A Place In This World –Taylor Swift
Jasper,
Your family is huge compared to mine. It's a beautiful family too. Sometimes I wished I had one as big as that. Your mother is also a great looking woman for her age. My mother doesn't even look that good and she is twenty years younger.
Bella
Jasper had laughed at Bella's e-mail. He really didn't think that she would respond to him besides it was the spur of the moment to send the picture and e-mail to her. He had been with his family for a few hours now the kids were running around like chickens with their heads cut off fighting sleep because they didn't want to go to bed.
After awhile of chasing the kids around his brother Peter joined him on the steps. They didn't say a thing to each other and just sat the watching the kids playing around.
"So who has you smiling?" Peter finally asked.
"Why do you ask? And why can't it be my family?" Jasper said.
"Because that would be a downright lie." Peter said. "And I may be ten years older but I do remember what it was like to be your age."
"And I bet saying that makes you feel old." Jasper said with a grin.
"No doubt about it but I am forty two years old so that's to be expected." Peter said. "So tell me what has you grinning like a fool."
"I met a girl." Jasper replied.
"Why didn't you bring her?" Peter asked "Because you know mom is going to kick your but for not bringing the girl."
"I said that I met a girl not that I had a girlfriend."
"Okay tell me about the girl where did you meet her?"
"I met her waiting for my flight. In fact our seats were next to each other on the plane." Jasper told him. "We talked a little on the plane. I told her I was coming here and she said she was going down to the reservation a few miles away from here."
"Yeah La Push. I take the kids down there a few times during the summer and the rare warm day throughout the year." Peter said.
"Oh." Jasper replied.
"There is something you are not telling me." Peter commented.
"Only because I'm not ready to tell you or anyone but you would probably be the first to know." Jasper said.
"Yeah because you will let it slip after a few glasses of Jack." Peter said.
"I can't drink anymore." Jasper said.
"Why?" Peter asked.
"Diabetes," Jasper replied. "I can only eat or drink so many carbs a day. Otherwise my blood sugar and A1C would go through the roof."
"So that means no beer for you?" Peter asked.
"No beer for me." Jasper said.
"Mom will be glad that one of us can't drink."
"Of course she would. We were the two that gave her the most hell." Jasper replied.
"What are you two boys talking about?" Esme asked walking out onto the porch.
"How much trouble we gave you." Jasper told her.
"Well Pete was only ten and you were only a few months old when your Pa passed so it is self explanatory as to why you two boys would raise hell." Esme said. "I'm just mad that he didn't want me to go down to Florida to see him after his accident."
"Ma you know why I didn't want you there." Jasper said. "Besides I came to see you know didn't I?"
"Did you really think I was going to hurt Maria?"
"She left me high and dry at the hospital and stole my money what do you think you would have done."
"I'd rather not talk about it." Esme said.
"Then I prove my point." Jasper said.
"You need to get those kids to bed. We have a lot to do tomorrow." Esme said leaving to go back inside.
"They are your kids. You do it." Jasper said leaving his brother alone to deal with the kids.
He found his room at the top of the three storied house. He had chosen this room long ago. He was the youngest of his mom's four kids. His room had been redone and no resembled a small apartment. He had a kitchenette, bathroom, bedroom and a living room.
He chose to go to the bathroom to take a shower. He really didn't feel like going to bed feeling like he was dirty; plus his mom would kick his butt for not taking one. She wanted all her children, grand children and great grand children clean and ready for church in the morning. His suit that she had picked out for him was hanging on the back of his bedroom door. He however scrubbed quickly dried off and slipped back into his boxers back on before slipping into bed which had been calling to him because he was that tired.
He would email Bella again in the morning when he knew what he wanted to say to her. He didn't know why but he found the second e-mail a little harder to write than the first. He also didn't want to seem to overzealous with anything he said.
Most people would say he was stupid for even starting something like this with a virtual stranger that could turn out to be a psycho serial killer but Jasper didn't care there was just something about Bella that made him want to get to know her and he had never met someone like that before.
She was the first girl that he had met in months that had shown any kind of interest him after seeing his scars. She was sweet she had asked if he needed anything for pain repeatedly during the flight because he would wince. She also gave him her e-mail first so she must have some kind of feelings for him even if it was just that she thought he looked good or whatever else it might have been.