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Destiny Awaits	By : Lollydolly Category: Twilight Series > Het > Bella/Jasper Views: 19535 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter Six
The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes, were Edwards. What was he doing over there? Watching me sleep, when I felt sure we’d curled up together.
“Good morning, beautiful.” He said, in that voice that me tingly.
I didn’t feel beautiful this morning, I felt like I’d had all of five minutes sleep. “Morning.” I yawned rolling onto my back.
My sides protested as I sat up and looked in the mirror across the room. I didn’t look quite as bad as I felt, but my hair seemed to have taken on a life of its own in the night and tied its self into knots.
Maybe I should just go back to sleep. I couldn’t quite summon up the energy to get cleaned up and dressed.
Just as I was about to sink back down onto the couch Edward took the decision out of my hands, and started combing through my hair.
Now this I liked. I could get used to this quite easily. I settled back and relaxed into the soothing sensation. My mind drifted to the night before and I felt something tighten in my belly as I thought of Jaspers words. It seemed I wasn’t really helping him. I was back to being a nuisance, and he’d swotted me away with his harsh words as easily as he might have swotted a fly.
Well I could leave him alone. I would. There was no need to force my company on someone who clearly didn’t want it. I tried not to think about the fact that what he’d said had hurt me. I knew he thought I wasn’t good enough, and he was probably angry at me for being the one to comfort him.
Though that was his fault really, wasn’t it? He was the one who’d kept coming back to me. He sought me out, not the other way around. So maybe he was angry at me for letting him.
“Why don’t you get dressed and I’ll make you some breakfast.” Oh, so he’d finished. I hadn’t noticed. I turned around and wrapped my arms around his neck to kiss him.
He smiled as I pulled away and brought his mouth back down to mine for another kiss. Just a little more heated, a little longer than he usually allowed. When I opened my eyes again he was gone.
I got ready for the day with a smile on my face. Edward had knocked all less happy thoughts from my head.
Downstairs I took in what I’d hardly noticed the night before. The room was all decked out in silver and lilac balloons and streamers. What could only be my birthday cake sat in the middle of the huge dining table, with crystal glasses and china plates. A small pile of presents sat at the opposite end.
It could only have been Alice. No one else would have gone to this much trouble.
I turned away from it and headed to the kitchen where I found Edward and Esme having a whispered debate.
“She’s not eating them. I’ll make her something if you won’t. Eggs, she likes eggs.” Since when had he been bothered about what I ate?
“Alice said she likes them, I bought them specially.” Esme was pouting now.
“What are you talking about?” I asked, wandering into the room.
“Esme insists on killing you with sugary confections that have no nutritional value whatsoever.” Edward said. His face was so earnest I couldn’t hold in my giggle.
“I like sugar. What have we got?” I poked my head into the open cupboard and saw a box of Lucky Charms. “Ohh, I haven’t eaten these in years!” I squealed reaching up to grab them.
Edward tried to take them off me but I held them behind my back. “You need to eat something better than them. They’re no good for you. Let me make you breakfast. Please. How about breakfast in bed?”
“Nope. I’m already up. Nothing compares to lucky charms, they were my favourite when I was little. Thank you Esme.” I had to hug her, this was one present that I really didn’t mind getting in the least.
“See Edward.” She sent him a triumphant smirk. “Mother knows best.”
Edward disappeared into the living room in a huff. He was used to getting his own way.
Esme got me a bowl and spoon as I got the milk, the only thing in their fridge. She wiped down the work tops as I ate. I was surprised at how normal it felt. Domestic and homely, something my mother never was. It made a nice change, I decided, as Esme threw the cloth she’d been using into the sink.
“Is Jasper still upstairs?” She asked innocently. I knew that everyone in the house must have heard that little confrontation last night.
Taking my empty bowl to the sink I answered carefully. “I wouldn’t know. He left Edwards room last night and I haven’t seen him today.”
“He didn’t mean it you know. He’s just feeling bad. Why don’t you go and speak to him?” Esme asked, more cajoled really. I knew she hated conflict of any kind. “Edward said that last night, you told him it was your job. What did you mean?”
Sighing, I remembered what Alice had asked of me. I’d be a pretty bad friend if I gave up now. “She asked me to look after him. She’s seen that he’ll be ok if I do.”
Esme's face lit up in a brilliant smile. “I knew it. Carlisle said he might never get over it, but I told him he would.” She came over and hugged me, a little harder than was nessacary. When she looked at me though, she frowned.
“I know it’s not really your place, and that Alice had no right to ask, but you will try won’t you? I can’t bear to see him in so much pain.”
I’d already pretty much resolved to try again, and I agreed, it was just too hard to see him hurting. “Of course I’ll try. I’ll go and see him as soon as I’ve washed this.” I felt like a bit of a coward, playing for time like that, but it was hard not to think about his face as he’d shouted at me.
“Nonsense” Esme said briskly, whipping the bowl out of my hands. She had it washed, dried and on its way back to the cupboard before I’d even had time to think of a protest. “Off you go. No use putting it off. Just... be gentle with him.”
I knew exactly what she meant, but it didn’t stop the laugh that bubbled up in my throat. Esme looked at me worriedly for a moment before she caught on, and joined me in a giggle.
I sobered as I reached the top of the stairs and hesitated. Come on Bella, you made a promise. I sucked in a deep breath and let it out slowly.
I rapped on the door of his study three times and waited. No answer. I knocked again, “Can I come in?” again there was no answer. As I pushed open the door I had half a second to hope he wasn’t there before I saw him.
Jasper was sitting on his desk with his back against the wall, one knee pulled up to his chest, one foot trailing down to the floor. He didn’t look at me as he spoke. “I don’t remember inviting you in.”
I shrugged and closed the door behind me. He had much better control of himself now, but I could still feel a little trickle of pain coming from him. I couldn’t begin to imagine how much more he was holding inside.
I hopped up onto the desk next to him without breaking anything. It was a minor triumph, but it made me feel more positive.
“I don’t need to be coddled Bella, nor do I want it.”
“Who said anything about coddling? Maybe I just felt like some company.” I told him. I knew he’d see through the lie strait away. I had never sought him out before, for anything.
“I heard Esme send you up here, Vampire, you know...” He drawled.
“I was coming anyway.” I told him easily, it was mainly true.
Finally he lifted his eyes to mine. “Why’s that?” There was very little curiosity in his voice, but I answered him any way.
“I felt like sitting in the dark and being miserable, obviously.” The corner of his lip twitched the tiniest bit. I took it as a good sign.
“I didn’t want you to be hurting up here all by yourself. Does my being here bother you?”
“I’m not hungry!” He snapped, misunderstanding.
“That's good, but it’s not quite what I meant.” I inched closer until we were sitting thigh to thigh and shoulder to shoulder. I waited for him to push me away, but I felt him relax against my side, and I smiled.
We sat in silence for a few minutes, and I found myself surprised at how easy that was. He was a strangely calming person even when he wasn’t using his gift.
“I... I mean... Thank you... for last night.”
His words were hesitant, and forced, like it cost him something to say them, but they touched me all the same. “You’re welcome.”
I watched him turn to face me a little. “And I wanted to explain... it wasn’t the way... I mean, it... Look I wasn’t feeling you up alright?” I swear if he could have blushed he would have. His stuttering was actually kind of cute.
I’d forgotten all about that. I bit my lip and tried not to laugh, ending up snorting instead.
Jasper scowled. “I just didn’t want you to think I was taking advantage of you after... after you’d taken care of me.”
I smiled and laid my head on his shoulder. “I’d forgotten all about that. Edward overreacts sometimes, you probably know that better than I do.”
Emmet interrupted us by bounding into the room, closely followed by Edward. Jasper tensed at my side.
“Party time Bells!” Emmet crowed, pulling me to my feet and spinning me in a circle. “Esme says you have to come and open your presents and blow out your candles before Carlisle goes to work.”
I groaned. I’d hoped that all that would be forgotten in light of more recent developments. “Ok, ok, fine.”
“You comin’ down?” He boomed at Jasper, who only scowled. “Ah, did we interrupt you trying to feel her up again?”
I slapped at Emmet, knowing I wouldn’t hurt him. “He didn’t! And if he doesn’t want to come down he doesn’t have to. Now get downstairs.”
“Yes Mam.” Emmet laughed, hoisting me up onto his shoulders he ran from the room and down the stairs. “One birthday girl, as requested.” He said dumping me onto the couch.
I pushed my hair out of my eyes and glared at him. “I can walk, you know.”
Emmet grinned. “Not without falling down.”
I tried to stay mad, really I did, but in the end I had to smile.
Edward followed us a minute later, and the little gathering wasn’t nearly as bad as I’d feared.
Carlisle and Esme gave me to tickets to see Swan Lake in Seattle in a month’s time. Emmet had already installed a new stereo in my truck from him Rosalie and Jasper, though I had a pretty good idea that he had been the driving force behind it.
Edward gave me cell phone, which he said was also from Alice. I didn’t like getting such expensive gifts, but I was pleased with them, especially the tickets to the ballet.
Esme made me stand at the head of the table while they all sang happy birthday, it was mortifying, but kind of nice. She’d made the cake herself, and it was beautiful and delicious. So yummy looking, that Emmet had decided to try it.
“Yurrrrgh! How can you eat that shit?” He grimaced.
“Language Emmet!” Esme chastised.
I grinned. “Mmmmmm, it’s gorgeous.
After a round of thank you's and hugs I wandered upstairs with my presents. I put the already charged cell into my pocket and the tickets carefully into my bag, and left the room thinking about lunch.
And bumped strait into a rock hard chest. Jasper steadied me before I could fall and frowned.
“Edward said I hurt you.” He stated, and I saw his eyes flit across all my exposed skin.
“It's nothing.” I told him stepping away and wrapping my arms around my middle.
His gaze moved to my waist and I cursed myself for the stupid move that had given me away.
His arm snaked out, knocking my out of the way as he lifted my shirt a few inches. I saw his eyes widen a fraction before he turned his back to me.
“That’s not nothing.” He muttered. “You shouldn’t be around me. I’m a monster.”
I tugged my shirt back down angrily. I was sick of being told what was safe for me. “Funny.” I snapped “You look like an angel.”
He turned back to face me, a small smile on his face. “Never heard that one before.”
I shrugged, calmed down by his sudden change of mood.
“Edward’s right, you have absolutely no self preservation instincts at all. You call me an angel when I’m the last person in the house you should be alone with. Volatile, Alice used to say. I could snap at any moment.”
He was only a few inches from me, his face shadowed and his eyes dark. But as he talked about how dangerous the situation was, I couldn’t find it in me to be afraid.
“You won’t though, will you?” I breathed. “If you were going to hurt me you would have done it last night, there were plenty of chances.”
“I did hurt you Bella.”
“Not really. Not like you could have. You weren’t even in control of yourself, you tried to bite Emmet, but you never tried to bite me.”
“So what, you think that because for one night, while my mind was on other things and I didn’t bite you, that you’re safe? That’s not really how it works.”
“Well what about now? What about when we were in your study? Are you thirsty? Do you want to drink from me?”
He frowned, and I could see he was thinking. “I... I suppose I don’t really. The burn’s not as bad as it was before. Huh... you might be right, you still smell delicious, but it’s manageable. Maybe I just got used to you.” A slow smile spread across his face.
I grinned at him. “I do tend to grow on people.”
My pocket vibrated, and then beeped. It took a few seconds for me to realise what was going on, and pull my new phone out. I fumbled with it and pressed a few wrong buttons, before I managed to get to the inbox.
I had one new message. From a number I recognized.
“Alice.”
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