Disclaimer: Although revised the below characters all belong to Stephenie Meyers, author of The Twilight Saga. No infringement is intended.
A/N:This is the first story that I have written for fanfiction and I am anticipating a good response...but the continuation of this story depends on its readers, At that point I will look for a beta...Also big shouts to my bestie who is also an incredible fanfiction writer, Chewie4370, for encouraging me to write this story!
Cant wait to hear your reviews!
~*Can*You*Stand*The*Rain*~
~Prologue~
(Jasper's POV)
Alice saw the uproar only a split second before it actually happened.
She looked as if I had purposefully pushed the knife in her back and twisted. The pained expression on Bella's face is one that will forever be etched in my mind. I could already feel that nightmares and cold sweats would be in my near future from this look alone. I was tongue tied and confused. Before my brain could send messages to the rest of my body to react, Bella turned and ran out the restaurant doors, into the pouring rain. Leaving behind a baffled and dazed Alice, and I knew that this was not going to end well.
~*o*~*o*~
I was torn. Alice stared at me, waiting for a much needed explanation. My brain was telling me to do what was right and stay and work things out with Alice, but my heart was screaming to chase after Bella and confess my undeniable love for her.
I chose the latter…
"Alice, I can feel that you're pissed. I can also tell that you're a bit surprised. I will explain everything to you later, if I make it home. Down to the last detail, but I can't continue to pretend that I'm in love with you any longer…"
There it was again….that little hurt response when you realized that your little fairytale bubble just popped, and now its back to reality. As I turned to chase after Bella, I realized that I didn't care as much about Alice's first response as I did when Bella just walked in.
Bella…my sweet, angelic beauty. This is not how I wanted our forever to start.
~*o*~*o*~
The rain was icy and felt more like a pail of rocks being dumped on me instead of water. I looked in both directions before I saw a glimpse of her long saturated chocolate tresses flopping in the white rain coat and matching boots I gave her as a "just because"gift, dipping through parked cars. Faster than the speed of light, I was across the street and close enough to touch her. But I was crippled immediately by her emotional rage, surrounding her body.
"Bella…plea…please…STOP!"
I had fallen to the ground near an SUV, trying to fight through her pain to continue in my pursuit.
Bella came to a grinding halt, almost falling into the car next to her. The rain had subsided a little but fell steadily, heavy and smacking everything in its way but Bella never turned to face me.
"Bella I didn't know she going to show up. I was waiting for you! And I damn sure didn't know she was going to kiss me." Bella switched her weight from her left foot to her right, I continued with my pleading.
"Bella, you know how Alice is! Sometimes she just doesn't get the point. I…I…" I was pulling at straws trying to find a way to explain. Bella's anger started to subside; she switched her weight again to her left foot before slowly turning to face me, and that's when I felt it…
Somehow, I believe dropping an anvil on my head would have hurt less. Her tear and rain drenched face told me everything but her emotions painted a picture far more hideous than I even comprehended. It was all laid out for me in surround sound and HD.
Hurt, betrayal, dishonesty…they hit me like a ton of bricks.
It was times like this that I was apprehensive about being a vampire. A lethal killing machine, with a talent to feel what others are feeling; Bella never took her eyes off me as these emotions targeted in on me. I snatched the front bumper off the truck, trying to withstand what Bella was feeling. I continued to try and hold eye contact with the woman that used to star in my dreams, but now soon to be my nightmares, too.
Her words we laced with so much rage and deceit, they stung and burned like my heart had an open wound and Bella was pouring in the salt for pure excitement.
"You know, I trusted you! I thought you were different." The diminutive amount of balance that I had regained was quickly seized and back to the ground I went.
"But I am more angry with myself for ever believing that someone like you could really want me. Fuck, you're no better than Edward!"
Her words continued to catapult daggers in my already bleeding heart.
"At least Edward," she dragged his name out for emphasis, "still cared enough for me and had the decency to try and keep it hidden!"
As Bella pursued her snarling spiel, I was trying desperately to control the flow of emotions that ran through me to regain not only being forced and held to the ground, against my will but also this situation before she walked away….she had to know it wasn't how it looked.
"You-, you selfish little bitch!" she spoke over my crippled body. I couldn't take it anymore; either I was gonna lie here and allow the best thing to ever happen to me walk away or I had to get up and explain myself. Bella spun on her heels and restored distance that was growing between us, just as I was regaining some control.
"Bella, no…" Now would have been the moment that tears came pouring from my eyes if I vampires had the ability to cry.
"Save it for Alice" she spat over her shoulder. I damn near crawled to close the distance that was now increasing between Bella and I; I just needed to touch her, to feel her in my arms.
Maybe she had gotten her own superhuman power because she was now in her car and reversing out of the parking space before I could explain.
"Damn!" I kicked a nearby Mercedes, leaving a sizable dent in the passenger door.
"Damn, damn, damn…" I balled up my fists and punched the concrete, venom pooled between my clenched teeth. Pieces of the asphalt splattered around the indention and I sat there motionless. If it were not for the fact that I had already completed my transition to the league of the damned, I could have sworn I heard my heart beat one last time.
What if I have lost her forever…
Those were my last thoughts, until I stood and turned around. Alice stood just a few feet away from the SUV, whose bumper I had just ripped off less than 5 minutes ago. She had watched the whole thing unfold. Without a spoken word, she turned and walked away somberly.
My world had just been destroyed. All that I wanted had driven away from me, with an unspoken warning to stay away; while all that I had known since joining the Cullen clan had walked away from me in a completely different direction, questioning who was this broken man before her. I didn't know what to do next, but I recognized that the following actions could make or break me.