Alright, I know this is way before I said I would update and way short, but it's just a little insight for you all. I had lots of questions on Jasper and Alice and I figured I'd clear most of them up now.

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I can't say that my relationship is as complicated as hers, but it's definitely complicated. I met her about seven years ago, in a diner when we were nineteen. Some guys were flirtin' with her and I could tell she was not interested in them. I felt that I needed to save her from them, because that's what my mom would want me to do. She would want me to be a gentleman and help the lady escape the unwanted attention. I never meant for it to go farther than that. I was supposed to help her rid of them, maybe buy her a cup of coffee and be out of her hair. That's not happened though, and we've been together ever since.

"Sorry I'm late, honey. I got held up at work. You know how my boss is." I sat next to the tiny woman and threw my arm around the back of the booth.

"Oh, thank goodness you're here now. I was wondering when you would show up." She reached up and kissed my cheek and turned back to the two men in front of us. "These nice gentlemen were just telling me about all the fun we're going to have together." I nodded and raised an eyebrow at them.

"Really? Well did you tell them that your boyfriend wouldn't possibly allow it?" The guys finally got the hint and stood up.

"Sorry, dude. She was sittin' all by herself, figured she was alone, if you know what I mean." The smaller one nodded in agreement with his tall friend. I didn't say anything and they both turned and walked out of the diner.

"I was wondering if anyone was going to come save me. Thank you so much. They were beginning to get bothersome. My name is Alice, by the way. Alice Brandon."

"It's nice to meet you, Alice. The name's Jasper Cullen. I'm glad I could be helpful." I removed my arm from behind her and moved to sit on the other side. She was very pretty, black hair blue eyes, but even sitting down she looked incredibly small. Like one strong hug would break her. "I just came over to help out with the situation, but I'd love to buy you some coffee. I'll be out of here as soon as it's paid for."

"Don't be ridiculous, Jasper. You just saved me from two very unwanted men, I'll be buying the coffee and you're going to stay right there and drink it with me." I agreed and went with her when she bought two cups of coffee and ordered hers decaf because, "You don't want to sit me when I drink normal stuff."

We sat at that booth for another three hours, and went through several rounds of coffee. Eventually we both switched to hot chocolate because that much coffee wasn't healthy. At eight we left the diner together. She followed behind me all the way to my parents' house. She wanted to meet the infamous Dr. Cullen and I was okay with that. Everyone wanted to meet him, but she was special. Apparently many years ago, before he was Chief of Medicine he saved Alice's grandmas life. She had some rare sickness that luckily Carlisle had just been reading up on. He picked up on the signs before everyone else did and managed to get her what she needed to survive the illness. Alice had never gone to meet him, but she knew everything about him. I accused her of being a stalker and she laughed, telling me it was only mildly true.

Carlisle loved Alice, and was shocked to learn that she was Mary Brandon's granddaughter. Alice almost cried while she thanked him for saving her grandma. That was also when I was told that Alice was her middle name, Mary her first. I learned the hard way that she did not like to be called Mary, I also found she had quite the temper, and could be very scary. Before she left we exchanged numbers and planned to have a coffee date the next day. We met up every day at that same coffee shop for three weeks before I finally asked her out.

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I wasn't forced to be in a relationship with Alice, neither of our parents were making us stay together, but I knew Carlisle would be angry if we broke up. Especially after being together for so long. I hadn't meant to propose to Alice. I had actually intended on breaking things off with her. Bella and I had just started our hidden relationship and I knew I loved her more than anything, more than Alice even, who I had loved for the past four years. The day I realized I loved Bella I was going to tell Alice it was over. I didn't want to stay with a woman I didn't love, even if the one I did love was in a relationship.

I picked the phone up off the couch and dialed Alice's cell phone quickly, so I couldn't chicken out.

She answered on the third ring and for once her sweet voice made me cringe. She was always so happy, and I was about to crush her.

"Ali, we need to talk. When will you be home?"

"Soon, Jasper. Why? What's wrong? Did you forget to pay a bill again?" She didn't sound too worried, but I knew the more she thought about it the more frightened she'd get.

"Just hurry home, please." I said goodbye, hung the phone up and fell to the couch. She came bursting through the door twenty minutes later, crying hysterically. I sat up and instantly pulled her into my arms when she sat on the couch.

"Jasper, my grandma is in the hospital again. They don't know what's wrong with her. She just collapsed in mid-sentence. They don't know how long she'll stay stable." It took me an hour and a call from Carlisle saying that nana Mary was fine to calm her down. Just as we were sitting down to eat she remembered I wanted to talk to her.

"It's nothing, Ali. Just forget it." I wasn't going to break up with the girl the day her grandma was admitted to the hospital.

"It's not nothing. Just tell me. Please, I'm a big girl I can hold my own." She came and sat in my lap and gave me the look I'm sure no man could resist. No man but me in this case. I closed my eyes and tried to think of something to tell her. When I closed my eyes I pictured Bella's smile, I pictured Bella and I together, and I pictured us married, and out came the words.

"Marry me." I opened my eyes wide and looked at Alice who was smiling, but with tears in her eyes.

"Oh, Jasper. Of course, of course I'll marry you." She peppered kisses all over my face before meeting my lips. Later that night after Alice had gotten her share of kisses from me we laid down to go to sleep.

"Jasper, are you going to get a ring?" Shit. I knew there was something I had forgotten.

"I want you to have my Grandma Elizabeth's ring. She would have wanted you to have it, and Edward bought Bella one of her own." That was not true. Carlisle had bought Bella's ring, but Alice didn't know about the forced engagement. She believed everyone in my family to be happy with where they were in life. After she had cried some more she finally fell asleep and it was my turn to cry, because I had just ruined the last chance Bella and I had of being together publically. If I was single I knew I could work on Carlisle. I could get him to talk to Charlie and to cancel the relationship.

There were many times when I wanted to call my engagement off, but it seems every time I did something bad happened to nana Mary. I stopped trying eventually, and nana Mary stopped getting taken to the hospital.

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The wedding has yet to happen only on my insistence. Alice and my mother are constantly planning, and they've wanted to set a date, but I've always come up with excuses. Not the right time of year, not with the economy this way, we can't do it at this point in my career, anything to give me a little more time. A little more time to spend with Bella, because I know as soon as I'm married I won't be doing anything with any woman other than Alice. That was a line I wouldn't cross, a line that I couldn't cross. I didn't love Alice the way I did when we first got together. I cared for her of course, a part of me always would, but I was in love with Bella Swan.

Alice and I were talking about kids, she wanted to start right away, but I wanted to hold off. I didn't know if I could handle having kids with Alice. Every time I see my child I'll most likely be thinking what he or she would like if Bella was the mother. I found myself more of a father figure to Lizzie then her own father was. I loved her like she was my own, and almost lost my shit when I thought of Edward ever laying a hand on her. I was beyond pissed that he hit Bella, if only a few times.

After hearing that I knew that I had to get Carlisle and Charlie to back off them, and allow them to separate. I knew that my mom was a strong fierce woman, but dad wasn't really scared of her like Charlie was of Renee, so that was what I was going to do. The next time I could get Renee alone so I could inform her of Edward's abuse.

I was Jasper Lee Cullen, twenty-six years old, fiancé to Alice Brandon, in love with Bella Swan, and I was going to fix my life.

I couldn't remember if Jasper had a middle name, so I looked it up and that's what it said. I'm not sure if it's right though. Just go with it.

I hope this cleared things up on Jasper and Alice, at least a teensy bit.

I will be uploading next week, and the chapter will be longer then this. I hope you guys liked it!