Jasper Hale was the big tough guy in their small town. He has been abused দ্বারা his step dad for his whole life. After being hurt for so long, he turned to stone. He blocks anything and everyone from him. He turns to a gang for acceptance. What happens when the loving, chipper, happy Alice Cullen comes to town? Will she be able to save him before he is too far gone? Will Jasper be able to প্রণয় her like she deserves to be loved? ALL HUMAN.
If আপনি happen to be German and would prefer to read Hope in German, আপনি can head over to my পরিলেখ and there is a link to the German translation there for your convenience. :)
Oh, and I don't own anything.
Jasper's P.O.V.
I stretched my arms and legs, letting out a soft groan as I slowly opened my eyes to the light.
It buuurns! I thought as I glared at the sun.
I jumped out of bed, glancing at the clock as I changed my clothes. It was 7:00 am. Good, I had a half an ঘন্টা to get out of here before he woke up.
I jogged quietly out of my room and grabbed an আপেল off of the table. A snort from the পালঙ্ক across the room made me whirl around.
"So, what, আপনি don't come প্রথমপাতা 'til the middle of the morning, আপনি eat my food, and then আপনি run out before I wake up? Why should আপনি get any of this?"
He waved around the room for emphasis. His volume gradually increased as he spoke.
"You don't do anything here! আপনি don't deserve all I give you, boy! The least আপনি could do is a little work around here!"
He stumbled toward me, obviously having a hangover.
"I was just about to go to school. I'll do stuff when I get home," I grumbled quietly, attempting to leave.
He grabbed my wrist.
"No no no... that's not how it works, kid. আপনি know the rules pretty damn well! আপনি haven't been listening and আপনি know the punishment PRETTY DAMN WELL, too!" He got louder.
"Time for আপনি to learn to take it like a man. Not that আপনি are one, boy. But আপনি gotta learn someday, right?" He snarled at me, his words still slurring, not making complete sense.
He raised his fist up and again I tried to get away from him. His grip tightened on my wrist and he twisted me around as his fist smashed into my face. I felt my lip bust open. I gave another failed attempt to get away and he shoved me to the ground.
"Pathetic. আপনি are such a weak little boy. What a failure. I'm glad আপনি aren't my son দ্বারা blood অথবা I would be ashamed."
With that said, his foot connected with my stomach. I gasped for air.
Right then, the door ঘণ্টা rang. Saved দ্বারা the bell!
He walked away from me to answer the door. After he opened it, he walked away without saying anything to the person standing outside of the door. This told me it was someone for me.
"We'll finish our conversation when আপনি get home, got it?" He growled at me with his disgusting voice.
I jumped off of the floor as quickly as possible. After grabbing my gang jacket, I raced to the door.
Yeah...gang jacket. Even though we were in Forks WA, probably the smallest town ever, I had landed a place in the one gang in the town. We were called the Punishers. Don't ask me why we were called that; I thought it was lame. But I wasn't going to be the one to tell the leader, Greg, that I thought that.
Standing at the door was my best friend, Nick. He was the one who got me into the gang in the first place.
"What's up, man?" I ব্যক্ত as I slammed the door. He just gave me a nod and turned to his car.
"You got some blood on your face, Jazz. আপনি might want to clean that up..." he grumbled. He had obviously just woken up.
I reached my hand up and wiped my lip. I stared at the red that smeared across my fingers; much আরো than I expected.
Nick threw me a rag out of his pocket and I cleaned the rest of my face up.
"We gotta meet the gang, then we are actually going to head for school today. Greg ব্যক্ত he wanted some good grades because he wanted to get in some college for something অথবা another, I don't remember," Nick mumbled as he drove us to our hang out; the local diner.
"All right, whatever, fine with me."
Those were the last words spoken during the ride. So far, it was the typical start to a দিন in my life. Nothing new, nothing special; my stepdad's drunken violence and Greg's gang meetings. I sighed.
When we arrived at the diner, there were already five people there. Greg, of course, and then Paul, Chris, Connor, and Mack. There were four other randoms from the gang, too, but they were newer and I hadn't done much with them quite yet.
Greg was the leader, Nick was his right hand guy. I was apparently moving up to third in command; his left hand. There were fifteen of us all together.
"Hey! Chel! Get these guys some breakfast!" Greg shouted, winking at the waitress. She giggled and walked back to the kitchen.
"So, the plan is we eat some food, head out to school, and then after there's a party at Jessica's!" Greg announced as Chel plated up breakfast.
A bunch of the guys let out নেকড়ে howls. Nick and I rolled our eyes at each other. The parties were always the same; girls, booze, sometimes drugs. Three things that I couldn't care less about right now. Girls were fake, drugs were stupid, and booze was stupider. I had seen what it could do to Steve, my stepdad. I wasn't about to touch the stuff. Nick and I went to the parties because Greg wanted us to; and in case another gang showed up, we had to be there to kick them out.
The waitress handed me a plate full of eggs, বেকন and toast. She smiled at me with the same flirty smile she used every time she saw me. I just nodded back at her; my usual response. None of the girls in town were very interesting to me. I wasn't the kind of guy to use them, like most of the gang, and I definitely did not want a relationship with any of them.
"Jasper, man! আপনি missed a great fight last night! Where were you? We went up to Port A and got in a sweet fight with the Leeches!" Greg yelled to me as he walked over to my stool, draping his arm over my shoulder.
"Oh, sorry, I got stuck working and then I was really tired," I mumbled.
"Ha! আপনি know আপনি don't gotta work man, we can take care of you!" he laughed and punched my arm.
"Yeah, but I sort of like to work... keeps my mind off things."
"All right, whatever, but don't work too much; আপনি got work to do with us too!" he ordered in his "I am the leader" voice.
"But anyway, eat up and we'll leave. We don't wanna be late for school and get a bad rep do we?" he chuckled at his own little joke, since we obviously already had the worst reputations in town.
I continued eating in silence, listening to all of them go on about their "big" fight. I didn't really care; I didn't really even like fighting. I just DO it. I guess I keep doing it to stay in the gang অথবা something. They are really all I have. Plus, they scare the crap out of my step-dad, which works out well. I hadn't really been hit অথবা anything too much lately; he was afraid of repercussions from the gang.
We finished eating and headed for the school. We were early, so not many people were there yet.
I watched as some of the little dorks and nerds headed in early. We just chilled outside on one of the picnic tables.
The teachers glared at us as they walked by, but we all just smirked at them. They knew they were going to have a bad দিন today; the Punishers had decided to প্রদর্শনী up.
Slowly, the rest of the students arrived. We all snorted as the "Cullens" pulled in. They are the rich, spoiled kids. All of the teachers প্রণয় them. Teachers refer to them as the "smart, good kids with potential."
I watched them walked out of their car; Edward and Emmett in Edward's Volvo and their adopted sister Rosalie in her Red Convertible. Emmett and Rosalie were a thing. I thought it was weird; dating your family…
But man did I wish I had one of those cars...!
They started walking past us.
"Hey Edward, my main man, so I was thinking that I might ask your little girlfriend out. What was her name? আপনি know, the hot one? Brown hair... and mmm those চকোলেট brown eyes!" Nick snickered at him with a greedy look on his face.
I knew Nick enough to know that he wasn't that interested in Edward's girl. He'd hang out with girls at the parties sometimes, but he didn't use them the way that Greg and some of the others did. Nick was just taunting Edward to get a rise out of him; it was something to do.
"You Won't Touch Her Nick," he growled out every single word slowly. I smirked-and here we go.
"Oh really? আপনি are going to stop me, pretty boy?" Nick challenged.
"You won't touch her. আপনি do, and you'll lose your hand kid," Edward ব্যক্ত calmly, but there was venom in every word. He was obviously serious.
Emmett stepped behind him. He was a huge guy. He could probably take five of us at a time and win. Nick stepped back a bit.
"What, all chicken now, tough guy?" Emmett grinned, playfully raising an eyebrow.
Nick's laugh was shaky. "I ain't a chicken! আপনি want to fight? Let's go!" Nick pulled his জ্যাকেট off and threw it to me.
"Two on two? Me and আপনি and Edward and...hmm... that guy. Jasper, is it?" Emmett suggested nodding at me.
This was weird. I had never seen অথবা heard of Edward fighting...
I raised my eyebrow curiously at him and he nodded.
"We beat the crap out of you, আপনি leave school. Deal?" Edward smirked.
"And if we win...?" Nick growled at them.
"That isn't going to happen!" Emmett laughed loudly. He looked like the thought of us winning was totally ridiculous. He was pretty full of himself.
Greg rolled his eyes and pushed me forward. I sighed and shrugged my জ্যাকেট off, প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে all of the gang scars down my arms and neck.
Edward and Emmett looked at me without moving for a second, their eyes wide. An eerie silence settled over them. I smirked.
"You sure আপনি still wanna fight me?" I chuckled at Edward jokingly.
I didn't really even have a problem with these guys. If people ব্যক্ত they would touch MY girlfriend, if I had one, I would beat the crap out of them, too. I wasn't blaming Edward অথবা Emmett... it actually made me almost respect them. I liked that Edward wanted to stand up for his girl...
Edward shook it off and nodded like nothing had happened. But before any of us could throw a punch, I heard a small voice calling Edward.
Edward turned and a girl-no not a girl; আরো like a goddess- jumped up and hugged him tightly.
"Hey Edward! নমস্কার Em!" she called happily, her eyes twinkling. She hugged Emmett too.
She was short and petite with black hair that spiked up in every direction. She was beautiful. I had never seen anyone like her. Her voice sounded like singing... like angels... wait what did I just think?
She turned to me and smiled brightly.
"Hi, I'm Alice! আপনি are?" she asked, stepping toward me. Edward grabbed her arm and pulled her back gently.
She glared at him and then tilted her head curiously.
I cleared my throat, suddenly nervous. I didn't know why, but something about this girl...I wanted her to... well... like me. It was weird...
"Hey, err, Alice. Jasper...umm...that's m-my n-name," I stuttered out.
The guys roared in laughter at me, but I almost didn't even hear them. She smiled even bigger at me, if that was possible. Her whole face lit up. She was so pure...so innocent...
Edward started to pull her back again.
"He won't hurt me," she hissed at Edward.
The guys laughed again, but I ignored them. How did she know that? But somehow, I knew it too. I wouldn't hurt her. I couldn't hurt her. I could never hurt someone so full of light...
She stepped right in front of me and offered me her hand. I stared at her, awestruck.
She tilted her head, looking into my eyes with her piercing green ones.
I grabbed her hand softly, making sure I didn't break her. I felt a tingly feeling shoot through me as I touched her hand. It was strange...magical.
I felt like an idiot for thinking like that, but I didn't know how else to describe it.
I shook her hand gently... she looked so fragile, like porcelain. I didn't want to hurt her.
She grinned happily and suddenly threw her arms around my neck.
I flinched at the touch. I couldn't remember the last time someone had hugged me like this. She felt so soft and warm... part of me wanted to hug her, to smell her hair, feel her smooth skin. But I wasn't sure why I felt this way, and it really caught me off guard. I wasn't used to feeling so vulnerable. I stood dumbfounded.
Emmett cracked up laughing at Alice's openness. The guys gave নেকড়ে howls. Edward just watched protectively.
"We're going to be great. I know it," she whispered softly into my ear.
I just stood there, confused at what had just happened. We're going to be great at what?
I opened my mouth to ask her, but nothing came out. I tried again, to no avail.
She laughed quietly.
"You'll see. Don't worry." Her hand fell back into mine.
She was holding my hand? Why? But I didn't pull away. Something in me couldn't pull away. With her hand in mine, something happened. I felt something that I hadn't felt my whole life.
I felt hope.
If আপনি happen to be German and would prefer to read Hope in German, আপনি can head over to my পরিলেখ and there is a link to the German translation there for your convenience. :)
Oh, and I don't own anything.
Jasper's P.O.V.
I stretched my arms and legs, letting out a soft groan as I slowly opened my eyes to the light.
It buuurns! I thought as I glared at the sun.
I jumped out of bed, glancing at the clock as I changed my clothes. It was 7:00 am. Good, I had a half an ঘন্টা to get out of here before he woke up.
I jogged quietly out of my room and grabbed an আপেল off of the table. A snort from the পালঙ্ক across the room made me whirl around.
"So, what, আপনি don't come প্রথমপাতা 'til the middle of the morning, আপনি eat my food, and then আপনি run out before I wake up? Why should আপনি get any of this?"
He waved around the room for emphasis. His volume gradually increased as he spoke.
"You don't do anything here! আপনি don't deserve all I give you, boy! The least আপনি could do is a little work around here!"
He stumbled toward me, obviously having a hangover.
"I was just about to go to school. I'll do stuff when I get home," I grumbled quietly, attempting to leave.
He grabbed my wrist.
"No no no... that's not how it works, kid. আপনি know the rules pretty damn well! আপনি haven't been listening and আপনি know the punishment PRETTY DAMN WELL, too!" He got louder.
"Time for আপনি to learn to take it like a man. Not that আপনি are one, boy. But আপনি gotta learn someday, right?" He snarled at me, his words still slurring, not making complete sense.
He raised his fist up and again I tried to get away from him. His grip tightened on my wrist and he twisted me around as his fist smashed into my face. I felt my lip bust open. I gave another failed attempt to get away and he shoved me to the ground.
"Pathetic. আপনি are such a weak little boy. What a failure. I'm glad আপনি aren't my son দ্বারা blood অথবা I would be ashamed."
With that said, his foot connected with my stomach. I gasped for air.
Right then, the door ঘণ্টা rang. Saved দ্বারা the bell!
He walked away from me to answer the door. After he opened it, he walked away without saying anything to the person standing outside of the door. This told me it was someone for me.
"We'll finish our conversation when আপনি get home, got it?" He growled at me with his disgusting voice.
I jumped off of the floor as quickly as possible. After grabbing my gang jacket, I raced to the door.
Yeah...gang jacket. Even though we were in Forks WA, probably the smallest town ever, I had landed a place in the one gang in the town. We were called the Punishers. Don't ask me why we were called that; I thought it was lame. But I wasn't going to be the one to tell the leader, Greg, that I thought that.
Standing at the door was my best friend, Nick. He was the one who got me into the gang in the first place.
"What's up, man?" I ব্যক্ত as I slammed the door. He just gave me a nod and turned to his car.
"You got some blood on your face, Jazz. আপনি might want to clean that up..." he grumbled. He had obviously just woken up.
I reached my hand up and wiped my lip. I stared at the red that smeared across my fingers; much আরো than I expected.
Nick threw me a rag out of his pocket and I cleaned the rest of my face up.
"We gotta meet the gang, then we are actually going to head for school today. Greg ব্যক্ত he wanted some good grades because he wanted to get in some college for something অথবা another, I don't remember," Nick mumbled as he drove us to our hang out; the local diner.
"All right, whatever, fine with me."
Those were the last words spoken during the ride. So far, it was the typical start to a দিন in my life. Nothing new, nothing special; my stepdad's drunken violence and Greg's gang meetings. I sighed.
When we arrived at the diner, there were already five people there. Greg, of course, and then Paul, Chris, Connor, and Mack. There were four other randoms from the gang, too, but they were newer and I hadn't done much with them quite yet.
Greg was the leader, Nick was his right hand guy. I was apparently moving up to third in command; his left hand. There were fifteen of us all together.
"Hey! Chel! Get these guys some breakfast!" Greg shouted, winking at the waitress. She giggled and walked back to the kitchen.
"So, the plan is we eat some food, head out to school, and then after there's a party at Jessica's!" Greg announced as Chel plated up breakfast.
A bunch of the guys let out নেকড়ে howls. Nick and I rolled our eyes at each other. The parties were always the same; girls, booze, sometimes drugs. Three things that I couldn't care less about right now. Girls were fake, drugs were stupid, and booze was stupider. I had seen what it could do to Steve, my stepdad. I wasn't about to touch the stuff. Nick and I went to the parties because Greg wanted us to; and in case another gang showed up, we had to be there to kick them out.
The waitress handed me a plate full of eggs, বেকন and toast. She smiled at me with the same flirty smile she used every time she saw me. I just nodded back at her; my usual response. None of the girls in town were very interesting to me. I wasn't the kind of guy to use them, like most of the gang, and I definitely did not want a relationship with any of them.
"Jasper, man! আপনি missed a great fight last night! Where were you? We went up to Port A and got in a sweet fight with the Leeches!" Greg yelled to me as he walked over to my stool, draping his arm over my shoulder.
"Oh, sorry, I got stuck working and then I was really tired," I mumbled.
"Ha! আপনি know আপনি don't gotta work man, we can take care of you!" he laughed and punched my arm.
"Yeah, but I sort of like to work... keeps my mind off things."
"All right, whatever, but don't work too much; আপনি got work to do with us too!" he ordered in his "I am the leader" voice.
"But anyway, eat up and we'll leave. We don't wanna be late for school and get a bad rep do we?" he chuckled at his own little joke, since we obviously already had the worst reputations in town.
I continued eating in silence, listening to all of them go on about their "big" fight. I didn't really care; I didn't really even like fighting. I just DO it. I guess I keep doing it to stay in the gang অথবা something. They are really all I have. Plus, they scare the crap out of my step-dad, which works out well. I hadn't really been hit অথবা anything too much lately; he was afraid of repercussions from the gang.
We finished eating and headed for the school. We were early, so not many people were there yet.
I watched as some of the little dorks and nerds headed in early. We just chilled outside on one of the picnic tables.
The teachers glared at us as they walked by, but we all just smirked at them. They knew they were going to have a bad দিন today; the Punishers had decided to প্রদর্শনী up.
Slowly, the rest of the students arrived. We all snorted as the "Cullens" pulled in. They are the rich, spoiled kids. All of the teachers প্রণয় them. Teachers refer to them as the "smart, good kids with potential."
I watched them walked out of their car; Edward and Emmett in Edward's Volvo and their adopted sister Rosalie in her Red Convertible. Emmett and Rosalie were a thing. I thought it was weird; dating your family…
But man did I wish I had one of those cars...!
They started walking past us.
"Hey Edward, my main man, so I was thinking that I might ask your little girlfriend out. What was her name? আপনি know, the hot one? Brown hair... and mmm those চকোলেট brown eyes!" Nick snickered at him with a greedy look on his face.
I knew Nick enough to know that he wasn't that interested in Edward's girl. He'd hang out with girls at the parties sometimes, but he didn't use them the way that Greg and some of the others did. Nick was just taunting Edward to get a rise out of him; it was something to do.
"You Won't Touch Her Nick," he growled out every single word slowly. I smirked-and here we go.
"Oh really? আপনি are going to stop me, pretty boy?" Nick challenged.
"You won't touch her. আপনি do, and you'll lose your hand kid," Edward ব্যক্ত calmly, but there was venom in every word. He was obviously serious.
Emmett stepped behind him. He was a huge guy. He could probably take five of us at a time and win. Nick stepped back a bit.
"What, all chicken now, tough guy?" Emmett grinned, playfully raising an eyebrow.
Nick's laugh was shaky. "I ain't a chicken! আপনি want to fight? Let's go!" Nick pulled his জ্যাকেট off and threw it to me.
"Two on two? Me and আপনি and Edward and...hmm... that guy. Jasper, is it?" Emmett suggested nodding at me.
This was weird. I had never seen অথবা heard of Edward fighting...
I raised my eyebrow curiously at him and he nodded.
"We beat the crap out of you, আপনি leave school. Deal?" Edward smirked.
"And if we win...?" Nick growled at them.
"That isn't going to happen!" Emmett laughed loudly. He looked like the thought of us winning was totally ridiculous. He was pretty full of himself.
Greg rolled his eyes and pushed me forward. I sighed and shrugged my জ্যাকেট off, প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে all of the gang scars down my arms and neck.
Edward and Emmett looked at me without moving for a second, their eyes wide. An eerie silence settled over them. I smirked.
"You sure আপনি still wanna fight me?" I chuckled at Edward jokingly.
I didn't really even have a problem with these guys. If people ব্যক্ত they would touch MY girlfriend, if I had one, I would beat the crap out of them, too. I wasn't blaming Edward অথবা Emmett... it actually made me almost respect them. I liked that Edward wanted to stand up for his girl...
Edward shook it off and nodded like nothing had happened. But before any of us could throw a punch, I heard a small voice calling Edward.
Edward turned and a girl-no not a girl; আরো like a goddess- jumped up and hugged him tightly.
"Hey Edward! নমস্কার Em!" she called happily, her eyes twinkling. She hugged Emmett too.
She was short and petite with black hair that spiked up in every direction. She was beautiful. I had never seen anyone like her. Her voice sounded like singing... like angels... wait what did I just think?
She turned to me and smiled brightly.
"Hi, I'm Alice! আপনি are?" she asked, stepping toward me. Edward grabbed her arm and pulled her back gently.
She glared at him and then tilted her head curiously.
I cleared my throat, suddenly nervous. I didn't know why, but something about this girl...I wanted her to... well... like me. It was weird...
"Hey, err, Alice. Jasper...umm...that's m-my n-name," I stuttered out.
The guys roared in laughter at me, but I almost didn't even hear them. She smiled even bigger at me, if that was possible. Her whole face lit up. She was so pure...so innocent...
Edward started to pull her back again.
"He won't hurt me," she hissed at Edward.
The guys laughed again, but I ignored them. How did she know that? But somehow, I knew it too. I wouldn't hurt her. I couldn't hurt her. I could never hurt someone so full of light...
She stepped right in front of me and offered me her hand. I stared at her, awestruck.
She tilted her head, looking into my eyes with her piercing green ones.
I grabbed her hand softly, making sure I didn't break her. I felt a tingly feeling shoot through me as I touched her hand. It was strange...magical.
I felt like an idiot for thinking like that, but I didn't know how else to describe it.
I shook her hand gently... she looked so fragile, like porcelain. I didn't want to hurt her.
She grinned happily and suddenly threw her arms around my neck.
I flinched at the touch. I couldn't remember the last time someone had hugged me like this. She felt so soft and warm... part of me wanted to hug her, to smell her hair, feel her smooth skin. But I wasn't sure why I felt this way, and it really caught me off guard. I wasn't used to feeling so vulnerable. I stood dumbfounded.
Emmett cracked up laughing at Alice's openness. The guys gave নেকড়ে howls. Edward just watched protectively.
"We're going to be great. I know it," she whispered softly into my ear.
I just stood there, confused at what had just happened. We're going to be great at what?
I opened my mouth to ask her, but nothing came out. I tried again, to no avail.
She laughed quietly.
"You'll see. Don't worry." Her hand fell back into mine.
She was holding my hand? Why? But I didn't pull away. Something in me couldn't pull away. With her hand in mine, something happened. I felt something that I hadn't felt my whole life.
I felt hope.