Before we left to hunt this evening I was sitting on the balcony. I must have been brooding, and was lost as images of her in biology flashed unbidden through my thoughts. I remembered the sound of her giggling when I sneezed on Lauren, the warmth of her touch the other day and how transcendent her smile is. I thought of how lonely and lost I feel, of how pernicious and despicable I am and of the sharp contrast to her kindness, of how good she is. I honestly didn't mean anything by it, I just let my guard slip momentarily. But yet again, I have wrought devastation around me.
I heard a thud and then the sound of Alice screaming, I realised my error, but it was too late. She started yelling at me "What the fuck did you do? Jesus Edward!".
I stared confounded by the scene before me, but managed to make a hasty apology. I hadn't registered Jasper's presence in the group, as he was watching TV, his mind enviably quiet. I entered the room to find Jasper was catatonic on the floor by the couch, glassy-eyed and slack jawed, on his side in the fetal position. I am still not entirely sure what happened, and can only suppose he was caught off guard for the flash of my emotions he caught and fell from his perch.
Rosalie just glared at me and said "Don't you think you should leave?"
As I left, Emmett was shouting "Fuck man, you broke Jasper! Alice, Alice, how do you reboot him?". Alice was slapping Jasper hard about the face again and again, trying to rouse him from his stupor.
Carlisle sent me away with Esme, promising to join us to hunt as soon as he was sure Jasper was enough recovered. I do hope I haven't broken him permanently.
A/N: Please leave a review! Finally, I could put a little comic relief in here for you. Hope you're hanging in there. Next time: BIG CHAPTER Edward has an AOL account and he is only *slightly* afraid to use it.
Just a reminder that Edward cannot continue being so atrocious to everyone indefinitely. It is time he ate some humble pie. He will come back to you in his trademark Bonerward/Prudeward style, but he needs to have a difficult adolescence first. Thanks for bearing with him.
I plan on uploading the chapters without comedy in batches so that those who are here for the laughs aren't too alienated by the tonal change and can whizz through them. I sincerely hope you will fall in love with him on the other side of all of this. The only way out is through.
Massive thanks to the creative, kind and funny wh1teow1 please show some love and read Moirai, a reimagining of Twilight for the new decade!