My Friend

Ch 1

Edward 4

Jasper 4

Saturday 11am at the park

Jasper and Edward meet for the first time.

"Hi, my momma said I can play with you because you are not bigger than me."

Edward looked at the new boy skeptically for a moment. He had yellow hair and blue eyes that reminded him of the water he saw in the discovery channel. He didn't look mean like Mike, or whiny like Ben.

"Do you eat sand?" Edward asked.

Jasper wasn't sure what would be a good answer. He wasn't sure because he had tasted dirt once back home in Texas when Riley said it was a mud pie-which meant it was okay to eat. But it was still made of dirt.

"Not if I don't have to." He answered confidently.

Edward wasn't sure when it would be okay to eat sand.

"I don't eat sand, it has dog poop."

"Then no, I don't eat sand," He corrected.

"Okay you can play with me, but you cannot call me Eddie, I don't like that. All I like is Edward," He said sternly with a pointed finger to make sure he understood. Jasper sat down next to Edward and crossed his legs in front of himself.

"Okay but you have to call me Jaz or Jazzy or man or dud, I like dud, but not Jasper because my papa's name is Jasper and he is really old and I am not because I am four," He announced proudly holding up three fingers to show Edward.

Edward quickly fixed his fingers so that they were now four, not three.

"You need to learn how to count, Jasper. Because I like to count so you have to learn too. Okay?" Edward waited for Jasper's response but Jasper was looking at his hair. Admiring how the sun light shown throw it making it glow. "Did you hear me?"

"Your hair is pretty, can I touch it?" Edward looked at Jasper then down at his hands in the sand.

"Not now, your hands are dirty, but we can play with my truck."

"I have a truck too, but my momma said I can't bring it. I also have a horse, his name is Chocolate."

"Do you have brothers? Because I have a big brother, and his name is Emmett, but I call him Em, he likes that."

"No I only have a puppy, but I do have a sister. Her name is Rosie, but she only lets me call her that, because no one is special like me, so you have to call her Rosalie," Edward gave a single stern nod of his head.

For the next hour Edward and Jasper played and talked about all the things they liked and didn't like. Edward was very particular about how and who he played with but he thought Jasper was okay to play with.

Soon Edward's mom said it was time to go and to say good bye. She gave him a wipe so he could clean his hands. He gave one to Jasper for later. Jasper's mom picked him up shortly after so he could have lunch. That was the first day Jasper got to play with the boy with hair like one of his mamma's shiny pennies and he was looking forward to the next time so he could show him his toys.