FOREVER AND ALWAYS ━━━━ jasper hale.

Midnight Sun One Shot

"Why is Edward so damn dramatic?" 

-Courtney Swan

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(A/N: Yes, I am reading Midnight Sun right now, and I think it is kind of funny how dramatic Edward is, but couldn't help but wonder what he would think of a first-impression of Courtney... thus, this was born. I hope you enjoy!)

Jasper's mind held suffering. 

 Alas, it is something that I have grown accustomed too. My brother of sorts has his own issues, issues that all of us have had to go through one way or another. Hearing Jasper's thoughts are kind of like being back at the beginning myself. Back to the place I had tried so brutally hard to forget. He knew that he didn't have the bet self control, and he knew that Alice worries about him. 

 The news from Alice that his blood singer was here did nothing to ease my concerns. One of the Swan sisters, the talk of the school... in a way that is so insanely ridiculous it makes me want to laugh aloud. I heard the flurry of words resonating through my mind as soon as I stepped within the dreary halls of the school. Alice had developed a fond liking of the girl, and was telling me now in our own way of communication. Alice and I are good with communicating, speaking in ways nobody can hear... her words are almost droned out by the others though. 

 'She needs to brush her hair,' came the stiff thought from the direction of Jessica Stanley. Speaking of Isabella, of course. I didn't particularly agree with her, although the nagging emptiness of Bella Swan's mind was making me grow increasingly uncomfortable. Not that she just didn't think much, I am sure she had plenty to voice about our school. It was like her mind was just... a void. A void hidden by a shy, blushing girl with long hair and short stature. 

 'Edward.' 

 My name, the one word that gets my attention. Not because it is mine necessarily, more because people don't use it much. Alice was gazing at me, her big eyes glowing with knowledge some could only dream of acquiring. I tilted my head to the side. 

 Alice laughed, and a brief thought floated through her head about how I looked like a confused puppy. I allowed a soft smile to grace my face, leaning back in my chair and tapping my finger on the table. She didn't speak anything else directly toward me, she just shook her head knowingly, like she was the one who could read minds. 

 I sat up straighter in my seat. It was Jasper's voice that had caught my attention. It wasn't in pain though, it wasn't wracked with the agony that I had anticipated hearing. No, it was... calm. 

 I had to re-assess, concerned that I had somehow heard wrong. No, it was true, Jasper's mind was relaxed. Relaxed for the first time in as far back as I care to remember. 

 'Ew, this place is already so stereotypical.' 

 There was the girl. The other Swan girl... it reassured me in the slightest that I could hear into her mind, although guilt immediately settled in as soon as I felt it. Courtney didn't look anything like her sister. She was tall for one, and looked like she could be an athlete. An athlete, in Forks, it is ad to say that would be something new. 

 Her face had the smallest resemblance to her twin, although the hair was really the only indistinguishable feature they shared. That an eyes, big, dark eyes. The blood pooled in Courtney's cheeks, unlike the paleness of her sisters, and Jasper's eyes flickered over.