I'd thought High School was hard to endure before. My mind was stained with the memory of Alice and Bella stimulating each other, their kisses, their touches.

"Mr. Cullen!"

"I'm sorry."

"No, X is not, 'I'm sorry'. Would you like to try again?" Mr. Lambert asked.

I frowned and looked to the chalkboard. "X is sin(Y) plus four."

"Correct. Everyone, please complete problems one through twelve for tomorrow."

I climbed from the desk, slowly but gratefully. I followed the other students to the cafeteria only to stop dead in the doorway. Alice waved at me from the table Bella and I normally shared. After the pause, I stepped carefully forward, trying to think. All I could think of were her perfect white legs running from the bottom of Bella's T-shirt and wrapping around Bella.

I closed my eyes and swallowed. I needed to think about something else. A warm human hand squeezed mine, and I smelled Bella beside me. She let go right away and stepped quickly to the table.

"Hello, Alice. You got a visitor's pass for the afternoon?"

"Yep. After all, I might be attending here my senior year," she said with a smile.

I shook my head before sitting down.

I took a moment to properly process each woman's emotions. Alice loved me in the same way as ever. Her love for Bella was more defined now, less lust, more care and concern. She was happy, content. Bella was excited. She was looking forward to something. The trip to Europe maybe? She was infatuated with Alice and concerned about me. Well, without reading minds, there was only so much I could do with that information.

"Jasper? What's on your mind?" Bella asked me.

My forehead creased, trying to pin down exactly what was bothering me. "You don't... This doesn't bother you?" I made a sweeping motion around the table, asking both of them.

"I told you last night, Jasper, I understand you're with Bella right now. I'm not going to ask you to give that up."

Bella's head tipped down and I felt shame from her. "I'm sorry, Jasper." She pushed her chair back and ran three steps before Alice caught her as she tripped.

Alice looked at me, bubbling with anger. She stroked Bella's back and escorted her out of the cafeteria.

What had just happened?

I stood up and nearly stepped on Jennifer Deering. "Oh, hey, Jasper. Did you break up with Bella or something? She seemed really upset."

"I ... no. Excuse me." I maneuvered past her.

"Go get her!" Jennifer called after me, her amusement palpable.

Bella was easy to track, and Alice easier. Both scents were burned into my nose, the first ones I would look for, the two I held dearest. Where had they gone? I turned down another hall, but the trail simply continued, more Alice, less Bella. Was she carrying her now?

The trail ended in the middle of the hall. I could hear Bella's heart through the door of one of the women's washrooms.

"How could we do that to him, Alice? I mean, I thought ... I didn't ... I didn't think. I didn't think at all."

Her sob brought the pain I couldn't feel but knew she was feeling, just on the other side of this stupid door. I banged one fist on it and punched right through.

Alice opened the door calmly. Her mood was serene, cool. "You would like something?" she asked.

"I need to talk to Bella."

"No, no-o-o. Go away. You don't wa-ant me. I'm no-no good."

Alice rolled her eyes but dropped the cold mask she was wearing, softening a little. The love for me and Bella hit me now. She held the door open wider for me to come in.

"Bella?" I asked as Alice stood guard by the door.

"Five minutes," she warned me in a whisper.

"No!" Bella cried, her pain on this side of wall was a gut punch. I certainly hadn't meant for this.

"Bella, I'm sorry. I have something to tell you." I knelt in front of the toilet she perched on. "I was sort of hoping for a different location," I admitted, looking at the steel cubicle walls.

Bella laughed in hysterics. "Not the place for a heart-to-heart?" she joked, her nose leaking along with her eyes.

I tore a piece of paper from the roll and wiped away the tears. She sniffled, and took the paper, blowing her nose.

"No, but it'll have to do. Bella, I ... You weren't the only one with Alice last night." I kept my eyes on my toes, feeling her reaction. There was no flare of anger, no sense of betrayal. There was an odd disappointment. Like she had hoped to get a better mark on her paper. I couldn't quite fathom it, so I finally looked up into her eyes.

"You ... you ... huh. So, you're not upset with me?" she asked.

"No. No, Bella. I ... well I suppose I'm feeling a lot like you are. Like I was expecting one thing and got something else. It's not worse, though. St least, I don't think so..."

She sniffed again and smiled a little more. "No, not worse. Very different."

"Girls coming," Alice warned.

I looked to the window. "I'll see you later Bella, Alice." I slid the glass and jumped out.

I kept clear of Bella's place that night. Although we weren't off to a bad start, I didn't want to answer too many questions at once. The next night she found me after work.

"Jasper. You aren't avoiding me, are you?"

I looked at Jane and Alec on the couch and pulled her behind me to my room, turning on some music. "No, Bella, I'm not avoiding you."

"Good. Because if you're not holding Alice against me, you can't think I'd do otherwise, right?" She searched my eyes, trying to gauge my response.

I sighed. "I think there is a little more Alice and I need to tell you. Well, I need to tell you. Sit?" I urged her to sit on the bed.

I really didn't know where to begin. I could be blunt like Alice. She's my mate and I used her as one. That was to the point; it was also brutally insensitive. I paced a little.

"Alice is a precog." I'd felt her irritation slowly prickling up. It stung now.

"I know that. Jasper, spit it out."

"Alice-told-me-she's-my-mate."

"That was too fast." Her temper smoothed a little and she smiled.

"Alice told me that she is my mate."

She simply looked at me for a moment. "What does that mean?"

"I'm not sure. Usually, it means that that is the person we are meant to be with, the person who changes us. Vampires don't normally change, Bella. We're the same from the moment we wake to the day we burn, but the love of a mate changes us."

She blinked, slowly digesting what I had said. "So, not like husbands and wives?"

I nodded. "Similar, but different. Maybe not as different as we like to think."

She continued to gaze at me thoughtfully. "So, she's changing you?"

I shrugged. "I thought you were doing that."

She smiled. "But you couldn't have a human mate," she scoffed. "That wouldn't make any sense."

"I suppose not," I agreed with her.

"How do I fit in? Can I fit in?"

"Bella, I'm not choosing her over you. I won't do that." I sighed again, resuming pacing.

"I never thought you were. This doesn't sound like a choice thing. Not if Alice can see it."

She was right, of course. I stopped mid-stride and looked at her.

"I'm right, aren't I? It's not something we can fight. You and she are going to be together. You are naturally drawn to one another. So I'll ask my question again. Where do I fit in?"

I hung my head a little. "I don't know."

"Where do you want me to fit in?" she asked with a smirk and an aura of amusement and lust. She was having naughty thoughts.

"I want you where you fit best," I declared, jumping on the bed and pulling her with me. "Next to me." I put my nose to her hair over her ear, nuzzling. Her hot hands were clutching the arm I'd swept over her breasts as I pulled her. She chuckled. I kissed her neck and held her close, but could feel something missing, a smell.

"And where do I fit?" Alice asked coming in. She slid up behind me, kissing my neck. "Here?" Fast as light, her arm draped over mine as she lay on the other side of Bella. "Here?"

Bella laughed and pulled Alice into the middle. "Here!" she said with a giggle, kissing Alice's cheek. I pulled back a little.

I felt Bella's disappointment, but I couldn't help it. It felt wrong to touch Alice in front of her. Alice was still in a state of bliss. Her feelings for both of us swamped me. When I didn't kiss her other cheek, she turned to Bella, pressing their lips together. Alice pulled Bella closer as Bella's fingers ran through the inky spikes standing out from Alice's head.

When the kiss broke, I was sitting against my headboard, wondering if they wanted me to leave. Bella's other hand was gripping the waist of Alice's shorts and pulling her hips closer. Alice had one hand under Bella's shirt and the other in the back pocket of her jeans. Bella's eyes fluttered and she sighed deeply.

"He's really not going to join us?" Bella asked Alice. That made the question of them wanting me to leave pretty clear.

"Not at this point." Alice was disappointed, too. "He's thinking about leaving again."

Bella looked up to me now; she was the one of the pair facing the right way. "Don't go, Jasper."

Alice tipped her head back to see me. "Don't go."

"Middle?" Bella asked.

"Yes!"

Alice grabbed my legs and pulled me down the bed. I almost jumped up in defense, but Bella straddled my chest. She leaned down to kiss me.

"Hmmm. What would Jasper like?" She pulled off her shirt, pulling her hair to one side. She unbuttoned her jeans even as Alice covered my cock with her mouth. I hadn't even felt her pulling off my pants. Now I saw her pale hands on Bella's hips, helping her slide the denim off. I watched them wrap around Bella's breasts and groaned feeling Alice sliding up my legs, dragging herself over my erection. I leaned back into the pillow, putting my hands to Alice's hips.

"You're really sure about this?" I asked them.

Alice kissed Bella's shoulder as she slid over me. "I think this answers for me," she teased. I pressed up into her, sighing at the soft slickness inside her.

Bella leaned down and kissed me. "Yes, Jasper. This is what I want. I don't want to choose either. I want to fit."

Bella cried out when Alice slipped one hand down into her folds. "Your fingers are still cold, Alice," she complained.

"You'll warm them up," Alice replied. She ended in a moan, and I felt her clench on me, making me shudder as well.

Bella kissed me again before sitting up and turning around. She kissed Alice now. I slid my hands forward to Bella's hips as Alice continued to ride me. I pulled her to my face, letting my tongue slide from her ass to her clit. She squealed again, but it was muffled in Alice's kiss. I got a squeeze from Alice in response. That was nice. I used my tongue again and felt the sensation ripple through Bella, to Alice, onto me again. One of Alice's fingers brushed my tongue on the next pass. She was rubbing Bella now, and I thrust my tongue in and out of her pussy instead. I curled it, pulling all of her flavor out with me.

Alice started squirming more than bobbing. I wasn't going to last a lot longer, but that didn't mean we couldn't go again.

"God," Bella moaned.

"Yes, yes," Alice grunted, grinding on me.

I sucked on Bella's clit, shoving Alice's finger away with my tongue. She screamed and fountained for me. At the same time, Alice bore down on me and I blew my load into her, grunting into Bella's sweet, wet cleft. Bella sagged, Alice laughed, and I wondered which God I was supposed to thank for this.