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Chapter Twelve, Time Heals All Wounds.

Previously,

My eyes snapped open. I felt a little dizzy.

At least I didn't pass out this time. It was strange, this was the second time I have had this vision, and it is still as clear as the day of the baseball game. But that last part as new.

I turned back around to see Edward staring at me with wide eyes, he looked extremely pale.

Uh ooh…

I smiled at Edward, my face calm and happy. But my thoughts were running ramped screaming and chanting at him.

Don't freak out! Please don't freak out! You weren't supposed to see that! Just forget it! Oh please, Edward I am sorry you saw that… I know you are in a lot of pain over what she did, and I am just so sorry! Don't freak, OK?

The look on Edward's face quickly changed, as he looked at me in the eyes. His face became smooth and calm, not very unlike my own. But his eyes, they betrayed the chaos going on inside. Edward tilted his head at me, causing me to look beside me in the direction he was looking at. He did it ever so slightly, that I almost missed it.

Oh…hey you are getting better at these signals!

Jasper was looking at me, he looked worried and confused.
I wish that Jazz was the one who could read thoughts…because SOMEONE else I know is faaar to nosey.

Edward snorted, and I snapped my head back around to look at him.

~000~

"I hate when you two have those little conversations." Jasper said quietly.

We were at the diner eating dinner. Something I could see quickly becoming our little routine.

"You mean about what happened at lunch?"

Jazz nodded, "Yeah, Mary, I just don't…I don't know what I'm saying." He said dismissively and looked out the window beside us.

"Okay, this isn't going to work." I said bluntly.

Jasper's head whipped back to me, "What?" He said incredulously.

I realized how that just sounded and laugh lightly, "I meant this, this whole not telling each other how we feel." Jasper's face relaxed at my words, and the atmosphere around us relaxed as well. I reached across the table and grabbed his hand, "Starting with some honesty, and in the spirit of honesty I will tell you what Edward and I's silent conversation was about."

Jasper sighed and his eyes were sad, "I don't want you to feel like you have to tell me those things. You and Edward are best friends and I don't want to ruin that just because I am jealous."

I looked him straight in the eyes, "Edward isn't someone you should be jealous of. And I am glad you feel that way, that you trust me. I also understand those nasty jealous feelings, and I will not allow you to feel them."

Jasper rolled his eyes, "You can't stop me from feeling them."

I smiled playfully at him, "Oh, you will learn; you can't stop me from things I have decided will happen." I tapped my forehead, "I do know things, and I am stubborn. Those two things together are amazingly strong."

Jasper chuckled at me, "I don't doubt any of that."

"Oh but you think that it is still not enough to persuade your jealousy?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.

Jasper smiled, "I will always be slightly jealous of everything that claims your sight."

Not thinking about where we were or who was watching, I pulled his hand towards me causing him to lean across the table. I grabbed his face with his hands and looked into his eyes.

"I don't think you understand Mr. Whitlock. See, the thing is you are always in my mind. And I am always waiting for the next moment that we can share this together." I couldn't help but smile at his shocked face. "Understand this now?" I asked quietly.

Jasper let a laugh escape his lips, "Yes ma'am." He whispered.

We stayed in this position for a few moments, and things began to feel heavy. All I wanted was to pull him closer and never let go. His eyes were intense with emotion, they were drawing me in.

The longer we stay this way, the more I want him to pull me towards him and kiss me until I can't see straight.

I giggled at my own thoughts, breaking the moment between us.

Jasper flashed a grin at me, "Well I am not quite sure what you are thinking about, but whatever it is, this is definitely not the place for it."

I gasped, feeling my face blush severely. "Jasper!" I let go of his face.

I totally forgot about his little 'feeling the atmosphere'…

I dropped my face in my hands, and tried to calm down the overwhelming embarrassment that I was feeling.

Great! Not only are my cheeks giving me away, but also my stupid emotions!

Jasper chuckled quietly as he sat back down; he waited a few minutes before saying anything.

"Mary." He said in serious voice, but I could still hear a hint of amusement somewhere in it. "Look at me please."

I sighed dramatically and looked up at him. He was smiling gently at me, "So you know, even though I can feel everything you are feeling; I will never take advantage of you like that."

I felt a little bit of disappointment at his words, and he began laughing. "Mary, please you're going to kill me!" He said between his laughter.

I smiled and couldn't help but laugh along, of course he is a gentlemen…I mean he hasn't done anything than hold my hand.

Jasper finally stopped laughing and looked at me smiling sincerely, "You're special, and I refuse to treat you poorly." He reached across the table and cradled my hands in his. "But please don't mistake that as not being attracted to you. Because sweetheart," Jasper looked at me deeply, with a grin on his face, "you drive me utterly insane. I would do anything to be around you, to simply touch you, and to be able to do this; to look into your eyes and hold your hand. I'm not going to ever do anything that will mess this up, I learn quickly."

I felt myself melt a little inside. I'm never going to find anyone like him…I just want him.

Jasper threw me a cocky grin, "It's pretty amazing to know that I can make you melt like that."

I pulled my hands away and slapped his, "Whatever!" I couldn't help but giggle at the cocky side of him.

~000~

Jasper dropped me off at home, and I was in a daze as I sat in the living room. Mindlessly sitting, smiling foolishly. Esme wasn't going to be home for another couple of hours.

*Bang*

The front door burst open and I awoke from my happy, smitten feelings. Edward was standing in front of me.

I sighed inwardly, stupid visions! Didn't feel like giving me a heads up?! I scolded my brain.

Edward rolled his eyes, "Your thoughts were probably too full of Jasper for them to work properly."

I sighed aloud this time, OK that's a valid point.

Edward wasn't amused; he was looking at me angrily. "You have been avoiding me since lunch! It's time to explain!" He sat down on the chair across from me and gave me an expected look.

"Okay, but there isn't much to explain." I said gently.

Edward still stared at me expectantly as I tried to figure out how to explain this.

"I had that vision the day I passed out at the baseball game. It was so clear and full, and it still is. I don't really understand it, but I have also had visions of us before just being friends; like best friends." I looked at Edward sadly, "It's going to happen as of right now…it's actually even clearer than the day I had it."

Edward's eyes were wide, "You saw what she did! You know that she is with Jacob…" Edward's face fell.

I walked over to the chair and gave him a hug. "I don't know what to tell you…I guess you both just need time."

~000~

After that upsetting night with Edward, everything started to take a turn for the better. We were all suddenly like this big family that was never apart; Peter even began to hang out with us. Weeks flew by, and I was finally feeling like I belonged here. I was getting used to being called Mary and calling Esme, Anne. Things just clicked and fell into place. Our parents were all friends now too. Esme and Jasper's mom, Carmen are like best friends. Esme and Carlisle were happy, and Emmett started a bet within the gang on how long until Carlisle proposed. Emmett bet five months, Edward thought he had the upper hand and bet three, Rose and Jasper bet at least a year, but I bet two months and twenty-nine days. After that, nobody let Edward and I play or bet anything with them. And whenever Edward and I would try to do something like that on our own, it usually lasted five seconds.

*"Boo!" Edward yelled in my face, he was hiding behind my locker.*

"Don't even think about it."

"Ah, now Mary that just isn't fair!" Edward mock pouted coming around from the backside of my locker. He was grinning though, "You're getting pretty sharp."

I laughed, "I know." I said proudly.

"MAARRYYY, EEDDDIIIIEEEE!" Emmett said striding down the hall towards us. He had a big grin on his face.

I looked over at Edward, what's up with him?

Edward grimaced, "Run." He whispered.

I didn't need to know why as Edward and I turned around slowly and booked it around the corner.

*Rosalie stops us around the next corner, "Not so fa-"*

My vision was cut off by me running into an open locker.

"OW!" I hollered as I collapsed on the floor.

Really? I would have rather taken Rosalie on than the locker! I shouted in my head.

Edward turned around when he heard my yell, but he lost it when he realized what had happened.

"Oh my goodness! Are you okay?" A voice I didn't recognize said worried.

The voice was soft and kind and it caused me to remove my hands from my face and look up at them. It was a tall boy, with blonde hair and brown eyes. The boy extended his hand out to me and gave me an apologetic smile. I took his hand grateful as I cast a glare to my supposed "friend" leaning against a locker laughing at me.

Even though even I have to admit that my visions decided that Rosalie was scarier and more painful than a face full of locker.

Edward began to laugh harder at my thoughts.

You're such a good friend!

"Are you okay?" The boy asked.

I turned my attention back to him and realized he was still holding my hand. "Oh yes, I'm fine." I gently pulled my hand away from him.

Suddenly Edward was standing next to us; he looked serious, although he had tears in his eyes from all of his laughing. "Mary, let's go." He spoke briskly and grabbed my arm and started pulling me around the corner.

Rosalie was around the corner, looking menacing. "Not so fa-"

Edward cut her off, by grabbing her with his other arm.

Rose huffed, "UHM? Where are you taking us?"

Edward didn't answer her. Rose looked over at me, and I shrugged the best I could with Edward's death grip on my arm making it a little difficult to move correctly. Jasper was suddenly in front of us.

"Hey what's go-" Jasper stopped short as he looked at Edward. He looked over to Rose and me, probably noticing that we were confused and Edward was extremely angry.

Edward walked past him, and Jasper followed alongside of us. Edward drug us all outside and then stopped. He pulled out his phone and started texting someone. The three of just changed looks with each other, trying to figure out what was going on but not wanting to upset Edward.

Because when that boy is moody, well whatever you did to cause it was totally not worth it!

Edward looked up from his phone and glared at me, indicating that he had heard that. Jasper put his arms around my shoulders.

"Don't glare at her like that." He said gently. "Could you explain why you were dragging my gir-" Jasper went silent.

Edward smirked at him, which momentarily broke his angry façade. Rose looked over at Jasper and I, a wide grin on her face. Her eyes were light and amused. None of us were official yet. Jasper and I went out a lot, talked all of the time, and even held hands and had light touching, like right now. But he was still all about his treating me right thing, which I can't lie, it's totally great and I feel so safe. Even though I cannot wait for things to get to the point of actually being a couple, I really like how slow we are taking this.

"What's up my peeps?" Emmett said as he joined us, "Are we skipping class? Oh if we are can we go get some ice cream?" Emmett's eyes widened with excitement at his little plan.

Rosalie rolled her eyes, "Emmett." She mumbled, shaking her head.

Edward took a deep breath and looked at everyone before speaking. "Riley is back in town."

Everyone looked extremely worried, exchanging looks of concern.

"Who's Riley?" I asked, not understanding.

"Peter needs to know, he'll be ticked if we knew and didn't tell him first." Jasper said seriously.

"Why will Peter be ticked?" I asked Jasper.

Rose scoffed, "I don't understand why he is even back!"

Emmett shrugged, "We knew it was a possibility that he would come back."

"Who is this guy?" I asked, again to everyone.

"When did you see him? Are you sure it was him?" Rose asked Edward.

UGH! Could someone answer my question!

"Positive. Mary ran into his locker, and then he helped her up; holding her hand way longer than necessary I might add." Edward spoke to everyone, but looked at me as he said this; answering my unspoken question.

Jasper turned to me, and I was overwhelmed with anger.

"Jasper!" Edward said nudging Jasper, "Calm down."

Jasper seemed to realize he was upsetting me and he frowned, "Sorry."

Emmett laughed, "Oh yeah! Hitting on my little sister!" His laugh was evil. "I'm going to knock your teeth in!"

"Emmett! Violence is the whole reason Riley left." Rose yelled at Emmett.

"What violence?" I asked them, but I didn't really believe anyone would answer me.

"I agree with Emmett." Jasper said nodding towards Em.

Rosalie glared at Jasper, "Of course you do!" She spat at him.

"I say we avoid him, and keep Mary away from him." Edward spoke to everyone.

"Thank you! See Edward isn't some angry, always resorts to fighting, ready to attack kind of guy!" Rose said, pointedly to Emmett and Jasper.

Edward smiled, "I'll take that as a compliment!"

Rose rolled her eyes, "Shut up Edward."

Edward's smile faltered, but he just shrugged it off.

I was really tired of everyone ignoring me. "WHAT HAPPENED? WHO IS RILEY?" I screamed at them.

Suddenly a teacher was standing in front of us.

Oops…maybe I screamed too loud?

~000~

Oh detention, how terrible you are! Rose, Edward, and I had only one night, since it was our first incident. But the Jasper and Emmett, they on the other hand have a whole week. Rose, Edward, and I went over to my house to celebrate only having one night of detention. Jasper and Emmett decided that they would go to the gym and celebrate themselves.

"Oh we should make some snacks and have a movie night!" Rose said excitedly.

Edward grinned, "Then we should text Jasper, Emmett, and Peter pictures of us and our delicious food!"

As I opened I squealed, "Oooh we should ma-"

The very upset and disapproving facing of Carlisle and Esme made me go silent.

"We're not making anything are we?" I asked quietly.

Esme shook her head, "No. Carmen is on her way here with the boys."

"Sit." Carlisle pointed to the couch. He was using his fatherly, disapproving tone.

The last time he used this voice was when Emmett and I filled up water balloons and hid behind a bush in a park. We threw them at people without them seeing us, and it was all fun until we hit one of Carlisle's coworker's kid. He started screaming about how we ruined his hair and Emmett couldn't hold himself together; he fell out from behind the bush laughing so hard. The kid ran home and told his dad about what we did. Carlisle and Esme made us go apologize to everyone we hit, that's the bad thing about small towns, everyone knows everyone. But we made the whole thing fun by talking and joking about how our parents were acting like they were a married couple.

There was a knock at the door and Esme quickly got up from her seat to open the door. In came in a slightly amused Peter, a very depressed looking Emmett and Jasper, and a very angry Carmen. Carlisle gestured that everyone should sit down.

"Now that everyone is here, there are some things we need to talk about." Esme said gently.

All of us kids, well except for Peter who was still smirking, groaned.

I can't believe we didn't expect this! Why don't my visions ever give me heads up on the important things? Like getting in trouble, or running into lockers.

Edward glanced at me and gave me a "you're telling me look".

"How about you start off by telling us why you weren't in case." Carmen suggested.

Then everyone, except Peter and I started talking at once. Through the rumble and chaos of them all talking, I only caught one constant word: "Riley".

"OK! Everyone quiet down, please." Carlisle said calmly. He exchanged looks with Carmen and Esme.

"What you know too?!" I looked over at Esme.

She smiled softly at me, "I've heard from Carlisle."

I slouched down in my chair, sighing. No one has told me what exactly happened with Riley.

Carlisle gave me an apologetic smile, "I didn't know you didn't know yet." He sent glances around at everyone, "But it seems you guys are still learning that honesty is the best policy."

I heard a few people huff and scoff at this, but I didn't see who.

Carlisle looked back at me, "Riley broke Emmett's nose one time during lunch. The boys had been arguing about who was stronger." Carlisle's face was calm, but his eyes held his amusement. "Emmett of course learned that size doesn't always matter in a fight." Carlisle smiled at Emmett, "Like David and Goliath." Carlisle looked back at me, "After this incident, Riley got caught up in the fighting world. He nearly killed someone, and his family moved town." I thought I saw Carlisle's eyes flickered over to Jasper, but couldn't be sure.

Edward spoke up, "Dad, Mary accidently ran into his locker and then he helped her up. But he like held on to her hand for so long, that she had to pull her hand away! He was totally into her, staring at her like a creep. You know what happened to Bree!"

Carlisle's calm face twitched slightly, "That's not an excuse to cut class and talk about it." Carlisle looked at Emmett and Edward, "As for you two, nothing other than school and work for a week."

Emmett's eyes widened, "What?"
Edward dropped his face in his hands, "Nothing?"

"Nothing. No phones, computers, friends, anything. You two are better than skipping class." Carlisle said calmly. He smiled sadly at the boys, "Everything you do will you will receive consequences for; but it is up to you to determine whether those consequences by your actions." Carlisle spoke wisely to the room.

Esme was looking at him in wonder, and it was the first time I wanted to scrunch my nose at their relationship.

"Now, let's go boy. Say goodbye to your friends, you won't see them until next week." Carlisle said getting up.

Emmett and Edward muttered their goodbyes and hugged Rose and I goodbye before they left.

Carmen and Esme looked at the rest of us. "I think that was a pretty fair punishment, don't you Anne?" Carmen said casually.

Esme nodded her head, "I do believe you are correct."

Carmen looked at her kids, "We're leaving, so follow the Cullen's example and say your goodbyes."

I turned in my seat and hugged Rose, "Bye." We said sadly.

Jasper came over to me and grimaced, "See you tomorrow."

I sighed, "Okay, b-"

Jasper cut me off, "I don't like that word. It sounds like something you say when you are parting for forever."

"Alright, see you tomorrow." I said quietly as he hugged me.

When we pulled out of our hug he smiled softly, and tapped my nose.

~000~

We were all driven to school by our parents, and that felt like it was the worst of the punishment. We all groaned and complained as we met up in lunch. Nobody really said anything as we sat down to eat. We were all too upset to talk about what happened. Well that was until someone sat down beside me.

"Hey guys, heard about the detention. That bites."

I looked over to the voice, and of course it was Riley.

Everyone was a little more than shocked at him sitting down at our table. He was sitting next to me, and looking around all at us all.

"Oh come on guys! I thought the saying goes 'time heals all wounds'?" Riley said jokingly.

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