Santa Monica

Jasper part two

It was definitely as bad as it looked. As Jasper scrolled through his social media has it was definitely worse than it looked. At some point from what he could gather Jasper and Rydal had gotten into a major argument. Maybe they broke up? Maybe it was just an argument? But they had got into a major public argument. Then later on that night Jasper was spotted with Astro publicly making out.

Didn’t Astro have a boyfriend? Doesn’t this fall on both of us? We are royally screwed right now. Jasper tries to climb out of bed. That’s about the moment Astro wakes up and notices everything. Jasper just sort of stands there taking a deep breath rolling his shoulders back. His side’s on his pants as quick as he can. Astro sits up in bed and wraps the blanket around her.

Astro puts out her right hand trying to make a statement. Jasper puts out his left hand just claiming the statement. They both just kind of stand there like that and sitting there like that for a moment until they realize something that they didn’t realize before. Maybe, maybe they’re made for each other. And in that slow-burning moment. Maybe everyone already knew that. Yet they’re not going to admit this right now. Maybe they will when they’re 60.

Jasper through on his shirt on in a hustle to start leaving. Astro nodded her head and smiled Softly. Jasper turned towards her and said goodbye he would see her around. He leaned over and kissed her cheek he would try to clean up this mess with Rydal.

After 6 missed calls and 31 missed text messages all from Rydal. He was definitely going to be in the doghouse for a long time. He finally called her back but it went straight to voicemail. He sent her a quick text message saying he was sorry saying if she wanted him to explain he was on his way home right now. But how is he going to explain how could he explain any of this? How could he explain died he was the most Royal fuckup?

Jasper when and headed home, he wasn’t exactly sure whose place they were just at. Do you ever have that feeling when you wake up somewhere with your best friend and you don’t know where you’re at? You don’t know how you got there? You know you just royally messed up with your girlfriend? But yet all of a sudden you have like this Moment of clarity. He parked in his driveway and headed inside realizing Rydal had definitely been there earlier that day or maybe the night before. She had gone in her stuff and probably left. Was this it? Was that all she needed to know that maybe they’re just not good enough for each other?

Jasper sat at his dining room table waiting for her maybe to text him waiting for her maybe to just respond to something. As the hours passed and there was no response there is no text message back. Maybe maybe this was it maybe she was finally done. The realization finally sunk in around 9 p.m. that she was done. She had walked out the door, Jasper didn’t remember much of the fight the night before.

Jasper did know that it must have been really bad for her to just walk away. It must have been really bad for Jasper to end up in the bed of his best friend. When that realization came into play. He also realized that he had text messages from Astro saying that she was sorry. Why was Astro sorry? He had texted her back asking why. When Astro said why she was sorry it mostly was explained as Astro felt like she was the reason why everything was reached out in the news.

Jasper knew that everything about last night had to hit publicity so maybe his and Rydal’s fight was out there and he could figure out why they were fighting. Jasper started searching realizing him and Rydal had a fight about a little thing that blew out into a big thing. Realizing if Jasper was in the right State of Mind he wouldn’t have thought about it. Maybe it was best that they did break up. Maybe it was best for both of them.

Jasper texted Astro again saying he hoped he didn’t mess up Astros and Truman’s relationship. Astro texted back saying that Truman and her weren’t dating anymore due to the fact that Truman slept with Arabella when they were dating.

It had been officially two weeks since that day. Thanksgiving went well Jasper was probably the laughingstock of his family. His brothers tease him a lot due to the news that was about the family this week. His sister’s wanted to comfort him. His dad wanted to put him into rehab again which is always the case. Though through and through Thanksgiving went well.

It was now 15th of December Jasper hadn’t heard from Rydal sense he was guessing 2 days before Thanksgiving. Jasper and Astro had been getting closer and closer which surprisingly was very surprising since they were best friends already and he thought he knew everything about Astro. Jasper had to give an Astro a key to his house in case she ever needed it. She even had her own spare bedroom at his house now.

Jasper had also seen Harlow and his daughter two more times. They were dropping off Christmas gifts today which was making him happy. They had a boatload of Christmas gifts for her. Jasper figured he would spend as much money as he could on his daughter. Adopted parents had put a money limit on it and said that they could give it to her as long as it said it said it was from Santa. Jasper and Harlow agreed that they could give her Santa gifts.

Jasper thought about it for a long time which was funny because of right around the time that he was his daughter’s age was the age that he stopped believing in Santa. His father used to tell him if he believed in Santa he would get more gifts though even though he knew that they gives would come from his father. He pulled up to the adopted parents house with gifts in the backseat. Harlow and him started emptying the car and putting it into the garage as the adopted parents instructed to do.

Harlow and Jasper made a good team as being non-parents but best friends in this part of her life. Jasper put a smile on his face and stood by Harlow as they made their way inside the house and Harlow smile towards their daughter. They spent about 3 hours with her today. When Jasper Harlow got into the car afterwards they didn’t cry. They just headed back towards Harlow’s place.

Harlow asked if Jasper wanted to come inside and Jasper agreed to come inside Harlow’s place. Say what inside an order Chinese food and got a bottle of wine out pouring both of them a drink with a smile on his face. He sat down on the couch raising his shoulder glancing through a picture book of her family. As they ate and drank their wine they talked about life and where they wanted to be in life as they got older if they still wanted to be friends if they we were always going to fight like an old married couple.

As Harlow and Jasper wine down for the night and kept eating there Chinese food with a smile on their face. Jasper could get used to this being with his best friend. Jasper could see a future with her. Many more kids running around. Jasper could see them growing old together. Jasper wasn’t going to take the chance though not after what just happened with his high school sweetheart.

Harlow asked Jasper to stay the night, Jasper agreed he could stay the night he said he could sleep on the couch. Harlow said he could sleep in bed with him and after they were drunk they ended up making love in her bed again. In the morning Jasper left to go home to the place the only knew that he could be himself be by himself.

Jasper lock himself in his Art Studio making art for what seemed like three days doing cocaine to stay awake. He stayed in his Studio making art piece after art piece he’d call this collection Harlow the Great and beautiful. It was all done in purple because he only loved in purple when he was in Harlow.

It was close to Christmas when his family had decided start get together, Jasper was In charge of holding the presents for everyone. So people would come over with wrapped presents and put them under the Christmas tree in his place. All the girls were in charge of cooking so all the guys were in charge of picking up the food for them. We would head to the stores and pick up the food and then head over to our dads house and put it in the freezer.

As the days counted down and got closer to Christmas Eve everyone started picking out their Christmas pajamas because we did Christmas in pajamas. Jasper started rapping his own gifts that were for his family. Putting them under the Christmas tree. He thought about the presents that he had picked up for Rydal in the beginning of the year and wondered who he should get them too. The presents were too nice to give to Astro but too girly to give to Harlow. He wondered if he should give them to one of his sisters Instead.

But as he thought about it he wondered if he should contact Rydal and just give her the gifts. He wondered if it would be weird him showing up and just giving her in the gifts though being like I know this was back when we were dating but here is some gifts that I got for you. He wondered if instead he should just try to return them. Maybe he should try to exchange them for something someone in his life would actually like now from him. He had at three sisters and he couldn’t think of any of his sisters liking any of this.

As his mind wandered on those gifts he finally decided to give them to Astro. He figured she might at least appreciate them compared to most of his family members and compared to Harlow who would just say they are very girly. He figured Astro would at least like them. An get a use out of the gifts and as bad as that sounds giving the gifts to the girl that broke up the relationship for him she was still in his life. He will always care about Astro. Astro will always be jasper's best friend.

It was the night before Christmas when Astro and Jasper could get together again. Jasper had wrapped the Christmas gifts. Astro probably wasn’t expecting anything. Guliana was there with a smile on her face, because Jasper always got the best gifts for Guliana growing up and they usually don't get together unless it's a holiday during the school years or a break during the school years.

They were all sitting around his dining room table as he pulled out dessert which was a pumpkin pie. At least none of these guys had a crazy diet going on that restricted them from eating good food. Jasper put the pumpkin pie on the middle of the table cutting it into pieces and handing out pieces of the pumpkin pie towards everyone on to their plate.

Jasper then went and got the gifts for everyone putting the gifts in front of every single one of the people. He had gotten Guiliana a necklace from France when he visited during the summer this last year he had one in the beginning of the summer. He had gotten Astro something from France as well but gave in it her it when he had got him back from France. Giuliana put her gifts that she had gotten everyone in front of them. Astro put the gifts that she had got in for Guiliana in front of her and the gifts she had gotten for Jasper in front of Jasper they all sat there eating their dessert an opening up their gifts.

Guiliana had gotten Jasper Rolex Guiliana had got an Astro tickets to see a concert that she really wanted to see. Astro hatch got and Guiliana a pair of gold earrings that Guiliana would probably never wear unless around Astro. Astro had gotten Jasper a pair of cufflinks. They had his initials on them and for some reason this meant a lot to Jasper.

Jasper had hold Astro open her gifts at home and told Guiliana the same thing with a smile on his lips. He sent the girls home waving them goodbye kissing them on the cheek.

It was the next day meaning it was Christmas Jasper was in his pajamas as he heard his family arriving downstairs opening up their gifts he was sure of it. He made his way downstairs and started to make everyone coffee with a smile on his lips he said hello to everyone bringing his coffee to his lips and drinking it.

As the day winded down they headed towards his father’s house for dinner. The girls had made enough food to feed an army though in his mind they were a small army. They enjoyed dinner while laughing and joking about the family everyone had their girlfriend or boyfriend on their arm it was nice to meet everyone significant other for the first time. Him and Anya made their way twords the backyard seeing as they were the only single ones in the family. He joked with Anya that Anya was going to be single forever.

Deep down inside Jasper new that Anya was probably a lesbian. He had seen the side of himself in her. Not saying that he was gay but he was the most not straight one in the family. He was openly bisexual he just wished that she would come out and say it. He wished that his sister would be open to the family about it like he was.

So as Anya and him joked that they would both be single forever. He did ask if she had been on any dates recently. Her mentioning that a date had gone horribly wrong not surprising to him. Most guys were known to be as much of d**k as he was towards most females. He raised his shoulder and asked her to continue on about the horrible date.

Anya said that the guy had been making up rumors about her after the date. It was amazing how guys can get so much wrong once a girl turns them down for the first time. Which she did turn him down. He laughed and joked a little bit bringing his glass of vodka to his lips. He nodded his head with a smile coming across his lips saying that he would break the guys kneecaps if he ever met him.

It wasn’t until a couple days after Christmas closer to New Year’s that he had gotten a text from Astro saying that she had opened the gifts and that they were amazing but they weren't really her style. He joked saying that they were nice gifts though. She Then replied saying that they were and hoping that he didn't take it in the wrong way. He knew what she meant that Astro was hoping that Jasper wasn’t shopping for the wrong girl when he picked it out.

The only thing was Jasper was shopping for someone else when he picked it out he wasn’t going to admit that to Astro though. She deserved a nice things she deserved to be happy about getting nice things. Jasper texted Astro about this party he was throwing on New Year’s hoping that she would come. She then replied that she would definitely be there and she would tell Giuliana about it.

As New Year’s Day came Jasper got ready for the party with a smile on his face setting up his house for the rager. Cleaning up his house and setting up tables around the place of liquor and weed and drugs. He hoped more people showed up then he invited hoping that the word of mouth would just get him through this party. He still didn’t know many people in the college he was going to. It wasn’t that he didn’t pay attention it was that he just didn’t really care about the people he was going to college with.

So after all this setting up was done with people started arriving his house got filled with multiple people the word of mouth did work in his favor. Him and Astro were in the corner talking about physics or psychology he didn't exactly remember which one Giuliana was making googly eyes at someone from afar while the conversation was going on. Which would have been bad if it was around her parents seeing as though the arranged marriage was still ago.

this was the night that Jasper had brought up about the arranged marriage if it was still going on if it was not going on anymore. Guliana had got in into a half about it saying it was still going on she didn’t wanna talk about it. She was just hoping that the guy would be respectful. As the night winded down Jasper found himself standing next to arabela again the one in that seems like a mystery to him the one that always seemed like a mystery to him.

He had introduced arabela to Juliana and Astro again Astro gave her nose in the air to her. Thus one Jasper remembered that Arbella had slept with Astros short time boyfriend he laughed a little bit remembering that. Gulianna kept making googly eyes at the person that arabela was there with. Jasper was sure if Guliana could take off his clothes right then and there she would.

As the night winded down Jasper seemed to have remembered the person arabela was with. That was spike her on and off boyfriend? Or just the person that she seemed to play games with? Realizing that Jasper seemed to make an exit line back to Astro making small talk with Astro with a smile on his face raising his shoulder. They make small talk here and there.

All Jasper really remembered of New Years is that he kissed Astro when the Clock struck midnight Astro and him went upstairs towards the bedroom. And they ended up falling for each other once again between the sheets. The fact that Jasper would fall for Astro between the sheets and yet she seemed to be so calm everywhere else was amazing to him. He couldn’t keep his mind off of her. Would he ever know if she felt the same?

To say Jasper had a rocky start to the new year he definitely did. His rocky start seemed two started but never end. Harlow had texted him the day after the New Years saying that she wanted to fix things between them saying that she wanted to get back into a relationship. Jasper jumped at the opportunity And if things couldn’t get any weirder than that Astro seemed To be really off lately. She seemed to be having feelings for him or maybe oblivious to the fact that she had feelings for him.

Jasper was stuck between Harlow and Astro like he was the glue keeping his life together. He knew he couldn’t pissoff either of them otherwise they’d be like hell breaking loose inside his own house. Harlow had a temper so did Astro. He didn’t want to lose either of them he just wanted life to get back to normal. Maybe he made the wrong decision.

As his grades came in he realized that he was passing all of his classes his GPA seemed to be about normal with his brothers which was very unusual. How is he keeping up with the females in his lives and keeping up with the grades. Was college a lot easier than he thought it was going to be? Did they give him the wrong grades?

As he debated debated all of this in his mind he decided to start being friends with Arabella he decided to start getting close to Arabella. He knew it wasn’t probably the right decision to make but he also knew that she probably needed someone in her life to guide her down a good path. Not saying that he was a good path. He was definitely a bad path.

As it was starting to become spring Jasper started to get into some normalcy for the first time in his life he felt normal. He felt like he could do this maybe maybe he seemed normal with Harlow maybe you not lose Astro as a friend. He felt like he could bypass all of his life problems for right now. Maybe it was the drugs in his system.

Maybe it was the fact that he was still sneaking away sleeping with the Astro. When Harlow wasn’t looking about. Harlow didn’t have a key to his house. Harlow had a text him when she was coming over. Astro knew the rules very well. they sleep together they'd leave each other then move on. This was only in hopes that Astra would eventually find another man to be obsessed with.

But as February came they started getting more reckless they started doing drugs together. as February 14th came they realized that they were each others everything. Harlow caught them in the act Jasper didn’t very much care. Jasper made up a lie it was only one time is only this time. Harlow didn’t care harlows clause came out in Harlow when Went off. It’s what happens when you’re young Jasper said. It’s what happens when your Jasper Jasper promised himself.

Harlow didn’t care, it’s not like Harlow was going to wreck either of their lives. Harlow was left broken though and that was jasper's fault. Harlow said she should have known better and maybe she should have. maybe she should have known better Maybe she shouldn’t have trusted Jasper.

By the end of the argument Astro is blaming herself and no one was putting the blame on Astro. Jasper and Astro just kept looking back and forth from each other Harlow just kept standing there until Harlow couldn’t take it anymore and left. Jasper and Astro continued on what they were doing because isn’t that what you do when you’re high in and in love? You become reckless.

And after all of it was said and done it wasn’t even worth it. Was it? It wasn’t worth breaking so many hearts? It wasn’t worth being this reckless? As two weeks went by they realized that they weren’t going to be getting together not after all of that. they both deserved time apart they would still be each other’s best friends.

So Jasper dove head deep into his art and school work for the first time in forever. He also made appearances at parties but When at parties he wanted do hard cocaine anymore. He tried to keep his mind off of Astro he tried to keep his mind away in clear of the past.

That’s when his mind would start to wander to the only girl who seemed to be in his life right now. Arabela, Arabella Lucia for some reason she still stuck around she knew everything. She was sort of jasper’s emotional punching bag the last couple weeks him just texting her an unloading all his emotional baggage on to her.

She wasn’t really jasper’s type, yes Jasper had a type. Jasper usually went for blondes who spit fire and wouldn’t hold back their emotions. Usually weighed about 110 pounds when wet and was about half his height. Arabela was a redhead, who seems very shy. She had freckles and her skin was as pale as he could imagine snow is. She didn't seem like she spit fire and brought the holy water is upon people. She seemed a lot more nerdy like she had her head inside of a book not inside the clouds. One thing He did know about arabela was that she seemed troubled. She seemed lost.

Jasper didn’t know if he could fix that though. Jasper didn’t know if he could fix orabella in the ways that she was. Jasper didn’t know if arabela wanted help in the way that she was either. All Jasper knew was if he was falling for arabela there would be hell rain and fire brought up on him from him and his friend group it would be interesting but as broken as he is. He doesn’t think he’s ready for it not yet he’d have to keep it a secret. Have to keep her safe from his side of life.

As bad as this sounds yes Jasper has fallen for the taken girl. But from his regulations it looks like spike has been cheating on Arabella he had done some digging for the past couple of days and it looked like spike had been cheating for the past couple weeks or months. So Jasper had invited arabela to go to lunch with him. He decided to break the news over lunch.

He didn’t know exactly how to bring it up did he bring it up during when they were eating. Just casually while they broke bread like oh by the way your boyfriend cheating on you? Or did he bring it up after they ate like I know I called you here for a reason here’s the reason? He know he did bring it up though and the news that was shocking to arabela.

Jasper wouldn’t be surprised if he never heard from arabela again. But as the week went by it was probably Friday when he got a text from arabela saying you were right. Jasper knew he was right. He didn’t know how he was right but he knew that spike had been cheating on arabela. He didn’t know if it was the game that they played though.

He didn’t know if it started when they were playing their game and it just didn’t end. He didn’t know the depths of Williams cheating either. though Jasper was sure he would find out. He wasn’t expecting for William to all of a sudden Have a kid on the way though.

He wasn’t expecting for arabela to tell him all of this through text either. That William had been sleeping with arbella’s roommate. that William had knocked up arabela’s roommate. That it seemed that it William was in love with arabela’s roommate. Jasper all of a sudden felt remorse for telling arabela. Maybe he should have kept his mouth shut he really didn’t have any room to speak on the whole cheating topic.