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I took my time getting ready for school. It was stupid, as I knew I would have to face Lucy eventually, but I still wanted to put it off for as long as possible. I went downstairs and met my mum in the kitchen.
'We need to have words.' She said and I could hear the anger in her voice. 'You can't just go storming out the house like that Beth. I had no idea where you were and you didn't answer your phone! And then when you do finally come in, you don't even have the decency to tell me you were back! I come into your room and there you are asleep!' I sat in silence while she shouted. There was nothing I could say that would calm her down so I didn't bother. I just took it.
Eventually I noticed she had stopped shouting. I sighed as I made my way out to my old banged up car. Time to face Lucy and what she had told everyone else I had said. I wasn't too excited.
The journey to school wasn't long enough, and before I knew it I was in the car park. Brandon was standing in my normal spot and as I got closer I rolled down my window.
'Did you really have to pick a fight with Lucy? I mean it's just so much harder on her when I have to pick sides. I mean it could've at least been someone I didn't like...' He said smiling at me. It was nice to know someone cared about me, I thought to myself grudgingly.
'C'mon Brandon, you don't seriously think I picked a fight with her?' I asked him as I stepped out the car.
'No, I don't even know what it's about. It's just that Izzy gave me a lift in today and mentioned you two had a fight. But which one of you told Izzy? That's got to be a bad idea...' He said still chuckling to himself.
'I didn't say anything to Izzy, and it wasn't even a fight! I said I couldn't go to the cinema on Friday and she went crazy on me!' I still couldn't believe how out of proportion this was. I had done nothing wrong.
'Well I'm not even going to get into it. You girls are all crazy.' Brandon stated. I glared at him. I thought I might have him on my side but it looked like he was staying well clear.
'Thanks, Brandon, thanks a lot.' I said sarcastically. We headed towards the school building and I felt less worried. Brandon was right; it was a ridiculous thing to have an argument about and Lucy should know that.
As we entered our homeroom all confident thoughts left me. Sure, it was a petty argument, but Lucy and I never argued, no matter how small.
She was sitting on a desk on the opposite side of the room. Izzy was nattering away to her and a few other girls but she wasn't concentrating. As I walked in she stood up and started towards me.
'Okay, let's be honest,' her voice was low, it didn't sound cheery. Her face didn't look overly happy either, 'this whole not talking thing really sucks. Can we quit it?' She asked me. I couldn't deny that I was surprised.
'I'm surprised you held up that long.' I said jokingly. I tried to keep my tone light, but I couldn't help feeling relieved, she had been my best friend since... well forever. A large smile spread cheek to cheek on both our faces as she pulled me into a hug.
'I told you it was a ridiculous thing to argue about.' Brandon said from behind us. I turned to glare at him and heard him chuckle. Things were back to normal, even if they hadn't been not normal for very long. I laughed to myself at how ridiculous it really was.
The morning flew by in an average fashion, and I was pleased I could still sit next to Lucy and not be uncomfortable which was what I wasn't what I was expecting when I woke up.
I had Physics next, but it wasn't my best subject. None of my close friends were in my class, so mostly I sat next to Chloe. She was close friends with Izzy, but I didn't really know her. It just meant she gossiped to me about people I didn't even know attended the school.
I looked up at my seat as I entered the classroom. It's not the fact that there was someone sitting in it that surprised me; it's who it was sitting there.
Our eyes met and Jasper smiled back at me. As I approached the seat he spoke up.
'You were right you know; sitting around moping isn't the way to go. You've got to get up and face the world. I have to carry on.' He was smiling as he said it. I couldn't help the feeling of pride that spread through me. Before he had refused to return home, yet now he was at school. It was such a big thing I went to hug him, but remembered his problem with closeness and awkwardly leant away. He chuckled.
'So are you back at home?' I asked, moving on from my weird bobbing movement as I tried to disguise my failed hug.
'Yeah. I went home this morning, caught the others getting ready for school. Carlisle said he enrolled me in every school they'd been to since I left. He always hoped I might come back and slot straight back in I guess.' He shrugged.
'And here you are.' I smiled, gesturing at the room around me. He smiled back.
'Thanks to you.' He said quietly, staring at me so intensely I had to look away.
We spoke very little in the lesson. It was weird, trying to be with Jasper in an everyday situation. Our conversation normally flowed smoothly, but it was based around vampires, werewolves and Alice; it wasn't really the kind of thing we could have a discussion about in a Physics lesson.
At lunch Ruby came rushing over to me.
'Jasper's back! He came in this morning! He just turned up, said something changed him over night! You're okay with it right? I mean we're so happy! He's like a different man! He's actually happy!' Her voice was high with excitement it made me want to give her a hug and dance around.
'Good for him,' I smiled broadly back at her, 'and of course I don't mind, he knows whether he can hold himself together or not, and he obviously can.' I was still smiling; Ruby's mood was so infectious.
'Really? I mean you don't have like, I don't know, a personal vendetta against him or anything?' I had to laugh at this; she didn't know he had spent the night in my room and I had been seeing him almost every other day. It was due to my powers of persuasion he was back.
'Of course.' I said still smiling at Ruby. She glided back over to her table, but there was a new bounce to her step. In fact their whole table seemed to have their mood lifted thanks to Jasper. I smiled at the thought.
I turned at sat down at my table. I looked back up at the Cullens in time to see Jasper come in with Emmett. Jasper glanced swiftly in my direction, smiling with a nod. I smiled shyly back. He always managed to make me feel like I was two feet tall. Lucy's voice brought me back to our table.
'Who's the hunk giving eyes at you then, huh?' She asked, eyeing Jasper up. I stopped her quickly before she could think up anything to spread to anyone.
'He's with the Cullens,' was as far as I got before I realised I didn't know his story. Was he someone's brother or cousin? I stopped before I mucked anything up.
'Of course.' Lucy sighed. 'I should have known really. I mean, look at him.'
She gazed at him a little longer before turning back to the others at the table and I chuckled to myself. I glanced over and Edward caught my eye. I noticed he was laughing too.