CHAPTER ONE
"Jasper Knows Best"
I have been made a mockery of. I have been humiliated, made the object of some sick… vampire's entertainment. I, Edward Cullen, promise to hunt down Jasper Hale, tear him to little bits and pieces and feed them to the dogs down at La Push.
"You've gotta push your boundaries! Let loose, you're killing me with this pent up lust!" Jasper bombarded me. He had cornered me while I'd let my inhibitions run riot, given myself over to the animal inside me.
We had been hunting a grizzly bear when he had cornered me. More or less ambushed me, sending me careening into a particularly sturdy boulder on the side of the mountain.
I'd insisted he come along, I didn't want to be around Bella if I couldn't control myself to the maximum level and I found him to be quite the… emotional shoulder to lean on, if you catch my pun.
"You can't tell me you don't want to just take her anywhere any time. If I couldn't control myself as much as I can Ally wouldn't be able to walk for a month by the time I'd be done with her, and being what we are that's sayin' somethin' . But I get by because I know I can handle her."
Jasper grinded his hips into mine when he'd finished before running off in the other direction. His thoughts were rather lurid and involved my "sister" in a lot of positions I'd hoped to never have the opportunity to see for as long as I exist.
However, as fast as he can run - he knows I can best him. I collided into him, the sound thundering out across the valley and sending him, and myself, down the mountain in a vicious tangle. When we reached the bottom, he had me sitting awkwardly up against a tree, his body pressed into mine.
"I love it when you get all hot and bothered, I can always outsmart you when you're distracted."
Jasper winked at me before I felt an unyielding wave of lust ten fold the intensity of my own for Bella thrown at me, a curveball if ever there had been. I let the animal inside me loose, throwing caution to the wind before crashing my lips into his. It took me two seconds flat to realize what I was doing and throw him off me.
"JASPER HALE! You do NOT know what you're dealing with!!"
"No better than you, dearest. If I didn't know better I'd say your feelings for Bella are at a point where you just can't stand it anymore. If that kiss is anything to go by… you're about to self combust."
I turned to face him, red hot fury thrown straight at the atrocity nature had the gall to produce.
"You will not interfere with me or Bella, do you hear me?"
Jasper smirked.
"Do I make myself clear, Jasper?"
"Clear as a whistle, dearest brother in law of mine."
"Good."
With that, I turned my back on him. I ran for the nearest and biggest source of food I could sense, a mountain lion, pounced, ripped its throat open and drank til my heart was content. Then, without another thought for the evil stinking vampire here with me, I ran for Forks, I ran for Bella.
My feet hit the familiar pavement that led to her home before I was jumping her back fence and preparing to leap for her window.
Bella's scent hit me harder than usual when I got into her room. I brushed her hair from her face, kissing her forehead and smiling. She was so beautiful when she slept.
I crossed the room and sat down in the chair in the corner, watching her. She made the sweetest noises when she dreamt. I loved to listen to her talking.
She talked about home, how the dry plains Arizona had to offer made her happy. It was those moments that made me jealous she'd lived there at all. She talked about her mother as well. Sometimes she'd have conversations, I'd only hear her half but it was enough to keep me entertained for hours.
The way her chest moved, in and out, in and out as she breathed, so relaxed. Her heart was beating at ease. It made me smile to know that when her heart beat so erratically it was because I was so close.
I moved from the chair and laid down beside her, making sure she was tucked into the covers so my cold skin wouldn't disturb her. I knew the planes of her face by heart. I let my finger trace patterns over different expanses of skin, tracing her eyebrows, the curve of her cheek, the tip of her nose. She sighed and turned in her sleep, her mouth so close to mine.
I chanced a long breath out, it tickled her skin and her nose twitched. Her eyelids fluttered and she was looking at me.
"Hi…" I whispered.
She smiled, "Hey…"
Her eyes twinkled in what moonlight shone through the open window. Her hair even more unruly when she moved it. I smiled wider.
"Stay very still for me…" I said in an undertone.
I leaned toward her, my hand coming up to stroke against her cheek. My thumb runs over her bottom lip before taking hold of her head, bringing her closer to me. I ghost my lips over hers and she keeps unnaturally still, even for her. I look into her eyes and smile confidently. I press my lips to hers in a chaste kiss, she keeps unresponsive. It kills me inside to know she's doing the best she can to be with me. I want to feel her lose all of her self control, I want her all over me, I want to be all over her. I want to claim her as mine, I want to mark her as mine, I don't want anyone else in this god forsaken world to look at her the way I only can. My sweet, sweet Bella. A delicacy no-one deserves.
"What's wrong?" Bella asks.
I shake my head and smile.
"Nothing could ever be wrong, love."
I kiss her sweetly, laying claim to her lips. Maybe Jasper has a point. I deepen the kiss and elicit a single moan from her. That one sound, I'd like to hear that on repeat for the rest of eternity.
A massive wave of lust, bigger than the wave I'd felt up in the mountain with Jasper hits me. My eyes blow wide, my upper lip curls into a leer. My hands rake down her body. Bella moans In response. She's my undoing.
It takes me at least ten seconds to question my feelings. Faster than Bella can see, I'm out her window, running into the street. Across the street is a forest, I hear a booming laugh off in the distance.
"JASPER!!!"
TBC…
A/N: I know a lot of you are probably wondering where I am and what's happening with "Moonlit Meadow" - all I can say is that I've put it on the backburner for now, this idea came to me and I just had to run with it. It's helping me get back into writing again and when I can fully set my mind to it, I'll continue with "Moonlit Meadow". It also helps me get in the mood to write these scripts I have to have ready for this independent production company I've joined! Dudes, I'm writing for film! =) Mwah to you all.
