Finding My Place | Jasper Hale

Life Balance

For the next few weeks, Kira and Bella would not leave each other's sides. They ate lunch and dinners together, they drove to school together, they were inseparable.

Of course, the Cullens didn't leave them alone. Jasper had somehow found a way to switch into two more of Kira's classes, and Alice had switched her spare to the same period as Kira's spare. They wouldn't leave the sisters alone.

But Bella and Kira had managed to do their best to avoid the family. They always came to the other's rescue when the Cullens had managed to corner one of them. Although Kira had noticed that the Cullens seemed to be getting more and more desperate as the days passed.

That day, a few weeks after the incident, Kira was walking down the hall. She had plans to use her spare in the library to finish some homework, and that's where she was headed now. Kira sat down at one of the library tables and began to work. After a few minutes though, she heard movement across from her.

Kira looked up, her eyes catching Alice. Kira sighed, before moving to get up and find another table to sit at. Just as Kira began to stand up, she felt Alice's cold hand wrap around her arm, holding her in place. To Kira though, this action did not seem to have the same threat behind it, as many of the similar actions from the Cullens this past week had seemed to have. This made Kira freeze.

She looked at Alice from across the table, meeting her eyes, only to notice that she was standing there, unmoving. Kira watched her, standing there, her eyes unfocused, before suddenly she seemed to snap.

Alice let go of Kira's arm, gasping as she stepped back. "It's almost time." she said.

"Alice? What's going on?" Kira asked, speaking to Alice seriously for the first time in weeks.

"Kira," Alice started tugging at her arm again. "You need to come with me. We need to talk to you about everything."

Kira stopped. "No! You need to tell me what's going on right now! What do you want?"

Alice continued freaking out, pulling on Kira's arm and trying to get her out of the library, but Kira pulled her arm out of her grasp. She turned around, gathering all of her books, before brushing past Alice and back to her locker to put them away. She glanced back at Alice one more time, seeing her on the phone and talking urgently to someone on the other end, before continuing on her way.

Kira headed to her next class. She was early, but when she got there she wasn't the first one like she usually was. Jasper stood there. In the centre of the room, on the phone with someone talking urgently. When Kira entered the room, Jasper's head snapped up, a look of relief washing over his features.

He took a couple of steps towards her, his hand reaching out to grab her arm as well, but Kira quickly moved out of his way, walking towards her seat. Jasper made a move to grab Kira's arm again, but the teacher walked in a moment later. Kira, knowing that Jasper wouldn't try anything in front of the teacher, sighed in relief before shooting Jasper a look, telling him to go to his seat.

Kira sat through the whole class, but she couldn't help but feel anxious. The Cullen's behaviour these past few weeks had been odd for them, but this seemed worse. They were freaking out with a sudden sense of urgency that Kira was not used to.

After that class, Kira managed to escape the school and make it to Bella's truck before any of the Cullen siblings could intercept her again, but she still had to wait for Bella, and Bella was no where to be seen. Kira got in the truck anyways to wait for her, closing the door behind her and sitting, looking for Bella. As Kira continued to scan the parking lot, with no sign of Bella, she heard a tap on the window. Glancing over at it, she rolled her eyes when she saw Jasper standing there, but she opened the window anyways.