Whoa! chapter 2!
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"Actually I'm here to see Edward."
JPOV
I didn't pause before I stepped over the threshold of the Cullens house. I had my hands tucked into my jacket pockets as I avoided all eye contact with small vampire beside me, keeping my gaze fixed on the two figures shrouded in the slight darkness of the unlit room. I had already known not to expect a pleasant, or even particularly civil, response from Alice about the reasons for my return. But I hadn't thought for a moment that maybe she'd think I had come back for her. Except…I didn't feel the same remorse for possibly hurting her as I once would have. It was her decision to ask me to leave, my only participation was my more than contented collaboration to her wishes. Although I suppose her original reasons for sending me away, after some time, had become justified.
My shoulder brushed briefly against Alice's as I past her, and I didn't require my ability as an empath to know she was dumbfound. Her whole body was like stone, like a human would find her to feel. Her unnecessary breathing pattern had stopped completely as she was hit with the realisation of what my words meant. I suppose she hadn't had any reason to watch my future to know how this event would take place. Maybe that was why she was so shocked. She recovered herself quickly enough, though; by which time I was standing by Edward and Emmett.
I could feel the mixed emotions emitting from both of the brothers, and I couldn't hold back a short chuckle as my gaze flickered to Edward. He smiled crookedly back, his feelings a mixture of surprise and joy. He stood rather awkwardly beside an ecstatic Emmett, who was grinning broadly. Edward's eyes showed a slight glimmer of sympathy for both his brother's and sister's following actions.
Alice stepped toward us cautiously, although she was as graceful as ever. "Edward…" She muttered his name in a tone laced with uncertainty. "I'm just trying to understand this. So…my Jasper…is now your Jasper?" She pointed to us individually as she spoke our names, her brows knitted together in confusion.
Emmett took this opportunity to throw back his head and laugh, his booming voice literally shaking the room. "Who knew!" He choked out through his wild bursts of laughter. He wiped a none existent tear from his eye as he breathed in and out heavily, as if he might actually need to steady his breathing.
"Who knew, what?" Alice barked out tightly, her musical voice somehow finding a bite of fury.
Emmett's grin grew impossibly wider as his eyes drifted over all three of us. I stared curiously at Alice as he did so - and I couldn't help but relive the phrase if looks could kill. If Alice could shoot daggers from her eyes there would most likely be an impossible amount of sharp blades piercing through Emmett's supposedly impenetrable skin. I was feeling all the emotions from her I had expected before my arrival - Anger, resentment, shock - But there was one more that I had not anticipated in the slightest: Sorrow.
Emmett's amusement did not fade as he spoke again. "You're the gay-maker, Alice!" He chuckled animatedly, clapping his hands together once to create a sound similar to that of two boulders colliding. "You're the last stop on the train to Gay-Ville!"
I heard Edward let out a small chuckle, but he followed it up with a short cough to cover it up. I, however, was not so discrete. A smile slowly crept its way across my face, which I was less than willing to let slip away unnoticed. Gratifyingly, it did not.
Alice's tiny hands clenched into fists at her sides, the daggers quickly turning on me.
Meanwhile, Emmett continued to blurt out random insults about Alice's incapability to 'hold onto a man'. I didn't say anything as this conversation - if you might call it that - continued, until I finally heard Edward speak.
"Gay-Ville, Emmett?" He asked, raising an eyebrow in amusement.
I caught his eye for a moment and chuckled lightly. "I thought it was rather creative, personally," I announced with mild cheer. I wasn't completely enthralled at the idea of angering Alice. She really was one frightening little monster at times.
"Oh, yeah!" Emmett shouted joyfully. "Just sprinkle on a little Alice; and 'Hello!'. Have you thought about starting a profession in changing straight men to gays? Maybe you can use it as a distraction from any draw you might have for changing humans to vampires. Oh, this is pure genius! Jazz! You should have tried that a few years back-"
"Shut up, Emmett!" Alice's voice somehow interrupted Emmett's booming monologue of mine and Edwards…sexual preferences. "And there's no such profession."
"Come on, Alice!" Emmett pleaded, his tone reverting back to that of a five-year-old. "You can't possibly try to tear away this one hope for a glimmer of humour from me!? It's unfair! It's unethical! It's-"
"Absolutely pathetic!" Alice cut in sharply.
Edward and I simply stood silently as Alice's eyes locked on Emmett's, burning into his with a fury I could feel bellowing off of her like flames licking at my skin. It was amazing to think that someone as tiny as Alice could even think of making herself a match for the absolute immensity of the four times as large Emmett-
My thoughts were cut short, though.
"I think you really need to get laid, Alice."
"What?" I couldn't believe he had just said that!
"WHAT?!" Apparently, neither could Alice.
"Man, you rock!" Obviously, it seemed all Emmett felt was that he'd been beaten to the punch.
It was only Edward who seemed genuinely unfazed by his outburst. In fact as he glanced at me, with that same crooked grin, he looked rather pleased with himself.
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