purple rain | jasper hale

seven

|TRIGGER WARNING|

'OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE!' Valerie yelled while punching her steering wheel for the third time in a row. Her car was fucked. It didn't move, it didn't start, it didn't do its only fucking job: drive her to school; she literally wanted to smash her head against the window. At 7:45am on a Friday and having Mr. Sparks class at 8 am, Valerie knew she was doomed; she would be late and he would be a pain in the ass. He didn't like her and he wasn't afraid of mocking someone in front of the whole class. Her only option was waking her mother up and ask her for a ride, but the Doctor had been working until 1 am last night, so she would kill her. It would be her or Mr. Sparks anyway.

Elizabeth didn't kill her but at the moment Valerie set foot on Mr. Sparks class at 8:05am, she decided that it would have been a lot better having her mother killing her. She stood on the entrance as she wouldn't dare to even step foot on his classroom without asking and begging for his forgiveness on her knees.

'Oh, looks like Ms. Addams finally decided to join us!'

'I'm sorry.' That was all she managed to say as she lowered her head and walked to her seat. Everybody was still staring at her weirdly, but the rumors had stopped with her friends' help; besides everyone thought the teacher was a douche bag anyways. She sat down and she realized that Jasper was already in class.

'Being sorry isn't going to help you pass this class, Ms. Addams.' He growled.

Jasper thought this teacher would look better screaming for forgiveness than he looked while growling at such a little human.

Valerie sat down. She had a lot of stress going on apparently, as her hands were shaking as she was writing down what was on the board. The class hadn't even started and it was raining a lot outside; she obviously wasn't late because she wanted to. This guy was a douchebag and as soon as the school year ended Jasper decided he would give him a little scare and kick his ass. As the teenager steadied her breathing next to him, he couldn't help but check on her.

He didn't know why he felt the need to do so.

'Are you okay?' He checked, barely in a whisper. 'He's a douchebag. Fuck him.'

Valerie let out a little smile – which again didn't reach her eyes – and shrugged her shoulders.

'It's just a shitty day, that's all.'

Her emotions told Jasper the same.

Jasper didn't say anything else, yet he didn't like the fact that she was upset. He didn't try to interfere with her emotions as class happened and he didn't even try to punch the teacher when he gave her extra assignments by the end of the class as a punishment for her being late. He was controlling himself even though he could feel that she was on the verge of crying. He was silent as the girl headed out to Chemistry with Angela. He just let her go with all her anxiety and sadness of having such a bad day ahead of her.

As he sat down in Literature class, he couldn't help but wonder if...

He could almost hear Edward in his thoughts telling him to do it. So that's what he did.

He took his phone out of the pocket and his fingers quickly found her contact.

Valerie was sitting in Chemistry class after finishing her exercises and being miserable when her phone vibrated in her pocket. She took it out.

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Hello, Valerie. It's Jasper. I just wanted to check if you're okay.