Jasper had gone out with Emmett and a reluctant Edward to the big game this afternoon for a bit of fun and to help him learn to control himself in public. He was becoming very bored inside the house whilst the others were at school. But it would be a while before he could go out on his own with such an amount of people. We thought going to the game with the other boys would give him a bit of practice and distract him for a while, whilst I put my plan into action!
I couldn't not be touched by the story Alice had told me about Jaspers life before he tried to give up, and I know he wasn't completely happy. So with the help of my girls we were going to go to his house and bring back all his memories and treasures for him. Hopefully that would cheer him up.
I drove my wife and my two daughters down to where Jasper had told me he lived. I drove down the road where the accident had happened. It all came flooding back to me. How I had Jasper sitting next to me where my wife is now, he was thanking me for all that id done for him, and all that I was going to do for him. Or was he trying to say goodbye to me? I shuddered at the thought. Esme sensed my stirring and put a comforting hand on mine.
"Don't worry about it Carlisle, whats done is done." She smiled at me
I couldn't say anything, I just smiled back as we approached his house. We climbed out and walked up to it. The plan was that I was going to put on my best doctor voice and tell his mother that her son had died. Whilst I was distracting her Alice, Rosalie and Esme were to sneak round the back and get his stuff as quick as possible. I had decided this because, irresponsible drunk or not, she was still his mother and whether or not she even cared she had a right to know what happened to her son. I stepped up to the dirty white, hadn't-been-washed-in-years front door and knocked. Then I knocked again. There was no answer. Strange, I thought to myself. Then the door swung open, but it was Alice.
"Shes not here" She shrugged.
Oh well. I tried. I suppose her not being here gave us more time anyway to get as much as we could. Alice showed me up to what had to be his bedroom. It was strange. From what I could gather the rest of the house hadn't been seen to in a long time, but Jasper obviously tried to take care of his room as much as he could. It was filled with all his stuff that I knew he would want to see again, so we got to work. The girls had brought several bags to pack all his stuff. Rosalie started packing his clothes and shoes, while Alice and Esme started on his books and CDs. I started to look for sentimental things that he wouldn't want to go to waste.
I searched around his room looking in and out of his draws. A few of them were empty, some filled with old school papers and work which he wouldn't be needing.
"Hey hey look what I found!" I heard Rosalie call out "His boxer shorts! With little duckies on them!" she burst out laughing along with Alice.
"Rose grow up please." I sighed.
She growled at me at went back to work.
"Less of the attitude please."
I searched around more and packed as I went. I packed his things that he had left when he ran from here in such a hurry like his phone and his laptop. On his wall he had a large amount of photos of what I presumed was his family. One photo in particular caught my eye, a young blond girl cradling a baby which just had to be Jasper. He was wrapped in a white blanket with a little blue hat on, he couldn't have been more than a few days old. I could just see the love that Gemma had in her eyes for him. Before I started to get emotional I quickly but carefully pulled down the photos and tucked them away in the bag I was packing. The room was pretty much empty now. We conveyed in the middle of the room. Taking one last look incase we had forgotten anything.
"Whats that?" Esme pointed at a black box that was hiding underneath his bed.
She pulled it out and all four of us sat on the bed staring at it.
"Do you think he would want this?" She asked
"Open it and see what it is" Alice told her, Esme looked at me for approval.
I honestly didn't know. He obviously kept it for something. Something private, I mean you don't hide things in boxes for no reason. I didn't feel comfortable with this. But curiosity got the better of me, and I nodded.
She slowly opened the black box. The first thing I saw on the top was what appeared to be a creamy white sheet. But as Alice picked it up off the top to see if anything lurked beneath it unravelled into the shape of a baby blanket. It has little brown bears in each corner, and in the middle the word Jasper was sewn beautifully in light blue letters. I recognized this as the blanket from the photo.
"it's the blanket from the story!" Alice said to me. Excited that we could savour his most prized possession for him. I smiled back and looked in the box to examine the rest of the stuff that was in there. There was another blanket underneath his, almost identical accept the word in the middle was pink, and instead of saying Jasper it said Lily. Rosalie looked confused.
"His neice." I informed her. "Ill tell you later."
Underneath the blanket was a few more photos. There was some of his sister, his neice and his sisters husband. There was a scan of a baby. Then there was one of him with another woman - well young lady actually, they had there arms around each other and were smiling a huge toothy grin. Probably one of his friends. There was a little teddy bear, and something wrapped in tissue. Rosalie took it upon herself to open it and was stunned at what she saw. It was a positive pregnancy test. I then realised something, and I snatched it out of her hand threw the stuff back in and shut the box.
"What was that for!"
"We shouldn't be looking at his stuff, this is obviously not just his private memories but his sisters. I think we should just pack the box and leave."
"You're right" Esme agreed and bent down to gather some of the bags, when something shiny caught her eye.
"Hmm whats this" I heard her say to herself and she pulled out the shiny thing. There was a silence in the room as we all realised what she'd found.
"Leave that. That's a part of his past that he doesn't need to be reminded of." I told her, and she threw the razor blade back on the ground. We all picked up a few bags each and climbed back out of the window. We loaded the car and set off home, where we still had a bit of work to do.
When we got home I saw that it was four o'clock, the boys would be back in about an hour so we to work quickly. We emptied everything out onto the floor and started to sort and organize his stuff for him. Esme put his clothes and shoes away - we now knew better than to let Rosalie look at his underwear - while she put his books and CDs onto the shelves that Emmett had put up for him.
I put his photos back on the wall above his bed, where they was in his old room and tried to put his other stuff back in roughly the same position it had been in his room back home. Including putting the black box under his bed. When we were finished we looked around and all sighed in a satisfied manner.
"We did good honey" Emse kissed my neck
She was right. It looked more like a bedroom now. It looked as though this room had been inhabited for years. I just hope Jasper didn't mind us ransacking his old house.
Alice looked and smiled at the rest of us.
"What?" I asked her.
"You'll see soon" she giggled.
We was all sat in the living room when the boys reappeared.
"Got a surprise for you Jazz hands!" Emmett said with actions. This stopped him and Edwards laughter instantly.
"Don't ever call me that." Jasper was tiring of Emmetts nicknames for him.
"Come on you two" I said "don't start a fight now, hes right Jasper we do have a surprise for you, come upstairs. Its in your room"
We all followed him up the stairs and he hesitated before he opened the door. He gasped when he saw it. We all stood in the hallway outside and ushered him inside.
"Oh my ….god. You got my stuff, YOU GOT ALL MY STUFF!! Hahaha oh wow thank you so much!"
We all kept smiling.
"Yes you got my laptop! And my and my books and my photos! And my box!!!" He scrammed underneath his bed and pulled it out and opened it right in front of us, he pulled out his blanket and inhaled the scent. He fell back on the bed and started sobbing into it.
"Whats wrong? Are you not happy?" I asked him
"Yes I am, I just thought id never see this stuff again…I love you guys!" he started dry sobbing more
I was on my way to comfort him when all of a sudden Emmett collapsed onto his knees also dry sobbing.
"Whats wrong with you!" I asked shocked
"Its just …soo…so…beautiful…" he choked the words out. Weird. Then they started dropping like flies. First Alice started going hysterical, then Edward, then Esme and Rosalie crashed into a bear hug crying into each others shoulders and then I suddenly become overpowered with emotion and joined them. There we were all dry sobbing together - something was very wrong.
"Whats ha…ha…happening" Edward asked still crying
"I don't..kn..kn..know" I answered.
Then all of a sudden Jasper sat up and composed himself and we all suddenly felt very calm.
"What the hell?" Jasper said
"Jasper what did you just do to us!" Emmett asked him shocked
"Nothing I swear!"
"Yes you did, I was fine until you started crying!"
"OH MY GOD HE HAS A GIFT!" Esme squealed "Don't you see that's why Edward was laughing with him downstairs. Emmett wasn't affected because he went to park the car. Carlisle I think he's some kind of empath!"
"Excuse me" Jasper said
"It means you can control peoples emotions."
"Ohh…"
We all suddenly felt very shocked.
"OH MY GOD!" Emmett screamed
"what?"
"I DUNNO!"
"Jasper I know you cant exactly control yourself very well but could you try to calm down, Emmetts going senile."
I suddenly realised while Alice was giggling to herself earlier.
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