AN: Now…off to chapter two…
Jasper's POV
I felt her before I saw her, by that time, we had moved to the cafeteria, and even we were surprised by the obvious talent that decorated this room, especially Esme,.
Due to the fact that we had thirteen people to sit, we took up two tables, with Carlisle, Esme, Edward, Bella, Emmett, Rosalie, and I occupying one, while Jacob, Reneesme, Alice, Kyle, Billy, and Shadow at the other.
We had just struck up a conversation when all the servers entered the room with Mrs. Grey at the head, leading the parade, and as Mrs. Grey grabbed the microphone from the stand, I saw Raven, being flanked by three males I presumed to be her brothers, and the sister I saw with her earlier in the auditorium, when they caught sight of Mrs. Grey with the microphone, they all stiffened.
"Before we begin serving you, I'd like to thank the Hunter quintuplets Eagle, Griffin, Sparrow, Falcon, and Raven for decorating the room. They did a spectacular job." Everyone started to clap when Mrs. Grey pointed them out, and I saw Raven blush and turn to the male closest to her. "She didn't have to do that," she said it in between clenched teeth.
"Yeah, I think she gets off of our pain and embarrassment." The male said beside him, and all five pushed out a laugh.
"Oh, so that's the female you've been thinking about for the past hour." Edward said, making me stiffen and turn to glare at him, but before I could say anything in reply, Raven and her sister walked up to our table.
"Hello, Sparrow, Raven, the girls that got brutally embarrassed. What can I get you guys to drink?" the female asked, eyeing me out of the corner of her eye every five seconds.
At her words, everyone said in unison, "Water," causing Sparrow to frown, but she wiped it off so quickly you had to be immortal to see it, and she nodded, writing it down while Raven handed out the menus, sneaking glances at me every chance she got, her bottom lip in between her lip.
"All right, that will be out in just a second," the sister said, and she and Raven left the room to get the drinks that we wouldn't drink.
"Please tell me that you like the quiet one that didn't say anything, that loud one was pretty rude." Esme asked with a pleading look in her eye.
"Oh, trust me Esme, he likes the quiet one, and she likes him, too, Sparrow kept on thinking of different scenarios to your death, each one was different, she's very…creative." Edward said with a grimace.
After he said that, Raven came back in, with our seven waters on a tray, and walked toward our table, watching everyone around her with a glazed but calculating look on her face.
Edward chuckled, "You got a daydreamer as a mate, Jasper…she can think of a lot of things at once, it's kind of unnerving."
She reached my side, and leaned down to push the tray onto the table, making a crest fall out to catch the light. It had a knight's head on it, and was red in color. It read 'Crispus' at the bottom.
Carlisle perked up when he saw it, "That is an interesting crest you have. Is it yours?" he murmured.
Raven nodded, "A branch of my father's side is the Crispen's."
Carlisle's eyebrow quirked in interest, "Can I have a closer look at it?"
Raven frowned, but she unclasped the chain, and handed it to Carlisle. "Sure, but I'll want it back."
"Of course, thank you, young lady." At his choice of words, Raven grinned and rolled her eyes, while she started to hand out the waters. Suddenly Carlisle looked up to stare at Raven. "It's Raven, right?" When she nodded, he continued, "What's your last name?"
"Hunter, why?" she said, a frown set onto her features. "Are you a genealogist?" a sliver of nervousness set into her system.
"No he's a surgeon, but the whole family is into history, you should see how big the library is." I said, averting disaster.
Her frown turned into surprise. "You must have a big house if you have a library."
Esme came in, catching my need for a subject change, "I love to decorate, so the bigger the better."
"I'm going to college to be an interior designer, and creative writing; I want to be an author on the side." Raven said, calming degrees more, and Alice perked up, and Bella noticed.
"Oh no, the evil Pixie has risen her head." She said in mock-fear, causing Alice to poke her head out at Bella.
"Do you like to shop?" Alice said, with her puppy-dog eyes.
"Sure, what girl doesn't?" Raven said, and when Bella gasped, and Alice clapped her hands in delight, she started to get worried.
"Will you go with me tomorrow, I asked everyone today, but nobody wanted to go." Alice said, putting on her baby-pout, but Raven only smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Okay, Lafayette and Satyn, my foster-parents won't be back till the thirtieth anyway." Raven said, putting the now-empty tray under her arm.
"What do your foster-parents do?" Esme asked.
"They own their own winery chain, and the one in Boston was having trouble with the management, and they had to go check the site." Raven said, and couldn't get anything in, due to the fact that Sparrow cut in after that.
"Hey Raven, Mrs. Grey wants all hands in the kitchen." By the look on Sparrow's face, she just wanted Raven away from the table, and Raven knew it, too. "Okay, see you guys later."
They left, and Esme turned to Edward in a flash, "Even I knew she was lying, so what's so important that she had to literally drag Raven out of the room?"
"She grabbed Raven because her brothers wanted to talk to her about her 'new-found' relationship with Jasper."
"We talked once. For fifteen minutes while I waited for you guys to show up." I said, and huffed as I dug my hands into my hair and pulled on my curls.
Raven's POV
I felt my stomach drop when I left the room to find my brothers leaning against the lockers outside Mr. Burns' classroom. Once we reached their side, Griffin, due to the fact that he was the eldest, spoke first.
"Raven I heard some disturbing news about you not five minutes ago." I felt a spike of anger tazer my system, and I took a step away from Sparrow.
"What about?" I said in between clenched teeth.
"What were you doing talking to that Whitlock kid? He's only been here two weeks, two weeks, may I mention, he made no move to talk to you, and miraculously, now all of a sudden, he's totally into you. I don't like it if you ask me." Eagle said, crossing his arms across his toned chest.
"That's the thing, Eagle; I didn't ask your opinion." I said, putting my hands on my hips. "And you have no room to. I've backed you guys up in your past relationships, even though some of those ended badly. Griffin, remember Jade? Eagle, do you remember Ella and Holly? What about you, Falcon, do you remember Madison? I was there though all of that, and I stuck with you 100 percent." Now I got them where I wanted them, fidgeting. So I turned to Sparrow. "What about you, Spar, remember Julian and Caleb? I didn't tell anybody about them, no, I waited until you told me I could until I did. How do you all repay me: by pulling this b/s."
"We don't want you to go through the same experience we all did. You're practically a newbie when it comes to relationships." Griffin said quietly.
I scoffed at them, "Then let me make my own mistakes to know." I said in a deadly tone, and turned on my heel, heading toward the kitchen to cool off. I was in there for about five minutes when I felt an arm go across my shoulders, the weight of a head resting on top of mine, and the scent of Axe body spray washed over me, making me relax against Falcon. "Remind me not to piss you off." He chuckled, and made me smile.
"We were just talking Falcon, it wasn't like he was asking me out on a date." I said, and suddenly felt Falcon look down.
"Where's your crest?" he said, and I frowned for a split second, then I remembered.
"Jasper's dad wanted to look at it, Sparrow dragged me off before I could get it back." Then another wave of the nausea that I've been feeling for the past hour and a half almost made my knees buckle. "Do you think you can get it for me? I'm not feeling so good."
He frowned. " You, too? That makes five of us now…" he was silent for a minute, while the waves of sickness threatened to drag me under. "Raven, go grab our coats, I'm going to tell Mrs. Grey that we're leaving, and I'll get your crest from Dr. Cullen, go and met us in the car, okay?"
"Okay, see you." I said weakly before he left the room.
Falcon's POV
Everyone looked at the retreating form of Raven as she left us in the hallway staring after her in bewilderment. Then, all of a sudden, Eagle elbowed me in the ribs. "Go calm your twin."
"She's your twin, too. We're quintuplets." I said to him.
"Yeah, but you're from the same egg—oh, that combo meal is not sitting right with me." Eagle groaned, clutching his gut. "It feels like something is clawing at my insides."
"Hey, at least we have a doctor in close proximity in case you suddenly get hit by a car or extract some fatal disease." Sparrow said, crossing her arms with a grimace.
"What's the matter, your stomach hurt, too?" I said, and she nodded. "Well, that is just peachy because…oh great, I jinxed it, now I don't feel good, might as well go get Raven, we're her ride home, and we only brought my car. Met you guys in the car." I left them to go search for Raven, and found her in the kitchen, leaning against the island, deep in thought.
The minute I had her in my brotherly embrace that we usually did whenever either of us weren't feeling like ourselves, and she noticed it was me, we both visibly relaxed. "Remind me never to piss you off." I chuckled at the end of it, even though I had to fight the urge to heave at the movement.
"We were just talking, Falcon, it wasn't like he was asking me out on a date." She said, and I felt the word 'yet' echo through my head, and the thought of my sister hurting.
Then I noticed I wasn't being blinded by the crest that we all had in the shape of a necklace that we never took off. "Where's your crest?" I asked, looking down.
She frowned at first but she got a surprised look on her face. "Jasper's dad wanted to look at it, Sparrow dragged me off before I could get it back." She finally said, and was silent for a bit, "Do you think you can get it for me? I'm not feeling so good."
I frowned, before saying in a worried tone, "You, too? That makes five of us now…" I was lost in my thoughts for a second, thinking of a game plan. "Raven, go grab our coats, I'm going to tell Mrs. Grey that we're leaving, and I'll get your crest from Dr. Cullen, go and met us in the car, okay?"
I turned to leave, and barely heard her weak reply. "Okay, see you."
I caught Mrs. Grey in the hallway. "Mrs. G, my siblings and I aren't feeling well. Can we leave? I'm sorry to bail out on tonight, but we all aren't feeling well enough to continue." Mrs. G frowned.
"Of course, Falcon, with the wonderful décor you did with the cafeteria, of course you can all go, besides, I can tell, you aren't looking so well, young man. Go home and get some sleep. See me on Monday if you're feeling up to it." I nodded, and went to search for Dr. Cullen to get Raven's necklace, but I saw Jacob Black's father, and when he saw me, his eyes grew wide, and he muttered something, while he walked toward me.
Once he reached my side, he gripped my arm, "Where are your siblings, Falcon?"
Unaware of why he was asking, I answered, "Raven's in the kitchen, and the rest are already in my car outside waiting for us to go home. We aren't feeling well."
He nodded, and walked me outside, where I took a deep gulp of fresh air, the nausea calming somewhat. When I got to my car, Billy got his hand out and I took that as a sign that said, 'give me your keys' and I painfully pulled them out of my back pocket, placing it in his palm and he opened the door for me. "Jesus, you guys look worse than when Jacob went through the change." Jacob's dad said, chuckling nervously as he shut the door. "Are you guys twins or something?"
"Quintuplets." We all said, weakly and in unison.
Suddenly, and in unison, we all screamed in pain as something from the inside of our stomach lunged for freedom, and the Native American cursed under his breath, he brought out a walkie-talkie and clicked the button, "Let's go, people, before they shift in the freaking car!"
"Maybe I can help?" Came the reply, coming from the Whitlock guy that Raven liked, and Eagle showed his opinion.
"Fuck you and your help." He said, a groan erupting from his mouth.
Suddenly his whole damn family was there, surrounding my car. "Hey, you guys, how are you feeling," the doctor asked, poking his head into the car.
"My stomach feels like it's being ripped open from the inside out, my joints hurt, and I am pissed off." Eagle snapped.
Carlisle paused, before saying, "Well…good, I guess." Before he pulled his head out of the car.
"I'm dreaming, Raven gave me her 'special' brownies as punishment, and I'm dreaming…" Sparrow laughed, and then gasped as her stomach lunged again.
"If that is the case, she is so dead when I wake up, she said that last time was the last time she was going to pull that, and she got grounded for the whole summer." Eagle growled, then grunted as his stomach did the same thing that Sparrow's did.
"We're all from the same womb, so it would make sense that we would have the same dream." Griffin said.
"What? Their quintuplets! COOL!" Emmett yelled, earning a smack in the back of the head by the blonde beside him.
"Got her," Jacob's mom said, bringing a very pale Raven through the doors. Jasper had her in his arms the next second, and she was passed out.
"Where are we going? Your house, Billy?" The doctor said, keeping pace with Jasper as he and the mom helped Jasper put Raven in the back seat of a black Mercedes, with Jasper in the back with her, and the doctor and the mom in the front seat.
"Of course, my place." He turned to Jacob's mom. "Shadow, you okay riding with Jacob in the Rabbit?"
The woman glared at Billy. "Yes, now get those kids to the house before they shift in the car." He got in after that and I made a whipping noise as he started the car, and sped after the Mercedes, and I did something I've never done before.
I fainted.
Raven's POV
Every inch of me hurt, and I huddled closer to the source of cold around my mid-section, getting annoyed at the pathetic moaning that I kept on hearing. "Sh, Raven, we're almost there," A silky voice said, brushing my hair out of my face, and the feel of his seemingly chilly hand soothed the pain a notch.
"How's she doing?" a female voice asked.
"Every once in a while something pushes against her stomach. Is that natural?" the silky voice asked, and the animal inside of my stomach calmed.
"Billy will explain once we get to the house." Another male voice said, but not as gorgeous or as captivating as the silky one.
Mine! A voice screamed in my head, and when I tried to think around it, it started to chant. Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
"Tummy…hurts." I heard a small voice break through the moaning, then with a shock, I realized that I was the source of the voice and the moaning.
"I know darlin', we're almost there." The silky voice said, soothingly laying a freezing hand on my bare stomach, and the animal inside me pushed against the hand in a way that reminded me of a cat pushing against a hand to get someone to pet them.
The touch helped so much that I fell back asleep.