It was almost three weeks after our fight when Allison finally came into my room one dark evening. With Jasper and I's friendship budding as well as a newfound confidant in Rosalie, neither Allison nor I have had to do much to avoid each other completely. Of course it hasn't just been me, Allison has been spending more and more time working, and less and less time bothering with mending our already crushed relationship.

"Lina." Allison pats the comforter just next to where my legs are cuddled up under the warm blanket.

I take my headphones out slowly, doing everything that I can to avoid the awkward conversation that I am bound to have with her.

"Yeah?" I mutter, childishly continuing to do my literature homework.

"I think we need to talk." she sighs, looking down at the ground before continuing "I know I haven't always been around, and I am sorry for skipping away and never coming back. I know that I never appreciated mom and dad like I should have, and I definitely have not been appreciating you as much as I should be. Calina, I almost lost you. I almost lost everything."

I let it soak in, had Allison been around, I could have lost her too, and that is a scary thought. We both mull things over, and I think that in this moment we realize that we truly are the only parts of our lives that have remained constant.

"We have to stick together, don't we?" I finally speak, making eye contact with her for the first time. For so long I've been focused on my own losses, writing off those of Allison because of her move. She lost a family as well, and for a while she even lost her sister.

"Always. Calina, I will not leave you again. I know my word doesn't mean much right now, but I swear it." She clasps her hand in mine, and I offer her a small smile.

"I promised some friends from work that I would go grab a drink with them tonight, we just got a high profile company on board with a deal, so the whole office is going out for some celebratory alcohol." She frowns "But if you want me to stay, I definitely can, and I can go get us some Chinese or something." She adds quickly.

I laugh lightly, taking my hand back as I study my sister. She looks like she's aged five years in the past four months, and it saddens me to think that she's had to give up her dream firm to finish raising me where mom and dad left off.

"Go, Allison, celebrate with them. I'm going over to the Cullen's house later anyways." I encourage her.

"Oh, so you're going to see your little boyfriend then?" she teases.

"He's not my boyfriend." I groan, rolling my eyes at the smirk plastered on her face.

She jumps off my bed, tossing a whimsical "yet." Over her shoulder giddily.

I go back to finishing my literature, glad that I don't have our fight hanging over my shoulders anymore. By the time I've finished, Allison is long gone, and Alice has sent me about a thousand texts asking me when I'm coming over.

I roll my eyes at her antics, texting her to let her know that Jasper can come get me whenever he wants. Her response is so quick that I almost worry for her sanity, but I know it's just Alice, and the way that she operates.

I'm on my way over.

A message from Jasper lights up the tiny screen on my phone. I don't bother responding, knowing that he's going to come over either way.

The knock on the door ten minutes later confirms that thought, and I push my way out of my bed, blushing when I realize I don't have time to change the sweatshirt I've been nestling myself into for the past month that Jasper gave me in the diner.

I nearly throw myself down the stairs, flinging the door open to let Jasper in. Instantly every part of my being feels safe, and I wrap him up in a hug. He holds me close, resting his chin on top of my head. Part of me wants to just stand here forever.

Jasper chuckles when he tries to release me, but I just keep holding on.

"Do we have to go over tonight?" I ask him, pouting as I glance up at him.

He has a charming grin on his face, and he laughs at me antics. His eyes search mine, and I wish I could just know what he's thinking even for a moment.

"Your wish is my command." He sweetly replies, and I take his cool hand into my own.

"You're so cheesy." I tease as I lead him to my room up the stairs.

"Only for you." He jokes, but part of me jealously wishes that I am the only girl he's cheesy with.

Since the night in the car, my feelings for Jasper have increased tenfold, and it utterly frightens me. It doesn't frighten me when he's with me, but as soon as he leaves those doubts start to plague me, and I wish that instead of being away from him and worrying, that I could just spend every moment of my time with him. That thought is even more terrifying. I've never been one to fall quickly, and even if it has been over three weeks of friendship already, I am still scared.

Jasper nudges my hand with his own, getting me to look up at him. He cocks his head like he's wondering exactly what is happening in my head, but he doesn't say a word. I take that as my chance to distract him from my worry.

"So, since we're going to play hooky tonight, what should we do?" I smile up at him, jumping onto my bed. He watches me with an undiscernible look, but still grins when I continue to bounce up and down on the bed.

"Whatever you would like, I'm open to anything."

"Well, I have lots of DVDs." I jump off the bed, elated that he has chosen to stay with me.

"Alright then." he sits stiffly on the chair at my desk, watching me fumble through my DVD shelf of the built in along my wall.

"Jurassic Park, Blair Witch Project, The Lion King." I start listing off a few movies to him, throwing them out onto my bed "Titanic." I add another to the list, and he chuckles.

"What a wide range of movies." He smirks, looking a bit more comfortable.

"Well, are you feeling horror, or dinosaurs, or space I have the new Star Wars movie in here, or tragedy?" I rush out, rocking back and forth on the balls of my feet as I wait for his answer.

"I really am open to anything, although I've never seen Jurassic Park." He admits sheepishly, and I gasp, grabbing the movie quickly.

"You have to see it, when I was little, I was obsessed with Dinosaurs, and it's super cheesy, but you'll love it." I ramble as I put the movie into the player, turning on the TV across from the bed.

"Great." He murmurs, watching me fumble and trip over literally anything I can.

I start to calm down when the DVD is finally in the player, and I smooth out my shirt, turning to smile at the blond boy who's watching me like I'm the most fascinating thing he's ever encountered.

"So, movie time." Turning off the lights I sit down on my bed, nestling myself into the blankets and pillows my mom insisted were totally necessary when we redid my room a year ago. Frowning lightly at the memory, my eyes flit over to Jasper who looks incredibly uncomfortable.

He's leaned back in the chair, his arms crossed, and his face drawn in a tight line like he's focused on something beyond just the movie.

"Jasper, you can come sit on the bed with me." I pat the spot next to me, even if he doesn't want to be in my space, the bed is still plenty big for him to at least be comfortable.

His focus breaks and he looks over at the spot next to me, his golden eyes flickering in the changing light of the preview playing softly on the television. If I was the superstitious type, I would believe that his beautiful features are in no way human.

"Are you sure? The chair is okay." He looks nervous, like he's worried I don't actually want him next to me.

"Stop trying to be such a gentleman, and get over here." I laugh, pulling back the blankets to give him room.

He chuckles, and takes me up on my offer just as the menu pops up on the screen. My heart beats a mile a minute when his arm brushes against mine, and I swear I feel like I could explode from the electricity of his touch.

"Welcome to Jurassic Park, Jasper." I whisper, pressing play and cuddling into my blankets.

"I've always wanted to go." His head dips to whisper in my ear, lips impossibly close to my ear. A wave of nerves and excitement courses through me, but almost as quickly as it comes, it's gone.

We watch the first part of the movie without words, every time I look over at him, he's more enraptured by the dinosaurs and movie than before. I can't help but smile as I watch his facial expressions fluctuate as the movie lurches onward.

I know he must feel my gaze on him, but he doesn't embarrass me by saying so. Part of me wonders if feeling like I could sit and be content with watching him forever, but I write it off, knowing that even the thought of it is absurd.

"You're watching me more than the movie." Jasper finally states as the T-Rex maims yet another person.

"Sorry, I just." I can't find the words to explain how unhealthily infatuated I have become with every little thing he does.

"Don't understand?" he finishes for me, turning to look down at me with his handsome golden eyes.

"Yeah." I mutter, playing with my hands to distract myself from his gaze.

He doesn't say anything, just wraps his arms around me and holds me gently. My heart works into overdrive, and I want nothing more than to stay locked in his arms forever.

"Time is all it will take." He promises, and even though I don't fully understand what he means, I'm comforted by his words.

I wrap myself up tighter in his arms, and rest my head on his chest, unable to see the screen anymore. It doesn't even bother me, because for the first time in four months, I want sleep to engulf me.

"Jazz?" I murmur as my eyes start to close.

"Yeah?" he whispers back, tucking some of the hair that has fallen into my face back behind my ear.

"I think I have a massive crush on you."

He laughs the most genuine and beautiful laugh I've ever heard, and runs his cool fingers down my cheek.

"I know I have a massive crush on you Calina Laraunt."

My heart soars, and my body sleeps, completely unprepared for the night ahead. It's like being with Jasper makes me forget the darkness, but even Jasper cannot make the darkness forget me.

Sometimes, the most predictable things can be completely unpredictable.