He didn’t make a noise I just felt the wetness gather there. I didn’t care… he was letting it out. He was showing himself to me, because I showed myself to him. Maybe being vulnerable helps him more than I thought. I didn’t know how long we sat there, and I didn’t care. I would sit here as long as he needed me too.

“Thank you.” He said muffled against my neck. “She was a concrete angel, wasn’t she? She put up with him because he told her he would kill me if we left. She tried anyways, three times. Until he killed her, she thought he was already killing who I was, ‘that was worse than dying,’ she said… He made it a lesson. ‘How to kill a whore.’ He called it.” He pulled away but only so I could see his face. He wanted me to see his tears. His mother wanted him to be himself.

I smiled and took my thumb across his cheeks to stop the tears. He grabbed my hand. Shaking his head, he wanted to cry. So I just kept holding his hands watching him cry. I silently wished that Alice wasn’t here so Rose could be a part of Jasper’s need. Everything happens for a reason though.

After almost an hour, I pulled out the mattress under his bed, and grabbed my pillows and blankets. That night, everyone camped out in Jasper’s room, breaking Esme’s only rule.

—-Family Saturday—–

“Everyone get into pairs.” Alice said handing us our cameras. Mine was pink, I made sure everyone cleared their memory so we could take as many pictures as possible. I guess I didn’t think it through all the way, since Esme, Rose, Jasper and I were the only ones with Camera’s. That meant our pairs had to be with a Cullen.

Alice shoved Edward in my direction and I cringed. Not because I was paired with him, but because I was nervous that I would be changing to have him take pictures of me and vice versa.

The shop keeper kept all her clothes upstairs. She blocked the stairwell off to her other customers. I think she was really excited to have pictures of us. She was really happy to see the Cullen’s too. I would have been if I was her, they were all beautiful. Well, so was Rose, Esme and Jasper.