-Emmaline's Point of View-

. . .

"Jasper?"

It looked like my boyfriend, but then again he also looked slightly different. For one, his small scars were more defined as gave a ruggedness to him, but at the same time he seemed somehow softer.

"Hey Darlin, how you feeing?"

I smiled as I looked into his eyes, his normally golden eyes were black

"I think I'm alright, what happened, and what's wrong with your eyes?"

He smiled, "I'm just thirsty." Then his smile fell, "and what's the last thing you remember?"

I closed my eyes and recalled what I could. "I remember coming home after our shopping trip, you got a call so I went in without you, when I got inside I saw someone on the stairs, I thought it was Marta but when I called for her it turned out it wasn't Marta but, well, I think it might have been my mom, then, then she bit me."

"It was your mom, I recognized her from all the pictures you have in your house, her boyfriend is vampire and he turned her." He said, "Darlin when she bit you she nearly drained you so I had two options: to let you die or to change you. Had we not have had our conversation earlier that day I still might have changed you for my own selfish need, I hope you are fine with my decision, and I hope you don't hate me too much."

"I could never hate you sugar," I assured him, "you saved my life, you're my hero."

He reached down and caressed my face, I was a little shocked, "your not cold."

He chuckled, "no, we're the same now, to us this is normal, to everyone else we will be cold and hard."

"I'm a vampire" I smiled and shook my head in awe.

"Darlin there's something else, apparently before we arrived, your mother and her boyfriend fed off of Marta, she didn't make it."

I wanted to cry so much, and to be honest it felt like I was, my vision even blurred a bit as "tears" filled my eyes,

Jasper pulled me into a tight embrace and I buried my face into his neck, 'god he smells magnificent', he rubbed my back and I immediately felt better. In retrospect this was probably due to his gift.

"Why can't i cry?"

"Because your body only produces venom now, so you have no tears to shed." He explained. "Come on, I'm thirsty as hell as I need to teach you how to hunt."

I stood up and noticed for the first time that I was in the same green dress I wore when I first met Jasper and the rest of the Cullens.

"Did you dress me?" I asked shyly, 'did Jasper see me nearly naked?'

"No, Esme and the girls cleaned you up and got you dressed, there was a lot of blood."

"Oh."

He took my hand and we left the comfort of his bedroom, the house seemed empty as we made our way outside and Jasper held my hand as we ran.

It was crazy, I told my body to run and it responded by performing the action to the umpteenth degree, so I didn't just run like I normally would, but I took off like Usain Bolt, keeping steady pace with Jasper, even given his long legs, and I felt like I could go faster still.

When we stopped it was in the middle of a thick forest, Jasper told me what to do and soon enough I picked up the heartbeat of a creature and Jasper tackled the large black bear down to the ground, he broke it's neck as he instructed me on where and how to bite.

I hesitated at first but as I heart it's fat heart giving it's last pumps my mouth "watered" and I couldn't help but sink my teeth in.

It continued in this way, Jasper refused to allow me to capture my own food, even whilst doing the most savage of things my Jasper was still ever the gentleman.

Then I took a seat on a large rock and sat back as he stalked about and he finally found his own kills, the large bears body was used as bait for a couple of bobcats that Jasper both drained completely.

He came over and licked his thumb, he swiped it across my chin to clean up a smudge of blood. "Race you back?"

I smiled, "you're on."

We lined up next to each other and when he shouted go I launched myself forward, I ran and ran, not looking back once until I reached the house.

Everyone came out and congratulated me on my new immortality.

"Where's Jasper?" Esme asked.

"Well we raced home, I think he let me win." I smiled as I finally saw him running up to us.

"Always the southern gentleman jazz, you got your ass wiped my your girlfriend." Emmett stated.

"I didn't let her win, she bested me and left me in her dust." He spoke, "you might even be faster than Edward."

I looked over at Edward, "wanna test the theory?"

He smiled "first one to California and back wins."

We line up next to each other, Renesme counted us down excitedly before she yelled go.

Once more I ran, the world around me seemed to fade away as I willed my legs to move faster than I ever could've imagined, I was running so fast I felt like I was flying. I finally reached the border of Arizona and California, I stepped over the border to say that I had offically made it INTO California and then headed back. I couldn't see Edward and I wondered if he had been ahead of me or behind me.

But when I reached the house I smiled as everyone cheered, it was clear that I had made it back before him.

"Well I guess you've got the gift of speed." Carlisle commented.

Edward ran up impressed as he too congratulated me.

Well it isn't super cool like controlling someone's emotions or reading minds, but I'll take what I can get.

Finally the initial excitement died down and soon I was helping Renesme and Edward wrap some gifts that they had bought for various family members.

Jake stepped into the room and suddenly the worse smell of moldy wet dog filled my nose, 'what in the hell is that stench?' I wondered as I didn't want to voice it and offend anyone.

"You'll get use to it." Edward said as he looked over toward Jacob.

'Oh crap, is that Jacob that smells, is it because he's a shifter?' I thought.

Edward nodded yes and Renesme and Jake just stared at us.

"God I hate those inner monologues." Jacob growled in frustration.

"Oh uh sorry, I was just thinking, that um, this is a lot of presents to wrap." I lied.

"Oh, yeah it is, we kinda go all out for holidays." He responded.

We continued wrapping the gifts and I couldn't help but wonder if I would be able to spend Christmas with my father like I had planned, 'I guess I can't now that i'm a vampire.'

I looked up at Edward, I knew he would have heard my whole dilemma, but he only looked away. I guess even he doesn't know what I should do.