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Ok, as a giant apology for my prolonged absence, I hav quickly thrown together another chapter out of already written parts and my imagination. I really hope you like it as I worked on it all night. It is currently 12 noon and I've been up writting this since I posted last chapter at midnight last night... or early this morning, either way you slice it. Enjoy...!

Chapter Six – Going Through the Motions

JPOV

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SLAM!

My door hit the wall and the handle broke right off from the impact. I gulped.

"WHAT THE HELL!" Emmett roared. The seconds ticked over. I stayed silent. "START TALKING RIGHT NOW!" Emmett roared again.

In the silence that followed I heard Alice run downstairs sobbing, I heard a car engine rev, then speed off. I look at Emmett with terrified eyes. But he was no longer looking at me; he had taken out his phone and was dialing.

"Edward, yeah… So your with her?... Stay with her… Yeah, I'm with Jasper here… Don't worry, I will…. Bye." Edward? I was dead. There was no way I'd come out of this alive. Goodbye cruel world.

Emmett still wasn't looking at me. He was examining the door handle that had flown halfway across the room from the force. "I'll have to fix that before Carlisle comes home…" He muttered. "Now Jasper," He said, finally looking at me.

"Um…" I managed to get out. No matter how good a friend Emmett could be to me, he was a much better friend to Alice.

"Alice overheard Lauren Mallory gossiping with Jessica Stanley about her apparently 'hooking up' with you yesterday afternoon." I was so not expecting that.

"What! Emmett! I swear, it's not true! I went to the library! I swear!" I got out in a rush.

"Jasper, we both know you weren't at the library yesterday." Uh oh. Now I was dead. "Edward was at the library, ever the good little nerd that he is. You, my friend, were actually in Port Angeles. But I know for a fact that you did not 'hook up' with anyone. As you were busy planning a surprise for Alice." What! How did he know that! No one was meant to know that! Is he… stalking me? But I kept my mouth shut and waited for Emmett to continue. "Of course I noticed right away that you weren't where you were supposed to be, so I followed you for a bit. To the jeweler's, the dinner, even the mall. You are a brave guy to attempt to tackle the mall alone." He chuckled. "Once it became apparent that you were not in fact doing something to hurt Alice I was going to come and talk to you, but then I lost you and next thing I knew I saw your car speeding down the road towards home, just tell me that you made no side trips on the way and your in the clear with me." He said. For once I was so glad of Emmett being suspicious of me.

"Emmett, I swear, no side trips." I told him.

"Ok." He said. It was almost too easy.

"Ok?" I asked. "Is that it? Are you just going to call Alice now and tell her the truth?"

"No." He stated.

"No? But why not? There is no way in hell she will listen to me! She thinks I'm a cheating bastard!" I yelled, impertinently.

"Because," he said slowly, with the air of one explaining something to a three year old, "This is your problem, you will deal with it. Did you not notice me keeping up appearances?" He nodded towards the door "You aren't stupid Jasper, you don't need me to explain things. You're a big boy and perfectly capable of sorting out your own mess."

I sighed; this was not going to be easy. Alice was stubborn, but if I could just make it through a week without her then I could still surprise her on the weekend as I had planned and explain this whole mess to her at the same time. No worries.

~ - Four Days Later - ~

This was not going to work. I was going to die without her. And there was still a whole day left of the school week, and then all day Saturday. I almost wished that Emmett had indeed killed me Monday afternoon. I was going to die anyway.

The way Alice looked at me, with hatred and mistrust and sadness. I wanted to recoil every time she even glanced at me over the dinner table.

Emmett had explained to Carlisle and Esme that we were having 'a bit of a tiff', and I was going to make it up to her on the weekend, so they said nothing about anything to Alice. I didn't talk to her, and after a while I stopped making eye contact too. She gave lethal death glares if I tried.

Eventually, I began to sink into myself. I was just going through the motions. I knew I was innocent of all charges, but Alice didn't know that and she took every opportunity to make the phrase 'so over you' crystal clear in every gesture.

I wasn't welcome to sit with her and her friends and family at lunch. I wasn't welcome to talk to her at home. I gave up and started taking my meals in my room. Bringing a book to lunch. The only thing that kept me going was the thought of this weekend and how Alice would understand everything then.

APOV

How could Jasper have done this? Lauren. Lauren Mallory. Slut of the school. Her, of all people, why her? What did she have that I didn't? Maybe he was tired of me. Maybe it was weird for him, going out with a girl he had known since we were in nappies. But he didn't have a problem with it a week ago. Or maybe he did. I don't know. I don't care.

It hurt though. I did care. That much was obvious. A huge hole in my chest. His loving words and gentle touches. Maybe they had all meant nothing. I tried to convince myself that I didn't care but I couldn't. After all, if I was so special to him why did he go to her?

Maybe I had misunderstood. Maybe I had misheard. But one glance across the room assured me that I had no misunderstood or misheard, that I was right. The smirk on Lauren's face said it all, and the sly glint in her eyes said even more. This was horrible. This was stupid. Why has this happened to me? Didn't Jasper have any feelings for me? Across the cafeteria I saw Jasper looking at me. I glared at him, he quickly looked away. I instantly felt guilty. I don't know what made me do it. Natural reaction, I blamed it on my natural reactions. Of course I should glare at him. I had all rights to hate him. But I didn't. I still loved him. I didn't know what to do without him. I was just going through the motions.

I hope this was an acceptable apology and as soon as I have had seven or eight hours sleep I'll get straight to work on the next chapter. Comprende? Excellent. Reviews are love... The more I get, the faster I shall get the next chapter out for you... Please review...

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