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Chapter 1- Memories

I know I'm not alone
I'm not the only one who is broken
And I know I'll never let you go
I could watch the world pass by
Just as long as it's you and I

You and I
I watch you take over
I'll give you this offer
Take my hand and we will run away
Leave behind our past to stay
Decaying till its rotten
And we'll have long forgotten
The memories that will haunt your heart

We watch the world go by
But if it's you and I
Then we will never die...

"You and I"- Secondhand Serenade

Jasper POV

Jasper, My love, Keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest...

Her words echoed in my perfect memory every day since Felix and Demetri dragged her away with the rest of the Volturi guard. She hadn't told me about her vision. As Edward later explained, when she saw herself telling me, I would've tried to protect her and the Volturi would've killed me to get to her anyway. Everyone broke down in tearless sobs after we all realized that she was gone and not coming back. My Alice was gone. I had felt so full of everyone else's sadness that when my heartache hit, it felt like I was human again and someone was ripping out my organs for fun. For the first time since I woke up in this life, I felt physically cold and empty, like now I was just a shell of myself.

Trying to shake myself from yet another daydream, I took in a deep breath and smelled a bear nearby that smelled better any animal I had ever encountered as a vampire. Without even a thought, my body ran just far enough away, so the bear wouldn't realize I was there until I pounced. As soon as I made a fluid movement, I purposefully stepped on a branch to make him look me in the eye. He made a pathetic attempt at a growl and without even making an effort, my body brought up a growl that I was surprised to even hear. The bear started to stalk towards me, but I hadn't eaten in weeks because every time I found a good hunting ground, my family would find me again and I would have to flee. Good thing none of them are good trackers besides me.

After the Volturi took Alice, I told my family that I had to leave. I told them it was because I felt like there was some unfinished business that Alice wanted me to finish, but Edward knew otherwise and understood. They all begged me to stay, especially Renesmee. I loved them just as much as Alice did, but I knew for a while, it was just going to be impossible to be around them. I would never stay anywhere longer than a day, just in case they picked up to where I might be.

I remembered before I went off daydreaming that there was a sign saying Rocky Mountain National Park. Alice and I hadn't been through here since our year anniversary, when we were on our way to meeting the Cullen's for the first time. This was where I first told her I loved her, and she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Finally, I was waiting like a month for you to say that. I loved you before I even met you Jazz." It was also that time that she gave me that nickname. I never had known a love like ours could exist let alone that we actually could be together forever.

As good as the daydream was, I winced as if stabbed to remind me that my other half of forever was taken from me. I took out another piece of paper to write my family the letter I would leave in the morning. So I wrote:

My Family,

I am not sure when you will find this letter, but being in this place made me realize something. Alice always got me to believe that things always happen for a reason, even if we don't always understand why until the answer presents itself in a way we might not be expecting. Once we find the answer to why anything happens, everything clicks and seemingly falls into place, leaving us agape as to why we couldn't have made sense of it before. I hope you are all still well, and I promise when I find my answer, we will be reunited once again.

All My Love,

Jasper

Once I was done writing the letter, I knew I was finished in that place, the place I realized my first love. As I roamed to some unknown land that I hoped would give me answers, I whispered to myself, "I hope you're right Alice, I hope you're right."

Angela POV

I awoke yet again to the sound of a leaky faucet from my bathroom. The plumber I called was backed up with work orders and my annoying faucet wasn't anywhere near the top of his priority list. Even with that hanging on my mind, I looked at the clock because I realized that my alarm hadn't gone off. I wrenched my groggy eyes to the clock and saw that it was 7:10 am. I didn't normally get up till at least 7:45 or 8 am, because I didn't have to work until 9:00 am. Today I was working in the field doing 5 house inspections for people that wanted permits for additions to their houses.

Being a city inspector is definitely not the career I thought I would ever choose, but then again I'd never thought I would ever end up in a city like Port Washington, WI, alone without any family left. I guess I changed everything in my life, except my name, because anything that resembled my former life.

3 YEARS EARLIER…

I was attending the University of Seattle for Psychology minoring in Elementary Education. I decided to surprise my parents and drove home one weekend. When I got home, there were cops at my house. I thought there might have been a burglary, because my mom had said there had been a couple in the area. I park my car on the street and got out my car. I made my way towards the house to laugh about with my parents. They had thought it was bored teenagers with nothing better to do. I recognized Office Sheri Pellman, because she had done some assemblies at Forks High School.

Officer Pellman actually had some tears in her eyes when she made her way over to me. I was confused why she was crying until she said, "Angela, I am so sorry." I scrunched my eyebrows because I still didn't know what she was talking about. "Sheri, what are you talking about? Why are you crying?" She hesitated for a few seconds but then she said, "Angela, your parents and siblings were in a train crash. No one on the train survived." I felt all the air struck out of me like I was hit by a dump truck. I felt my body shaking, I screamed, then my knees buckled and I fell to the ground.

The next week dragged on and flew by at the same time. I had to handle the funeral for all of them, for which my local church that my dad was a pastor of was taking care of all the expenses. I put the house on the market, even though it was the only house I have ever known, I knew that I couldn't live there anymore, and I put everything but the furniture in storage. I quit school because I knew that I couldn't go back there.

I just knew the only thing I could do is start over. New career, new city, new life. I looked up top accredited technical schools, and I found MATC in Milwaukee, WI. I signed up for courses in Land Surveying, and received my certificate in one semester. I thought I would look in surrounding counties because I knew that Milwaukee County had its fair share of crime and I wanted to stay as far away from it as possible.

I was going to take a little trip up to Door County because I had heard from a neighbor in my apartment building that there was a Swedish restaurant called Al Johnson's and it had a grass roof where they actually had goats roaming around on. On my way up, I stopped in the city of Port Washington, WI. I was driving through when I saw the lake on HWY 33. It was such a pretty blue, and I knew I had to make a stop here. I stopped near City Hall to get a map of places to go, when I had an inkling to go into the City Hall and ask if they had any job openings. I felt such a pull to this place, I knew there had to be a reason.

I was very lucky there was an opening for a city inspector because their city inspector was retiring to Florida. I was about to leave and come back after my trip when the city planner Dylan Keane came through the offices and one of the receptionists that I talked to told him that I was interested in the city inspector job. He greeted me and told me he could interview me right then and there. I was stunned because I had never been able to get an on the spot interview. I told him where I was from and my educational background and that I would be able to start as soon as I got back from Door County in 4 days if I was hired. He was impressed with my knowledge and he seemed to like me. So as I thought I was going to leave and that he was going to thank me for coming in he said, "Congratulations and welcome to Port Washington, Angela Weber."

BACK TO PRESENT DAY…

After getting this job, they put me up for a month while I found my own place, but the day after I got back from Door County, I found a house on the outskirts of town, a half a mile away from any other house with a big yard and its own private lake at the back of the house surrounding by grass and trees. I didn't have to worry about money because my parent's life insurance was plenty to live off for a long time.

Coming back from my never changing daydream, I saw that it was 8:30am, so I got up and got changed with the stuff that I laid out the night before. I made myself up a bowl of Cheerios and a glass of orange juice. After I was done, I took my briefcase and clipboard and I took my keys off the key rack and made my way out to the car for which I had a feeling would be a long, long day.

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