Chapter 4: Memories
APOV
Flashback-Italics
"You can't tell Alice you that you know." I heard Emmett whisper to someone. Tell me what? What didn't I know? Emmett would keep something from me and then pout when I did it to him. That asshole. Right when I was about to peak around the corner to see who he was talking to, a pair of arms pulled me away and pushed me up against the wall. James.
"Hey babe." He smiled and then attacked my neck with kisses and small nips. "Are you trying to spy on someone again?" I giggled but let myself succumb to the great pleasure he was creating when he rubbed against me.
James King and I have been together for almost a year now. He was a year older than me. We had met when Bella and I were attempting to catch of glimpse of the two boys and girl that had entered the gates toward the Hale Mansion earlier. I was dazzled by the tall blond boy who had been walking behind the girl and the coppery haired boy, both looking around the same age as me and Bella. The blond boy though, looked older, mysterious, and sexy. Even at the age of twelve, I was completely boy crazed. Bella hadn't wanted to accompany me in my Harriet the Spy act but I just couldn't get enough of the blond goddess before me. I remember we had followed him for a couple of days but he always got away from us so we never saw where he lived. I know, we sound like complete stalkers, but at the time, I couldn't give a shit. He made my day. We never talked but I felt a connection.
Bella had sat on a branch, panting. "Alice, this is stupid. We can get in serious trouble for this." She hugged the tree, afraid that she would fall to her death below. I couldn't blame her, this tree was huge and she was an accident magnet.
"Shut up. Just let me get a look and we'll go back to the mall."
Her eyes widened. "No! We can stay here for a bit." She smiled nervously at me. She hated the mall and shopping. I knew that for a fact and that she would try anything to get out of going along with me. "Maybe you'll see that he's a complete jerk and stop stalking him."
"You're right! That would mean more time shopping!"
She grew pale. "NO!"
I laughed, lifting up my binoculars to see him. He was standing by a tall guy, nodding to whatever he was saying with, wincing every time the guy moved. My smile disappeared. Is that what I looked like? The blonde beauty of a girl walked in front of my boy, pushing him away from the mean looking man.
"Hey Bella?"
She scooted over to me, careful not to let go of the tree. "Yeah?"
"Is it me or does that guy look familiar?" I handed her the binoculars and she looked into them.
"I don't recognize him."
Hm, he looks so familiar. Where have I seen him?
"BELLA! ALICE!" Emmett's booming voice scared us. He was standing by the tree with a cute blond boy besides him. He smiled up at me, winking. Bella started climbing back down ignoring the lecture Emmett was giving us about how stupid climbing up a tree this tall was. I looked back to the spot where my boy had been standing. He wasn't there. Instead I found him over by the pool with his shirt off. He was smiling up as soon as the coppery haired boy looked away, his smile dropped from his face. The blonde girl watched him from inside the pool where she whispered to the the other boy, a frown on her face.
"ALICE! COME ON! INVASION OF PRIVACY!" Emmett said louder than before, causing the birds that had been relaxing on the tree to scatter away, giving away my hide out. My boy looked over at the tree, scanning it before his eyes landing on me. My heart raced. He had the most prettiest eyes in the world. A beautiful blue gray. He smiled widely, a smile that reached his eyes. I didn't think it was possible that my heart could beat faster than it already was. My boy waved at me, walking closer to the tree, leaving his friends behind. They watched him, confused.
"ALICE FUCKING BRANDON! DON'T MAKE ME COME UP THERE! BECAUSE I WILL!" Emmett continued yelling up at me but it sounded like buzz of an annoying fly. I heard the boy with Emmett laughed but I didn't look away from this blond god before me.
"Hello Alice Brandon." He said in a southern drawl that made me smile like an idiot. "I'm Jasper."
"Hey." Was the smart answer I gave him.
"Your friends are calling for you, maybe you should join them." He rose an eyebrow, smirking.
I laughed.
"Mary Alice Brandon. Get down here!" Bella screamed. I flushed at the use of my given name. I hated it.
"I guess I really do have to go." I muttered, making him smile. "By the way, you have great eyes and a smile."
"Thank you darlin'." He said with his southern accent leaking out. Oh god! what was this tingling feeling down below right now? I blushed.
"You're beautiful ya know." He winked, smiling wide again before turning and walking away from me.
I climbed down the tree, completely dazzled by him.
"Alice? Did you hear me?" Emmett asked, shaking me. "I said this is James. He plays football with me." I looked up to see sparkling sky blue eyes. They weren't the blue gray I longed for but they were pretty just not as pretty.
"Oh hi."
"Who were you looking at back there?" James asked me, his voice wasn't as appealing as Jasper's. I frowned.
"No one."
"Jasper Hale or Edward Cullen? Girls are always talking about those two. Aren't they McCarty?" James sat next to on the couch, throwing his arm over my shoulder.
"Yep." Emmett tugged Bella into the kitchen, leaving me alone with James. He was cute but after seeing Jasper up close, James can't compare to Jasper. Wait.
"Jasper Hale? Hale as in the family that owns most of this fucking town?" I asked.
He nodded. "Yeah. Why?"
Woah!
After that day, I didn't see Jasper Hale. Until the park, almost two years after finding out Jasper's family owned almost everything.
James had just dropped me off at home, leaned in to kiss me but I turned my head, thanking him for the movies. I had agreed on meeting up with Bella at the park to talk about my first date so I walked over to the park, sitting on the swing. My mind was always on Jasper. Lately, his family had been on the news a lot. Especially his father. The press was going crazy trying to figure out what was Noel Hale charged with. Reporters were camping outside the Hale Mansion, waiting for anyone to walk by and tell them anything. My father, a lawyer on the Hale side, kept trying to have these reporters arrested but he never could. So he came home each day, whining about it.
I had figured out who that man that had been yelling at Jasper was. It was his father. Judging from the way Jasper winced each time his father moved, I had come up with my own theory about the charges. Child abuse. I hadn't told anyone about this. I knew what Jasper was gong through. My mother, she wasn't the nicest person in the world. My father was barely home, always busy at work so he never witnessed anything that she did to me. Thinking about my mother made the bruises on my stomach hurt. I closed my eyes, letting tears fall down.
Someone sat on the swing besides me so I quickly wiped away my tears.
"Alice Brandon. Long time no see." The soft southern accent voice made my heart sped up like it had two years ago. It was Jasper. He was dressed in a suit and a black hat on his head.
I smiled at him. "Hey Jasper." He smiled back at me.
"Mind if I just ramble off?" He asked me. His smile had left his face replaced with an angry scowl. "No one lets me talk and I have no one to talk to."
I didn't think as I reached over to hold his hand in mine, nodding at his request.
"How can a father do that to his daughter? Beat her, sexually abuse her, and then sell her in order to close a business deal. It makes no sense to me. Rosalie doesn't deserve any that. And my mother, the stupidest bitch, just watched and let everything happen to Rose. She didn't help her. She didn't tell anyone. Fuck, I had to be the one to find out everything." Jasper's hand held mine tighter. Tears slipped down his cheeks making my heart break.
"I found them Alice. Rosalie was lying in her bed, crying as the man pulled up his boxers. My dad came up behind me, punching me on my side. I was used to him hitting me but when I saw him grab my sister by the hair and yell at her for no locking the door, I finally broke down. Every time he hit me, I never let my dad see me cry. But this time I did. Rose is my everything. She's my baby sister. I was suppose to protect her but I didn't. I failed her, Alice."
We moved inside a slide so we could be closer. Jasper continued talking, telling me everything that the press didn't know. I swore to him, as he pulled me to his chest and held me as he cried, that I would never tell anyone what he had told me.
"Thanks Alice. Really, you're great." He complimented me. I blushed.
"Alice?" I heard Bella call. I hadn't noticed her sitting on the swing, looking for me.
Jasper sighed. "I guess you have to get to her."
"Yeah." I cuddled closer to his chest, breathing in his scent. He smelled so good.
"I'm leaving after the case is closed." He blurted out. "My grandparents want me back in Texas. Since my dad won't be able to do it and my Grandfather is retiring soon, I have to take charge of the Hale Empire."
"But you're only 17."
"Exactly."
We stayed silent for a minute, before Bella called my name again.
"I don't know if I will ever see you again, so just in case I don't." He pulled my chin up, looking into my eyes before smiling. My heart pounded in my chest. My first kiss. His stunning blue gray eyes closed, his lips touched mine. He licked my bottom lip, and I moaned. He smiled against my lips and slipped his tongue inside my mouth. He tasted so good. He moaned when I nibbled on his bottom lip softy, wrapping my arms around his neck, pilling him closer. He pulled me on his lap, holding me close. We continued kissing until Bella knocked on the slide we were hidding in.
"We're going to meet again. I know it." I told him, leaning in to give him one last kiss and smile before bolting out of the slide. creeping behind Bella. "Let's go home."
She jumped, startled. "Alice! I was waiting here forever!"
I giggled. "Sorry, I got distracted." I saw Jasper climb out of the slide from the other side, winked at me and then headed out of the park.
Bella pulled me back to the swings, grilling me for details about my date with James. Until she mentioned it, I had completely forgotten about James King.
Presently, James was pulling me toward Emmett and Bella, who both were talking on the couch her house. We decided to meet up here before leaving to Port Angeles later. They looked surprised to see us here.
"Hey Bella." I smiled widely at them. James nodded to them, taking a seat on the recliner, talking to Emmett about football. "Let's get you ready for you're date." Bella blushed. James and Emmett's heads shot up.
"Date?"
"With who?"
"Alone?"
"When?"
They shot question after question. Bella flushed, trying to answer. I rolled my eyes. "Let's go." I pulled her upstairs, leaving the still questioning boys downstairs.
I know this is practically a flashback but I wanted to set up how Alice can forget about James completely when Jasper is on her mind or around her. Hope you like it! See you next time. Review pleeeeease. I want to know how you're liking this story so far. :D
