Return To Forks
Chapter 5
JPOV
My sister and cousins were teasing me to no end today because it took me forever to figure out if I should wear my hair up or down, dress up or dress down, I was a nervous wreck.
Finally Aunt Esme told Rose and I to go home and get dressed for dinner in something suitable and my hair needed to be presentable for our guests.
I was wearing a pair of black dress pants, black dress shirt, red tie loosely done, black cowboy boots and I'd washed my hair, put a little product in so it wasn't so crazy and it actually looked good and groomed and left it down.
Rose walked in and whistled "Bella will defiantly approve." she smiled.
"Rose, give it up! She's not interested! She likes Black for some fucking unknown reason, leave it at that." I snapped at my twin.
"Do you know she almost left town?" Rose snapped back at me.
"What are you talking about? She was at the hospital?" I said.
"No apparently she was up making breakfast or some shit and Charlie got pissed, didn't want her to pass out with no one around and injure herself worse and snapped at her really bad, she took it as him not wanting her here and she was going to run away. She needs someone to lavish her with attention, that someone needs to be you, TODAY!" Rose sighed and walked out, shaking her head.
I took a deep breath and followed my sister, we drove separately to The Cullen's house, she's probably be going off with Emmett later and I wanted nowhere near them and if the evening started to suck, I could always excuse myself and leave this way as well.
I drove up just as Chief Swan was arriving.
Felix and Dmitri had handfuls of gifts and ran inside, Chief Swan was grabbing more stuff out as I walked up and said hi.
"Jasper, Hi! Mind giving me a hand?" he asked.
"No Charlie, load me down." I smiled.
"The most precious one in the back." he smiled and nudged his head towards the backseat.
"Really Charlie? Not the gifts? You want my to carry a s-sleeping, B-Bella?" I asked.
"Is there a problem Hale?" he smiled.
"N-no sir." I smiled.
I walked to the backseat and there she was, in black dress pants and a red sweater, my heart rate increased, we matched, on accident. I strangely loved it.
I carried her inside and Esme who was holding the door, smiled at me with a knowing look.
"Put her on the couch." she smiled.
I went to lay her down and she grabbed on to my shit, not letting go.
Everyone looked at me.
Bella yells out "No!"
Charlie looks at me and tells me to just sit and hold her while she sleeps.
Emmett moves from the plush chair and Charlie helps me sit down and she wraps herself into me and sighs in contentment and smiles a huge smile.
"Well, seems like someone is quite comfortable with you." Charlie laughed, followed by everyone else.
I shushed them for Bella's benefit.
"Well, I'm friggin' hungry, so can we wake up sleeping beauty now?" Emmett snapped.
Rose hit him upside the head.
"What? I'm hungry!" he snapped.
"Bella is sleeping! She doesn't feel well and you're concerned about your stomach?" Rose asked.
"Well, yeah?" Emmett smiled.
"Always the honest 5 year old." she smiled.
"You guys go ahead, if dinners ready Esme. I'll stay here with Bella. Just make us plates and put them aside, for later, before Grizzly over there eats everything." I smiled and everyone laughed.
Esme smiled and said O.K.
Charlie asked if I was O.K. and I said I was more than fine, he gave me a sly smile, then stated, "Hands above the clothes Hale! Don't forget I've got guns and I do have one on me at all times!" he smiled and brought a blanket over the both of us and propped my legs up on the ottoman and Alice brought me some iced tea and I told them to turn off the lights in the living room, the fire and Christmas tree lights were enough.
After everyone left, I snuggled into Bella, sighing and smiling, this is where I belonged and I knew she did too, I could hold her forever.
I must have drifted off, the next thing I remember is a pain in my face and a cry of pain and a thud, then lights being tuned on.
Charlie came running in. "Bella, what's the matter?" amusement clear on his face.
"He, him, holding me, I was asleep in his arms." she sputtered out and scrambled to get up, gasping in pain, I shot out of the chair and scooped her up.
"Carlisle, I think she needs her ribs rewrapped, they've loosened, and she's wincing." I said.
"Take her to my office." he sighed and apologized to everyone and told them we'd be down in a few.
She kept telling me to put her down and I ignored her, Carlisle finally told her that I was going to carry her and she was going to like it, because she was injured, end of discussion.
Carlisle looked at her wrap and it was a little loose, he unwrapped it and God she had a beautiful stomach. Even with the horrible bruises. I even saw the bottom traces of her red lace bra, I was straining in my jeans at that point. "Jasper, I need you to push here for a moment." Carlisle said while he listened to her chest.
"O.K. Bella, everything is still the same, but listen to me! Jasper is going to be your shadow tonight! If you need to go somewhere, he carries you. Got it?" he smiled.
She nodded back and hung her head.
"I'll tell Esme you two will be down shortly, she'll warm your food, Jasper, bring her to the kitchen, we'll play Scrabble without you two, if that's O.K.? You guys need to talk." Carlisle smiled.
The side of my face was still stinging and I placed my had on it, flexing my jaw.
"Some right hook you've got there Swan." I smiled.
"Yeah, well, when you wake up in a guys arms you don't know and his face is buried in your hair and he's humming and smiling and one hand on my ass, what am I suppose to do?" she snapped.
"My had was on your ass?" I asked.
"Yes!" she snapped again.
"I-I'm very sorry for that, I would never do anything like that without your permission, please believe me, Bella. I'm not that type of guy." I hung my head.
She sighed and held her ribs when she did. "Look, I know you probably meant well, but after everything I've been through, it wasn't the best or smartest thing for you to do." she glared.
"Hey, your dad asked me to carry you in. Your brothers had their hands full with gifts as did your dad. Then when I went to lay you down, you screamed 'NO!' and grabbed onto my shirt and wouldn't let me go. So I had to sit with you in the chair. I had no choice. I must have fell asleep with you, it was so easy being with you. You smell great, you fit perfectly in my arms and it feels right." I smiled at her.
"Jasper, I'm sorry, I'm not ready for anything yet." she got up to walk out of the room.
"Where do you think you're going?" I asked.
"To eat." she snapped.
"Nope, not unless I carry you. Doctors orders, remember?" I smiled.
"Shit!" she mumbled and stopped.
I walked over and picked her up and carried her downstairs to the kitchen, our food was waiting and everyone else was in the den playing scrabble, saying we'd open presents when we were done.
I grabbed drinks for us and sat down, we ate in silence, I mostly just pushed my food around, her cell phone went off several times and she text back and forth.
I finished my plate and cleaned up my mess, I asked if she was done and she just shoved her plate towards me no answer. I cleaned it up, carried her to the living room and then went to the den and told everyone we were ready.
"Jasper, what's wrong?" Rose asked, reading me like she could.
"Nothing." I sighed.
"Damn it, it's not nothing." she snapped.
"Just drop it Rose, I was right. She's not interested. Can we get this finished so I can go home." I snapped, not meaning to, but I was upset and wanted to cry.
We all sat around opening gifts.
Felix's gift to Alice was last and when he got on one knee, I thought my mom was going to flood the living room. Carlisle obviously knew as did Charlie, they exchanged knowing glances, Alice jumped in Felix's arms and knocked him down, Bella rolled her eyes and mumbled something, I'm guessing everyone chalked it up to her medicine.
Finally I was able to take off with out it being inappropriate.
I said goodnight to everyone and took off, the first one to leave.
I got home, changed and laid in bed, thinking how wonderful it was to have held her in my arms for those few hours tonight. Those thoughts slowly turned into tears and I was soon crying myself to sleep.
BPOV
I was so glad for Christmas at The Cullen's to be over.
Jasper was way to serious for me.
Jake had been texting me and wanted to see me, but I knew my dad wouldn't let me out of the house tonight, he said he had a surprise for us tonight after we got home.
Dmitri carried me inside and sat me on the couch, "What do you think that dad has planned for us?" he asked.
"I have no idea?" I sighed.
Felix walked in all smiles "So what is the big news?" he asked.
"We have no idea. Dad said he'd be right back." we said in unison.
Twenty minutes later dad came walking through the door with Sue, Seth and Leah.
"Bella." Leah smirked.
A/N:
Sorry it took so long for the update…
Hopefully it won't take that long next time…
RL has sucked lately!
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