Sneak Peek

Here's a bit of a peek at chapter 3: first week

Jasper shrugged, smiling. “He’s easy enough to live with, I guess. None of his ‘rules’ seemed to be anything out of the ordinary.” Though he had to admit he was surprised to learn that easy going Emmett had a few housekeeping rules to live by, mostly in regards to cleaning up after themselves in the shower.

Edward smirked. “It’s been a week. He’s still on his best behavior.”

“I have a feeling that his bringing Rosalie over last night may have brought an end to that.”

“Probably,” Edward agreed. “What’d you do last night?”

“Read a bit,” Jasper answered. “Went to bed early. Fortunately my dorm seems to be well behaved. I’d expected a 2 am fire drill.” He was speaking from experience.

“Yeah, well, we all weren’t so lucky,” Edward grumbled, spearing a chunk of melon from the bowl of fruit on his tray. “I never thought it was a good idea to keep that many 16-18 year old boys in the same place at one time.”

Jasper laughed softly at Edward’s ire. “Come on, you never pranked anyone when you were a teenager? Or while in college?”

Edward smirked. “I plead the fifth, Dr. Whitlock,” he said.

“I’ll take that as a yes,” Jasper said with a grin.

Edward’s smirk softened to a smile behind his coffee cup. “I was much more subtle than setting off the fire alarms at inconvenient times.”

“Hm,” Jasper mused. He’d had a few crafty comrades in the corps who always found extremely subtle ways of fucking with the rest of the squad. It had prepared him well for living amongst teenage boys at April Fool’s Day. “Somehow I had a feeling you’d be a subtle prank genius, but then, you’d probably have to be, growing up with Emmett,” he teased and was rewarded with Edward’s laughter.

“Emmett’s pranks tend to be big and loud, just so you know,” Edward advised. “And he’ll exact retribution on anyone who dares get him.”

“I’ll take that under advisement,” Jasper drawled.