I am EXTREMELY sorry that I have not updated sooner. I have been busy with our school musical FOOTLOOSE which has been very successful. Except for the night when a girl broke the pumpkin. We have a musical ritual where you all have to kiss the pumpkin before a show, and a girl broke the pumpkin and the show was unlucky then. They have problems with the lights and the angle grinder, a sign almost fell on me and a friend, and to top it all off, our male lead's fly was open nearly a whole scene. I won't name who he is (Shane Miranda) but he is a recorded singer who has songs on our local radio. Thak you for the marvellous reviews and I'll let you read now.
I woke up just before dawn the next morning, the sun peeking through the cracks in the tin roof. Jasper was snoring delicately, his mouth hanging open. I tried to get out without a noise. I failed. I hit the side of the truck and jumped up in pain, hitting my head on the roof and falling back down to the truck with a thud. He sat up quickly as I rubbed the spot on my hip where I came down.
"Are you okay?" Jasper asked me, yawning and stretching as I got down off the truck, successfully this time.
"Yeah, I'm good. I should probably just get back home before Charlie wakes up and demands to know where I've been."
"Alright. See you soon," he replied, kissing my lips softly before I went out the door.
* * * * *
Charlie was just waking up when I climbed back through my bedroom window. He saw me walking into the bathroom as he walked out of his bedroom door.
"Morning Bells. I saw the note on the door last night when I went to get a drink. I hope you had a nice night last night. I wasn't expecting you to be coming back for breakfast."
This surprised me to no end.
"So you were okay with me sneaking out of the bedroom, to go and sleep in the back of a truck with my boyfriend, and returning back in the early hours of the morning?"
"You've always been a lot older than your age, and so has Jasper. I trust you two to be responsible and mature with each other. Although I didn't hear that you two were dating until just now."
"Yeah, he asked me yesterday. I'm just still confused that you were okay with me sneaking out."
"It's okay Bella. Like I said, your more mature than your age and I trust you two to be responsible."
Charlie disappeared into the kitchen while I went into the bathroom to take a shower.
* * * * *
I met Jasper in the parking lot of the school. I walked over to him and he pulled me close to him and caught me in a kiss as soon as I was near.
"Good morning Bella. Miss me?"
"You wish." But I leaned in to kiss him again.
It was just our luck that Rosalie pulled up with Alice, Emmett and Edward in her little, red convertable. With the top down. I could feel the blush creeping onto my face as the boys whistled at us and the girls squealed at us. I pulled away from Jasper quickly to avoid more noise, but Jasper reeled me back in.
"Okay, guys, you can be quiet now. You saw us yesterday, so please don't do this everyday. You never did it with Alice and Edward."
"That's because Alice is the one that makes a fuss of it all, and she was the one being fussed over."
I traded Jasper's waist for his hand and we walked into school, everyone staring at us.
"Jasper, everyone's staring at us."
"It's only because you are the most gorgeous person to grace the face of the Earth."
"Me? Grace? The first time you saw me here I tripped over a book I didn't know I had dropped."
"But it was a graceful trip, if I may say so myself."
I rolled my eyes and went into the classroom.
* * * * *
A thunderous noise broke me out of my concentration of Sense and Sensibility. We were studying it for English, which I already did last year in Forks. They musn't get any new worksheets on it, because they were the same ones I got in Forks.
I looked out the window and gasped in astonishment. There sat a faded red 1953 Chevy truck. In the front seat was an ecstatic Jasper, waved madly for me to go out and join him. I hurried out the door, barely calling out where I was going to Charlie and met Jasper in the truck.
"Oh my god! I can't believe it's finished! This is so awesome!"
"Yeah, I really had to hound Rosalie about finishing it quickly. She's been working on it for at least a month, longer than it took to find all the parts and get it built."
"I'll have to thank her."
By now we were in the middle of the paddock and getting out of the truck. He pressed his lips to mine.
"I know a way you can thank me."
"How?" He didn't have to answer. He just crushed his lips up against mine and lifted me up into the bed of the truck.
"Are you sure?" I asked him.
"I've wanted you for so long. We belong together, Bella."
He climbed up into the truck with me.
* * * * *
I woke up to water slowly dripping on my face. It was raining, and if the thunderous black cloud was anything to go by, it was going to get a lot heavier.
Just as the thought left my mind, it started pelting down.
"Shit, I'd better go inside and start Charlie's dinner and explain where I've been."
"Oh no, we forgot-"
"Don't worry about it, it's alright." I'd been on the Pill for as long as I could remember, saving Charlie from the torture of periods, tampons and cramping. I climbed out of the back and into the front where Jasper was now going to drive me home.
When I reached the front door, I reached up on my toes to kiss him goodnight.
"Thank you for this afternoon. It was the best thank you I'd given anyone."
"It was the best thank you I'd received." I kissed him again and then disappeared inside the door.
Charlie was okay with me being out the rest of the afternoon. He had picked up a pizza on his way back from the station. I went to the bathroom first, to freshen up.
I reached into the cupboard for my moisturiser, and a little packet fell out. I gasped in horror. In the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday bubbles, there were three little white pills, sitting in a row, mocking me from their blister casing.
What had I done now?