Finding My Place | Jasper Hale

Project Unfinished

After school the next day, Kira found herself at home getting ready to go over to Jasper's house in order to work on their assignment. She felt nervous, but was more overcome with excitement. Her day had gone great. The night before, she had received the best sleep since she had left the hospital. It felt almost as if the same feeling of calm she got when Jasper was around had appeared in her bedroom, causing her to sleep without the nightmares that seemed to haunt her.

Kira found herself smiling as she had walked down the stairs that morning, and had even made and ate an actual breakfast before school. She happily went to school and enjoyed another lunch filled with fun chatting and talking with the Cullens. Kira felt that she was even starting to become friends with some of them, and just the thought of new friends here in Forks made Kira's heart swell.

Kira found herself lost in thought, as she sat waiting for Jasper to come pick her up. She had originally told him that she could drive herself if he gave her the address, but he had insisted that she would have a hard time finding it and that it would be better if he just drove her to avoid conflict. Kira had agreed, and Jasper was supposed to arrive to pick her up in twenty minutes.

As Kira ran around the house, trying to gather everything she would need to bring with her to the Cullen's house, she heard Bella come up behind her.

"Where do you think you're going?" Bella asked her, a disgusted look on her face.

Kira only smiled, not wanting to let Bella dampen her mood. "I'm going to Jasper Hale's house. I should be home before it gets too late."

She could feel Bella glaring at her, but refused to acknowledge the stare, until Bella said, "You can't do that. Jacob has told me bad things about them. If you go, I'm going to tell dad."

Kira only shrugged in response. She was used to Bella trying to take things away from her, but Jasper was one thing she was not yet willing to give up on. Kira heard Bella's footsteps retreating up the stairs and she let out a sigh of relief. Bella wasn't going to disrupt her any longer. Kira continued getting ready, until she heard two sets of footsteps coming down the stairs.

"What's this I hear about you hanging out with the wrong crowd?" She heard Charlie ask. Kira sighed. She had dealt with enough of Bella's drama since she moved back here, and wasn't sure how much more of it she could take.

"They're the Cullen family dad." Kira said. "They're not bad influences. I've been eating lunch with them the past couple days, and their adoptive father is Dr. Cullen, the doctor who took care of me at the hospital."

Charlie looked convinced, and was about to turn around and walk away before Bella whispered something to him that Kira could not hear. This seemed to change Charlie's mind and he turned back towards Kira. "I still don't feel comfortable with this. I want you to stay home."

Kira opened her mouth to protest, but was instead interrupted by a knock on the door. She moved to open it, and revealed Jasper. Kira, once again, opened her mouth to tell Jasper that, much to her annoyance, she had been forbidden from going over to his house to work on their project, but was interrupted again, this time by Jasper.

"Mr. Swan," Jasper said, in a calm voice. "Kira and I must work on a school project together. I can assure you that nothing else will be happening, and that nobody in my family has any intention of pushing any bad habits that we may have onto your daughter."

Charlie seemed satisfied by this, and much to Bella's dismay, nodded for the two of them to leave. Kira smiled at Jasper before quickly grabbing her back and moving with him out of the house.