Chapter Song:
Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul

"I take-2 steps forward
I take-2 steps back
we come together
Cause opposites attract
and you know-it ain't fiction
Just a natural fact
we come together
Cause opposites attract"

Previously: Why in the name of the world was I jealous of my brother and my best friend?

JPOV:

"Jasper. Jasper. Jas. Jazzy. HEY JASPER!" I was startled out of my thoughts by the sound of Bella's voice, clearly tinged with annoyance. When I heard her yelling my name, my head literally snapped up in shock.

"Yea Bells?"

"I was just wondering why you were staring blankly at the wall for about 10 minutes. I called your name at least 20 times and you didn't say anything." As she continued talking, I could hear more and more annoyance seeping into her voice.

"Sorry B." I said, smiling sheepishly at her.

She rolled her eyes before asking me the one question I was trying really hard to avoid. "So why were you so caught up in your thoughts that you couldn't even register amazing me calling your name?"

I smiled at her obvious teasing but made a conscious effort not to maintain eye contact. "Uh, nothing it's not important."

How the hell was I supposed to explain that I've been analyzing all my weird feelings about Bella? I still had no clue why I was jealous of Edward and there was no plausible way for me to explain that to Bella without her thinking I was certifiably insane.

She frowned at my obvious lie and seemed to be debating about whether or not to ask me something. I really didn't want to answer her questions right now, so I opted for trying to subtly change the subject.

"Where is everyone?"

"Rose and Emmett left about 5 minutes ago to go get a movie, Alice is watching TV, and Edward is still sleeping." I was shocked that I had been completely unaware of Em, Rose and Alice leaving the room. But then again, I suppose that was to be expected.

After the little event with Edward and Bella yesterday, I was more confused than ever. I had no clue why I was jealous, or even if I was jealous, and I had no means of explaining all my different emotions. All of yesterday and most of today morning had gone by in a blur as I tried to make sense of everything. However, I had made no progress whatsoever and I was still just as lost as I was yesterday.

I shook my head in an effort to clear my thoughts and realized that I needed to start focusing more on everything around me. As I turned to look at Bella, I noticed that she wore an expression of utter unhappiness blended with confusion, worry and love.

I brought a hand up to her face and traced her frown with my finger as I spoke. "Why the frown?"

She grimaced at being caught before her expression changed, leaving a completely blank look on her face. "No reason. Just hungry, come on let's go wake Edward up so we can eat lunch."

I decided to put Bella's weird behavior at the back of my mind for now; I could always analyze that later along with my own weird behavior. I let Bella drag me out of the hotel room, laughing as she muttered about "pretentious idiots that slept until 2 in the afternoon."

We got to the room that I was supposed to be living in and Bella slammed the door open; seemingly unfazed by the fact that everyone on our floor could probably hear her. When I walked in, I was surprised that I had no clue how to navigate around here. Then again, we usually hung out in the girls' room and I almost always slept in B's room. I really only used this room to change and get stuff from my suitcase.

We finally found Edward's room and Bella tugged on my hand, indicating that she wanted me to get down to her height.

"Hey Jas, what's he scared of?" Bella whispered into my ear and I fought the urge to start laughing.

I smiled brightly at her before whispering what could ultimately lead to Edward's downfall. I watched amused as an excited smirk slid onto her face and as she danced off excitedly to go get something.

I leaned casually against the wall, completely prepared to enjoy the show. Bella returned carrying a bucket of some sort and I watched confused until she poured the bucket of what was probably ice-cold water on Edward.

I bit my tongue to prevent my laughter as Edward screamed like a little girl and rolled off the bed in his attempt to get away from the water. He looked around the room blearily until his eyes rested on me and Bella.

"Fire! Fire! Come on we have to leave!" Bella yelled urgently as I almost bit through my lip, trying not to burst out in laughter. Edward panicked and yelled loudly before he ran out of the room with only his boxers on.

The whole time he was leaving we heard him yelling, "Fire! Fire!" I quickly made my way to the window and signaled to Bella that she should follow me. When I saw Edward standing outside in nothing but boxers at 2 in the afternoon, yelling like a little girl I couldn't take it anymore. I started laughing so hard that I almost fell over with the intensity of it, Bella's arm slipped around my waist and I was doubled over in my laughter. I could feel her shaking against me as she tried to laugh silently.

I finally pulled it together enough to look out the window again. This time a look of realization dawned on Edward's face before a scowl twisted his features as he marched angrily back into the hotel.

"Run!" I yelled as I grabbed Bella's hand and we ran back to her room, laughing like maniacs the whole way. The minute we got in we ran to Bella's room and locked the door, knowing he'd be up any minute now.

Just as predicted, not even a minute later I heard Edward's pounding footsteps as he ran to the room. He started pounding on the door angrily, "That was mean Bella! Let me in, you ruined my hair!" At that, all of my efforts to compose myself literally flew out the window. I collapsed onto the ground, shaking with my laughter and I stayed there until I finally got it under control again.

I don't think I've laughed this much in a long time. Wait… I looked at Bella who was currently staring intently at the door; when she felt my gaze on her she turned to face me with a wide smile on her face. The minute she saw the look of understanding on my face she donned a completely innocent expression.

"B…" I said, trying to warn her not to lie to me about it.

"Yea Jazzy?" She asked with a forced air of nonchalance.

I narrowed my eyes at her. "Did you wake Edward up like that because you knew it would make me laugh?"

She sighed and seemingly gave up her façade. "Yeaa. You were just so into your thoughts and you looked sad and confused and you wouldn't talk to me… so I figured that this was the second best thing." As she talked she had her eyes trained on the ground so I couldn't see any of the emotions in her expressive eyes.

I immediately strode over to her and scooped her up into a big hug. Her legs were dangling off the ground until she decided to wrap them around my waist. My arms gripped tightly onto her waist, making sure I didn't drop her as I spun us around in circles. "Thank you so much Bella. You're the best friend anyone could ask for." I said with a giant smile on my face.

A look of pain flashed across her face at my words, but it disappeared so quickly I wasn't even sure I had actually seen it. Immediately after, her own magnificent smile lit up her face and I couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked. "Anytime Jas."

Our little moment was interrupted by the sound of Edward banging even louder on the door. "Come on, you can't hide forever!"

We both laughed lightly at his obvious anger before I walked over to the door with Bella still around my waist. The look on Edward's face when he saw us was a comical mix of shock, arrogance, anger and some more shock.

"Yes Edward?"

He shook his head to clear his thoughts before turning to Bella with narrowed eyes. "That wasn't very nice of you Bella. You shouldn't have woken me up like that."

At that moment, I thought of the perfect way to get back at Edward and to make sure that Bella was forgiven by him. I leaned down to whisper in Bella's ear, "Pout darlin'. I guarantee you'll get your way."

She smirked slightly to show me she understood before she turned to Edward, tears already welling up in her eyes. "I'm sorry Edward. But Jasper and I were bored and it was time for lunch. I just didn't want you to go hungry; I'm sorry, I won't do it again. Will you forgive me?"

As she asked her question she looked at him with sorrowful eyes and her bottom lip jutted out, and I knew he was a goner. Hell if she looked at me like that I'd do absolutely anything she asked me for. Then again, I usually give her what she wants anyway because she's usually right and I almost always like whatever she convinces me to do.

I watched smugly as all the anger melted off of Edward's face. He tried to maintain his angry demeanor but I knew him well enough to know that he was putty in her hands.

"That wasn't nice Bells." He said, not sounding remotely angry whatsoever.

I noticed the smallest smirk flash across B's face before she continued to pout at him. "But it was really funny. You're not really mad are you?"

He sighed, seemingly giving up. "Of course not."

"Great!" She said smiling as she instantly resumed her usual happy behavior.

Edward turned to face me with a look of shock on his face. "Damn. Now I get what you said about her being diabolical."

I smirked at him knowingly as Bella threw her head back and laughed. "Whatever. I am not diabolical."

"Yes you are darlin'." I said, not paying any attention to Edward's raised eyebrow at me calling Bella darlin'.

"How so?" She asked, cocking her eyebrow at me challengingly.

I shifted my hands on her hip so I had a better grip on her before continuing to answer her question. "You manage to convince everyone to do things your way by pouting, and even when you don't try everyone just wants to give you what you want."

"That does not make me diabolical." She protested, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Yes…" I started, before being cut off by Edward's amused voice.

"As much as I would love to stand here and watch this little love-fest, I'm starving. Let's go eat lunch!"

I laughed and set B back on the ground. "Great, I ordered pizza and-", that was all I heard before I took off running to go get the door.

I practically ripped the door off the hinges only to be greeted by Emmett's fist punching my forehead. "Dude, what the hell?" I asked, still rubbing my forehead.

"That's what I want to know. You're the one who slammed the door open before I even knocked."

"I thought it was the pizza." I mumbled quietly, hearing everyone laugh loudly around me.

"Shut up." I said petulantly when I heard Bella's musical laughter become louder than everyone else's.

Their laughter was interrupted by someone knocking on the door and Bella's smug voice called my name. "I think that's the pizza. Want to go open the door like a normal human being?"

I simply stuck my tongue out at her before walking at a somewhat normal pace to go get the food. I was starving and pizza is possibly one of the best foods in the world.

No matter how hard I tried, I still ended up opening the door somewhat impatiently and when I finally saw the pizza I pretty much grabbed the boxes out of the guy's hands.

"Uhm, that'll be 13 Euros." He said, looking at me with a bewildered expression on his face.

"Uhhh… Bella!"

"Yes Jas?" She asked amusedly when she walked to the door.

"I kinda forgot my money." I said, looking at her sheepishly.

"I figured as much. Here's 15 Euros, keep the change."

"Thank you ma'am." He said as he closed the door behind himself.

The minute he left, Bella turned to look at me with one eyebrow raised. Currently, I had one of the pizza boxes open in my hand and I was quickly shoveling piece after piece of cheesy pizza into my hungry mouth.

"Jas, you realize that the pizza is actually supposed to be for all of us." I shrugged nonchalantly before looking down at the almost empty box in my hands.

"There are still 3 boxes left."

She rolled her eyes, trying to look annoyed but I could clearly see the smile that threatened to break across her face. In response I smiled cheekily at her, causing her to finally give up and laugh. I beamed at her before walking over to pick the remaining boxes up off the ground.

I was interrupted by a small hand on my chest and I looked down at Bella questioningly.
"I'll get the boxes; it would be more beneficial to us eating it if you didn't shove all of them in your mouth before we get back to the room."

I stuck my tongue out at her and grudgingly handed her the boxes of pizza because 1) In all honesty, I probably would end up eating it and 2) Bella would get her way anyway.

Bella dumped all the boxes on the ground of the living room and went to the kitchen to get plates and soda.

"What soda do you guys want?"

"Fanta." "Coke." "Sprite." "Coke." They each yelled out individually. I didn't even bother responding cause I knew Bella had all of the food I liked pretty much ingrained in her brain.

"You don't want anything Jazz?" Emmett asked, looking at me questioningly.

Just as I opened my mouth to respond, Bella walked back into the room and threw me a root beer. I just held my drink up to Emmett in response and thanked Bella as I popped the cap off and drained half of the bottle in one gulp. Damn, pizza makes you really thirsty.

By the time Bella finished passing out the drinks and got her slice of pizza, I was already done with my drink. I went to take a sip, and when I was met with empty air I turned the bottle upside down and shook it; hoping to get some more delicious root beer.

When I felt a cold bottle hit my face, I turned in the direction the bottle had come from, blinking comically. When I was met with Bella's trademark smirk, I rolled my eyes before picking up the death trap and drinking from it; this time I chose to drink somewhat slowly.

"Was that really necessary?"

"You were looking at the empty bottle like someone just kicked your puppy. I thought you'd appreciate some more soda." She said, raising one eyebrow at me challengingly.

I sighed. "Thanks for the soda; no thanks for throwing it at my face. I think there's been enough damaging my face for today."

"Ehh, you deserved it."

I glared at her before stealing her slice of pizza of her plate and taking a huge bite. I plopped it back onto her plate satisfied and smirked at her bewildered look. "You deserved it." I said mockingly.

She rolled her eyes before finishing the rest of her pizza so I couldn't have any more.

"Dude, European pizza is really good." Emmett said as he finished off a whole box by himself. I was about to make fun of him for eating a whole box by himself but then I remembered that I had pretty much done the same thing.

Instead I settled for rolling my eyes and turning to look at everybody else. Alice and Rose were finished eating, Edward was glaring at Emmett for stealing the last piece of pizza and Bella had another almost untouched piece of pizza left on her plate.

"You gonna eat that?"

She laughed loudly before shoving the plate over to my greedy hands. "Thanks Bella." I mumbled around a mouthful of pizza goodness.

I saw her smile fondly at me and I resisted the urge to smile widely; knowing they would be subject to my pizza stuffed mouth. When I finally finished eating, I pushed the plate away from me and sighed completely satisfied.

"How much pizza did you eat?" Edward asked, with a stunned look on his face.

"A box." I mumbled, hoping fruitlessly that he wouldn't hear me. My prayers were clearly unheard when Emmett's booming laughter echoed throughout the room.

"Oh shut up, I haven't eaten all day." I said, shoving Emmett's shoulder jokingly.

"Why the hell didn't you eat breakfast?"

"I was, uhh…" I trailed off, not really wanting to explain that I was too caught up in my thoughts. I looked at Bella pleadingly, begging her with my eyes to cover for me.

She looked at me curiously but didn't hesitate to come to my rescue. "He was helping me unpack my stuff; I was being really lazy."

I looked to her, grateful that she had given them a somewhat plausible excuse for my lack of breakfast. I knew it bugged her that she didn't know what was going on, but she wouldn't push me. She knew I would tell her when I was ready to; yet another reason I loved Bella so much. She had the ability to understand when to talk and cheer me up and when to just listen to me ramble about random shit and give me my space. Right now was one of those times when I needed some space to wrap my head around my thoughts.

I really wish that I could just figure out what the hell was wrong with me. There was really no reason I could come up with for being jealous of Edward and Bella. Maybe I was scared that Edward would steal my best friend? Nah, I knew that wouldn't happen. She trusted me as of right now and I knew that while she liked Edward, they weren't there yet.

I sighed out loud as I realized I was back to square one. I wasn't jealous cause I was scared of losing her friendship, I'm definitely not jealous of her monopolizing Edward… Aghhh. This is so confusing, someone should write a book about what people's emotions mean. I would definitely buy that.

"Well now that we've discovered Jasper has an appetite to rival Emmett's, what do you want to do?" In response, I stuck my tongue out childishly at Rose. She simply shrugged and I was forced to let it go; that's why it's never a good idea to eat a whole box of pizza.

"Do you wanna go see a movie?"

EmPOV:

We had finally gotten to the movie theatre and I'd spent the whole car ride begging Rose to let me drive her gorgeous piece of machinery only to be shot down each and every time.

"Tell you what," She finally snapped. "If you shut the hell up and let me drive, I'll let you drive for 5 minutes in the parking lot of our hotel tomorrow."

I sighed, figuring this was the best I was going to get. "Fine. Don't cha think you should be a little nicer to your boyfriend Ms. Rosalie Lillian Swan? Hmm?"

"Oh shut up." She said jokingly as she slapped my chest lightly. "You know you need someone to keep you in line."

Keep me in line? I don't think so. I knew if I voiced my thoughts she would glare at me and then figure out some way to prove that she was right. Instead I just sat silently as she pulled up into the movie theater parking lot. I got out of the car and surveyed the parking lot and noticed that Alice and Edward were here but Bella and Jasper weren't here yet; that was extremely unusual in and of itself considering Bella was definitely a little speed demon.

They finally pulled up 10 minutes later all of us watched them, wanting to see what they would do. I laughed as Jasper practically ran out of the car, over to Bella's side to open her door for her. Of course Bella decided to make fun of him as she rolled her eyes before curtseying elaborately.

I could see the smile etched onto Jasper's face from all the way over here and saw Bella move closer to Jas before she jumped up to kiss his cheek. His grin seemed to get impossibly wider as he leaned down to press his lips to her forehead.

Finally the rest of us got bored of their little goo-fest, so we walked over to them. "I see we finally beat you Bella." Alice said smugly, clearly hoping to gain a reaction from Bella.

So imagine our surprise when she looked over to Jasper's guilty face and smiled brightly at him before turning to face us. "I guess you did; but the long ride was definitely worth it." She said as she wound her fingers through Jasper's and squeezed his hand.

He smiled gratefully back at her before we all headed into the movie theater. We all decided to go see Hunger Games (a/n: I know it doesn't match the timeline, but hey, it's all cool.) and we were waiting in line to buy the tickets. According to Alice, apparently Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson were both 'fine specimens of the earth' and Rose seemed to agree with her. I am definitely hotter than both of them, I thought causing me to pout.

"I'm going to get some popcorn. Does anyone else want anything?" Bella asked, looking around.

"Ooh, food!" I yelled as I made my way to her side.

"I'll have M&M's, Alice wants Reese's Pieces and Rose wants Sour Patch Kids." Edward announced.

"No thanks Bells." Jasper said and I watched as Bella frowned at him.

"Don't think you're sharing mine Whitlock. If you want something, tell me now." I laughed as I thought about how Jasper always had to eat something during a movie; judging by the incredulous look on Bella's face, she knew this too.

Jasper just laughed and said, "We'll buy the tickets." as he went back to stand in the rapidly growing line.

Bella finally seemed to notice me and she smiled at me. "What about you, want me to get you anything?"

"I'll come with you; I wanna check out the wide array of delicious European food." She laughed and dragged me along after yelling at Alice to get good seats.

As we waited for our turn at the food line, I decided this was my opportunity to wheedle some much needed information out of Bella.

"So, you and Jasper are close huh?"

"Very close, I've known him since I was a little kid and we used to have a ton of fun together. I'm so glad he's on this trip; it's been forever since we've seen each other." She said, and I noticed that as she talked a giant smile spread across her face.

"How do you feel about him?"

She shot me a weird look, almost as if she was questioning my sanity. "I love him; he's the best friend anyone could ask for and he's absolutely amazing."

I decided it was time to kick this up one notch. "Are you in love with him?"

A/N: I just went there. Haha, j/k. Please R&R. Reviews = me posting faster. Remember, reviewers get sneak peeks!

Estimated Posting Date: 4/21 (Sorry for the delay, works getting really busy)