Jasper drove late into the night. The moon was bright. It seemed to follow him like a spotlight follows the lead in a play. It felt good to just ride. Let everything go and move forward the only way he knew how. For so long this was how Jasper functioned. If at first you don't succeed. Let it go. Then he met Alice. Alice was everything he was and to this day is not, but as fate would have it those are the types of people who generally fall madly in love with each other. This happened to them. Jasper held onto this though longer then he should have and before he knew it the sun was coming up. The sky was the dullest of grays. Those kinds of mornings make you wonder if the moon and stars were ever really out the night before. The magic of their decent wears off slowly, just enough for you to question whether night and day should keep such close company. They seem to never meet, and the gray sadness between them reminds you of the fact that perhaps they intend to avoid each other out of opposition. Or maybe it's the fact that all good things related or not must come to an end. Jasper pulled into a scummy middle of nowhere motel with the flashing sign of vacancy spelling vaca..The other words had long since burned out even though they were connected to the same electrical source. He thought about Alice in that moment. Just Alice and how he felt she had been feeling the exact same way about him this last year.

Alice had no rest that night. She knew exactly what Jasper was doing. She chose to ignore it then address the situation. They made this decision both of them together. To separate. Somehow she felt the oxymoron in that thought. Then she got up from her four poster. She felt a pinch in her chest at the thought of it no longer being their bed. It was Alice's bed. She walked towards her French doors overlooking the pool. Her eyes darted around the scope of the backyards pool area and patio, then to the garden and gazebo where Edward and Bella married the night before. She was thrilled for her favorite brother, and could not have picked a better sister in-law herself, but she still felt hurt. She felt worried for the first time in a longtime about Jasper, and their relationship. Her visions could not give her what she wanted at this time. Would they reconcile? She thought about every second of the day she could spare for her own life's happenings. She checked her phone. No sign of Jasper checking in anywhere, but of course Edward had read her mind the minute all the fighting and breakdown had begun. She had 5 missed calls from Edward and a text. "Should we look for him?" was all it read. She shook her head. Held down. No she told herself. This is Jaspers decision. This is my decision as well. We planned this. It is what it is. A break and nothing more. She hoped. Desperately. More than she ever had before.