Wow this is turning into a wild ride. This was supposed to be a one shot and here we are at chapter 5. These guys will not stop yelling in my head. I hope you are all enjoying my insanity.
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Chapter 5
"Oh my God! Aly are you OK?" I could her Rose's voice, but it sounded far away. She sounded a little panicked so I knew I should open my eyes or speak or something to let her know I was in fact OK but I just couldn't seem to get my spinning brain to send the message to my eyes or mouth.
"Lay her on the bed. I'll get a damp wash cloth." Rose instructed. I realize that I am being held up by a pair of muscular arms. One of those arms slides under my legs a scoops me up. As I feely body go horizontal I try to remember what happened. I was laid softly on the bed and I can feel the soft down comforter under my back. Something cool and damp is plaaced on my forehead.
"Jasper what was she talking about? What bet?" I could hear the anger in her voice. Wait who the hell is Jasper?
"Rose I promised the guys" An oddly familiar voice answers.
"Whatever Aly over heard upset her enough to make her try running out of her like a bat out of hell and she passed out the moment she laid eyes on you. So I don't give a flying fuck what you promised the guys! Spill now!" Rose's voice escalates to the point that she yells the end bit.
"Aly? As in Emmett's little sister Aly? " why was that voice so familiar? And why was my body responding to it? I couldn't get my brain to jump start, but just the sound of that smoke and whiskey voice sends my body into overdrive.
"Oh God I'm so fucked. Em's gonna kill me." I hear a thump and then glass breaking. I could only guess the stranger sat rather abruptly on the bed side table and knocked over the framed wedding picture Em's kept there. The glass shattering when it hit the ceramic tile floor.
Why is he so afraid of what Emmett will do to him because if me. I struggle to make my brain work. To make sense of what they are saying.
"Not if I get to you first." Rose seeths. "Spill Whitlock."
Whitlock? With that single word it all came back. My eyes fly open and I gasp remembering the feel of his tongue on my body as he licked the salt from my skin, gazing into his deep blue need you eyes as we danced, the feeling of his cock finally sliding into me as he held me pinned up against the wall. I remembered the feeling of my heart shattering as I realized I had fallen deeply in love with a total stranger. I remember running from him as if my life depended on it and him chasing me begging me not to go. I remember watching him fall to his knees and thinking maybe I had made a terrible mistake in leaving him and I remember him pulling my ruined panties put of his pocket confirming that I was just some random bimbo he picked up to nail and bring her panties back as proof for all his friends to see. My heart breaking again as I relive each moment leading up to him walking into the room and my blackout. Jasper fell to he knees and grabs my hand.
"Thank God. Darlin' are you alright?" he asks his sapphire eyes full of worry.
I couldn't answer all I could do is stare at our connected hands. How could something feel so wonderfully perfect and and so horribly wrong all at the same time? I remember again the pain I felt watching him display my panties to practically the whole team with that cocky ass grin on his face. I snatch my hand away from his and cringe back away from him. I couldn't help but see the look of pain that flashed in his eyes as if he were the injured party here.
"Get back you ass, can't you see she doesn't want you to touch her." Rose yells pushing him back. He scoots back into the corner on his rear end and stares at me with those hurt eyes.
"Are you OK little one?" Rose had taken to calling me little one the day we returned from Italy. I had a terrible fight with my mother over my hair and I had stormed out of the house in a rage. Em called Rose and they found me right where she knew I'd be. At the mall sitting on the bench in front of Prada. She sat down next to me and took me in her arms and rocked me like my mother never did. She called me little one and said everything would be alright. Rose will make a great mother someday. She will never let her daughter feel like she's not worthy of love.
I look into her beautiful worried face and gave her a small halfhearted smile.
"I'm fine. It was just a shock. I'm sorry I worried you." Pulling the wash cloth off my forehead I sit up and hug Rose. Probably not the best idea since now she could feel my whole body trembling.
" OK I need some answers." she sits next to me on the bed keeping one arm wrapped around me. She looks to Jasper." I know what happened between you two last night. What I don't understand is how you happened to hook up with Aly instead of the guy I hired and what it has to do with the bet she overheard you assholes talking about."
I flinch a little when she gets to the part about hiring someone to hook up with me. Oh why can't a gaping hole in the time space continuum suddenly open up and suck me in.
"She knows everything that happened last night?" he asks his sad blue eyes searching mine. I couldn't meet his stare I turn away from him but nod.
How could he sit there in the corner looking like a puppy that had just been beat. I was the injured party here. Wasn't I?
"Jasper you better start explaining or I'm going to call Emmett in here and you can explain everything to him." I could tell by her tone Rose was very close to totally losing her patience.
Out of the corner of my eye I see Jasper flinch. Guess he defiantly did not want big brother involved. Of course he doesn't your brother will destroy him my brain yelled.
He jumps up and starts pacing.
"Rose you have to believe I had absolutely no idea who she was. I mean she..she" he stuttered "she said no names. If I had known I defiantly. I mean I probably wouldn't have.. wait what do you mean the guy you hired?" He asks zeroing in on the one thing I'd hoped he'd missed. He turns to me again looking for answers
Damn! I tense in Rose's arms. She looks at me and mouths 'Sorry". She then turns to Jasper.
"Stop changing the subject Whitlock. What the hell is this bet all about" she jumps up getting right into his face. "You've got five seconds to start talking or I start screaming. And when Em comes running you can explain to him why his wife is screaming and his sister looks like that." she yells pointing at me.
Trying to figure out what she meant I look at myself in the mirror over the dresser. My hair was a mess, my face was flushed, and my dress was all askew. In short I look like I had just had sex. I meet Jasper's eyes in the mirror and the look of lust I see there before he turns, sends a jolt of awareness through my body. The ache between my legs that if I was being honest with myself had been building since I opened my eyes and saw his beautiful face now became full blown need. God I hate myself for wanting him still.
"5,4,3," Rose counts off as she moves toward the french doors that lead out to the pool deck.
Now that I listen I can here my brother's booming laughter out by the pool. I can hear him and the others yelling Marco, Polo.
"Fine!" Jasper yells.
Rose's hand freezes on the door knob. She turns and walks back and sits next to me on the bed again.
"It's really more of a dare or an initiation. " He starts." Sure some of the guys made bets but it's really about me proving myself to be one of the guys."
He picks up his hat off the floor and sits in the chair across the room. Hanging his head he picks at a stray piece of straw on the hat.
"I really did not want to do it. I swear I turned them down, but they just kept at me chipping away until I gave in." He looks up at us. His beautiful eyes full if remorse." I know it's no excuse and it sounds juvenile, but I just wanted them to like me. I'm their quarter back. Their general. I had to make them accept me."
"So what was this initiation and who put you up to it?" Rose asks even though I think she already knew the answer to the second part of her question.
"Well,ah, I was supposed to go to Skeeters and pick up a lady and then bring her undies back to prove to the guys I had done it." He hangs his head again.
I was seething with anger, but I still want to walk across the room and take him in my arms and comfort him. God what's wrong with me? I need to stay angry. I remembered what I had heard from my hiding place in the bathroom.
"Now Jasper that's not entirely true is it. What you were dared to do was pick up a random bimbo, nail her, and bring her panties back as proof." I say quoting my brother exactly.
"Darlin' I'm so sorry you heard that." He at least had the decency to look ashamed .
Of course your sorry. Your ass is so busted my brain begged me to yell at him.
"Stop calling me that." I say instead. Every time he calls me darlin' in that sexy drawl of his my body responds. Why was it so hard to control my emotions around him. It was almost like he was controlling them. Even as I tried to hold on to my anger I kept feeling myself softening toward him.
"My friends call me Aly. You can call me Alice." I say trying to stay angry.
I watch as my words hit their target and he flinches. Good I want him to hurt as deeply as I do. Even as I thought it I knew it was a lie. No matter how hopeless this situation I am still in love with him. I know how inappropriate my feelings are, but there they are never the less.
"And who was it who put you up to this" Rose asks again.
She was now really calm, too calm. She was actually scarier like this than when she was yelling at full steam. If I wasn't so mad at him I'd feel really sorry my brother. Even Jasper realized the change in her and got up and was now standing with the chair between him and her.
"Do you want me to tell her or do you think you can manage to man up and tell her?" I challenge him.
"Oh I can defiantly manage to man up, but you already know that don't ya darlin'." He shoots back with a wink. Smirking as he notes the tremor that runs through my body at the images my mind conjures of him manning up. Damn him for staying so calm and still able to throw me like that.
"Who" she says quietly.
"Really it was all of the.."
"WHO!" she yells interrupting his stammering.
"It was Emmett" he finally admits.
"God damn mother fucker." Rose cusses under her breath as she stalks to the french doors again. "Emmett get you fucking ass in here now." she screams loudly to be heard over the music and the children laughing and playing.
I could see out the door from where I am sitting and I watch as everyone freezes and turns to gape at my furious sister-in-law. Emmett puts down the child he was about to toss into the deep end of the pool and looks at Rose. The confused expression on his face was almost comical. I couldn't help the small nervous laugh that escapes. I cover my mouth with my hand as my brother walks into the room wrapping a towel around himself..
"Rosy babe what's wrong?" He looks around taking in the occupants of the room. His eyes coming to a rest on me. "Aly what is it? What's happened?"
He turns furious eyes on Jasper. Without even realizing what I am doing I standd and position myself between them.
"Whitlock what the hell is going on here. What the hell did you do to my sister?"
His huge chest was heaving when I put both of my hands there to try and stop him from advancing on Jasper. I might as well have been trying to single handedly stop a run away train. I slid backwards until my back hit something hard. Jasper's body wraps around mine preventing me from being crushed between two solid rock walls.
"Emmett stop it you'll hurt her." Jasper yells at my brother trying to push him back with one arm.
The rage cleared from his eyes as he realizes I am pinned between him and Jasper. Rose walks over and pulls both of his arms causing him to take a step back. I let Jasper keep his arms wrapped around me. I tell myself it was the only way to keep him safe from my neanderthal brother, but really it was because being in his arms was more important to me than my next breath.
"Does someone want to tell me what the fuck is going on here." Emmett asks his fists clenching at his sides. "And why when I walked in here and my baby sister looked like she'd just had sex did Whitlock look so guilty."
"Calm down you ass. Jasper didn't lay a finger on Aly. Well not today anyway." Rose yells at him.
" Wait why are you yelling at me?" he askd turning to Rose. " And what do you mean not today?" He growls turning back to Jasper, the angry beast back.
"What did you stuff in your pocket when I walked in earlier?" Rose asks as he lunges at Jasper again. Effectively stopping him in his tracks. Em froze.
"Um. What?" he asks
"When you were in here earlier showing the boys the new duvet you shoved something in your pocket when I waked in. What was it?" Rose demands.
"Baby it was nothing. We were just messing around. You know boys will be boys and all." He answers. Jasper and I completely forgotten for the moment.
"Give them to me." Rose puts her hand out palm up.
"What? Baby I don't know what your tal.."
"Do not lie to me." She cuts him off.
Emmett reaches into his pocket and pulles out a now damp scrap of silk. He drops the tiny dripping pile into her hand.
"Rose baby I can explain." Em says hanging his head at being caught.
"Oh there' s really no need because I already know everything. Every disgusting detail of the initiation." Rose says her fingers raising in quotes at the word initiation.
Emmett raised his eyes and gave Jasper an evil look. Even though Jasper no longer had his arms wrapped around me his hand still rests protectively on my lower back so I feel him tense at the intensity in my brother's eyes. Em mumbles something under his breath that sounds like fucker. He takes a step in our direction.
"Don't blame Jasper." Rose interrupts " He just confirmed what Aly already knew. You see if you had bothered to check before holding your little club meeting you would have noticed your very upset sister in our bath room."
Emmetts shocked eyes meet mine and then close as he realizes what I over heard. Rose continues pacing between us and Emmett building up steam.
"Oh yes she heard you describe the details of the initiation." finger quotes again."How Whitlock here was to go to Skeeters and how did you put it? Oh yea. I love this part. Pick up a random bimbo, nail her, and bring her panties back as proof. Well we got the proof" Rose now sounds a bit hysterical as she throws my panties at my brother.
They hit him square in the chest, but falll to the floor as he made no attempt to catch them. He sat on the bed and pressing his head into his hands. I actually feel really sorry for him now. Ahhh jeeze what is wrong with me? Why can't I stay angry at the people I love? I step away from the sheltering warmth of Jasper as I remember I was supposed to be mad at him too. I move toward Rose.
"Everything OK in here?" It was Katt. She was one of the world famous Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Her husband is in the Army and away a lot so when she made the squad a few years back Rose hated the pretty cheerleader because she thought she spent to much time around Emmett. But at the 4th of July party that year Katt brought her husband who was home on leave and Rose could see how proud she was to be an Army wife and how much she loved her husband. Rose apologized for acting like such a bitch and they've been pretty close since.
I guess none of us realized the door to the pool area was still open. Hopefully the music was loud enough that every one had not heard everything.
"Hey Katt when did you get here?" Rose asks grabbing the door blocking the view of the room.
"Ah just a few minutes ago. Is everything alright?" she asks again worried.
"It's fine. Just trying to straighten out a little family disagreement. Why don't you guys go get a drink and we will all be out in a bit." Rose half pushed her out the door.
Shutting the door tight she turns back to us. It was as if an invisible line had been drawn down the center of the room. Rose and I on one side the men we love on the other standing accused.
"Rose baby I know your mad and this is no excuse, but it was just a stupid prank." Em says trying to soften her with his dark chocolaty eyes. "It's not like I sent him out to seduce some unsuspecting virgin, I mean I sent him to Skeeters for God sake. You know what type of women hang out there."
I flinch at his words, but he was right. Everyone knew if you were looking for sex with no string you went to Skeeters.
"Emmett shut up. You don't know what your saying." Rose tried to quit him.
"You know I'm right. Why do you think we send the rookies to Skeeters. All you gotta do is buy them a couple of shots and the women there will roll over and spread their legs."
"Shut the fuck up man." Jasper seeths through his clenched teeth.
To my surprise he looks like he is ready to pounce on Emmett. Both of his hands curled into claws like he wants to rip at Emmett's jugular.
"No he's right." I say all eyes turning to me." Women do go to Skeeters looking for one thing. And to be fair he's also right about the shots. All it took was two."
"Don't." Jasper begs. "You know it wasn't like that.
"What the hell is he talking about?" Emmett asks.
"Well precious brother you haven't heard the best part of the story yet. You see I was at Skeeters last night and those are mine." I explain pointing to where my panties still lay on the floor.
"WHAT!" Emmett explodes. He is off the bed and across the room before I realize he even moved. Jasper has only a split second to brace himself. Their bodies collide with a thunderous boom.
The forward momentum sends their bodies flying into Rose's great grandmother's antique Chippendale dressing table. Rose yells out in protest but it was too late. I watch in horror as the delicately carved legs shatter under their combined weight. Rose's eyes filling with tears.
"Emmett stop!" she yells. Running over and grabbing his arms. Trying in vain to move him off of Jasper. But he's in a blind rage. She can't budge him. I want to go to to try to stop this insanity, but I'm glued to the spot. Unable to move. I don't understand why, but Jasper is not fighting back.
"How could you? You fucked my baby sister." Emmett yells at him. Smashing his fists down on Jasper's body. "Fight me you bastard."
Jasper still does not fight back. This enrages Emmett and he wraps his enormous hands around Jasper's throat. Watching my brother literally trying to kill the only man I have ever loved I'm finally able to move. I fly across the room and jump on Emmett's back my tiny fists pounding on his back. He doesn't even flinch at the contact.
"Rose go get some help." I yell as Jasper's face turns an alarming shade of purple. I grab Emmett's hair and pull as hard as I can. Desperately trying to get him to stop.
Rose runs out of the room and I hear her yell for someone to come help. I hear heavy feet running into the room and then I'm being lifted off Em by Smitty. He tries pulling at Emmett's arms. Em just shoves him off.
"Emmett dude stop your killing him." Smitty shouts at him.
Three more large bodies rush in and help Smitty pull Emmett off of Jasper. He fights against them ,growling and snapping like a wild animal, trying to get his hands back on Jasper. I skitter around them and run to Jasper's prone form. There is blood pouring from his nose and his busted lip also his left eye is already swelling shut. I lower my ear to his mouth to be sure he's still breathing. I sigh in relief as I detect the sound of the air flowing in and out of his lungs. He groans as I gently raise his head to rest on my lap. I rip off part of his torn shirt to try and stop the blood flowing out of his nose. Tears fall from my eyes as I gaze down on his battered beautiful face.
"Oh darlin' don't cry." Jasper croaks at me raising his hand to wipe my tears away. I grasp his hand with mine holding it against my face. I turn and press a kiss into his palm.
"Why didn't you fight back?" I ask him.
"Because I hurt you. I deserved it." he answers sadly smiling at me. "Your brother was well within his right to defend his sisters honor."
"My brother is an over protective neanderthal." I shoot Em a dirty look. " You should have defended yourself."
Rose runs back into the room with Liam Rios and his wife Alyanna. Liam is the full back. He lead the team in Offensive tackles three seasons in a row. Em said no one protected their quarter back better than Liam. Alyanna thank God is a doctor.
Rose went to Em and tried to calm him. Alyanna and Liam walk over to us. Alyanna kneels down and inspected Jasper's injuries.
"Holy crap rookie you look like you were run over by a train." Liam observes.
"More like an angry bull." Jasper tries to joke.
He flinched when Alyanna examines his nose.
"Yep it's broken." She pronounces. Taking the cloth from my hand she cleans the blood off his face. "Everything else is superficial. Now I can pop it back into place and tape it up or we can take you to the ER. Your choice." She tells Jasper
"Not the first time." Jasper comments. "Go ahead do it."
"Baby go get my bag out of the car. It's in the trunk" Alyanna instructs Liam. He hesitates eyeing Emmett. Worried about protecting his quarter back. "Go on they got Em." She tells him glancing over her shoulder.
"Rose can you get me a wash cloth and a bowl of warm water with some mild soap please." Alyanna asks her.
Rose hesitated to leave Emmett, but she gets up and walks into the bathroom. She comes back quickly and hands Alyanna the wash cloth and bowl of water. She returns to sit next to Emmett. Alyanna soaks the wash cloth in the water and then gently washs Jasper's battered face. Liam returns with her bag and sets it next to her. She smiles up at him and thanks him. He sit in the chair and glares at Emmett.
"Aly help him sit up." she asks me as she pulls supplies out of her bag. " OK cowboy this is gonna hurt." She smiles at Jasper looking into his eyes.
She places her hands on either side of Jasper's nose and I hear the clicking noise of the bones being pushed back together. I gasp and flinch at the noise. The pain must have been horrible, but Jasper does not move at all.
She tapes his nose up and than puts her stuff back into the bag. Standing up she places the bag on the dresser.
"So does someone want to tell me what this is all about?" she asks looking from Jasper to Emmett."No, well I need a drink." She grabs her bag and walks out the door. Liam shot Em another warning look and follows her out.
"Guys can you give us a minute here?" Jasper asks the others.
They all hesitate looking at Emmett.
"I'm OK. I'm in control now." Emmett assures them.
They all get up and leave us alone. Rose closes the door. I help Jasper to stand. He keeps a hold of my hand.
"How could you?" Emmett asks in a sad voice eyeing our joined hands.
"Em I swear on my honor I did not know she was your sister." Jasper answers.
"Your honor?" Emmett laughs. "You fucked my sister against a wall in a dirty bathroom and then called and told me about it. Your honor means shit to me."
I tense up. I tried to pull away from Jasper. He would not let my hand go.
"No Aly you are not going to run away this time. You will let me explain." Jasper demands in a low whisper..
"What do you mean in a dirty bathroom?" Rose asks Em. Not noticing the interaction between me and Jasper.
"Whitlock called this morning and told me all about the hottie he picked up and banged in the bathroom stall." Emmett sneers.
"Who else did you fuck last night Jasper?" I scream at him. "Because you fucked me against the wall out side."
"What the hell. You screw my sister and then some other whore in the same night." Emmett yells not realizing how he'd just insulted me.
"Jasper how could you." Rose yells.
"Let go of me you dirt bastard." I scream trying to pull away from him.
"Stop!" Jasper yells at all of us. "Em I lied."
I stop trying to pull away
"What are you talking about?" Emmett questions him.
"Everything I told you was a lie. I made it all up. I didn't want to talk about what really happened so I made up the story about the girl in the bathroom." Jasper confesses." Those are not even Aly's" He points at my panties still laying on the floor. "I went to the store on my way here and bought some new ones to show you guys."
I look closer and realize he's telling the truth. My panties had been white those were pink. Why did he not just tell Emmett the truth? He didn't know I was Em's sister. Why would he go to such extremes? He spent over a hundred dollars on a decoy pair of panties.
"Why?" I ask. A single tear sliding down my cheek.
"Because darlin' I love you. You silly girl" he answers gently wiping my tear away.
I really intended this to be the last chapter. But I just could not find a way to wrap it up. So our ride continues. I promise upon my blue ray DVD of New Moon that there will be a full on Lemon in the next chapter. I also wanted to thank all of you that have added me to your alerts and your favorites.