Hey! New chapter up for Save Me! As always, thanks to my beta and bff Can't Decode Me for being my co-writer on this. You're freaking amazing. Also thanks to those reviewers/favoriters/alerters! You guys are awesome. Also: I'll be gone on vacation for two weeks without internet really so it will be a while before I (we)can post next! I(we) hope you enjoy this chapter!

We don't own twilight.

BPOV (CDM)

"Rose!" I exclaimed. "Why are we doing this again?"

Rose and Alice were here. At my house on the first day of school at 6 AM. I wanted to kill them. And Jasper was downstairs in the kitchen with my dad apparently. Alice just laughed from my bed as I sat at my desk while Rose tried to poke me in the eye with mascara.

"It's the first day of school Bella!" Rose explained cheerily. "You have to look nice."

I groaned and looked at my face, the bruises were mostly gone now and the cuts were almost healed but my face still looked scary as ever though. I needed cover up… ugh I hated wearing too much make up. I sighed and pointed to my closet.

"You can pick out my clothes then," I instructed. "I'll paint my face."

Rose rolled her eyes at me before rifling through my closet going, "oh...hmmm."

I took my make up bag and retreated down the hall to the bathroom so I could brush out my hair and brush my teeth. I let out a small squeak as the bathroom door opened suddenly. I covered my mouth quickly with my hand as Jasper emerged with his hands up in front of his chest.

"Whoa hey," he murmured softly. "It's just me. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

I shook my head and took a deep breath, putting my hand over my racing heart. "It's fine," I sputtered quickly.

Jasper stepped aside slowly and let me enter the bathroom before he retreated down the stairs muttering something under his breath. I shut the door quickly, almost slamming it, and fell against it. My heart was trying to run out of my chest but at the same time Jasper's voice sent a wave of calm through me that I haven't felt in a long time. Then that night came back to me, the smell of the dumpster, the stickiness of blood, the smell of his breath. Whoa hey, you're fine now. I'm not going to hurt you. He's gone. He can't hurt you any more, my savior had said to me. Why did it all seem so familiar now?

Bella, you are officially going crazy, I told myself as I quickly finished my make up. Emerging from the bathroom, I rushed into my room and found Rose and Alice giggling to each other while my outfit was laid out on my bed. I was honestly surprised to find that I actually really liked it. It felt like me-or at least the old me. I changed into my blue skinny jeans that faded white at the knee, and put on my red wine coloured sweater that Rosalie picked out. Which she then fashioned with a light brown braid belt, same brown coloured dress shoes and my favorite white tube scarf. I sadly had to admit even I thought I looked pretty good. Rose-1, Bella-0. Damn.

Rose and Alice stood on either side of me as we looked in my full length mirror. Ali stood on my left wearing dark blue jeans and a coffee knit long sleeve top with black and periwinkle flower sneakers. She was the complete opposite to Rose, who was on my right, wearing a black faux leather and knit skirt with a white and black trimmed layered tank top and black strappy wedges. They were perfect for each other. Rose handed me my brown leather bag, that she made sure matched everything else, and my black peacoat before we headed downstairs. Then I realized, I'm going to school. In a building full of people, empty rooms and locked doors. I don't think I can do this.

JPOV(CDM)

I stood with my arms crossed over my chest before sneaking a peek at my watch as Charlie stared at me from across the kitchen (I guess he heard I spent a month in juvie). I heard the girls in the hallway so I picked up my bag beside me and put it on my shoulder.

"Thank you for the coffee Chief Swam" I said as I stuck my hand out.

He shook my hand firmly with a tight smile, "You can call me Charlie. It was nice meeting you Jasper. If you need anything, just holler."

I nodded and stepped out the kitchen to wait for the girls at the bottom of the stairs. I watched Rose and Ali come down the stairs all smiles, looking very beautiful but then we all looked a little puzzled as Bella shouted down she'd just be a minute. Rose sighed and was about to go back up but I stepped forward and touched her shoulder gently.

"Can I try something please?" I murmured.

Rose smiled at me and nodded before returning to Alice, telling her to start the car up. I think Rose had a little too much confidence in me. I walked up the stairs and I could feel my pulse pick up. Being around Bella made me nervous but at the same time she made me swell up with pride. It wasn't pride of my actions but it was the pride to see her growing and moving on from it. Even if she doesn't realize it yet, she has a strong fighting soul and she'll come out of this stronger than even Rose did.

I found Bella's room and knocked on the door softly. "Bella?" I asked.

"Yeah?" I heard her sniffle.

I opened the door and left it wide open as I stepped in the door way. "Can I come in?"

She nodded and wiped her eyes, trying to make sure she didn't smudge the make up she had on. I walked in her room and adjusted the strap of my backpack. "I just forgot to put something in my bag," she stuttered.

I nodded, "It's okay to be scared, Bella."

That statement got her attention. Her beautiful brown doe eyes looked at me with confusion. "Rose tells me that I need to be strong."

"You do," I agreed. "The thing with Rosalie is though, is she wants you to do better in everything she couldn't have done when she was going through this. You've already proved to everyone you're strong. You need to focus on being you, and right now that you is scared. So be scared but don't let it hold you back. You know everyone in this small ass town, and they all know you."

"You have a higher percentage of being raped by a person you know than a stranger," Bella whispered.

I sighed and looked around the room. "Do you have something you really love? Something that no matter what, makes you happy or feel safe? Like, um… Rosalie has a little locket around her neck that has picture of me and Emmett in it. Just keep it in your bag and if you feel like you can't be strong today just touch it, hold it, look at it."

Bella bit her lip and looked around the room before she got down on her knees and reached under her bed. She pulled out a grey/white t-shirt. I studied it quickly as she folded it neatly. It was a Breaking Benjamin shirt with a celtic design in the middle and on the right side mid-torso there was a slash in it where it was ever so slightly stained red. Subconsciously my fingers reached to touch my stomach before she put the shirt in her bag and turned to me.

"Thank you Jasper," she whispered, then she surprised us both when she hugged me. I lightly wrapped my arms around her before I heard her take a deep breath and pull away. "Sorry."

"You're fine. Come on, we don't want to be late." I smiled.

God, please kill me now, I thought as I hopped into the backseat with Bella. Rose and Alice looked very please when we came out and Rose handed Bella a coffee form the front seat. "Charlie told me to give you that."

"Thanks Rose," Bella whispered, turning to look out the window. Anyone could tell she was nervous. As we pulled up to the high school, hell I got nervous. I didn't want to repeat this shit any longer. There is a reason I dropped out. I don't need that little piece of paper to say I'm smart, its fucking waste of time.

We all grabbed our stuff out of the car and felt all the eyes on us. Fuck this. "Rosalie I'm done. I'm going home." I said before she grabbed hold of my backpack strap.

"You're staying here," she hissed. "It's one year Jasper, to even. It's one hundred and eighty days."

"One hundred and eighty days of pure hell," I growled before doing some quick math. "That's 4320 minutes, 259200 seconds."

Alice, Rose and Bella turned to stare at me. "Did you just do that in your head?" Alice asked.

I nodded, and looked at them. "It's basic math."

Alice scoffed. "I'll pay you to be my tutor for basic math."

I rolled my eyes and followed them up the steps leading away from the parking lot to the outdoor area in front of the school. Rose started leading us to a table when Bella suddenly slipped in front of me and I reached out to steady her quickly, which sadly got coffee on my grey long sleeve shirt. Bella squeaked and apologized quickly. "Oh my gosh! Jasper I am so sorry!" she sputtered as Alice and Rose laughed at her.

I glared at Rose and she glared back. "Don't worry about it Bella, he has more than one shirt on anyways. And that's what you get Texan for not letting me dress you up."

I rolled my eyes and set my bag down on their table before taking my jacket off. "Rosalie I hate you."

"You love me!" she sang as I pulled my grey shirt off. She and Ali whistled before I threw it in her face. It was then I really felt the eyes on me. I looked beyond Rose and Ali to where a group of girls were standing who were practically undressing me with their eyes. I stood there in the chilly morning air in a black muscle shirt and black jeans with my usual black boots. I sat next to Rose and pulled her to me before looking over at Bella who looked away quickly with a blush playing on her cheeks.

"Aw Bella!" Ali teased her.

"What?" I asked looking between them.

"She finds you cute, look at that blush!" Alice teased again. "Don't worry Bella, remember I said that same thing at lunch. If I wasn't a lesbian I would totally go for you Jasper."

"What have I gotten myself into? I hate high school." I grumbled before looking at my watch. "Shit-I mean shoot. I'm supposed to be meeting Esme in the office for something. I'll see you girls later."

I grabbed my bag and threw my jacket on before entering the school where I found Esme standing in the office with a warm smile. "Right on time."

I nodded and then we were called into the principles office. What the hell is going on? He insisted we take a seat as his face held a cheery smile-this was definitely something different from Garret (my former principle). "Mrs. Cullen nice to see you again," he greeted. "And Jasper it is nice to meet you. I'm Mr. Smith, he principle here of Forks High."

"Nice to meet you to," I nodded.

"Now, Esme we just received Jasper's transcripts from his old schools and we weren't sure if you were aware of this," Smith started. Oh shit. "Jasper was a part of TAG during his eighth grade and freshman year. Do you know what that is?"

"Talented and Gifted students," I told her, slumping in my chair ever so slightly.

She went wide eyed. "I had no idea."

"We offer an excellent program here for TAG students from around Forks and we would be more than willing to place Jasper into it."

Esme looked at me, a little too excited. Before she could speak though I shook my head. "No thank you." Then she shot me a look-more like a glare.

"Jasper, from what I've seen you're a very bright guy. A very promising student."

I nodded. "I was told the same thing my freshman year. Mr. Smith, thank you for the opportunity but I do not want to be put into a special program."

Esme sighed and stood. "Bill thank you for sharing this. Carlisle and I will discuss this tonight and get back to you tomorrow morning."

Smith smile and nodded his head to both of us. "Of course Esme. Jasper you're schedule for now is waiting for you at the desk."

"Thanks," I said before following Esme out, holding the door for her.

After I retrieved my schedule, she glared at me. "Jasper, we need to talk about this. How come you never told me? Did Annie know? Does Tom know?"

I nodded. "They all knew. They just never said anything. We both know why. Es, I don't want to be in some program I've done it before and even that is like going to normal school for me. I just want to attend normal classes with Rose and get through this year."

Esme sighed and nodded. "Okay, Jasper but I am still telling Carlisle tonight when he gets home."

I nodded again. "Yes ma'am."

Then I headed back to the table where Rose was after Esme left and she deconstructed my schedule telling what I had with who. "You have each class with at least one of us! And you're last three classes after lunch are with Bella!" she squealed.

I smiled but inside all I wanted to do was scream.

APOV(SCC)

I walked down the hallway into my first period of the day, here we go. I liked school, but the first day was always overwhelming. I thought I was ready this morning, that is until I was walking into the door of my english class. At least I got to see Rose and Bella at lunch, hopefully Jasper too. I liked seeing Rose happy now about having him over. I knew they had their occasional bumps in the road, but when it came down to it all, I could tell that Jasper meant so much to Rose. I walked nervously to the back of the classroom, taking a seat in the back left corner, Stupid, really, considering I knew most every one of these people in my classes, I had for the past three years previous. Most of them went back farther than that, too. Maybe no one would watch me if I could just be hidden in the back.

"Good morning, welcome to my english class." Mrs. Goddard said. Her voice was a dull roar at most. Great, at least it will be a fun year in this class, I told myself sarcastically. I tried to keep myself awake, her voice was practically begging me to fall asleep. She took attendance for what seemed like half an hour, every name that was sounding familiar made me roll my eyes more. Mrs. Goddard then went over every lame rule, emphasizing the points like somehow we didn't hear her the first time.

The next three hours went the same, attendance, rules, supplies list for that class. I couldn't wait until lunch, until I could actually socialize with people I could be myself around. I couldn't believe it, I had somehow accumulated a load of homework to do tonight, and it was only the first day of school. What happened to senior year being a blow off year? Senior year being fun? Senior year being the last year for us to screw up before we actually had to get serious? I guess that plan just went out the window.

I slammed my locker shut, leaving the books and binders I didn't need for the rest of the day behind. I walked slowly to the front of the building to the cafeteria, excited to finally see Rose. I looked around for a minute before finding my baby, Jasper, and Bella sitting at the rounded table in the corner.

"Hi, honey, Jasper, Bella." I said, smiling and sitting down to kiss Rose's lips. Jasper and Bella said their "hello's" back, before going back to the light chatting.

"How was your first day so far?"I asked Rose, taking her two hands in mine.

"It was good. Typical first day. I missed you though." Rose said, frowning at me.

"Turn that frown, upside down baby girl." I smiled at her, kissing her again. I heard some guy snort and laugh as he walked past Rose and I, but I could have cared less. It only made me kiss Rosie more. To show her how much I love her.

Pulling away from her, I turned my attention towards Jasper and Bella, and that's when I first noticed them. Jasper's tattoos. Maybe I just hadn't paid attention thus far… but I knew that Jasper had a leather jacket on earlier this morning. Yeah, that was it, I would have noticed before if his tattoos were showing. My eyes wandered around, catching a glimpse of a tattoo on his back left shoulder. I couldn't quite make out the words, and tried to figure out in my head what it read. My eyes scanned again, finding two more. One on his inner left arm, and another on his right upper arm. That made three… how many tattoos did he have? It made me jealous, I wished I had a tattoo. All three of them looked beautiful, each in their own way. They were all vastly different from each other, holding no resemblance. Jasper turned to get up, throwing away an apple core in the nearby garbage bin in next to the table. I could read what it said: Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. The other upper arm/shoulder area had a big, dark rose with tiny petals. Jasper walked back over, leaning his elbows on the table. The last tattoo read: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

"Hey, Jasper?" I asked him, curious.

"Hmm?" He responded, playing with a bag of chips laying on the table.

"Will you tell me about your tattoos?" I asked slowly, trying to gauge his reaction. His face looked confused for a minute, before smiling.

"Uh.. yeah. Sure. They are kind of downers though." He smiled again, apparently not expecting my question to come so sudden. Or come at all. He pointed to his inner arm, "This one…it's kinda like a metaphor for wrong doings. People who do bad things are consumed by the devil."

Bella and I watched in fascination, while I'm sure Rose already knew the meanings. I squeezed her hand, looking over to smile at her. God, she was so beautiful.

"And this one," Jasper continued, pointing to the rose on his upper arm, "Is a blooming rose." He looked up at Rose and smiled, "It represents Rosalie here, and my mom. My mother's favorite flower was a rose. And then the last one here, it's about death. It is a Vonnegut quote from Slaughterhouse-Five. It basically means how when you are dead, nothing can hurt you anymore. And the peace that is beautiful." Jasper finished, looking up at us all around the table.

"Wow.. that is really cool." I was surprised to hear the familiar, small voice coming from the other side of the table. "I would have never thought about that." Bella said, smiling sheepishly at Jasper. Jasper laughed, making both Rose and I grin, and soon the whole table was laughing. It wasn't often that Bella said much to someone she didn't know well, but when she did, everyone loved to hear it.

I sat and picked at my lunch for the rest of the time, before getting up and departing from everyone for the day until we got home. I went to my fifth period class, not being friends with anyone from that class. I gazed boringly out the window, waiting to go home. This school year would take longer than I thought.

The bell finally rang, letting the prisoners know it was time to get released from the jail cells. I walked again to my locker, grabbing everything for the night to do my shit load of homework to do. I closed my locker with a kick and walked down the hallway to meet Rose at her locker; Bella and Jasper were already waiting for me at my car. I found Rose standing there, grabbing another textbook to put in her bag before closing her locker door as well.

"Hey." I said quietly, leaning over to kiss her.

"Hey you. You okay, babe? You look upset." Rose told me, taking my hand in hers while we walked down the hall and out the door to meet Jasper and Bella. They would always be ahead of Rose and I since they had the last period together and their class was at the end of the hall.

"I'm fine, just a long day, that's all." I told her. We chatted about our classes and teachers, some of them we had the same. That wasn't hard to do, considering how small Forks High School's student body was. I looked up before realizing who Jasper was walking over to, down in the parking lot. There was a girl with blue hair sitting on the back of a motorcycle, along with a guy. Jasper left his backpack on the ground, bringing Bella along with him. I was assuming that was Peter and Charlotte, both Jasper's good friends. I had heard a bit about them, but not much. What surprised me was seeing Jasper caress the girl a little too tenderly, and I thought Peter was Jasper's best guy friend, and Charlotte was his long time girlfriend. They looked nice from here, but I wasn't sure what to do. So Rose took the lead and pulled me along. We walked to where Jasper was at, Rose taking my hand and squeezing it.

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