper wanted to see some western remake so the theater was even more empty than the usual Tuesday night vacancy. The trailers had looked pretty good but focusing on something other than Jasper Hale's ungodly hotness would be a challenge. I eased my hand over his, holding my breath. I let it out when his fingers curled around mine. So happy, I was so, so fucking happy.
"They didn't have those kinda guns till the 1860s." Jasper whispered in my ear, derailing my train of thought.
I turned toward him, noticing how close we were, "Way to be a nerd." I smiled.
"Sorry I don't speak jock." he rolled his eyes.
"Maybe I could teach you." I leaned in and goddamn, it was even better the third time. Somewhere there was a God and he was totally on my side.
There was smacking noise as we pulled away. I couldn't look away from his mouth, even as he turned back to the movie.
"Eyes on the screen big boy." he smirked.
On the way back to his house I convinced him to stop for ice cream, "Really? Chocolate?" I asked as I pulled into his driveway.
"It's a classic. I don't even know how you stomach that ...monstrosity you got." he grimaced at my dish.
"Mint chip with peanut butter and hot fudge, it's delicious." I took another bite to demonstrate.
"I hope you don't expect to kiss you goodnight now."
"Not so much expected as hoped." I pouted melodramatically.
He laughed. "You know, if you told me Friday afternoon that I'd be here Tuesday night I wouldn't have believed it."
"Me either," I looked down, "But I would've hoped."
"You are so... wow."
"I'm wow?"
"It's just all this time I wrote you off as Rosalie's dumb hook up guy. I guess that was pretty shitty of me huh?"
I shrugged, I had figured as much. "Not really, I acted like a moron every time I saw you. So you were just going with what you had." God this was so weird. Why didn't I just blurt out how I'd been crushing on him for two years.
"You're great though. I really like you."
"Enough to look past my choice in frozen dairy treats and kiss me?"
"Just one question, are we... together now?"
"Dude, really? That would only make make my life."
His face went red, "Well okay then." He kissed me quickly and hopped out my Jeep. "Good night Emmett."
I followed him out the car to his porch. "I'm walking you to your door." I said in response to his confused look.
"You really are something else."
"I try." I grabbed his hand before he could open the door. I pushed some of his hair behind his ear like in those cheesy romantic comedies Rosie likes. I leaned in again for what was becoming a familiar routine.
I'd have to thank Rosalie for getting me to agree to go up to Jasper's room that night. Best stupid idea ever.
