ENAMOUR

𝚃𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚢 𝙾𝚗𝚎

"Happy Birthday Bella." Esme and Carlisle wished, the former giving a small hug.

Clara went over to Jasper, holding his hand and smiling as he kissed her cheek.
"You look beautiful Darlin'."
"Jaz, Bella's the birthday girl. Not me." Clara reminded and he shrugged.

"We tried to reign Alice and Clara in." Carlisle told Bella.
"Like that was possible." Esme added.

"I can see that." Bella nodded as she saw the house, fairy lights and streamers hung, candles decorated furnitures and a table was placed with cake and different foods.

A flash suddenly came making Bella and Clara flinch. Alice gave them a sheepish smile.

"Found it in your bag. You mind?"

"Dating an older woman. Hot." Emmett nudged Edward and Clara laughed while Edward rolled his eyes and Bella seemed to shrink.

The present giving started, Rosalie reluctantly gave Bella a small box.
"It's a necklace. Clara picked it out." She mumbled.
Bella opened the box and gave a small smile. She turned to Jasper and a gave a small wave to him. Jasper only nodded his head in response. He was still fearing the worst, Bella's blood was just too sweet.

"Show me the love!!" Alice exclaimed putting the camera towards Bella and Edward who rolled their eyes playfully and hugged.

Bella glanced at the table again and looked to Alice and Clara. "You two, Clara and I are the only ones who can eat cake. This cake can fill 50 people."

"Speak for yourself." Clara said and her eyes pointed at the cake, "I'm going to eat to my heart's desire. It's rainbow cake you know."

They all laughed at her excitement for cake and Alice came forward with another box.

"Here open this. It's from Emmett."

Bella's eyebrow raised when she felt how light it was. She shook it slightly and no sound came from it. She opened it and it ended up being empty. She looked to the big guy who was snickering with Clara.

"Already installed it in your truck." He responded, "Finally a decent sound system for that piece of-"

"Hey don't hate on the truck." Bella defended, cutting him off resulting in chuckles from the family. Alice handed her the last one, informing it was from Carlisle and Esme.

"Just a little something to brighten your day. And Clara's as well." Carlisle said.
"You've been looking kind of pale lately." Esme added with a hint of teasing in her voice. Clara giggled lightly shaking her head.

Her smile instantly faltered when she heard Bella mumble a faint 'ow'. Clara felt the aura change as the Cullens's eyes turned dark and they stared hungrily at the scarlet blood oozing out of Bella's finger. Clara flinched when she heard a low animalistic growl from beside her, Jasper.
Before anything could be processed, Rosalie grabbed Clara's arm and pulled her away as Jasper flung at Bella. Edward shoved Bella out the way just in time over to the mirror making it shatter and cut her. Emmett and Alice held Jasper back as his dark eyes stayed put at Bella and as he growled. Carlisle immediately took Bella out the room and Rosalie did the same with Clara.

"Jasper.... will he be alright?.... he's going to blame himself isn't he?" Clara asked. Rosalie remained silent but sighed.

"I'm sorry this had to happen Clara." She apologised. Clara shook her head.

"Rose don't apologise, none of us knew this would have happened."

"I guess." Rosalie gave a small smile and turned to see Bella coming out, her arm bandaged by Carlisle. "Both of you go home now alright? We'll try and talk to Jasper." Rosalie told.

Clara nodded with a small smile and after Bella entered the black car, drove off to their house.

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Clara had texted Jasper. She knew that he would not be comfortable meeting her for a while so she did her best to console him through text. She reminded him that he wasn't a monster and that what had happened was beyond his control. She texted him not to blame himself and to just talk to her. Clara knew that this would be hard on Jasper, she just hoped that he wouldn't take the burden himself and share his concerns and fears with Clara. He loved her right? And love was about trust right? Clara was worried but she decided to give him a day to calm himself down.

She went downstairs for a small snack when Charlie came with a worried look.

"Kiddo what happened? Bella's come back all glum?" Charlie was fearing that Bella would have another "I'm leaving" episode. Clara gave him a soft smile.

"Don't worry dad. The party went great. We had to come back early because Emmett got a flu. Bella's just bummed because she was looking forward to having a video game match with him." Clara lied.
She couldn't tell him that the party was a complete disaster. That would mean that Charlie being the overprotective dad he was, would march down all the way to the Cullens and give a rambling of whatnot.

Charlie sighed taking a sip of his beer. "Alright if you say so." Clara stared at the beer.

"Dad? Can I have a sip?" She randomly asked. Charlie gave her an inquisitive look. The last time Clara had beer was when she thought it was juice and drank the entire can. This of course got her drunk because of her young age and she had a terrible hangover. Clara swore since that day that she was never having alcohol, ever again, in her life.

"Clara you're 16 about to turn 17. Why would I let you?" Charlie snorted.

"I'm having lots of stress from exams. Can I just have 1 sip? Please?" Clara gave him her infamous pout and Charlie couldn't help but give in.

"Fine. One sip." He muttered and Clara smiled and took the can. Instead of one sip, she took a big gulp and put the cab down on the table and breadth out, refreshed.

"Now that was good." She sighed in content and thanked her dad and left to her room.

Clara wasn't going to drink beer everyday or anything but during this time where her mind was uneasy, it helped in momentarily forgetting it because of how refreshing and cold it was. And it was light and didn't give her a headache like her first time. She sort of understood why Charlie loved it so much.

She plopped to her bed. Looked like she wasn't going to cuddle Jasper for the night.

"I really hope he'll be okay. That they'll be okay."