I forced my eyes open as I could feel sleep drift away from me, I yawned, my breath still smelling of whisky from the night before. When my eyes were open they soon focused on my surroundings, Alice had her back pressed against my back with my arms around her waist.
I looked over her shoulder, I could tell she was awake, her hands were holding my wrists. She was observing my scars from my attempt of taking my own life.
I could feel her soft fingers graze over the white bumpy skin, she seemed almost mesmerized by them, she hadn't noticed I was awake. I turned my head a gently kissed her cheek.
"Good morning" I muttered sleepily into her ear, Alice turned round in my arms to look at me. She didn't look too good, she looked sleep deprived and upset. I wondered if she'd been crying, I'd never seen Alice cry but during this whole thing going on with my step father I wouldn't be surprised if she had been crying.
"Morning" she whispered back to me, even her voice sounded tired and strained.
"What's wrong?" I asked her, Alice pulled away from me slowly so that she could sit up.
"Nothing, just tired." she lied to me, something must be wrong if she's lying to me, I sat up next to her.
"Alice, its ok to be upset. You don't have to be brave all the time, if your scared that's fine, its completely normal. I wont love you any less if you admit your fears to me." I said, trying to show her that she can open up to me and that I wasn't there to judge, just to listen and comfort her.
"I'm scared Jazz." she said softly, her voice was crackly, I could hear her tears begin to make their escape. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her closer.
"It's ok to be scared." I whispered. Alice turned round in my arms and buried her head in my chest and started crying her heart out. I could feel her warm tears run down my skin quickly.
"I'm so scared Jazz, I don't wont to die." she muttered through her sobs into my chest. I tightened my grip around her body, holding her as close to me as possible.
"No one wants to die Alice, and I promise you that nothing will happen to you." I said as I ran my hand through her short hair.
"I don't want to loose you." she added, her nails dug into my arms as she clutched to me with her life, I didn't feel any pain from her grip though.
"Shh, you wont, nothings going to happen to us." I said trying to calm her, but her tears kept coming. I wasn't surprised at this fact, she'd been holding back these tears for so long that they had to come out sooner or later.
Alice pulled her head away to look at me.
"How do you know that?" she asked me, her eyes welling up again, her tear stained cheeks
I was silent for a short moment as I looked at her upset state.
"Because I wont let anything happen, I'm going to do everything it takes to keep us safe. I don't care what we have to do." I told her, my voice seemed confident enough. Alice wiped the tears from her eyes and looked at me again, silence filled the room and I just brought her close to me again in a warm comforting embrace.
Alice rested her head on my shoulder, I could feel her warm breath against my neck as she breathed softly trying to calm herself down.
We stayed like that for almost an hour, in each others arms, in complete silence. Our silence was broken when the bedroom door opened slowly, we both looked at the door in unison, Esme stood at the door, she looked troubled.
Alice then looked at the clock.
"We're late for school." Alice murmured removing herself from my hold.
"Your not going to school today, Alice." Esme spoke softly, Alice stood there with her shirt in her hands looking puzzled at her mother.
"Charlie's here, he and Carlisle would like to speak to the two of you." Esme's voice was just over a whisper. She soon left closing the door behind her.
I slowly got out of bed a made my way to my clothes.
"I wonder what's going on" Alice said more than asked as she got dressed.
"I have no idea." I muttered to her as I pulled on my shirt. We changed in silence and went down stairs, for some reason my body was nervous, I didn't know why but I felt as if I should be scared. Me and Alice walked hand in hand towards Carlisle, Charlie and Esme, Esme was sat on the sofa and Carlisle was sat in one of the arm chairs, watching as me and Alice sat down.
Charlie was stood in front of the coffee table, Carlisle looked worried while Charlie had a serious face, he was dressed in his police uniform, so this meant this wasn't a social call.
All their eyes were on us as we made our way to the spare seats on the sofa next to Esme.
"What's going on dad?" Alice asked her father, Carlisle looked up at Charlie before he answered, he then looked down at his hands.
"We've come up with a solution that may help us catch your step father." Carlisle said looking at us, usually I would have thought that this was a good thing, but something in his voice told me I wasn't going to like this solution, and neither was Alice. Alice picked up the sound of his tone as well, she turned and looked at me with worried eyes, her hand griped to mine tightly.
"What is it?" I asked, Carlisle looked back down at his hands.
"We were thinking about separating the two of you, if your step dad really wants to kill the two of you he'll strike one of you whilst the other is away, and that's where we come in. I can promise you both that you will be protected fully if we went through with this plan, we just need the both of you to approve." Charlie said as he looked down at us.
So that was their plan, split us up for god knows how long and use us as bait until my step dad struck. I looked at Alice, her face was covered with concern and worry. She didn't like this plan, neither did I but I had promised her that I would do what ever it takes to keep her safe, and this was the main test.
"What would happen, were would one of us go?" Alice asked, her eyes at the floor to prevent from us all seeing how upset she was.
"One of you would stay here under observation and the other would go to Seattle and stay in a hotel your fathers paying for, also being under full observation. The only bad side to this is that you wont be able to make any form of contact to each other or anyone from this family." Charlie's words made my head shoot up.
"I know its harsh, but we've had to do this before, and It worked then so it should work now." he said, I ran my free hand through my hair.
We were all quiet for a moment before Alice spoke up.
"So, how do we decide who goes and who stays?" she asked no one in particular.
"I'll go to Seattle." I said, I'd feel a little better knowing Alice was with her family, it wouldn't be fair to ask her to leave me and them as well.
Alice looked at me and opened her mouth as if she was going to argue with me about my decision, but when she saw how serious I was about my choice she didn't say anything.
"It would only be temporary, I wouldn't ask the two of you to do this for a long time. If he didn't react within 4 weeks then we would bring Jasper back, but if he did make a move once he was gone, then Jasper would be home quicker." Charlie said leaning down to Alice's level, he could tell she was upset about the whole thing.
"When would he leave?" Alice asked, her voice a whimper as she fought back the tears.
"As soon as possible, we'd need to leave almost immediately so that we could put a stop to this sooner." Charlie told her, I watched Alice's face and I saw that one tear escape her eyes and run free down her cheek. Esme moved closer and wrapped her arms around Alice as her tears became more wild.
"I should go and pack then" I muttered, Charlie just nodded slowly to me, Carlisle looked hurt to see his daughter in this state.
I stood up and walked towards the stairs, I looked back to see that Carlisle had taken my seat to help Esme comfort Alice. It broke my heart to see Alice like this, and I realized how much this was my fault.
I made my way to my room and started packing my things. It took me about 15 minuets to pack everything I needed. I took a picture of me and Alice that Esme had taken of us one day and put it in my bag, my blue hoodie was hung on the back of the chair in my room. I knew how much Alice loved wearing that hoodie, so on my way back down stairs with my stuff I went into Alice's room.
I placed the hoodie on her bed, I looked on her bedside table and saw the exact same photo that I had packed of the two of us. I took a deep breath to try and keep myself together. For Alice's sake.
I then continued with my way down stairs, I placed my bags near the door and walked back to Alice. She got up from her parents and ran into my arms and cried her heart out. My shirt was getting damp from her sobs, but I didn't care.
I pulled her close to me and buried my head into her shoulder.
"I love you, so much." she whispered into my chest.
"Everything will be fine, Alice I promise. I'll come back and we can continue living our lives the way we should." I whispered into her ear.
"How am I going to live with out you for 4 weeks?" she asked me in between sobs.
"You'll find a way, your family will keep you safe and look after you." I reassured her. Charlie's hand landed softly on my shoulder.
"We should go Jasper." he said to me in a soft tone, I just nodded and pulled Alice from my chest so I could look at her. Alice walked with me and Charlie to the car that was ready for me.
I slung my bags in the boot and went back to Alice.
"I love you, Alice and I'm going to make all this up to you when I get back. I'll miss you." I said softly and kissed her forehead, when I pulled away Alice looked up at me, she leaned up slowly and kissed me passionately.
Her touch was soft but upsetting, I hated leaving her like this but at least I knew that she'd be safer with her family, I wouldn't have to worry as much. Don't get me wrong I would still worry like hell, but it wasn't like I was leaving her to fend for herself.
When Alice pulled away she stayed close to my body, almost refusing me to go anywhere, her eyes looked torn between doing the right thing and doing what would she would like.
I looked over at Carlisle as he walked over and wrapped his arm around Alice, softly tugging her away from me.
"I'll keep her safe Jasper." he told me, I just nodded at him and looked back down at Alice.
"I should go" I muttered to her, Alice's face fell even more. I leaned down and kissed her quickly but lovingly.
"I'll be back in a few weeks love, done worry." I told her, Alice watched me get into the car and walked up to the opened window.
"Stay safe Jazz." she whispered to me.
"You too, Alice. I love you." I whispered back to her and kissed her cheek gently.
Our eyes stayed locked to each other as the car slowly started to roll away from her. I turned in my seat to watch her as Esme and Carlisle hugged their daughter tightly.
They were soon out of sight as we made our way onto the main road. So this was it, 4 weeks away from Alice, I was leaving her with my murderous step dad on the loose. He would either come after me or her, I knew one thing for shore, I wouldn't be sleeping well for the next 4 weeks with out my Alice next to me.