Edward was coming back to school, but Jasper wasn't as thrilled as Alice was. No, Jasper was just thrilled that Edward was home in general. He might not seem completely thrilled to the others, but Jasper had missed his brother. Even if Edward did not come back to school, Jasper wouldn't care because he was still home. The feelings in the house had brightened up considerably once his brother had returned. Jasper sat in the back of the silver Volvo, directly behind Alice, as they road on the way to school. Alice would be constantly watching out for Edward today instead of him which Jasper didn't mind in the least bit. Jasper had just recently fed and knew he would be alright.

Jasper felt the car slow to a spot as it pulled into a parking space at the school. Jasper curled one of his fingers around the handle to the door and opened it, slinging his back pack on his shoulder as he stood. Jasper and the others did not wear seatbelts as it wasn't really needed for them. With the five of them combined, there was no telling what they could do to a car if it collided with them. They also didn't have to worry about police officers for they were hardly out it seemed and it helped that they had members of their coven who could spot a police officer before they even came near them. Jasper gave Alice a kiss on the cheek before she left with Edward to go to their first class. Jasper was posing as a Senior with Rosalie and Emmett while Edward and Alice were posing as Juniors. Because of this, Jasper did not have any classes with Alice and he only saw her throughout the day at lunch. Of course, Alice saw him throughout the day usually as her eye constantly was watching him.

Jasper hated having to go through classes so many times. However, there wasn't much he could do about it. In fact, Jasper only paid half of his attention to the teacher. He listened to the teacher's question, but not to the student's response. He only listened to the teacher in case they asked him a question. The other half of his mind was roaming the emotions of the other students in his class. Quite honestly, Jasper felt the majority of the girls in this class were too materialistic. There was much bigger things to life that they had not experienced or bigger things that they just didn't know about...such as Vampires. The girl sitting two seats away from him was worried about something. Even though Jasper couldn't feel what she was worried about, he would not be surprised if it was about her nail polish being too flashy or something. She was staring down at them and picking at the polish on her nails. Jasper knew he probably shouldn't be judging people like this, but from all of his experience with the people at Forks High, it was hard not to.

Eventually, the bell rang and signalled for lunch. Jasper let out a sigh of relief -- a completely quiet one to human ears, but a sigh of relief nonetheless. Jasper exited the classroom and made his way to lunch. The closer her got to where Alice was at, the closer he felt her emotions. She seemed...completely amused with something. Jasper walked up towards Edward but did not see Alice around anywhere. But then, a snowball came flying towards Edward from the parking lot and didn't miss it's target at all. Alice popped up from behind the car and Jasper couldn't help but grin as she did so. She went to stand behind him, as Jasper was about a foot and half taller then her if not more. Jasper looked for the others knowing that this would hardly be the end of this snowball fight.



ooc; i notice that in the majority of my posts, jasper hardly says anything if nothing at all. xD haha.

He had to admit, being back at school made him feel like he was going back to normal. True, he hadn't yet encountered her or her powerful scent, but he would wait until later before he would come up against that obstacle. It was lunchtime, but none of the Cullens or Hales ever ate anything at lunch time, so maybe spending the day outside in the snow would make for a nice change. Edward stood there for a moment, watching the white snow in his hands begin to melt. More from the actual temperature outside than any warmth coming from him, which was minuscule. He looked around in interest, wondering who his target would be. He thought suddenly that he might try and find his siblings, wherever they were in the tiny school, so that he could acquire a target.

But his eyes wandered. The cafeteria was close by, he could see just through the bleary glass of the windows. The students filed around in the small, linoleum-covered cafeteria, waiting in lines for food or snacks, none of which he would or could or would ever want to eat. In the meager sea of people that sat down or stood up, he searched for her familiar figure, One that was unfortunately burned into his memory. But he didn’t see the brunette he was looking for. And just what would you do if you did? Say hello? Say: “Hey, you know, sorry about how I acted last week towards you. I just couldn’t seem to stop thinking of killing you. So, no hard feelings? Not likely. He might have kept glancing in momentarily, just to keep an eye out, had it not been for the sudden sound that rang in his ears: Something whizzing through the air at an incredible speed.

He should have known that was going to happen. If he hadn’t been trying to find Ms. Isabella Swan in the cafeteria, he might’ve noted the presence of his ever-clever sister. But even then he might not have caught her scent quicky enough. It was his habit to close his mind off at school unless he wanted to know something specific, so he hadn’t felt her mind either. He bent over double as the incredible force of her throw hit his stone-like lower half of his body. He glanced up with a sideways smile that almost immediately broke into a laugh. He didn’t say anything out loud, instead, he wove his way easily into her mind. That doesn’t seem fair, does it? You attacking me while I wasn’t paying attention. He looked at all of the people who had seen it happen, some of them laughed out loud as the snow hit him, but when Edward turned to look at them they immediately stopped.

They were afraid of the Cullens and Hales for the wrong reasons. They saw them as elite, beautiful people who didn’t associate with anyone else. That was true of course, and people stayed away from them for that reason. Only subconsciously did they feel what they were. So when Edward looked at the laughing faces and they stopped, he always had to remember that these children just thought of him and all of his siblings as something not to be toyed with. No one was terribly afraid of Edward. He was tall, but not massive. It was Emmett that they feared upsetting. Still, Edward stood up straight and wiped the remnants of snow from his clothes. Thanks Pixie, now I’m going to look like I had an accident. He was chuckling loudly now, and starting to form another ball of snow to retaliate with. She was a girl, but she was also his sister, and she wasn’t getting off so easy.

Alice had such an unfair advantage though. If you planned to hit her with something, the only way to do it was co-op with everyone else to distract her, but even then landing a hit on her was pretty impossible. It didn’t ever stop him from trying though. Too bad they weren’t at home, the only way he could truly beat Alice was with speed, which he couldn’t use right at that moment. While at school he was constantly aware how fast he moved, or how much force he used to do things. Even now he had to be somewhat careful in how he threw the snow. If he threw too hard it would fall apart in the air, just from the speed of the wind as it passed, like a meteor through the atmosphere.

His mind was open now, but only selectively. He quickly assessed the area for his siblings. Alice he felt, Jasper too. He held his rather massive ball of snow in his hands, shaping and crushing it into a perfect sphere. But again, another attempt was wasted. Emmett came charging at him from the side and threw him to the ground. He fell over with a louder than normal slam, and let out and involuntary, “Oof!” He tried to fight against his brother’s weight, but Emmett had another surprise in store: He slammed a handful of snow into his face, and for a split second, Edward was in shock. His face contorted in anger and competitiveness, but too happy was he to be with his family this way, and it quickly melted away into something else: Brilliant joy. “Did I miss this?” He chuckled and moved his arm up under Emmett’s shoulder and pushed harder than he needed to, hoping to throw him off. “How could I not?” He grinned and threw a fistful of snow back into the face of Emmett.

“You’d better be careful, bro. Alice is out there. She already got me, as you can see.” He chuckled, keeping his guard up. This wasn’t going to well for him, in no time at all he would be soaked from head to foot.

When it came to noticing the most asinine and miniscule of details that were likely to drive even the most organized and level-headed individual insane, Isabella Swan should have won an award, or at least be placed in the Guiness Book of World Records; she was always prone to having her thoughts swirling with every possible random deliberation save for the expected. Instead of focusing on the notes that she should be taking at the current moment, or even the teacher's lecture, the seventeen year-old was thinking about the period that was to follow: lunch. Rather, she was inevitably wondering if the vacant spot at one particular lunch table would be void of its usual occupant once again. Edward Cullen had been absent from school for quite a while - what was it, a week now? He really was the last person that she should be noticing, but Bella really couldn't help it. There was a certain alluring quality to him that constantly left the young brunette wanting to know more and more about him, to run into him every chance that she got. Yet, at the same time, there was something that simultaneously caused her spine to tingle and make her want to stay as far away from him as she possibly could. It really was troubling; he was a contradiction in and of himself, and it was driving Bella mad.

Shaking herself out of her reverie and away from thoughts about Edward Cullen, Bella attempted to try and focus on listening the rather dull lesson. Ugh, they were all just going to be a bunch of trained monkeys - and boring monkeys at that - if they continued at the rate they were going. Nevertheless, despite her feelings about the class, she managed to scrawl down a few more lines of notes while her eyes continued to drift to the clock on the wall. Fifteen minutes...ten...five...finally. As the bell rang, signaling the end of the class, Bella practically sprung up from her chair. It wasn't so much that she was anxious to get to lunch as she was to escape the class that had just concluded. Mike and several others tossed her peculiar glances, but she simply shrugged them off and headed straight for the cafeteria, especially as someone urged her to head outside. She didn't catch who it was, but with the blanket of fallen snow covering the ground, Bella was going to stay indoors at all costs; she was not one to be fond of snowballs whizzing past her head, or even anywhere remotely close to her body.

As she approached the cafeteria doors, Bella felt her heart inevitably begin to beat a bit faster in anticipation at what, or rather who, lurked on the other side. Perhaps he wasn't even here again - she didn't even know. But the seventeen year-old's pulse quickened at the mere possibility. Walking in rather slowly, Bella willed herself not to look at the table at which the Cullens normally sat, getting her food and heading straight over to Jessica and the others. Surprisingly, her not-so-iron will was able to withstand the pressure and didn't cave as her feet made contact with the tile on the floor, making their way over to their usual lunch destination; not once did Bell lift her gaze. She did notice that Mike and a couple others were missing from their usual group - they were undoubtedly outside, creaming each other with wet snow that would have made Bella incredibly uncomfortable. Thank goodness they were out there and she was in here. "Hey guys," she greeted the table as she approached and sat down, her legs swinging to glide underneath the table. It was then that Bella's will caved, her eyes flitting over to the Cullen table. No one was there. Well, it was bound to happen - the girl was one to frequently fall victim to disappointed hopes. Turning her head back to look at the group sitting beside and around her, Bella managed a half-hearted smile. "Some snow, huh?"

It seemed that Alice’s decision to start a snowball fight was a huge hit with the entire school, so much so that people began to slowly dribble out of the nearby cafeteria to watch the spectacle before them all. Never in their short time while attending Forks High School could any of them remember a time when they saw the Hales and Cullens laughing with one another in such a way, joking. It jolted a lot of the students that watched, both from nearby and from inside the cafeteria. If Edward hadn’t been so preoccupied with the situation at hand, he might’ve taken note of the sudden appearance of the one he had been looking for just moments before. Instead, he let his mind filter through the thoughts surrounding him.

Is that a smile I see on Edward Cullens face? I don’t remember ever seeing a look like that in him...or, any of them...Usually they just brood and talk to one another, if at all. Naturally they don’t want to socialize with other kids their age, like me for instance. Do they ever try to include anyone else in their fun? No.

Ohh! Alice got Edward good where it hurts! Didn’t seem to phase him though. Must have been my imagination. But I never thought I’d live the day to see the Cullens and Hales in a snowball fight. I guess hell froze over someplace...

And just what do these kids think they’re doing? Snowball fights at school? They’re going to break something! I’m going to find out who started this mess and sit them down for a talk. They can’t just cause all this ruckus...Then all the kids are going to get the idea. I can just see it now...windows broken, clothes soaked, kids missing school...I just can’t allow that.

The Cullens actually have fun together? I thought they all just sat around and looked like perfect fashion models, making the rest of us look drab and stupid...

Edward laughed a bit and grinned at Emmett. “You ought to hear what they’re thinking...They think we’ve all gone crazy.” He laughed some more as Alice’s voice chimed in to warn Emmett of his temper, but also to make a timely exit. She said she was going to lunch, and at such an opportune time. “Oh sure, Alice. Did you see the principle coming or is that just a coincidence? And shall I tell him who started this whole thing, or will I be taking the fall for this one?” His auburn hair fell into his pale face in wet clumps, but he so easily pushed it out of his face in almost unbelievable perfect disarray. He didn’t think this himself, but he heard it from different angles from different people. A burden his gift most certainly was at times, but like Alice, he had moments when he absolutely loved it. Now was one of those times.

Edward shrugged as he saw the principle come into view. He shrugged his shoulders playfully and his mouth parted in a grimace that said: Oh, we’re in for it now. But who would be the one to tell on them? When asked who started the snowball fight, Edward looked all around him, picking for a squealer.

Oh yeah, like any of us are going to tell -you- who started all this fun? You’ve gotta be kidding me.

I have half a mind to tell him that the Cullens started all this...
To that Edward glanced at the plotter, with newfound challenge burning in his crystalline amber-colored eyes.

Nevermind.

Edward burst into new laughter with many others around him, all of them claiming no fault. The principle, frustrated but without any solid answers, stormed off into the cafeteria, but not before nearly slipping on the icy concrete. This, naturally, brought about new chuckles from the rather damp and dripping crowd, but even so they all began to huddle into the warm cafeteria to dry off and eat. It seemed like a good idea, because although Edward didn’t feel the bite of cold from the wet clothes or shoes, he certainly didn’t relish the thought of being wet. It just made him uncomfortable. Still, he would have to thank Alice for her thoughtful contribution on Edward’s first day back at school. It seemed to be going well enough. No murderous thoughts came to him.

But curiosity always held tightly to his mind, and his eyes wandered again into the cafeteria. He searched for any visible sign of the evasive brunette, but actively sought her mind also. His habitual breath caught as he saw her, standing in line for food and suddenly blushing and deciding to otherwise go with only a drink. Edward thought to himself, Now that couldn’t possibly be because of me, could it? Lost your appetite Miss Swan? But even as he thought that he realized he should’ve already known that. He was looking right at her. Actually, he was blatantly and outright staring at her from outside. Come on, Bella. Where are your thoughts? But no amount of encouragement relented even a single whisper of a thought. It was incredibly frustrating, but it wasn’t the largest challenge she presented.

In fact, none of his family members knew anything about that yet.

Edward cursed under his breath. But coughed loudly to cover it up.

“Yeah, let’s all go gather round our table with our play-food and pretend to eat it.” He grinned wide. “Unless someone feels like taking one for the team and paying for it later?” This of course was in reference to their hair-ball reaction to food. He laughed a little bit more, but it was a little strained. He was in high spirits, that was true. But the next few hours would be a true test. He had to admit: He was pretty damned scared.