WARNING: SLASH.
A/N: Hey guys and gals, i've been away for like 3 weeks and i'm really sorry. This last chapter was killing me, it was supposed to be around 14,000 words but i separated it into 2 chapters so instead it will be half probably. It was just too stressful. I wanna thank everyone who reviewed or favourited or alerted. I wanna give a shout out to Robpfan for being an awesome inspiration these past 2 weeks, and as always .me. The updates may start to be a two week thing still.. Sorry, life is invading. If I could just do this forever, I would ;) As always i would be really happy if you could review this one please, it would mean a lot. Seriously EVN ONE WORD :D And once again:
Disclaimer: I don't own twilight. Just my version of Jasper and Edward ;)
So without further hesitation, here it is.
Chapter 6
Edward's POV
I woke up and rolled over to check the clock on the bedside table which read a prominent 4:51AM. Damn, I hated waking up in the middle of the night. I rolled back over and laid there in Jasper's arms trying to fall asleep again, and it wasn't another ten minutes before I found myself falling back asleep to the memorizing sound of his breathing.
.*.*.*.
I was reawaken in what I could only assume was a drunken haze, my head was swimming and the room still felt like it was spinning. If this was a hangover, I never wanted it again. I groaned into the sheets before looking up to find that I was all alone in Jasper's bed. Where the fuck did he go? I felt a twinge of sadness creep back into me at the fact that I missed him.
I could hear people talking in the other room but was in no mood to get up and join them, my head hurt and I was still pretty sleepy.
"Okay, yeah just leave him there and when he wakes up maybe take him for breakfast... He's had a rough night."
I heard Jasper talk then and that's really the only reason I got up, even though I felt like a mess I wanted to see him before he went out.
I sat up in the bed and stretched out a little bit while a yawn escaped me. I got up off the bed carefully, still wary of my bruises, and started to head to the bathroom mirror just to see what I was dealing with. On the way out of the room I got a glance at the clock and it now read a more reasonable 9:37AM. When I got to the door I found a sticky note taped on the back that read,
Edward, went to class, hope you're feeling
okay this morning, Alice will take you to breakfast
I'll be back a little bit after lunch,
Jasper
I read the note twice over to actually comprehend it then opened the door to find Alice sitting on the couch near the TV.
"Good morning sleepy." She said with a bright smile.
"Hey Alice" I said grumbling. "Where's Jasper?"
"You just missed him, he went to class. It's me and you till noon baby!" She stuck her tongue out playfully.
I stood there comprehending all this as Alice raked her eyes up and down my body, and this is when I realized I was still shirtless. Shit. This probably gave me away; but did she even see Jasper come out of the same room?
I then took my time getting ready for the day as Alice watched the TV, but mostly me. I staggered across the room to my bag which was still on the bunk bed, I rifled through my bag trying to find something to wear when I felt Alice next to me.
"Watch out Edward." She pushed me aside and started to go through my bag. "I'll pick something nice for you, and if not I could always raid Jasper's closet." She gave me a wink and went to work.
Clearly unsatisfied she left my bag in search of something different in Jasper's room. As she puttered away in his room my attention was dragged to the sudden and annoyed knock at the door, that wouldn't cease until I opened it. I walked at a slow and lazy pace to the door as the knocking continued, and when I finally opened the door I was surprised to see a disorganized and messy Bradley standing there staring back at me.
"Hey man let me in, I need to crash." He was clearly just as groggy with sleep as I was.
"Did you just get back from the party?" I questioned.
"Ya, I passed out and woke up on the sidewalk. Now move the fuck over Edward, I'm tired."
He pushed me aside and walked over to the bunk bed and threw our bags off it, lay down and rolled over to face the wall. I shrugged it off and left to find out what was taking Alice so long when Bradley turned his head to look over his shoulder.
"Hey Cullen."
"What Bradley?"
"Put a fuckin shirt on." He laughed a little and rolled back over.
I rolled my eyes and decided that instead of bugging Alice I would go have a shower. So I went into the bathroom and grabbed a towel from one that was hanging not caring that it was probably Jasper's.
I took a look in the mirror and realized that the bruises were somewhat fading back to a regular skin colour, nowhere near completely healed but better than last night. I focused my attention back to the shower and turned on the water. It was hot instantly, much faster than at home. Home. I thought of Rose and Emmet but mostly Mya. I hoped my girl was doing okay, but I'm sure she was. I took off the pyjama pants that Jasper gave me the night before and went to step into the shower. I got in and closed the curtain, letting the warm water run over my shoulders and down my stomach, soothing the muscles. I groaned a little as I got used to the water, it felt really nice. I began to wash my hair seeing as Alice said she had some kind of plans for us today.
I finished up quickly and jumped out of the shower, dried off and wrapped the towel around my waist. Just as I was about to leave the bathroom a feeling started to build up in my stomach. I'd felt it there all morning but thought nothing of it until now, it increased until it became increasingly uncomfortable. I bent down over the toilet bowl and emptied the contents of my stomach into it. I must've been loud but right now I couldn't carless, tears were streaming down my face and my throat burned with the sick taste of my binge drinking. I coughed a little and flushed the toilet assuming it was the end of that, well I certainly hoped it was. As soon as I was about to get up my body convulsed for the last time and forced me to curl my body over the toilet emptying the last of my stomach into the toilet. I got up slowly, my stomach in pain from all the convulsions, and grabbed my tooth brush. I rinsed my mouth and then brushed my teeth twice over in an attempt to get all of what remained in my mouth of my binge drinking. I walked out of the bathroom and into the hallway to walk over to Jasper's room. I opened the door to find that Alice was still in his room, doing what? I have no clue. I looked around the other room to find Bradley snoring softly on the bunk bed. I went back into Jasper's room to find that Alice had made three outfits on his bed for me; one was a black shirt with some kind of cool design on it with white cargo shorts, then next was a bright pink shirt with beige shorts and the last outfit was a bright yellow shirt with a pair of what I assumed were camo cargo shorts.
"Is it warm out today Alice?" She looked back at me with a look of surprise and confusion.
"Yeah, I guess. Why?"
"Well everything you picked out involves shorts." I smiled a little at her.
We both laughed a little as Alice left the room, instructing me to pick out an outfit to wear for the day.
I picked out the black shirt with the white shorts and quickly put them on. I was surprised to see that Jasper's stuff fit really well, then I realized how weird this would be for him. I'm wearing all his clothes, I thought to myself. Seeing as Alice was out of the room I took the chance to bend my head down and inhale the scent of Jasper's shirt, driving my senses wild. I was in my fantasy for a while before it was being torn up by the sound of Alice calling me into the other room.
I walked back into the living room and sat down next to Alice. "Alice, won't Jasper be weirded out by me wearing all his clothes?"
"I doubt it" She laughed at me, "As long as you don't puke all over them," She nudged me in the arm. "Before he left I asked him if I could raid his wardrobe for you anyways."
Right then, as if on cue, my stomach let out a growl.
"Someone's hungry." Alice speculated.
"Yeah I guess I am" I laughed a little then got to the important question. "Where are we going for breakfast?"
"What is it with you boys? Everything is always food isn't it?" With that Alice got up and walked over to the front door, and started to put on a pair of navy blue flip flops. Alice was wearing a white tank top that was tight to her torso and an equally tight pair of beige shorts. I didn't know why but she looked seriously hot right now. I mean I usually don't care but tank tops, especially the way Alice was wearing it, were damn sexy. I walked behind her following suit by putting on a pair of my own black flip flops.
Alice walked over to the door and opened it and stopped, she turned around and looked me up and down. "I did pretty damn good. You're cute." She pecked me on the cheek and turned around to walk out of the door. I stood there momentarily stunned but then regained awareness and I followed her out. She looked the door with a silver key that I assumed Jasper had given her for the day. Once finished she put the key in her shorts and we walked to the elevator, me red-faced.
Once in the elevator Alice asked, "So what do you feel like eating Edward?"
Of course I had no clue, so I blurted out the first thing that came to mind, "Scrambled eggs and watermelon."
"Hmmmm." She said. "I think I can do that."
We walked for a while in silence as I took in all the surroundings around me. There was a café, a university store, and a small Italian restaurant, all on campus. I loved Italian food and now wished I was eating fettuccini alfredo.
Alice led us off campus and a little ways into Seattle to a small locally owned grocery store. We walked in and right away the cashier at the front waved a hello to Alice, who in turn said a cheery good morning back. We walked into a small isle of what I assumed could make the dairy category easily. We walked near the back of it and found a section of farm fresh eggs. Alice picked them up and we left the isle. We walked back to near the front of the store to where it seemed all the produce was held to find watermelon, which was by far my favourite of all the fruits.
"Do you need any help?" Said a boy, addressing Alice more than anyone. A teenager about my age and height walked up to us. He had black hair, nowhere close to how nice Alice's was with brown eyes that looked more like mud than anything. He flashed a smile at Alice who gave a sceptical look back in return.
"No Kyle, we're fine." Alice finally responded.
"Come on Alice, can't I be of any help?" I all the sudden felt like Kyle wasn't talking about groceries or produce anymore. He tried to look seductive but ended up ultimately looking like a squirrel who was just hit with a tranquilizer. Ignoring all of this like it was routine, Alice picked up which looked like the most perfect looking watermelon I've ever seen and looked back up at Kyle like a lioness ready to kill.
"No Kyle," she seethed. "My boyfriend and I were just leaving."
With that comment I saw Kyle face fall, and fall hard. "Oh. Sorry Alice, I guess I'll see you later." Kyle walked off awkwardly down the nearest isle to fix something on the shelf.
"I'm so sorry Edward, I'll explain later." Alice whispered apologetically.
We walked over to the cashier to buy our things. Alice gently put the watermelon down and the eggs beside that.
"All set Alice?" a lady smiled at us.
"Yup." Alice gave her signature heart warming smile.
"Well you sure picked the best melon Alice. You sure know how to pick um'" She now looked at me, nodded, and then back to Alice. "$6.49 dear."
Alice handed her a $10 bill and got her change. We exchanged good-byes and left the grocery store.
"Here." I took the watermelon from her and she continued to hold the eggs.
"So Alice," I said, "Wanna explain that one?" I started to laugh all ready, but in a way I actually felt bad for Kyle.
"Well I'm sorry about the boyfriend thing but he's been after me for months and I've told him tonnes of times that I wasn't interested, and he just keeps asking. Usually if I'm not with anyone he'll grab at my ass or something like that." She looked kind of retreated.
"Am I the first person you've told?" I asked concerned.
"Well... Yeah, I guess."
I couldn't help feel bad for Alice. She was being basically violated and nothing was happening.
"Shouldn't you tell someone about that?"
"Well yeah, I just don't want to yet. I mean I can still handle it."
"Well if it gets worse tell me okay?"
"Sure."
We walked back to the dorm in mostly silence.
.*.*.*.
We got back to the dorm around 11:30 in the morning and walked up to Alice's room. We got to her door and she opened it to reveal a room with the same basic layout as Jasper's. We both took off our shoes and went to the kitchen area in the room to start on my breakfast of scrambled eggs and watermelon. Well I guess more or less Alice started my breakfast. So I suppose I sat there and Alice cooked my breakfast of scrambled eggs and watermelon.
She pulled out all the necessary cooking tools and handed me a cutting board and a knife for the watermelon.
I took the melon and carefully started to slice it into pie shapes like I had when I was a kid, and Alice started to make the scrambled eggs.
"How many eggs you want darlin?"
"Um... two would be great." I smiled back.
It was silent for a couple minutes, only the sounds of cooking eggs and my cutting were filling the void of stillness, then Alice broke it with a question.
"So how was your night?" She asked curious. "I know I enjoyed it," she said winking at me.
I thought about it for a minute and then answered carefully. "I actually don't really remember much of it to be honest, it's all kind of foggy, only bits and pieces." My face went a deep red. "I know you were there though, was I embarrassing?"
She nodded and then started to laugh. "You danced up a storm with me last night, and then by the end of the night couldn't even walk straight." She started to chuckle again at the memory of it all.
I then got a flash back of me grinding up on Alice as we made out and went even redder if that was possible. "Did we... make out?" I asked.
"Yeah, and you were pretty damn good too." She continued to laugh as the eggs finished cooking. "For a drunk anyway."
The atmosphere in the house was filled with my embarrassment and the smell of melon and eggs.
"Do you remember getting home even?" she asked.
"No, not really..." I half lied. I remembered little pieces with Jasper, but then again how couldn't I? I didn't really know what happened before but somehow it seemed like when I was with him I kind of sobered up maybe? Or things just got a whole lot clearer? However it happened I remember some things with Jasper. Maybe it wasn't perfectly clear but I remembered.
"Well Jasper was helping you walk home and then I saw you guys and thought I should help. You were pretty out of it, you passed out on the street about five minutes before we got to the dorm so Jasper had to pick you up and carry you the rest of the way. Then you kind of woke up again at the dorm when we came out of the elevator and tried walking but then fell over onto the wall outside Jasper's room. Then you tried talking a bit but didn't really make much sense, so then I left and you went inside with Jasper." She laughed quietly then continued.
"Then Jasper called me this morning and told me you might not be that great this morning and asked if I could come make sure you were okay while he was at class."
"When's Jasper's class done?" I blurted out. Damn it. Anytime Jasper's names even fucking mentioned I apparently lose my brain.
She laughed a little and told me 1:00pm. So I had about an hour till Jasper was back, I smiled to myself knowing this.
"I think these eggs are done Edward." She grabbed two plates, divided them, grabbed some watermelon off my cutting board and went to sit down on the couch. I mirrored her and sat down beside her.
"So what do you guys have planned for the rest of the week?" she asked.
"Well I have to leave tomorrow around three but Jasper said something about taking me somewhere in Seatle in the morning."
"Oh! I think I know what he's talking about, but I won't ruin the surprise for you."
"Will I get to see you after?" I asked with hope. I really liked Alice.
"Well I sure-as-fuck hope so! Tell Jasper you guys are invited to my place for movie night tonight." She said excited.
We talked about plans like that for the rest of the time till one o' clock, and about my family and hers, and about how we would make plans to see each other before summer. It turns out she actually knew Rose and Emmet.
"Shit!" I said looking over a clock on one of Alice's walls.
"What?" Alice said confused.
"Jasper's home soon."
This is when Alice started to smirk. I knew she thought something but I didn't have time to explain or ask.
I walked over to the sink and put my dishes in the dish washer and helped Alice clean up, thanked her and told her I'd text her later and left to see Jasper.
I wandered back down the hallway and found my way back to the elevator in almost a mad dash, pressing the "up" button over and over to hopefully make the elevator come sooner.
When the elevator finally opened, after what seemed like forever, I jumped in and pressed the number 3. The elevator made its own pause to wait for more people but then closed when no one else was entering. It started to go up then halted with a ding, indicating the 3rd floor. The doors opened and to be honest I was a little disappointed that I didn't see Jasper standing there opening his own door.
I walked quickly over to the door hoping that if he wasn't there opening it already then maybe he was inside. So I tried turning the door knob but it was still locked. I sat there thinking of what to do. I was locked out and had no key. Damn. Alice had a key if I really couldn't get in but I wondered if Bradley was still sleeping inside so I texted him.
Bradley, are you inside at Jaspers?
I waited quietly while sitting against the wall outside Jaspers room for a reply.
Finally my phone buzzed with one new message,
Hey, naw man im looking out for some more parties. I probably won't be back at our room tonight. Who's jasper by the way?
I wasn't really surprised that he was partying, but he didn't even know who Jasper was? What the fuck. Well I guess he didn't feel the way I did about Jasper, so I guess I couldn't be that surprised.
Our roommate for the past couple days? I responded.
Or right... Him. Well I'll text ya later dude. He replied.
I sighed looking up from my phone to see that Jasper still wasn't there, so I looked back down at my phone to see that it was 1:10pm. I seriously thought Jasper was going to be home by now, but if he had to come from class... I hope he came straight home instead of stopping anywhere. I was deep in thought when my phone vibrated in my hand,
Hey little bro, how's your weekend so far? Excited to see you tomorrow! – Rose
Rosalie, I thought. She was always looking out for me.
It's good. Great actually, you too. – Edward
I looked back up to see Jasper standing right above me and I almost had a heart attack, so much so that I jumped back allowing my head to collide with the wall.
"Damn! Sorry Edward! Did I scare you?" He was smiling a second ago but now he seemed guilty and pained.
"I almost had a fucking heart attack Jasper." I said laughing.
"Shit, I'm so sorry." He looked very remorseful.
"It's fine, really." I tried assuring him.
He looked incredibly disappointed with himself but he helped me up from the floor and unlocked the door.
"So how long were you out there?" He asked.
"Maybe ten minutes, it wasn't too bad." I smiled, "How was class?" I didn't want him feeling bad for making me wait so I made an attempt at changing the subject.
"It was pretty good." He smiled. Holy fuck that smile was stunning. I was in a daze when he looked over at me again, and the fact that he just caught me starring like a school girl made me turn ever redder.
"So how were you feeling this morning?" He was so cute.
"Ah, I was okay."
"Really? Cause Alice told me you threw up." He said and chuckled lightly.
"Ya... that happened." I muttered.
"So what do you wanna do with the rest of our time Edward? I don't have any more classes before you leave and we only have till around three tomorrow."
"I don't know... Any more parties?" I laughed. I was actually really embarrassed right now. I had no clue what really happened last night, aside from bits of being with Jasper.
"I don't think I'll be bringing you to anymore of those anytime soon Edward. Do you even remember last night?" He asked doubtfully.
"No, not really." I lied. I knew some of last night. I knew Jasper was gay, or at least bi, and I knew that we both made out for a long period of time until I passed out but other than that I kept drawing blanks.
"Oh..." he said with a look of disappointment.
I was immediately confused as to why he was disappointed, I also felt bad for lying because what if he actually wanted to be with me? What if I wasn't just a random fuck? Did he actually have feelings for me? I didn't really trust it but I couldn't tell him now that I was basically falling in love with him.
"Fuck." I whispered to myself.
"What?" Jasper asked confused.
"Nothing... so you must be hungry." I said. "Lunch?"
"I'm just going to heat something up and then I thought maybe if you wanted to you could come to my English class?" He asked shyly.
When the fuck was he shy? And why around me?
"Yeah for sure." I smiled and Jasper went into the fridge to heat up what I assumed were leftovers from the week. He turned around and smiled. Did he even know what that did to me? Fuck, I was turned on right now but I hoped to God he didn't notice. He grabbed a fork out and started to eat, I think he even moaned into one bite which made my impossibly harder. I couldn't believe this was happening, not here and definitely not now.
"I think it's going to be on Shakespearian plays today" he said, "Is that okay with you?"
My face lit up in an instant. Of course it was, Shakespeare was what we just finished in class so maybe I'd be able to keep up.
"Yeah! What's the topic?"
"Um... I'm not exactly sure about that." He blushed. Fuck me that was adorable, but then what about him wasn't?
Jasper quickly finished eating and got his things together for his next class. As soon as he was ready we left the dorm room and headed to a worn building to enter the English class. Once again we assumed basically the same spots as in the last class we went to. I sat beside him in the middle of the classroom, which in all senses looked almost identical to the psychology one, while the professor just started to speak. Jasper rushed to get to a blank page to start writing things down. Once again I was lost in the way his writing seemed to be as fluid as the teachers lecture. The way he concentrated was beautiful, only this time I wasn't being as carefully and he caught me staring about two times. He wrote me another note while the teacher continued to talk.
Where do you wanna eat after this?
I stared at the note and thought, then I remembered the Italian restaurant I passed with Alice today.
That Italian place seems cool, can we go there?
Anywhere you want ;)
He passed the note back and I stared at it again, only this time not really thinking about what to write down; I mean I could've wrote down any of the thoughts I had, like, you look so incredibly hot right now, or I think I'm falling for you. But I restrained and allowed him to keep concentrated on the class.
I sat there in the class for the rest of the time doodling and looking at Jasper. I don't think I even knew what the lecture was about even when the professor signalled the end of the period, I assumed Hamlet but I had no clue really.
"Dinner time." Jasper said as he got up. I checked my watch and my stomach, while my watch said 4:03pm my stomach just mumbled in agreement.
But all my mouth could come up with was a happy smile as I followed him out of the class.
Once out of the class Jasper asked if I enjoyed it.
"Well from what I heard it was pretty good."
He smirked that gorgeous smile of his and asked, "So what was the topic of the class?"
"I want to say something on Hamlet? Maybe?" I guessed.
"Very good." He laughed and I sat there embarrassed. I was also hopping that he didn't notice me staring instead of listening then.
"I guess you'll need my tutoring then after all, since you can't pay attention in class." He winked and nudged my arm with his. I thought about what he said and thought that I'd probably be able to focus if he wasn't in a mile radius of me.
"I guess I just suck at school then." I joked lightly. That's all it was though, a joke, I was actually pretty good in school. I mean my parents weren't paying for school and so I had to rely on my ability to do school work. So I basically shot for scholarships, and since my grades were in the 85% to 90% range I had a pretty good shot at some of them.
"So the Italian place then?" he asked.
"Yeah that'd be awesome! I'm in the mood for fettuccini alfredo. You?"
He looked a little more thoughtful than I thought needed and responded with, "Probably the same." He blushed. "I'm a pretty big fan of it too and I haven't had it for a while." He smiled and we walked towards the restaurant.
In a few minutes we walked up to the same restaurant I'd seen with Alice earlier that day.
We walked in the door and were greeted by a hostess who was more into Jasper's looks than what we actually wanted. "Hello, table for how many?"
"Two please." Jasper said as he looked past her.
She attempted what I assumed was flirting by running her hand down Jasper's arm and saying, "Right this way," in more of a seductive rather than professional voice. Jasper completely ignored it and just smiled at me as I followed behind the girl.
"Here are your seats." She said defeated.
We sat and she handed us our menus. "Your server will be right with y'all." She said losing her professional accent all together.
Jasper laughed a little at her tone and picked up the menu. After a five minute wait we were greeted by a brown haired girl who was less than average in stature and pretty in that magazine kind of way. Her brown eyes looked us both up and down and when she'd had enough of playing with us using her eyes she smiled exposing white teeth that were perfect in every sense to ask about our order.
"Two orders of fettuccini alfredo please, and a water and, what about you Edward?"
"Ice Tea please." I said, a little quieter than even I expected.
"Anything else boys?" she asked politely.
"No, I think that'll be everything." Jasper smiled at me and back at the girl who left with our menus and told us she'd be right back.
When she left I was grateful I had the rest of the evening with Jasper, the rest of my stay actually. So from now till 3:00pm tomorrow he was mine.
"So what was this plan of yours for tomorrow morning?" I asked, curious.
"You'll have to find out later, but no parties or anything intense for you tonight. We have to be up early tomorrow, okay?"
"When you say early, how early are you thinking?" I wondered.
"Umm... 7:00am?" he said warily.
I let out a sigh. "We don't have to if you'd rather sleep in." He said quickly.
"I was just kidding Jasper, whenever you want me to be up I will." I smiled and that seemed to put him at ease. I looked around the restaurant for the first time and it was dimly lit even though light from outside poured in through the small windows near the walls. It was quaint and not very busy for dinner time on a Friday.
"Where is everyone?" I wondered out loud.
"They're all pre-drinking for the campus pub night." He laughed.
"Oh." I said, some-what embarrassed. "Did you wanna go?"
"Not really," he confessed. "I don't mind it once in a while but I have to keep you sober for tomorrow, I don't need you throwing up on our little vacation." He smiled widely and I was even more baffled.
"I really wish you'd tell me where you're taking me... Alice says she already knows." I admitted.
"There are a million places I could take you. How could she know?" he asked just as baffled as me.
"I don't know, she just seemed to know though."
Before Jasper could get in more words our waitress came back to the table with our beverages. She put two small cardboard coasters on the table and placed our drinks on top of them. "An ice tea for you, and a water for you." She said as she winked at me.
She left and I picked up my glass to take a drink and just as I brought the glass to my lips Jasper burst out laughing.
"What?" I said smiling.
"Look at your coaster Edward!" He almost couldn't get his sentence out before laughing again.
So I did what he said and looked down at the coaster in front of me. It had a logo of the restaurant on it and in the corner with tiny writing there was a name, the coaster said 'Jessica' with a phone number scribbled underneath it accompanied by a small heart.
I starred at it with wide eyes as Jasper continued to laugh.
"I've never gotten a number like this before. This is kinda weird. What do I do when she comes back?"
"I don't know, just be nice I guess."
Within five minutes Jessica was back with our food,
"Fettuccini for both of you." She winked at me and left the table as Jasper stifled another laugh.
"Shut it Jasper." I said teasingly.
He laughed a little more and we both dug into our food. It tasted a lot better than I expected, so we both ate in silence. I could tell Jasper was enjoying his because he was just as quiet as I was. We continued like this until we were both pretty much done, only a few words shared in between bites.
When we were finally done Jessica came over and took our plates, "Any desserts for you boys tonight?" It sounded more like something else rather than her suggesting anything off the menu.
"No we're fine." Jasper smiled and winked at me, clearly thinking the same thing I was about the girl.
She left crushed, again, with our plates and quietly informed us that she'd be back with our bills momentarily. She looked as if all her confidence that she had prior was now gone and she was now more or less tired of putting up the mask.
"Any idea's for after dinner?" I asked him.
"I thought I'd leave that up to you." He smiled. "Since tomorrow you're all mine."
Oh fuck... I wish I was all his. Maybe tomorrow we would talk. Wait who was I kidding? How would that even come up? Fuck. I wanted him so badly, and the killer was he didn't even fucking know. I bet he was as drunk as I was that night.
"Edward are you okay?" Shit. I guess I showed it a little too much how much this killed me. So I put a smile back on and faked it a little.
"Yeah I'm fine. Alice offered for us to go there to her place tonight." I smiled, "We could always do that?"
He shifted in his seat and it looked like he was maybe a little uncomfortable, "Sure whatever you'd like sounds good." He smiled and before I could question him Jessica was back with the bill.
"Seperate?"
"No," Jasper looked at me and smiled, "My treat." Wow. He was fucking amazing. Why did he have to be this sweet? I didn't fricken deserve it...
"Okay how will you be paying?" Jessica asked in monotone. Clearly she'd given up on trying to get either of us on a date.
"Debit please." Jasper said, still being very polite.
"Okay well then you'll have to follow me." Jessica started walking away before Jasper even got up, I could tell she was annoyed with us.
I sat there alone finishing the rest of my iced tea while Jasper paid. He was standing with his back to me making small talk to Jessica as I stared at his ass. I was put in a trance by how one person could actually attain perfection. It just so happens that I had to be in love with perfection, even though my odds seemed like one in a million.
He came back to our table looking happier than ever, almost to the point of laughing actually, wait, no, it's because he was laughing.
"What now?" I asked, amused.
"She asked me for your number." Right after this he started to laugh a little harder obviously trying to contain himself. "Come on stud, let's get you out of here before you're mobbed." We both started to laugh and with that we left the table and headed back to the dorm room, for what I assumed was the rest of the night.
We were almost back when Jasper suggested a grocery store to stock up on food for himself and to get us some snacks for the night.
We walked into an air-conditioned grocery store and Jasper collected all the necessities for the upcoming week. He grabbed eggs, bread, fruit, vegetables, and a couple other things as I looked for my favourite candy in the entire world; gummy bears.
"What's on your mind Edward? You seem distracted."
"Do you want my honest answer?" I asked as I laughed.
"Sure." Jasper said confused.
"Gummy bears." I stated.
"Oh, we'll find some, don't worry." He winked at me and we both started looking.
After a few minutes of looking we finally found them. I put a bag into the shopping cart and looked up with a grin that could almost reach past my face and Jasper burst out laughing.
"You honestly like them that much?" he asked.
"Yeah, they're my favourite candy in the world." I said seriously.
"I'll have to remember that." He said to himself more than me.
We finished getting the groceries and walked up to pay. Jasper paid for everything, again, and we we're on our way back to the dorm room once more.
We stepped outside and right away I felt the warm breeze of what felt like summer air hit my face and I let out a sigh. The sky was pink with a sun that somehow refused to set. The clouds were becoming a large blanket as the sky fought to stay clear. A seagull flew over head and was followed by two more that passed us and continued towards the lake. The campus was slowly dispersing into their rooms making it seem like there weren't any students that actually lived here.
"What are you up for tonight Edward?" Jaspers voice pulled me out of my mood that could be described with pathetic fallacy and into another of exhilaration. I loved his voice, it was so mesmerizing.
"Anything, as long as some gummy bears happen to get in my stomach one way or another." I joked.
"Oh I'm sure we can make that happen."
"Maybe I'll call Alice when we get back to see what movie she wanted to watch with us tonight." I thought out loud.
"Sure," Jasper said hesitantly. "How long do you think we'll be there for?"
"Two hours at the most probably, we'll still have the rest of the night, plus I wanted to kick your butt at a card game or two. I'm a known champion." I boasted.
"Oh really? I'm sure I could take you on." He winked and I actually lost it. I actually tripped this time from losing touch with reality.
"Damn Edward! Are you okay?" He was actually worried. He was really fucking adorable.
"Yeah, just clumsy is all." I regained myself and kept walking to try not to look totally stupid.
After all my commotion settled we talked for a little bit longer until we reached the dorm. We got up to Jasper's room and there was a note attached on the outside.
Partying tonight, won't be back till 1 tomorrow. – Bradley.
"What a kid." Jasper speculated.
"Agreed." We both chuckled and went inside to put things away.
I put the bags down on the counter and went over to my phone to call Alice.
I dialled in her number and waited while it rang.
After two rings Alice picked up the phone, "Hey Cutie."
"Hey Alice, what movie tonight?" I asked excited.
"Zombieland! And hey! Don't let Jasper bring anything; just bring comfortable clothes and yourselves. Okay?" I'm sure she said that all in one breathe.
"Okay Alice, we'll be over in a bit." I laughed.
"Hurry your ass up Edward!" The line went dead.
I looked over to Jasper who was now done putting away the groceries and holding the bag of gummy bears in his hands smiling. "Are we bringing these?"
"Oh yeah!"
I told Jasper what Alice had said and so we both went in search of comfortable clothes. I dug in my bag and found a pair of pyjama pants and put them on quickly while Jasper was changing too. We regrouped at the door, gummy bears in hand, and headed down to her room.
I knocked on Alice's door and before my hand hit the door a third time it flew open.
"Hey guys!" She said smiling widely. She had on the same tank top as this morning, with the addition of pyjama pants, and her long black hair was now in a pony tail. We both exchanged hello's and stepped in.
We walked over to her couch and all sat down, I sat in the middle of the two.
"Can I press play now?" She asked.
"Of course." I laughed.
Alice pressed play and Jasper opened the gummy bears as Alice popped popcorn and handed out drinks. The lights were off so I couldn't really see the bag but I picked out gummy bears one by one; all yellow. I ate them slowly while the movie played, laughing throughout it.
"Are the yellow ones your favourite?" Jasper whispered with a tone of interest and amusement.
I hoped he couldn't see my face right now because I was full on blushing. "Y-yeah.." I stuttered quietly.
He laughed and started to watch the movie again. I was in amazement that he even noticed, how fucking sweet. My grin got even bigger than it was before.
About half way through Jasper's phone went off which made everyone jump. He went into the hallway to answer it so as not to bother us and looked a little upset when he came back.
"I have to go to a work group for a while..." he trailed off as he spoke.
"How long will it take?" I asked, kind of upset myself.
"Maybe all night... Alice would you mind if Edward stayed over the night?" he asked.
"Sure thing Jasper." She said.
"If you can maybe set an alarm Alice I'll be by to get him around 7:00am." His full attention was now on me, "Don't stay up too late okay? Cause tomorrow I need you rested."
We exchanged good-byes and as Jasper left he looked distraught and saddened. When closed the door my face immediately fell. Alice noticed my mood and asked if I wanted to watch 'A walk to remember' instead. I hadn't seen it before but she insisted on it so I agreed.
We got comfortable on the couch and since I wasn't in the mood anymore we put the gummy bears away. Alice pressed play and snuggled into my side with her head on my chest with my arm wrapped around her. She threw a blanket over us and we watched the movie with only our breathing disrupting noises from the television.
We got a little more than half way through when the main character, Jamie, confessed her crisis to her boyfriend Landon, and that's where I started to tear up a bit. I usually don't cry in any movie but I was in a bad mood and this was just a little too much, but that's when Alice just went off the edge and by off the edge I mean totally lost it. She was full out weeping in my arms so I just did what I thought was natural, I held her tighter to me, to let her know everything was okay.
I then took my hand and brushed her tears away with my thumb, and then it just happened. It was like in the movies. She rolled around so she was almost on top of me and we locked onto each other's eyes. She then leaned down over me and I leaned into her until our mouth's carefully brushed each other's. Not kissing yet, just the temptation.
I brushed my lips against her lips and felt a small spark. I then kissed her with more passion, almost like testing the waters and she kissed me right back. Her tongue then begged for entrance into my mouth and I allowed it. I let moans escape my mouth without my permission as her tongue collided with mine. It felt good with Alice, but I still thought of Jasper. She then took her hand and ran it up the slide of my body into my bare stomach giving me shivers all over. I then took her back with my hand and pressed her harder against me, the feeling was unbelievable. I then started to suck on her bottom lip as she whimpered above me. Feeling the lust around the room was driving me nuts. We kissed over and over until we both forgot the time and the movie kept playing the opening music repeatedly.
At some point the kiss ended and we started to fall asleep. As I was falling asleep I noticed Jasper wasn't there and it felt wrong to sleep. It felt wrong to not be wrapped up in his arms as I collapsed into sleep tonight. I leaned my head down towards my shirt and breathed in Jasper's scent which seemed to be enough for me to fall asleep. Not long after that I was dreaming of him.
a/n: so I hope I didn't disappoint this week :$ , and I hope you all liked the longer chapter. Thanks for all the readers who have stayed with me to this point, and thanks for all the support always. It's amazing to hear from you guys, you're all my favourites ;)
i used things in peoples reviews to help me out in this chapter believe it or not so reviews do help a lot.
Much thanks, Xavier Willow
P.S. look for the next update in the next two weeks, maybe sooner if the response is good enough ;)