Challenging Humanity
Chapter 21: Jasper's Past
Edward POV
After we all ate at Kim's, Emmett got a message from dad explaining that he was spending the night somewhere with mom. It was odd since their plans were usually informed to us before time and dad would never leave us when we were grounded, but I shrugged it off when Emmett reminded me how busy dad had become and mom must have gone all teary on him, demanding for time alone together.
Alice sent a text saying that she and Bella would meet us at Rosalie's house. I was actually happy to go over to Liz's house. Knowing that we were grounded, she would still let us do what we like. She always said it was her job to spoil us while my parents played the bad cops. It was actually the same way for Rosalie and Jasper in our house.
While driving down to Jasper's house, we were all quiet. Emmett put on some loud music to fill the silence.
After we reached their house, Jasper and Emmett started opening the door, "wait," I looked toward Emmett. "I wanted to talk to you." Jasper nodded at me in understanding and left. Emmett closed his side door and looked at me. "I wanted to talk to you about Rosalie."
Emmett nodded rolling his eyes.
"Look man, Bella is Charlie's daughter. Charlie is very happy to have her. It pisses me off to see Rosalie's reaction. It hasn't even been a week since she came to town and Rosalie is acting nuts. I love you Em, I really do, but you have to do something about her. What happen with Alice and mom.." he cut me off.
"What are trying to say? You have a problem with Rose." He narrowed his eyes.
I glared back, "what I have a problem with is your Rose is filling MY sister's head with nonsense against mom." He hit my head against the window on my side, making me groan in pain. "Damn it Em!" I twisted my arms to rub my forehead.
"Shit" I heard Emmett whisper; he opened his door and came around my side. He opened my door took the bottle lying by the side. Opened up the water bottle I had. He dropped some water on my head and rubbed away the pain. I tried to push him but he wouldn't budge. "Sorry man. Look Alice is not just your sister ok. She is our sister. And I care about her too. But Alice is Alice, she just got a little sentimental with mom."
"Don't you get it Em?" I groaned, shaking my wet hair a little. "Rosalie made her react this way. Why does Alice hang out with Bella and not with Rosalie anymore? Why is Rosalie acting like a bitch? She didn't apologize and she went against mom! Our mom Em, who treats other people like family. The only time I have ever seen mom be rude to anyone is Karen. She is even nice to Mrs. Stanley knowing how she gossips all the time. That's royally messed up." I sighed, grabbing my shirt from the bottom waist and wiping away the wetness.
"So what do you want me to do? I talked to her okay, she is sorry and she didn't mean anything by it. I took her for a drive during the fair and she explained that she will apologize but later all those things happen. And you have to see it from her side; Alice is not giving her a chance to explain. Whenever Rose tries to be alone with her, Alice follows Bella. I mean it's the girls' problem. I don't want to get into it."
"It is your problem. It's hurting Alice. Fine I believe you when you say that Rosalie wanted to apologize, but why did she fill Alice's mind with bullshit? Did you see her crying most of the day?" I sighed looking straight toward the windshield.
"Fine I will talk to her again. But get Jasper to cool it." He gave me the water bottle.
"Emmett we don't know how Rosalie is with him inside the house. Jasper is completely opposite. Jasper gets pissed at Rosalie all of the time. The only reason he is still here is because of Alice and us. If it wasn't for us, he would have left for Texas long ago. You need to get Rosalie off of Jasper's back too. Alice leaves us be, knowing we need our space, but Rosalie is on PMS twenty- four seven. Even I couldn't tolerate her in our house. You know it since you ignore her too." I accused.
"Maybe she is on PMS..." he suggested sarcastically.
"Well the timing is just perfect isn't it?" I replied back. "I'm serious, just keep her cool and I don't want Alice crying over mom or Bella. I won't sit back and take it!" I gave him a serious look then stood up and started to walk towards the entrance to Jasper's house; rubbing my forehead one last time. It hurt like hell but I ignored it.
I rang the doorbell, at the same time the door flew open and my tiny twin hugged me. "Whoa Ali" I hugged her back while balancing myself.
"Where were you?" I winced as she screeched in my ears. She let me go and attacked Emmett, who just raised her and swirl her around. "Em!" she yelled laughing. I chuckled while walking in. Emmett still held the pixie and walked inside.
"Who ordered an elf?" Emmett asked loudly, causing Alice to protest and everyone to laugh.
"Oh that would be me, come here you!" Liz came flying in and taking Alice from Emmett. "Now you boys have some explaining to do. Where were you? And why did you take so long, all of us were worried sick, do you know how late it is?" she pointed out her window.
"Sorry Liz" Emmett and me said together.
"We were just hanging out in La Push. Then Kim invited us to eat cake. We got a text from dad saying to spend the night with you guys."
"Yeah Alice told me." Liz kissed Alice's forehead, then let her go. "Usually Esme informs me ahead of time. This is sudden, I hope they are both are ok..."
Emmett rolled his eyes, "you worry too much. Stay like that and everyone will start noticing the gray hair you hide by coloring them."
Liz gasped making all of us laugh, "I do not! You little!" she went after him, Emmett started hiding around me and laughing.
"Chill Liz, it's nothing, mom probably would complaining about dad's work time and dad would have arranged some surprise." Emmett chuckled, finally standing.
"Hmm, it's true. Your father is known to give spontaneous surprises." She winked. "Now are you guys' hungry? I have made dinner?" she went walking into the dinning and kitchen.
We all walked after her, "come on Liz who are you asking?" Emmett beat us to the table.
Liz laughed, "True. So did you guys met Sam and Seth?" she asked seriously, all traces of humor was gone.
I shrugged, "there are taking it hard. They didn't play with us. Just messing around in the garage. Jacob was giving them company."
Liz nodded, turning around and warming up food. Jasper came downstairs after he changed. He threw both me and Emmett our clothes. We always left extra pairs in case we had to stay over.
"Sit down Jasper Hale!" Liz screeched when Jasper was getting something from the fridge, we all flinched at her tone. She was easy going, but when she was mad, even dad feared her.
"What? What did I do?" Jasper demanded sitting down to the chair next to mine.
"You want to tell me where the hell you were? Do you know how mad your dad was when he called for you but you where gone. He grounded you didn't he? Jasper I have told you before and I am telling you for the last time, you do not disobey him." She pointed the wooden spoon she was using when cooking.
Jasper stood up pushing his chair, without a word he went to his room.
Me and Emmett stood up to go after him but Liz already set the table. "Don't you guys dare interfere. Let me have a talk with him." she placed some sodas then followed to where Jasper went.
I looked toward Alice and Bella who joined us. "So how was the shopping?"
Alice smiled sadly, "it was fun. Bella was more interested in just looking around then actually wanting something, but I changed her mind." Alice nodded to herself while Bella shook her head in no. Emmett and I laughed.
"Where is Rosie?" Emmett asked. I rolled my eyes.
Bella shrugged, Alice answered at the same time, "we don't know. I think she's in her room. I haven't seen her since I came in."
"So Bella, how do you like Forks so far? Too small?" I laughed remembering how I used to describe this place by comparing to an ant.
She shook her head. She took out Alice's cell and started typing. I frowned, she could use my cell. I took out my cell ready to give her; I stopped when she gave Alice's cell I read over it.
No it's actually same as where I used to live. I'm used to always stay in town too in phoenix.
I nodded, giving her Alice's and my cell. I shook my head when she tried to give it back, "just take it Bella, Alice always uses her cell to call Jasper. I don't use mine. Anyway what did you like to do in Phoenix? Like for entertainment." I took spoonful of food and ate it, looking at her expectantly.
Same things like here. I hung out with friends and had sleepovers. Renee didn't care, so I used to invite my friends over. We would sometimes help each other out or others. There was always activity around us to keep us busy. One day we even pretended to be reporters, trying to find a big story. The only thing we found was a kid who thought it was funny to keep telling everyone 'he sees dead people'
I read it out loud and all of us laughed. I could imagine a kid doing that.
"God I hated the movie the Sixth Sense. Emmett thought it would be good for us to watch it on Halloween night. I had nightmares for a week!" Alice shook her head.
I laughed, "It didn't help that Emmett kept bringing his history book and flipping to random pages and pointing out dead people. Claiming he sees dead people too."
Bella was shaking with quiet chuckles, while Emmett, Alice and I were full out laughing. I had to admit those were really good times.
"Emmett was horrible!" Alice accused.
"Hey!" Emmett pointed his fork at her.
Alice shrugged it off. "One time I bought two shirts for him to wear on the first day of school. One was orange and one was pink. I asked him which one he likes best. He said he liked my sense of humor."
We all burst out laughing.
Liz POV
I sighed, walking into my son's bedroom. His room was a mess. All over the place there was trash, magazines and clothes all over the place. His room even smelled funny. I shook my head. Jasper was lying on his bed while covering his head with the pillow; from here I could see the wires of ear plugs, going all the way to his pant pockets. I shouldn't even say bed. It was one box mattress. He didn't want anything else.
I rubbed my forehead. Why couldn't I have a normal child? Jasper was the weirdest child I had ever seen. He was sweet and protective but very quiet. My mom always told me it was the quiet ones that were trouble. Jasper was truly always a trouble. The first time I started worrying was when I lived with him in Texas. I saw him drawing violent pictures that were hidden middle of his bed and mattress, and his dark colors of clothes. I had a bad feeling about it. My feelings were confirmed when I saw him hang around some Maria girl and other people that were dressed all alike in dark colors.
I asked around for information on the group, but no one gave me a straight answer, they all had so called guesses. Thank god for Charlotte. Charlotte was my neighbor's daughter; she was in the same grade and age as jasper. She always had a crush on Jasper. One day she came to me teary eyed spilling her guts. She used to always follow him around in attempts to get his attention, however she stopped when she saw Jasper with Maria. Word around school was Maria was a gang member, who pulled Jasper in. at first I didn't believe it but charlotte assured me it was true. Now all she wanted was Jasper to be safe. She made her parents move to another state, in hopes to starting over. She made me swear I would do anything to make Jasper get out of the gang before he got himself killed. I had been lucky the situation was around the same time I started to talk to Richard. Richard contacted some officers that busted the group in a drug raid. Jasper was arrested but he was let go under conditions. He had to leave town and never return or ever caught in any act of gang activities. The police arranged some act to make the gang members believe he had died. Richard had arranged for everything to make Jasper safe. He even made the police monitor and destroy the gang after we had moved. Jasper didn't know all this. He thought it was all real, the police let him go just like that but he didn't know it was all Richard's planning. I didn't tell him, I never will. Jasper had broken my trust when he had hidden the fact he had joined a gang, placed himself in danger knowing he was my only reason I was waking up every morning. I hid the fact; it was his father who had saved him.
Jasper didn't like Richard. I had always made Jasper feel as if he was the one in charge, now I didn't do anything without taking Richard's advice. That is how it worked with couples; Jasper was too young to understand it. However since Alice had came into his life, I have seen him do the same thing. Now he even called Alice asking what he should wear for school. But Jasper still didn't like Richard, he refuse to acknowledge him as his father. He claimed if Richard was a true father, he would have contacted his son long ago, not wait until his daughter was in trouble. Rosalie was another dessert on the side for him. She was spoiled, daddy's girl who had him wrapped around her finger; another reason for moving in this little town. Jasper hated Forks the minute he set foot in it. He threatened me, saying that he would run away, join another gang or worse go back to Texas. He claimed it was where he belonged. His little outbursts were only until he met Alice on the first day of school. Since that day I never once heard Jasper say a word about leaving.
However, Jasper's emotions were all over the place with Richard and Rosalie. Richard would try everything to make up for all of the years he wasn't there for him, but Jasper was always pushing him away. It got to the point Richard stopped trying and went with the flow. Richard realized the way to get close to Jasper was Alice. Richard would always welcome Alice just to get a little close to Jasper. It seemed selfish to me, but I understood he was gasping on straws. After meeting Jasper, Richard had realized how much he had missed on Jasper's life. Richard saw himself in Jasper, when Jasper read something, or his little habits, even when he argued back Richard claimed that he was acting the same way as Richard did when he was Jasper's age. I could understand that, I felt the same way when I looked at my little Rose.
Rosalie was always at Jasper's bad side. Jasper never complained a word about anything, where Rosalie did nothing but that. Jasper never asked for any materials. Rosalie demanded anything and everything. Rosalie would always taunt or remark toward Jasper. Jasper wouldn't exchange words but his actions spoke louder than words. He would go full violent. Drawing disturbing pictures, hard music and excluding himself in the house. Emmett and Richard would keep Rosalie from getting on Jasper. But sometimes even they couldn't control her. Being her mother, I would lose it too. I would lash out on her causing her to act like a drama queen 'you're not my mother, you left me' her common mantra. That little comment would go unheard since her father would take my side. Richard and I both agreed to never let the kids divide and rule over us. It was both of our mistakes to separate them, now we were paying for it. I had to threaten Rosalie, that I will tell Alice about her attitude toward Jasper, to control her. Alice was the one and only honest friend Rosalie ever had. She treated Alice like a sister. Rosalie knew that if Alice found out, she would never forgive Rosalie. Alice was loyal to the people she loved. Rosalie's actions would hurt Emmett too since he was protective over Alice. Edward was the only person Rosalie would bitch too and he would fight back. Emmett and Alice would ignore her little spoil self if it goes too much just like Jasper, but it was Edward never went down without a fight.
Sometimes I had a feeling Edward knew about Jasper's past because of Edward's words. He would insult and irritate Rosalie until she ignored him. No one would jump in and defend Rosalie against him. It was an unspoken rule. If someone had power to put someone down it was Edward. He was smart and intelligent. Rosalie's little expressions would annoy him. Edward made it a point to make Rosalie look bad in front of everyone if she did anything to piss him off. His confident attitude won me over completely. At first I thought Edward and Rosalie would be together but that thought left as soon as it came. Emmett and Rosalie adored each other. Emmett would make her smile and laugh, while Rosalie's personality would give Emmett a challenge to win. Edward never cared about winning; he just cared about getting even. His actions send only one message, 'don't mess with anyone I care about or deal with me.' His temper was given to him from Carlisle's side. Edward was like Carlisle in many ways but I yet to see him disrespect or question Carlisle about anything. Richard admired this quality in Edward. If Carlisle told Edward to jump off a cliff, he would do it without asking. There always his rebellious actions about disobeying but if he didn't do that I would worry if something was really wrong with him. I was jealous of Esme having such loving and close sibling kids. They would take each other's sides in everything. Even Esme could demand things from her children and they would give it to her. All her kids happily spend time with her without complaining. I had yet to go shopping with Rosalie without getting into an argument. She would start first by telling me how I changed Richard for worst, I would finish by stating I blame Richard for the same thing he did with her. Yup, I could be a bitch. I couldn't spend time with Jasper either because he didn't like to talk. The only thing I could make him talk about was Alice. Anything besides that was a lost cause. I confided in Esme about it, she just said it was a boy thing. But I knew it was a jasper thing. He was quiet that way.
I took in a few breaths and walked over to him. I pulled the plugs, making him jerk up.
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