Chapter three
Saturday 21st September
The week passed on normally. In the morning Jasper would pick me up or meet me under the shelter with Jasmine. Emmett would try to injure me in chemistry and Bella would gossip with me at lunch. Jasper and me where best friends by the end of the week.
I walked out of the house Saturday morning and climbed into the car with Bella.
"Hey" She said cheerily and drove off.
"Hey, you sure you know where you're going?" I asked as she sped up.
"Yeah, Edward showed me a map earlier," She said smiling as she picked up speed, which made me nervous.
"Urm, are you used to driving in snow and ice?" I asked her, holding on to the seat. She laughed.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine. And be assured if anything happens to you Jasper will kill me," She said flooring it. I gulped eyes wide.
"Oh i feel so much better now i know that," I said sarcastically.
But luckily she seemed to know what she was doing and we arrived at the mall safely an hour later.
"So what do you want to look at first?" I asked her with a smile when we entered the warmth of the shop. She looked around and smiled.
"How about we look in there first," She said pointing to one of the stores. I shrugged and followed her in. After another four stores, three boutiques and a jewellery store where she made me point out what i liked we sat down for lunch. Well i had lunch and she watched me eat.
"So..." She said grinning. I looked at her dubiously.
"So what?" I said before shoving a fork full of pasta into my mouth.
"Do you fancy Jasper," She said and i almost spat my food back out again, instead i just almost chocked on it.
"Do i what?" I coughed.
"Do you fancy jasper?" She said laughing.
"I...well...he's lovely and everything but i've never thought of having a boyfriend so i dunno... and he still hasn't got over that last girl... the one who left with another bloke," I said drinking some of my drink. Bella looked disappointed but shrugged.
"He's not going to get over her until he is with someone else..." Bella said, "It's been three years and he still sulks around the house... it's depressing," I rolled my eyes.
"So you thought you'd set him up with me?" I said finishing my food. She chewed on her lip.
"Well he seems very fond of you and he seems actually happy around you so i thought maybe it would be ok if you dated him... just to see if it worked... you don't even have to like him... just try an..." I cut her off.
"And what if i did? Then when its time for me to go he'll be even worse Bella? Have you even thought this threw? I shall play no part in this! When he needs a shoulder to cry on again i will be there, i shall always be there when he needs me and how he needs me but i will not lie to him!" I said tapping the table, a marble look on my face. She looked shocked.
"You really care about him," She said quietly.
"He's my friend; i love him so of course i care..." I said and stood up, "Lets get back, i'm getting bored," She nodded and i paid for my food and we left.
We arrived back at the Cullen resident at 3:30pm. Bella went to find Edward, probably to relay the failed mission to get me to date Jasper. Wait until he heard about this, they would be dead. I kicked off my shoes and ambled up the stairs and tapped on jaspers door.
"Come in," I heard him say. I pushed the door open and smiled seeing him sitting on his bed sketching something onto a note pad. He half smiled and i came in and sat on the bed next to him.
"How did the shopping go?" He asked amusedly.
"Oh it went ok until i had lunch..." I said leaning my head on his shoulder as i looked at what he was drawing and found it was me.
"What happened," He said continuing to sketch.
"Bella tried to get me to date you," I said glancing up at him. He had frozen.
"She what?" He said exasperatedly.
"She was rambling on about you needing a new woman in your life to stop you sulking and as we where friends i seemed to be her target..." I said looking up at him. I hadn't realized how close our faces where from each others.
Bella and Edward burst into the room.
"Jasper i can ex...oh...are we interrupting," Bella said stopping at the foot of the bed.
"No..." Jasper said as we turned to look at them, "Lizzie was just telling me how you had decided i need a new girlfriend..." I then noticed that his eyes where now black, like coal.
"Urm...maybe i should take Lizzie home," Bella said, more to Edward than Jasper.
"I haven't finished talking to her," Jasper spat and Edward took a step forward.
"Jasper what would you do if you..." Jasper silenced Edward.
"Give me ten minutes ok?" Jasper said getting up and leaving the room
I looked at the two of them.
"You told him?" Bella said and a whiney voice. I smirked.
"Of course i did... you can't go around trying to make things better without thinking of the consequences. Its best just to let him find someone in his own time and not force someone on him," I said and then looked to Edward.
"I didn't have anything to do with this..." He said looking kind of scared. I raised an eyebrow, not believing him. You're lying, i thought. He rolled his eyes and left with Bella. Once they where gone i picked up Jasper's sketch pad and started to look through it.
He was an amazing artist but i was surprised to find most of the pictures where of me.
"You have an amazing smile," I heard Jasper say. I looked up and met dazzling gold eyes. I smiled to him, blush covering my cheeks.
"You make me look pretty, but that's not true," I said as he sat down next to me.
"I think you are very pretty," Jasper said smiling to me, it was a real smile, the first one i'd seen. It was dazzling, his white teeth where shown and his eyes shone. He was stunning.
"Lizzie?" He said laughing slightly, "You're staring," I snapped out of it.
"You smiled... i hadn't seen you really smile before," I said blushing again a smile of my lips. He held up a finger.
"Hold it there," He said and he flipped to a clean page and after a few minutes of furious scribbling he was done.
"It's no where near the beauty of the real thing," Jasper said turning it to show me. My jaw dropped. Is this how he saw me? I looked like an angel, not the girl i saw in the mirror.
"Is that how you see me?" I whispered looking up to him. He smiled once again and nodded.
"You make me look like an angel," I said laughing, he brushed some hair from my face.
"You are an angel, my angel... you saved me," He said smiling, i blushed again, "I like it when you blush," He grinned cheekily and i whacked his arm.
"Cheeky!" I said grinning. Jasper looked at me in a sort of daze for a minute and said he needed to go check when dinner was.
Bella had said i could sleep around that night and although i told her i doubt i'd sleep i still agreed. Everyone had been acting weirdly since Jasper had gone to check on dinner and it was bugging me. It also gave me time to think about Jasper. He was like some of the characters in the books i read, too alike to be believe able. And then a light went on in my head. I knew what Jasper Hale was. And i wasn't afraid.
When we sat down for dinner they all looked at me as though someone had died, when i thought that i almost laughed.
"Lizzie we need to have a talk with you," Carlisle said solemnly.
"If it's about you being Vampires i've worked that out already," I said smiling. Everyone looked shocked.
"Great! Here we go again!" Rosalie said, in toddler temper tantrum style, "This is going to just like what happened with Bella and the Volturi will be back," I didn't say anything, i didn't need to.
"Rosalie! This is different from Bella! Bella was dating Edward, Lizzie is just a family friend! The Volturi need not know!" Esme said sternly, "If you do not change your attitude before Renesmee gets here tomorrow you'll have to go to the Denali's until you can behave yourself" I looked to Jasper and he seemed troubled.
"Is there a problem in me knowing? Where you going to tell me something else?" I said to Carlisle. He looked to me thoughtfully.
"We where going to explain about Edward and Bella's daughter coming tomorrow but how we where going to explain she was so old i hadn't worked out yet...i guess we don't need to explain now," He said and the sighed, "The Volturi by the way and the law bringers in the Vampire world, they do not like humans knowing about us and insist they are turned," I smiled to him.
"If i get turned i get turned, if i don't then i don't. I do not want you having trouble with the Volturi on my behalf, if you are told to turn me then i'll cross that bridge when i get to it," I said and looked to Jasper, "Right?" He smiled to me, he'd been smiling a lot today and i liked it.
"You should know that some vampires have special abilities," Edward said, "Bella has a mental shield which she can expel from her body, i can read minds and Jasper can feel and control emotions," I blinked a few times and nodded.
"That explains a lot," I said laughing. I was happy that they trusted me with their secret. It seemed as though Jasper sensed this and he smiled. I then heard Bella go 'AWWWW'. And Jasper shot her a look. I laughed and glanced at the clock, stomach rumbling.
"Dinner for one i guess?" I said smiling to Esme who laughed and brought out a plate of food for me.
"MMMMM, looks great! Thanks Esme!" I said and tucked into it, but now used to people watching me eat.
After ten minutes i'd finished and Esme cleared my plate, after refusing to let me wash it when i offered, Carlisle retreated to his office and the rest of us 'kids' went to watch a movie. Jasper stuck in Dracula: dead and loving it and Rosalie groaned.
"You have to be kidding me," She said childishly.
"Leslie Neilson is a very good comical actor," Jasper said sitting next to me. I grinned to him and whispered 'thanks' in his ear. The others had wanted to watch 'condemned' but Jasper sensed i didn't like that sort of movie and put on my favourite.
Half was through the film i fell asleep, for the first time in 72 hours. I, the insomniac, fell asleep in my favourite movie. I awoke at 3am in Jasper's bed and god was i comfy. I yawned and stretched sitting up.
"Morning..." I said with a sleepy grin, my hair messy and clothes crumpled. Jasper smiled to me and laughed reaching out to flatten my hair, "I thought this sleep over was meant to be with Bella..." I said well half yawned it. Jasper pulled a face.
"She's 'busy' with Edward," He said lying down next to me. I stuck out my tongue.
"Ah... well... i prefer your company anyway," I said lying down next to him smiling. I could get used to this, waking up next to Jasper. Oh god, i thought, i falling for him. Damn it.
He looked to me and raised an eyebrow.
"Confused?" He said knowingly.
"You already know the answer to that," I said smiling.
"Anything i can help with?" He said rolling to face me. I smiled to him sleepily.
"Not really... being around you though," I said yawning, "Seems to be the cure for my insomnia," I snuggled down into the sheets, "And your bed is so much comfier than mine," I looked to him.
"You don't have to sit here all night if you don't want to," I muttered half asleep.
"I don't mind, there's nothing else to do anyway you're cute when you're sleeping," He said, moving some hair from in front of my face.
"Ok then..." I said smiling, resting my head on his shoulder and fell asleep again. Twice in one night!