-Jasper's Point of View-

. . .

"Did you do it?" Emmett walked up to me and asked, Rosalie standing worriedly by his side.

"Yeah, she just left." I said as I removed the cowboy hat, "we should probably take off here pretty soon."

"Do you think she'll say anything?" Rose asked, her voice full of worry.

I shook my head no, "I think she's just trying to process everything still, her emotions were all over the place but none of them were angry or malicious, more sad and hurt."

"We'll get everyone, why don't you go on home." Rose instructed.

I took off but I didn't go home, I ended up running to Emmaline's, I ran around back and easily climbed up to her balcony. I could see her on her bed, sadness radiated off of her even from outside.

I wanted to throw the doors opens and take her crumpled form into my arms as I washed her with waves of calm, unfortunately that could make matters worse so I placed the hat on her rocking chair and silently said goodbye, I would wait for her until she made a decision, but for that she would have to reach out to us.

. . . . .

-Emmaline's Point of View-

I tried to go about the weekend as normally as possible. But as I had virtually told Leander to go screw himself, all of his little followers avoided me like the plague. And when you're the star quarterback who's winning games for the town, you tend to have a lot of "friends."

That only left me with the Cullens, I had decided to accept them for whatever they are, unfortunately they were no where to be found.

On Monday I attended school but again, the Cullens were no where in sight.

Tuesday.

Wednesday rolled around and still I sign from the Cullen's, I headed home that day extremely worried that maybe they left. Jasper said they would leave peacefully, what's more "peaceful" than not causing a ruckus with prolonged goodbyes?

My eyes pricked with tears springing forward.

I turned my car around and decided to go by their house, but as I reached the main entry way it was almost unrecognizable from the house I had seen only twice before.

No longer were the grounds well kept and well groomed, also from just passing I could see that dark shades had been put in the windows. The sight of their house rocked me and I couldn't turn into the driveway so I continued driving straight until I reached the dead-end and turned back around.

I finally got home and went straight up to my room, I ask Marta not to bother me. She tends to go out and catch a movie when I want to be alone, and since my parents were still out of town I knew I would have absolute solidarity.

I sat on my bed and stared at my phone, there was only one Cullen's phone number I had and his name lit up my screen like a beacon calling to me.

I finally pressed his name and the phone began to place the call, I put the phone on speaker just incase he didn't answer then I could hang up right away.

It seemed to only ring three times before he answered.

"Hello?"

His smooth voice sang to my soul and instantly lifted my spirits.

But when I tried to talk the only thing that I could think of came out, "where are you?"

The line went silent for a moment before he answered.

"We left town." he answered.

I put my hand over my mouth to keep from screaming, I felt like I had been stabbed in the heart as my worst fear was confirmed. The Cullen's had left me, Jasper had left me.

"B-but you didn't even say goodbye." I croaked, I internally groaned as my voice broke giving away the fact that I had begun to cry.

"We only left for a few days to give you time and space, we should be back home tonight."

I nodded, "can we talk when you come back?" I asked.

"I'd like that."

We said goodbye and now to wait.

I put on my Netflix and picked a random movie, I must've been more tired than I knew because soon enough I was out cold.

*tap tap tap*

I opened my eyes and looked around slightly, I didn't see anything so I closed my eyes once more and began putting my head back down.

*tap tap tap*

This time I sat up, and before I could look around for the source it sounded again, I nearly had a heart attack upon seeing it was Jasper standing on my balcony tapping on the doors.

"What the hell Jasper are you trying to scare me to death?!"

"Shh, it's past 1 in the morning, I don't want to wake up your maid." He acknowledged.

"Marta's a heavy sleeper, and why didn't you just call?"

"I did, twice, but they just went to voicemail." He replied.

I saw my phone on my bed and noticed my tv was still on, "well come in."

He walked in and I closed the doors behind him.

"Let me first start off by saying this shit is beyond strange and I'm still not even a hundred percent sure I actually believe it but to be honest I've decided, if it's alright, that I would rather have y'all in my life no matter what y'all are."

He nodded.

"But, because I had to make a tough decision I want you to make one as well." I stated.

"And what's that?"

"You have to Define The Relationship, what are we? Classmates, Friends, dating, that's something you have to decide." I informed him.

"To my knowledge I though we had gone on our first date a few nights ago, so by all logic I would assume we're dating."

"Okay first off while that date might've started off great, it kinda had a rocky ending and no second date was initiated so..."

"Well would you like to go out with me?" He asked, his words were so unsure.

I couldn't help but smile, granted his timing was horrible I couldn't deny that I was happy. "I seriously thought you would never ask."

"This time I swear it's gonna be a proper date, with no surprise endings about the supernatural world."

My heart raced, "Jasper if we're really gonna try this whole dating thing with any hopes of possibly becoming boyfriend and girlfriend I don't think we should have any secrets." I stated.

His face went blank before he looked back at me.

"Fine, I will tell you everything tonight, are you up for it?" He asked.

"Well I'm pretty wide awake now thanks to some vamp tapping on my balcony doors."

He chuckled, "good because we're going to my house."

"Wait what?!"

"Quiet you'll wake up Marta." He quieted me, "if you want to know everything I will need everyone's consent as some of it involves all of them."

I sighed, "fine. Let me just grab my purse, phone, and keys." and he laughed once more.

"You won't need any of that."

I gave him a questioning look and he only smirked, "we're going the way I came, we're running."

I held my keys and looked at him once more like he was out of his mind.

"Okay well I'm running, but I'll carry you, trust me we'll get there much faster than driving."

"Are you that fast?" I asked a little intrigued.

He shrugged, "Edwards faster, but I'm better at other stuff."

"Like what?" I asked curiously.

"I'm the soldier," he commented simply. "I'm the best fighter out of all of them, although to be honest I don't like to fight."

I just looked at him as he spoke.

"The strategy and technique, practice and just the sheer thrill of the fight excites me, but causing someone else pain hurts me as well."

I smiled, sure what he was saying was probably slightly sadistic but to know he was compassionate enough not to want to hurt anyone sorta made me swoon.

"You know, maybe I should tell you my story first before we get into the small details of everybody else." He said.

I nodded my head and he sat me down on my bed, he sat across from me and began.

"I was born Jasper Whitlock in 1844, in Houston Texas..."

Jasper told me all about his life just before becoming a vampire and then how he actually became a vampire.

"I was riding on my way back to Galveston after evacuating women and children, and that's when I came across Maria, Lucy, and Nettie."

He told me of the evil Maria and how she created him simply to use him. He also informed me of his "gift"

"That's why I don't like to fight or kill, I can feel their emotions as I'm hurting them, I can literally feel their pain and fear, it isn't pleasant."

I felt horrible for him.

"Peter found Charlotte and the two ran away...when they returned they told me all about life outside of what we were doing with Maria so I left with them."

He had escaped and unfortunately even though he didn't like to kill he had to, to survive. He tried to consume less blood but it never worked.

"That's when I met Alice, you see she had been waiting for me."

He filled me in on Alice, turns out she too has a "gift."

"She told me all about the Cullen's and their way of life. We showed up completely unannounced but Edward (who's gift just so happens to be hearing peoples thoughts) knew that Alice was telling the truth about seeing them in a vision and they all accepted us. After years of living with the Cullen's Carlisle suggested that I marry Alice, to be honest I had never given marriage much thought, and I figured why not Alice, she saved me from having to be the horrible monster that I was, so I took up his suggestion and Alice and I wed."

"Wait you were married!" I shouted.

He sighed, "I was, for many many years, until we moved here and Alice asked me for a divorce, I assumed it was for another guy, well it turns out that she had a vision of us happily together with different people."

My head was spinning.

"Are you alright?" He asked. I nodded and he continued. "Now she's off in Europe somewhere looking for the love of her life and that pretty much sums it up."

I just looked at him. All this time, every conversation if his ex, he was referring to Alice. The same Alice that invited me over to their house.

"There is still more though, but those aren't my stories to tell, you'll have to talk to my family for the rest, but it can wait for another day." He stated.

"No, I want to know everything." I insisted. "Tonight, now."

"Fine," he said before he walked over and casually scooped me up.

I blushed, "what are you doing?"

"I told you I'm running."

And before I could question anything else he walked onto the balcony, he shut the doors and then he jumped down from the second story before he shot off like a bullet.