When I stepped inside, the gym was completely empty, so I shrugged my hoodie off, grabbed a basketball and started dribbling and shooting. Basketball always helped me to think and calm down. I was just thinking about how to escape shopping with Alice without using the whole 'My Mom Just Died' thing. I knew she felt really bad about what had happened with Edward, and she thought that I didn't want to be her friend because she's Edward sister, but I wasn't that stupid, nobody would throw a friend like Alice away.

I shook my head, trying to scatter the thoughts away, and fully concentrated on the basketball. I began making up sequences in my had that would work in games.

Spin move, then a wrap-a-round into a behind the back dribble.

Crossover Dribble, Behind-the-back-Pass, then another spin move.

Pick and roll, blind pass, then a back door.

I practised these over and over, a well as other ones that I'd done before. I could feel the bloody pumping through me as I ran, jumped, and slam dunked.

I was grinning as I hung from the hoop, swinging back and forwards.

'Haha' I laughed, before letting go, landing lightly on the balls of my feet. Ok, again, from the top. This time, I tried to in-corporate the elbow pass, one of the hardest passes in basketball. I'd only done it a few times before, and it was hard to do whilst you were on your own. I ran up to the three point line, started to do a behind the back pass, just clipped the ball with my elbow sending it back the way it came, pivoted round, caught the ball, ran and launched myself in the air. I slammed the ball into the hoop, and just swung there basking in my own glory.

'Hell to the yeah' I laughed, before dropping to the ground. A sudden clap filled the room, echoing, getting faster and faster. I turned around slowly, and saw the blonde kid standing in the doorway, jaw dropped, his hands clapping. Shitttee. Jasper! His name was Jasper!

'Jasper,' I said slowly, 'How long have you been there?'

'Long enough,' he grinned. ' I saw you do two slam dunks,'

'Aw shit. Jasper,' I ran up to him, 'You have to promise that you won't tell anyone what you saw, please! Promise me!' I was practically begging.

He looked confused.

'What?, you're awesome, why don't you want anyone to know?'

'Because I…..' he raised his eyebrows as I scrambled for something to say.

'I've got it! I wanna get on the basketball team, yeah?,' he nodded, still confused. 'And all they guys are gonna be like, you're a girl, you can't play ball. So….they only way they're gonna give me a fair chance is if no-one knows. I need to get the compliments from them first, then show them that I'm a girl, and then anything that they say, I can just use the compliments as a defence. Please Jasper, help me, don't say anything.'

'Okay, on one condition….' Crap.

'You set me up with Alice Brandon…' whoa, TOTALLY was not expecting that!

'I-um-you-what?'

'Alice Brandon. She's petite, black hair, really good at art, amazing smile, beautiful,'

Yeah yeah yeah, I know who she is, Mr Whipped! Okay, consider it done,'

'Well then, Ms. Swan, you've got yourself a deal,' he grinned at me, brushing his blonde coif out of his face.

I grinned back, then walked out of the gym. Score! Jasper was obviously crazy about Alice, as she was him, this was gonna be easy. Even the dark clouds couldn't wipe the smile off of my face.

EPOV:

When I got back to Spanish, Mrs Goff didn't say anything, she just welcomed me in. I sat through the lesson, going over what Jasper and Emmet had said. Jazz knew I felt really bad about the whole Bella thing, why was he making shit up?

I made my way to the cafeteria as soon as the bell went, and through myself down next to Jasper.

'What was that whole 'She's in a bear' thing?' I asked as I scraped my chair in, tucking into some of his fries.

'What are you on about?' he looked really confused.

'Today……at practise?.....You kept yelling 'she's in a bear' as I walked away? Listen, I know that you-' I stopped, grinding my teeth together as Jasper began to piss himself laughing.

'Jasper, this is serious!' I was getting furious, he was fucking me about, and then he had the nerve to find it funny.

He wiped a tear from his eye, and began to gasp out an explanation.

'She's in-,' he gulped 'a bear,' he cracked up again, holding his sides.

'Jasper!' I yelled, slamming my fist down on the table.

'I said, she's over there!' he said, still laughing. Whaa?

'What?' I said impatiently.

'Bella was in the gym,' he explained. 'I tried to tell you, I yelled out 'she's over there', but you told me to shut up,'

She's over there, she's in a bear. Aww shit, man.

'Are you serious? Bella was in the gym. Brilliant.'

'I tried to tell you man, but you shook your head.'

I cannot believe this.

'Wait, whaaaat? Bella was in the gym? Doing what?,' Jasper suddenly looked uncomfortable.

'She was,- um,'

'Although, when she was running outta the class room, damn she was fast, dude. You shoulda seen her, man, I never had her down as the sporty person.'

'You don't know her,' he shot at me, then looked remorseful, as if he hadn't meant to say it.

'What?'

'You don't know Bella. I know I'm not her best friend or anything, but there's a lot of shit going on that you don't know about, man.-

'What are ya talkin about?'-

'I ain't sayin nothin, Edward, go ask Bella yourself.'

Then he got up, dumped his lunch tray, and walked out of the cafeteria, leaving me feeling like the prick I was.