Tuesday after school me and Alice went down to Port Angelis to get Edwards birthday present. We'd decided to get him a music book on the history of classical music, since that was his favourite type of music. We had a great time together like normal, and even though Alice told me not to I bought her a new pair of shoes which she liked.
We were in the car driving home, the radio was on as a soft background noise.
"You shouldn't waste your money Jazz." Alice told me as she drove, I looked over to her from the passenger seat.
"I don't call it wasting money if its spent on you Alice, and besides those shoes look great on you." I said, and I leaned over a kissed her cheek softly and then leaned back in my seat.
"What am I going to do with you Jazz?" Alice sighed softly, I grinned.
"I know exactly what you can do with me." I said grinning at her, she looked at me and shook her head softly.
"You have a one track mind Jazz I swear." she said laughing lightly.
"Well yeah, my minds only on you." I said sweetly.
"Smooth talker." she muttered smiling at me. The rest of the car journey was a soft comfortable silence, I let myself relax fully in the passenger seat as I listened to the soft sounds of the radio. I kept glancing over at Alice as she concentrated on the road ahead, she looked so content driving, so free and happy.
It was almost 10pm when we got home, and everyone was there as all the cars were parked in the garage. Me and Alice got out the car and locked the garage up and went into the house to join the others.
Alice took my hand as we walked into the living room, Emmett, Edward and Carlisle were all sat on the sofa watching the TV.
"Hey guys" Carlisle greeted us, as we walked over to them, Esme walked in from the kitchen and Alice soon left my side to go and take Edwards present to her so that she could put it away with the rest of them.
"Oh Jasper, you have a letter." Esme said as she walked over to me with a brown envelope in her small hands. That was odd, no one knew that I lived at this address so who could send me a letter.
I looked at the letter, there was no stamp, no address, just my name typed on the front, this meant that someone had brought it to the house. It was only thin but I was still very curious. I lifted the unsealed flap, and took out the folded letter, I could see the words through the paper, like my name on the envelope it had been typed not written.
I unfolded the paper a started reading.
You cant run forever, not since I now know where you and your girlfriend live. I wasn't too happy to find that the police had been round to my house and work looking for me, I'm still finding it hard to believe that you would tell someone about how I treat you. Especially after what happened the last time you tried to tell the police on me back in New York, I thought you would have learnt your lesson, but obviously not.
If you thought you punishment was bad last time, your in for a world of pain now my boy, and just think you've put your precious little Alice in terrible danger now. You should of kept your big mouth shut if you knew what was good for you, but just like your mother you just cant help but cause trouble for yourself. Now that I have hunted you down I will get my revenge, and I will keep the promise I made to you when you almost got us in trouble in New York. I will kill you, and Alice. I told you when we first moved to Forks, that if you ever pulled a stunt like that again the past would come and bite you in the ass, well this time It going to savagely murder you and as for your girlfriend, the same thing that happened to your mother will happen to her, I'll make sure of that!
I couldn't move, what had I done. I'd made a terrible mistake, the memories flooded my mind, all I could picture was him and me back in New York. I felt cold, and numb and shaky.
"Jazz, what's wrong?" Alice's voice spoke, I could tell she was right next to me, but she sounded quiet, probably because I could hear screams of pain in my head.
"Jasper, your shacking is everything alright?" Esme's soft voice rang through my ears, I blinked and looked over towards Carlisle, who had stood and made his way over to me.
I handed him the letter so that he could read it while Alice and Esme guided me to the arm chair. The room was silent apart from my heavy breathing, I was practically hyperventilating, I needed to calm down but I couldn't, my chest started to hurt, my head was pounding with pure pain.
"Jasper… what is this?" Carlisle asked me, his face was covered in concern and confusion. I glanced up at him, his eyes filled with fear as he knew who it was from, he just needed me to explain it more to him, none of them knew what that letter meant. There was a long deadly silence until Carlisle spoke up.
"Jasper, what happened in New York?" he asked me, I could feel everyone's eyes on me at this moment in time, my eyes stayed glued to Carlisle's until I shut my eyes tightly and gripped my head with my hands as I took a deep breath ready to explain.
"When we were living in New York, I planned on going to the police to tell them about the way he abused me. Unfortunately he got to me first, he left me horrifically scarred physically and mentally." my voice was only just above a whisper, I whimpered slightly as the memories of what he did to me returned with no sympathy.
"What did he do to you?" Carlisle asked me, Alice and Esme moved away from me as I stood up and walked over to the coffee table. I pulled up my long sleeves and took off my watch which was on my right wrist and my leather wrist band, which was on my left wrist. All eyes were on me, they didn't expect me to do this, but it was the only way they could see what he'd done, and then maybe they would understand why I was so shaken up.
I kept my back to them as I spoke. "Alice, you've not seen the scars on my back have you?" I asked her, the room was silent for a moment whilst she thought about my question.
"No" she murmured in a worried tone. I shut my eyes again and took another deep breath before I pulled my long sleeved shirt off my upper body and laid it on the coffee table. I could hear their breath get caught in their throats as they saw the state my back was in.
"Jasper, what happened to you?" Edward practically gasped. Even though I couldn't look at my scars myself I knew exactly what they looked like.
There were five and a half wide uneven scars that ran down my back, starting from my shoulders and down to the bottom of my ribs.
"You know those old scythes that were used for cutting crops." I heard Esme and Alice gasp as they got the picture of what happened.
"He used an old rusty one he had and raked it down my back." I muttered.
"Why is one not as long as the other?" Emmett asked.
"Emmett" Edward said in a stern tone.
"That's a good question Emmett, and brings me to my next scars." I turned around to face them, I took a few steps towards them so they could all see and I held out my wrists. There were lines going all the way around both my wrists.
"To prevent me from moving he used rusty lock wire and tied it around my wrists so I couldn't struggle against the pain. The rule was simple, if I struggled to get free, the lock wire would dig through my skin and cut my main veins. The scars started out small due to me moving at the pain of the blade running down my back, but when he got round to making the sixth cut I'd had enough. I moved my wrists against the wire and tried to put an end to it all, and not just the torture, but the future as well." everyone looked at me as I finished the little horror story.
"He said that if I tried anything like that again he would put an end to my life, he stopped because he didn't want me to take my own life, that would have ruined his fun." I muttered bitterly.
Alice's hands wrapped around my wrists and brought my body close to hers, I rested my head on her shoulder as I tried to calm my breathing down again.
After a while I pulled away and grabbed my shirt and pulled it back on.
"Jasper, one more question. What does he mean about the same thing that happened to your mother will happen to Alice?" Alice's head shot round, she took the note from Carlisle's hand quickly and read it as quick as she could.
Once she was finished she looked up at me, her eyes were full of fear, she was scared, and so she should be. It wouldn't be normal for anyone to not be scared about this sort of threat. Alice was the only one out of all of us who knew what happened to my mother, because I told her.
"Carlisle, do you think I could tell you that part in private." I muttered, keeping eye contact with Alice.
"Certainly. Emmett, Edward go to your rooms please. Esme, could you take Alice upstairs." Carlisle instructed his family.
They all nodded apart from Alice who was reluctant to leave me.
"Go Alice, I'll be up shortly." I whispered to her, and kissed her forehead in a reassuring manner. Me and Carlisle watched as everyone went upstairs and waited until we knew that they couldn't hear us.
I sat down on the sofa and put my head in my hands. I could hear Carlisle going over to the carbonate in the corner of the living room, he soon returned to my side, sitting next to me. He handed me a large glass of what looked like whisky.
"Here, it will help keep your nerves calm." he muttered taking a sip of his own glass.
"Carlisle, about what happened to my mother, I'm going to do everything I can to prevent the same thing happening to Alice, I promise you that much." I promised him, Carlisle looked at me and placed his hand on my shoulder in a comforting manner.
"Jasper, why don't you tell me what happened to your mother." he said in a soft voice. I took a massive gulp of my whisky, letting it go straight to my head and burning my throat.
"She, She was raped then brutally murdered, Carlisle. I refuse to let the same thing happen to Alice. I don't want to die because of him, but I would rather get myself killed so Alice could be safe." I said taking another swig of my whisky.
"Jasper, I don't want anything to happen to either of you. I love Alice, she's my little girl, and I want her to be as happy as possible, but if she lived through this and you didn't, then I don't know what would happen to her. I will do everything in my power to keep both of you safe." Carlisle told me.
"I love her so much Carlisle, and if anything happened to her I will never forgive myself. I just wish none of this was happening, me and Alice could have a normal life together. I don't want any of this to get in the way of my plans." I said taking another gulp.
"What are your plans?" Carlisle asked me in a soft gentle tone.
"Well, I was thinking that once Alice turned 18, and if it was alright with you and Esme, I would ask her to marry me. And if she wanted to go to collage, then we would wait until after then to get married. Probably live together for a few years and then tie the knot. That was the main idea." I said, smiling at my plans of action, and then finished off my drink and placed the glass on the coffee table.
"Well Jasper, I completely approve of your plan, and I know for sure that Esme will as well." Carlisle said happily to me.
"Anyway, I think you have a young lady waiting for you upstairs." he said pointing in the directions of the stairs. I smiled and nodded at him.
"Thanks Carlisle, goodnight."
"Goodnight Jasper." he said quietly and I made my way upstairs. I walked past Alice's room, noticing that she wasn't in there so I made my way to my room. I opened the door to find her laying in bed, the light was off and I could see Alice curled up in the bed. I quietly got undressed and got into bed, I scooted over towards Alice and wrapped my arms around her. I could tell she was still awake as she murmured softly as I pressed a kiss to her cheek.
"I take it dad gave you some of his whisky." she muttered softly.
"Yeah, are you ok?" I asked her, Alice rolled onto her back to look at me.
"I'm ok, not brilliant, but I'm sure everything will be fine." she whispered softly to me.
"You know I wont let anything happen to you right?" I asked her, Alice looked at me.
"I know Jazz, I trust you with my life. I know its scary but we'll get through it, we just have to stay positive. We can work this whole thing out." Alice said softly and then leaned up and kissed me gently. When she pulled away I soon felt the effect of the whisky.
Me and Alice soon fell asleep in each others arms, from now on I wouldn't let her out of my sight, I would be overprotective of her and I would also ask Emmett and Edward to help me keep an eye on her to make sure nothing happens to her. I needed to keep her safe, she was the reason I lived, the reason I breathed. I wouldn't go on without her.