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~24~

JPOV-
The football game was like every other game I had been to, boring, with large crowds, and loud fans. Soon after the game ends I find myself being offered a ride from Edward.

"Sounds good, let me be your guide." I say, and then I mentally criticize myself. How could I say something so cheesy sounding? My palms are sweaty, as we make the drive in almost complete silence.
When Edward pulls into the driveway, I practically run towards the door.
"Jasper, wait," Edward's voice says behind me, as he grabs onto my arm.

I'm confused by this, but slowly turn to face him.
"Edw…" I start, knowing he's going to ask about what happened last weekend during movie night. How can I explain my undeniable attraction towards him, when we barely know each other, and he's already been through so much pain?
I am not able to finish talking, as his lips on mine soon cut me off. I don't know, how long we kissed, but we are both breathless, when we pull apart, time seems to stand still, as I work on catching my breath.

"Wow." I say as I feel my face flush and a small smile forms on my face.
"Wow." He agrees as Carlisle's car pulls into the garage and Alice jumps out.
"Sorry we're late; we picked up ice-cream!" Alice says, coming inside.

The rest of the night, all I can think about is, wanting to get Edward alone again, to talk and possibly kiss again. Alice keeps looking at Edward and myself, like she knows something has happened.
Time goes by quickly as we finish the ice-cream and then Emmett and Rose arrive at the house.
Soon after they walk in the house we say our goodbyes

"Feel free to come and see me sometime." I whisper to Edward as I head out the door and Emmett gives Rose and me a ride home.

I tell Emmett there is no reason for me needing a ride Saturday evening since I was promised that my car would be done and delivered to me before I get off of work, but I happily accept his offer to drive me to work, since Saturday is supposed to be full of rain and thunder clouds.

EPOV-

My heart's pounding in my chest as I pull into the bookstore's parking lot. Not only I do have plans to see Jasper, I am also alone in public. Since moving in with my father, at all times someone has been at my side. Now, here I sit in my car, in public and alone and my family is doing their own daily things. Taking a deep breath, my shaking hand opens the door and I step out into the rain.
"Hello there, welcome to Fantasy Book Store." A woman says as I enter the front door. "I'm the owner, Amy Newton. Are you new in town?" My mouth is dry as I try to form coherent words.
"Hi, I'm Edward Cullen; I am looking for a book." I stammer out, grateful that I am actually able to make a somewhat fluently sentence coming out.
"Cullen? Oh you're that boy that…" She is thankfully interrupted by my name being called out.
"Edward?" Jasper's voice sounds, coming from one of the aisles as he walks towards me. "Can I help you find something?"
"Hi Jasper, I am looking for that new Riley Jenson book." I say, thankful that my voice doesn't shake as my eyes lock with his.

"Right this way." He says as he turns and ushers for me to follow. We silently walk through the store, weaving in and out of the shelves until we come to the right section.
"Moon Sworn," Jasper says, handing the new book to me. "Just came out today."
"So um."… "Edward I..." We both start talking at the same time.
"Go ahead." I say nervous at what he is going to say.
"So um, are you..."he is nervous as his eyes avoid meeting mine. "I assumed so, but I've never... and you did... and, well are you gay?" He's finally able to whisper out.

"Um yes, I am." I say, suddenly conscious of the fact that he hasn't told me if he's gay or not.

"I am too." He replies quietly. "I have my lunch break in 15 minutes, would you like to join me? There's this sub shop across the street that I like to go to."

I couldn't stop the wide grin that spreads across my face, as he asks me to join him for lunch.
"I would like that."
"I have to get back to work." He says as he turns to leave. "There are some chairs over there you can sit at and wait for me." He motions to a corner with two soft looking chairs, before he goes back to work.

I pay the young cashier girl, before taking a seat. I'm thankful as I sit, that my back is to the corner, the bookstore is getting busier and somewhat crowded. I am totally immersed into the book, as Jasper approached me.

"Edward, you ready to go?" Jasper asks, as I placed my receipt into the book, to hold my spot and put the book back into the bag.

"Sure let's go."
We awkwardly sit across from each other in the 'Sub Sandwich Shop'.
"So, um maybe we can talk about what happened last night?" Jasper is tense as he begins to talk. "I, I've never dated." Jasper shyly admits.
"Neither have I, I wasn't allowed to." I can feel tears start to form.
"You don't have to talk about that." Jasper says as he grabs my hand and gives it a soft reassuring squeeze. I use my other hand to wipe away the unshed tears.

All too soon it is time for him to get back to work
"Thank you Edward for coming to lunch with me, it was nice."
"Thanks for the invite, would you maybe, like to come over and watch a movie tonight, with me?" My heartbeat quickens as I invite him over.
"Sure, that sounds like fun, I get off work at 5:00, I can pick us up a pizza on the way over?" He says making it sound more like a question than a statement.
"Ok, that sounds good. Do you have a movie preference?" I inquire.

"I like all kinds of movies. Have you seen the X-men movies? They are great with the Blu-ray player." I make a note to check that we own X-men when I get home.

"Have fun at work, I'll see you later Jasper." I yell as he reenters the bookstore and I head towards my car.

The rain is falling heavily as Esme knocks on my bedroom door.

"Honey, Carlisle and I are going out to dinner tonight, Emmett's out with Rose, and Alice will probably be in her room all night. Are you going to be ok?"

"Yeah, um, I invited Jasper over," I say before quickly adding "If that's ok."

"Sure Edward, it's perfectly fine, you two have fun, you remember where we keep the flashlights and candles right?" She says the mother in her coming out.

"Yes, we'll be fine." I answer, I've lived here for months and we haven't lost electricity yet.

5:30 on the dot Jaspers car is pulling into the driveway, I was thankful for our covered driveway as I opened the door and walked out to him, helping him by grabbing the pizza from him as he moves to grab something else.

"I brought us some ice-cream also." Jasper says as he holds up the grocery bag so I can clearly see chocolate chip cookie dough ice-cream inside.

"Thanks, let's get out of this weather and inside."

I place the ice-cream inside the freezer and head upstairs with our pizza and sodas. We sit next to each other on the couch as the movie starts. The pizza tastes wonderful as I practically inhale it, through the first half of the movie. Between the two of us we finished off the entire large pizza, our legs kept bumping, causing goose bumps to rise on my skin.

"Edward…" That's as far as Jasper got as the electricity cut off and we are left in the dark.

I could help my reaction as I hugged my knees no my chest and began to rock back and forth, as I will myself not to remember the memories that were slowly slipping back in.

"Stupid, stupid boy!" Elizabeth yelled. "Get down there." She said pushing me towards the basement. "Mom, Mommy, please, its dark down there will you turn on a light?" I cry as my mother shoved me down into the darkness, closing the door and shutting all light from me as she did.

"No please, don't leave me in the dark." I yell.

The rain was seeping into the basement as I made my way towards my makeshift bed. Every few minutes lightning would flash across the sky and light up the basement, my prison. The thunder made the entire house shake, and I couldn't help the tears that escaped me.

"Boy, get up here now!" Phil's voice called as the door to the basement opened.

"It's storming. Do you know what that means?" he asked his hand going to the back of my neck and holding tight. "Get up stairs, NOW!"

I could do nothing but listen to him as I was pushed towards the room.

"I'll be good. Please, not again." I yell as I try to get the memories to stop.

"Edward…" I slowly become aware of my name being called. "Edward, please calm down. It's Jasper, you're safe… Edward?" His voice sounded panicky and was slowly getting closer to me. "Edward, Please calm down. It's Jasper and you are safe, I promise no one is going to hurt you again." He repeated.

"J...Jas, Jasper?" I shakily reply as I open my eyes and lift my head.

Jaspers holding a flashlight as I can see the concerned look on his face as he slowly steps closer towards me.

"I, I don't like storms." I say as I pull him towards me.

"Shh… Edward, it's alright." Jaspers gently rubs my back, calmly as he hugs me. "Would you like to explain to me what happened?"

"The storm and then the dark, I just couldn't keep the memories away. It felt so real." We stay like that, him holding me telling me that everything was alright.

I'm finally able to calm down after half an hour and am grateful when the lights come back on 15 minutes later.

"Thank you Jasper." I say as I move out of his arms.

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