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I will publish my one shots for different contests and just shorter things I have written here. They will be non-canon. If you would like a specific paring just ask and I will write it for you. Love Annie

Title: Southland (Arizona) in the springtime

Word count: 703

Pairing: Jasper/Bella

World: All human AU

I loved the spring in Arizona, before the heat came and turned the land dry and dusty. I loved the spring rains even though they were rare. I loved the brave flowers that sprung from the soil, eager only to soon be dried out by the relentless rays from the soon far too hot sun. I loved all those things, but most of all I loved to experience them with you. You were after all the reason I had come here to a place not so different from my home state, but never the less far away from everything I had imagined for myself.

Do you remember how I had set out to ignore you? Well that went well. I was always aware of you. Even after you left the room your presence lingered, like a part of you stayed behind to haunt me. I know now that was the part of you that had gotten stuck in my heart. That was the part of you I always carried around. There were so many reasons for us not to be together, they seem so trivial now but back then they were a big deal. I had my path set out, that path did not include someone sitting at home waiting for me, worrying. I had my beliefs set; sometimes I miss those times when I saw the world in black and white, right and wrong. I miss when the skin on my arms were smooth and unmarred but now I look at those scars and they remind me, they remind me that there is no god and evil, there are only people acting on what they were taught. I look at those scars and they remind me that I am alive. And how can I hate those scars when you caress them so tenderly and whisper:

"You came back to me Jasper…"

When I came home and you weren't there. I can't tell you what that felt like. I can still wake up in the middle of the night with my heart racing and Emmett's words ringing in my ears.

"Bella? O she moved back home to Arizona, I think she wanted to be closer to her mum."

That's when Arizona became a place to dream about, to long to like it was paradise lost. 1065 miles separated me from you. I had looked it up over and over again. I remember finally buying that plane ticket. I remember saying that I wouldn't renew my contract. I had packed the medals in a box giving them to my mum, saying that I wanted her to have them; she gleamed with pride I couldn't make myself tell her that I wanted her to have them because I couldn't bear to look at them. Not bear to carry them with me, I wanted to travel light to you and those medals would have weight a ton.

It was raining when I landed. The Arizona sky hand opened up releasing a rare shower. My sneakers had been soaked running around trying to find a taxi. When I had finally found one and the driver had asked me where I wanted to go I had pulled the wrinkled note out where I had written your address, and with my heart beating like a sledgehammer in my chest I had read it out loud.

Your mum had opened saying that you were out in the backyard. I remember you standing there your feet bare in the still wet grass. Your eyes had widened in surprise and then you had closed the distance between us. You had reached out, tangled your hands in my hair; I had pulled you closer and inhaled your sent. That was the spring day when Arizona became my home because that was the day when my home became wherever you were.

"You came back to me Jasper, "you whispered in my ear.

"And I´m not leaving ever again Isabella," I whispered back into your ear as my tears wetted your cheek.

O how I love spring in Arizona but there is nothing I love more than you Isabella Marie Whitlock.

A/N No beta and English is not my first languish any errors I´m sorry.