IMPORTANT: This is not a Jasper/Edward fic, it's listed as one because it focuses on Jasper and Edward, but this is a SLASH story, couples: Edward/Emmett and Jasper/Jake, and anybody else I decide to add.

SUMMARY: Jasper and Edward were best friends in high school then once they were in college they dated for about 5 years and broke up. Now a couple years later, they both have new partners, and they see each other again and rekindle their relationship.

OTHER FACTS: Edward: 27, Jasper 28, Emmett: 30, Jake: 22

Now on with the story, please enjoy!

Jasper POV

"Man I'm beat," I sighed falling onto the bed, my nice comfy warm bed, where I plan on sleeping for the next two days.

"I'm guessing work was a little hectic tonight?" Jake, my amazing boyfriend, crawled onto my back, straddling my ass, and began to give me one of his awesome massages.

"That's an understatement," I huffed, "three homicides and four kidnappings within the last week. Chief told me to take the weekend off 'cause of all the time I've spent at work this week." I'm a police officer in Nashville, I love my job but it's not fun sometimes. This week I've been so loaded down with work I've barely been able to sleep, much less see Jake.

"I'm sorry baby," he kissed the back of my neck tenderly, then he began to move those sexy lips over my back, "let me help you relax."

"Babe, I'm so tired I just want to sleep." I mumbled, already half asleep despite Jake's best efforts of keeping me awake. Yeah, I'm already hard for him and I can feel him through his boxers and my uniform pants, but I'm still too tired. I'll make it up to my beautiful boy tomorrow. Drifting off further I hear Jake huff and slide to the other side of the bed. I thought I heard some sniffling, but I have to of been wrong. Never the less, I reached over and pulled Jake against my chest. He tried to resist, but I can over power him easily, even if I'm half asleep. Falling asleep I recall first meeting Jake.

It had been 6 months after Edward broke up with me. I was at a local café with a few of my friends when this beautiful russet skinned boy walked through the door. He was with a few friends, the smile on his face lit up the whole room, I couldn't stop watching him. "Who are you looking at?" Alice, one of my best friends since high school leaned over to see who had captivated my attention. "He looks familiar, Sam do you recognize that kid?" She asked her finance, they met about a year before I met Jake and ever since have been inseparable, Sam's a good guy, and he works on the force with me to this day. He never had a chance to meet Edward though, they always had different schedules.

"Yeah, you met him last month at my family reunion, that's my cousin." He chuckled as we watched Alice smack her forehead. "Hey Black," he yelled to the boy. 'Shit,' I thought, 'now he's coming over here, I can't hit on him, he's Sam's cousin!'

"Hey man, what you been up to?" 'Black' as he had been called walked over to Sam and slapped him on the back. 'Why would he be called Black, surely that's not his name.'

"Just out to eat with some friends," he was referring to Rosie and I. Rosalie, my older sister has also been friends with Alice since high school even though she was actually in my grade, where as Rose is two years older than us.

"That's cool, hey Alice."

"Hello, Jacob." She smiled. Jacob, that's his name and it fits so well. Wow, what is wrong with me, 'fits so well'? We soon moved to a larger table so Jacob and his two friends, Embry and Quil, could join us. Over the course of that afternoon I feel in love with the beautiful creature that sat across from me. Of course it took me four months to ask him out. Several things had stopped me for so long; one, I couldn't stop thinking about Edward when I thought of a relationship with this boy, two, he's six years younger than me, three, he's Sam's cousin. I finally worked up the nerve to talk to Sam about it, he said he knew me well enough to know I wasn't just after him for his looks like a lot of other guys and told me it was okay with him to ask out Jacob, but he didn't let me leave without the 'if you hurt him I'll kill you' speech. But I didn't care, I was finally going to go on a date with the love of my life.

Soon after my talk with Sam I saw Jacob at the store. So right there between the cereal and the bread I asked him out on a date. His blush was so sexy when I asked him, he said yes and for the next two months we dated casually. He wasn't ready to jump into a relationship and neither was I. But after two months of casual dating, Jacob and his friends lost their lease on their apartment and had to find a new place. Stupid me just spit out that he should move in with me. After talking it over a little bit he agreed and we've been living together ever since. I couldn't ask for more. I had a job I loved on the force, a great apartment, and now a sexy wonderful boyfriend to share it all with.

"Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up! Jasper!" Jake's panicked voice soon filled my ears.

"What is it?" I jumped up, still half asleep.

"I hear something coming from downstairs." I waited for a second and sure enough I heard something too, it was like little scratches, like a noise you'd hear from a horror film.

"Babe, I think it's just a tree scrapping the kitchen window again." I found a great deal on a two story, three bedroom house not long after Jake moved into my apartment. Of course ever since we moved in there has been one thing after another creeping Jake out. I never knew he was such a city boy, of course part of his terrors have been from the attack he experienced when he was 17.

He had told his boyfriend that his parents were going out of town for the weekend. When the guy tried to convince Jake that would be the perfect weekend for Jake to lose his virginity to him, Jake told him no. It ended in a huge fight and they broke up. That night after his parents had left and Jake went to bed, he woke up hearing strange noises coming from downstairs, he tried to pass it off as just the house creaking and tried to go back to bed. Unfortunately he was jostled into reality when his ex-boyfriend came into the room, half drunk and angry. Since Jacob wouldn't give him his virginity, he over powered him and forcefully took it from him. I hate that bastard. Now, you could say Jacob's a little on the skittish side.

"Jasper," he whimpered.

"Fine, I'll go check it out." I groaned as I got up and grabbed my pistol from the bedside table. Upon inspecting downstairs, my suspicions were correct; it was just a tree branch against the window above the sink. I guess I'll be cutting some limbs tomorrow. I went back upstairs, threw my pistol in the draw and crawled back into bed. "It was a branch." I sighed, closing my eyes and tried to drift back off to sleep. I felt Jake curl up to my side and could feel his wet check against my chest. "Jake, baby, don't cry. It was just a tree." I tried to sound sincere, which I was, but I hadn't had much sleep lately and it was taking over my mind.

Bright, that's all I could think. Slowly opening my eyes I was blinded by the sun, its rays coming right in through the curtain into my eyes. I stretched slowly and got out of bed. Walking downstairs I found Jake at the stove fixing grilled cheese. That doesn't sound good for breakfast. "What time is it?" I groaned sitting at the bar.

"One o'clock." He answered. No wonder he's making grilled cheese.

"How early did you get up?"

"10:30," again short answer.

"You okay babe?"

"Fine, I need to take a shower, then you need to take a shower. We're supposed to meet everybody at 5." He turned around to tell me.

"Meet everybody? What are talking about?"

"I told you Tuesday that we had plans to see everybody today. Rose told me we should be at the Bar n Grill by 5. She also said Sam was bringing a new guy from work that you haven't met. Apparently he's gay too; he's supposed to be bringing his partner." Jake said as he stuffed the sandwich in his mouth.

"Great, that's what I need tonight, a reminder about work."

"Remember 5, which means we need to be out of here by 4:45," always the over thinker, reminded me as he walked out of the room.

"Are you sure you're okay?" I asked over my shoulder.

"I'm fine," he growled as he stomped up the stairs.

"No you're not," I whispered. I'll get it out of him one way or another, but that has to wait for later. For now I have to cut a few branches and get ready for the long night I have ahead of me.

After eating a pop tart and downing the last of the milk, I got dressed and tackled those stupid limbs. Thankfully, growing up with an outdoorsy father taught me a few things, especially things that I could apply to fixing our house. My parents have always been supportive of me, even when I got an old classmate pregnant after a one night stand. It happened exactly two weeks after Edward dumped me. I got so upset one night, I got drunk, screwed an old classmate that happened to be at that bar, a month later she called me saying she was pregnant and didn't want the child. That was also the night I decided I would get help about my drinking habit, I'm thankful that it wasn't bad enough to call me an alcoholic but I was pretty close. We talked about it and came to the conclusion that I would raise the child but if Bella ever wanted to see it, she could. So, exactly one month before I asked Jake out, my beautiful baby girl, Angela, was born. That was another reason I asked out Jake, I needed something to get me out of the house. I thank God everyday that he was understanding enough to love my daughter as well as me. I can tell she's the light of his world as much as she and he are mine.

After trimming trees, I headed into the house to take a shower. Right as I walked in the room my phone buzzed with a text. Hey, everything's going good, but I thought I would let you know we're coming home a day early. Angie is getting a little homesick. –Bella. I figured a week away from me and Jake she would start to get a little cranky, but Bella really wanted to take her to see her mom in Florida. I'm surprised Bella has been in Angie's life as much as she has. She still doesn't consider herself a mother, but she's done good. Sending a quick text back I went to take a shower. Trimming limbs took me more time than I thought it would. Jake was already ready when I entered our bathroom.

"Bella said Ang is getting homesick so they're coming home early." I told him, hopefully that will cheer him up some, from what I don't know.

"I hope she isn't terribly upset, I'd hate for her to be upset and we can't be there to comfort her.

"I know, but I'm sure she's fine. Bella does better with her than you give her credit for."

"I wasn't trying to say that Bella couldn't handle it, I was just saying I don't want Angie to be upset." He huffed, threw a towel in the hamper and stomped out.

"What has got you so upset today?" I followed him out.

"I'm fine." He snapped, "just go take a shower, I don't want to be late, your sister gives me dirty looks when we're late."

"No she doesn't, she did one time and that's because we stayed in the car and screwed around a little before we went in." I laughed, I remembered that night, it was really great.

"I don't care, just go."

"Fine, but we're talking about this later." I went to take a shower, I let the warm water roll over my tight muscles and let it relax me. I hate it when Jake is pissed off, he curls in on himself and doesn't let me in. I slowly dried off, tried to calm my curly hair, and dressed in the clothes I had brought in. "Jake, you ready?" I called out.

"Yeah, I'm down here." I followed his voice to the kitchen were he was fixing a button on his shirt. "Okay, I'm ready." He looked up to me, which I was now hovering right beside him. I cupped his face in my hands, pulling him close and kissing him passionately.

"Whatever it is that I've done to make you upset I'm sorry. I love you, Jacob."

"Thank you, I love you too." He sighed leaning into me. I love holding him in my arms, it is the best feeling in the world.

"Come on; don't want my bitchy sister to glare at you." I chuckled. He followed me to the garage where we hopped on my motorcycle. I love that thing. I drove us to the local bar that we all like to hang out at. Pulling up I spotted Rose's red convertible right away. We walked in holding hands, and found my sister, her boyfriend Jared (who is also on the force with Sam and I), Alice, and Sam, right away.

"Hey guys," Alice squealed pulling Jake to sit by her. We all said our hellos and I got Jake and me a round of drinks. The night went as normal, drinking, laughing, dancing, and inappropriate jokes, the same old things that happen every time, the things that make me love my friends.

Hours into the night I remembered that Sam was supposed to have brought someone with him. "Hey Sam, I thought there was a new guy coming?" I called out across the table.

"He's still coming, there was something about a conflict with the sitter so he had to take his little boy to his parents' house." Hmm, he has a kid too, interesting. We went on with our night for a while longer.

"Having fun babe?" I asked Jake as I pulled him closer to me, I didn't like the way he was swaying on his feet.

"Yeah," he smiled, "I want to dance some more."

"In a minute baby, let me catch a breather for a sec then I'll take you back out there."

"Old man," he said teasingly.

"Hey, no fair, I'm only eight years older. I haven't reached thirty yet." I pouted.

"Emmett, oh my gosh, is that really you?" Rosalie squealed over the music. I turned my head to see a huge bear like man walked up to the table, he had someone behind him, but I couldn't see his face.

"Hey Sam, I didn't know you knew Rosie." He laughed as he pulled Rose to him. Then Rose stopped dead in her tracks as she saw over his shoulder.

"Edward?" I heard her whisper, before pushing Emmett out of the way and pulled another smaller man to her. I must have heard her wrong. But of course I didn't, as she let go of the smaller man I could see him clearly. He looked the same as he did two years ago, just as handsome, just as sexy. At that moment you could knock me over with a feather. Our eyes met and he simply smiled shyly.