"Alice is absolutely driving me insane." Rose mutters, shoving books into her locker with unnecessary force.
"What did she do now?" I roll my eyes at her antics, but still smile gently at my adopted sister.
"She's gone overboard on the human's birthday party, she's pretty much decorated the entire house for tomorrow. How have you not noticed? It's all she talks about." She huffs slamming her locker shut.
I close mine, and we turn together. The stares of the other students around start to rattle me. A deep ache in my throat burns slowly up the back of my throat forcing my thoughts to be on slowly draining each of them. Rose's grasp on my arm breaks me from my spell, and I close my mouth, giving in to her tight squeeze.
It's only been two days since school started. Jasper's presence has been a constant by my side, making sure I'm adjusting well. No matter how I protest, he stays firmly beside me, earning us even more attention that we already have. Of course the addition of Bella to our lunch table hasn't seemed to help too much
"You good?' Rose asks lowly, watching me carefully has she flips her blonde waves over her shoulder.
"Yeah, let's just get to English." I smile at her, starting towards Mrs. Ostenburg's classroom.
My phone vibrates in my hand, and a small grin dances across my face as I read through Jasper's loving text.
"He never leaves you alone, does he?" Rose mutters, falling into step with me.
"He's just looking out for me." I roll my eyes at her, looking over my shoulder when I hear Emmett's booming laugh from a hallway away.
We meet Emmett and Edward as we turn the corner towards the English hallway. I stop in my tracks when I see the look on Edward's face. He looks past just riled up, and Emmett, as always, looks as smug as can be.
Neither Rosalie or I bother asking what has spiked his annoyance, not particularly interested in what Emmett has done this time.
Emmett looks to Rose before lumbering over to her and planting a loving kiss on her cheek. They both whisper to each other in hushed tones, and feeling like I'm intruding, I look to Edward.
I stare at him innocently, and he narrows his eyes at me.
"Get out, I know what you're doing." He mutters darkly, moving to shove past me, but as he goes to knock his shoulder into mine, he hits a much more tense body.
"Don't touch her." Jasper warns easily, seemingly forgetting that I'm not as fragile as I once was.
I place my hand on Jasper's arm, squeezing him gently. He relaxes a bit, turning towards me with a tight-lipped smile.
"Hey, I'm okay." I grin up at him, my hand lingering on his arm.
His fingers dance gently across my cheek, ghosting across the top of my cheekbone before he tucks my hair gently behind my ear.
When we returned from Alaska, Alice took me aside, smiling like a lunatic as she spoke of the way Jasper acts around me. She told me breathlessly that she's never seen him look at anyone the way he looks at me. The way she spoke of his eyes never leaving me when we were anywhere near each other was so cheesy I almost stopped listening, but I couldn't because I was so enraptured by her words, knowing that each of them was true.
"Darling." Jasper breaks me from my thoughts, "You are so beautiful."
I laugh, the tinkling bell sound still seeming unfamiliar, and then look to Rosalie and Emmett behind me. He's making inappropriate gestures at me and she's trying her hardest to swat them down with her piercing glare pointed straight at him. Sometimes I wonder how they could ever be made for each other.
Jasper follows my line of vision, stiffening when he sees Emmett. I know if we were at home they'd be wrestling or something by now, but he just gives him a bored look, pulling me gently to him and uttering a goodbye as the warning bell rings.
Rose shoves Emmett away, rolling her eyes at him. Jasper has disappeared again, so we walk to class slowly, talking about the papers we have due, and what dress Alice has picked out for the party tomorrow.
The bell rings right as we enter class, we quickly slide into our seats in the back of the room, avoiding making eye contact with anyone.
As Mrs. Ostenburg starts to drone on about Romeo and Juliet, my mind flutters to Jasper.
After our brief trip to Alaska, and my crazy admission of wanting to marry him, we both got caught up in the moment. Alice was pissed to learn that her best friend and her new sister managed to get married in some dingy courthouse with fake documents, no reception, and no intent to tell her.
It didn't seem like a big deal then, forever was something we both could count on, and a document stating our marriage wasn't something that really altered anything.
I know that Jasper and I have done everything completely out of order, and most of it is thanks to the compulsivity that guides me like a rope tugging me through life.
I fiddle with the small band on my finger, same as Jasper's, and I could almost laugh at the high I had as we ran out of the chapel. He had twirled me in the snow, and I swear I've never seen a smile as big as the one he wore that night.
I don't know why I proposed, or asked, whatever it could be considered, but I know that I've never been quite as calm. After everything he is my safe place, my home, and the one thing I know will keep me grounded.
I twirl off the ring as Mrs. Ostenburg calls on Rosalie, surprising her, but not phasing her in the slightest.
The small diamond on the intricately beautiful band gleams up at me as I look to the center, remembering what he whispered to me as we waited outside the judge's office.
"I promise you, Calina Laraunt Cullen, that I will be a constant. Mrs. Whitlock, I will love you ceaselessly."
The inscription hits me in my soul, and I sigh.
Ceaselessly.
Okay friends! SO this is part one of the book, the next chapter will be the "Epilogue" of part one, and the beginning of part two all at once. This story is in two parts, the second part will have much more action, and much more continuity. This first part is the way that it is because you have to know Calina, her little bits of beauty, and her tremendous flaws, because damn this girl is NOT perfect. So sit back, and enjoy part two.
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Fanfic**None of us saw it coming, not even Alice. No one could have predicted it, no one could have prevented it. Once we saw, we knew that we could never be the same.** After the incident, all Calina Laraunt wanted was for life to be calm again, and fo...
