New Friends
-BPOV-
In the month since the Cullen's left after my birthday I've tried to take care of myself like I promised Edward. But it's been hard, since no one understands and also Victoria is still hunting me. I knew that I needed to move on so I decided to go to their house and face my demons.
After school one day I drove to the Cullen house, and there I found that it was almost unbearable to go into the house. But after sitting in my truck for a few more minutes I was finally to move and say goodbye to the memories.
-Flashback-
As I walked into the living room all I could see was eight ghosts of the past. At first it was a happy scene of a birthday party and a loving family, until the birthday girl went to open her gifts. That's when all hell broke loose. I can still felt the sting as the wrapping paper left a deep paper cut, and the pain as my boyfriend threw me into a glass table. As my ghost looked down to see the blood red line down my arm. Bella watched as Jasper's ghost rushed to her ghost as if to bite her. It all happened so fast that it wasn't until I watched the memory that I noticed that all the Cullen's had black eyes due to hunger.
-End of Flashback-
As I was making peace with that night and getting ready to leave the house, I heard a car pulling into the driveway. So I walked out onto the porch and waited for whoever was in the car to get out. As they got closer to me I did notice their red eyes and how they carried themselves like Jasper.
"Are you looking for the Cullen's?" I asked.
"Yes, is Jasper here?" the female asked.
"No, they have moved on." I told them.
"You're Bella, right, Edward's girl?" the male asked.
"We broke up, but yes I'm Bella." I answered.
"I'm Peter and this is Charlotte." Peter smiled.
"May we go in and talk?" Charlotte asked.
"Sure." I agreed.
We went back inside and this time there were no ghosts.
"First off, Bella we are not going to hurt you." Peter said.
"Good, what would you like to know?" I asked.
"Anything you feel that we need to know." Charlotte said.
"Well, they left after my birthday when I got a paper cut and Jasper just reacted wrong, which is not his fault. I know now it's the whole family's fault. Hunger is an emotion and they were all hungry." I said.
"That's good that you know that Jasper would never hurt you." Peter smiled.
"Of course, but they seem to have forgotten that I'm still in danger." I said.
"Please tell us about that, Sugar?" Charlotte asked.
"Did Jasper tell you about anything that happened last year?" I asked.
"Do you mean when they were hunting those nomads?" Peter asked.
"Yes, after killing James, we were told that his mate Victoria would cause us trouble, and they were right, now she wants an eye for an eye." I said.
"Jasper and Alice killed him right?" Charlotte asked.
"True, but she blames Edward, so its mate for mate in her eyes." I said.
"Here is what we are going to do Bella, Charlotte and I will stay here to protect you from Victoria." Peter said.
"Thank you both, it's been hard knowing about vampires and werewolves but not have any one to talk to about it all." I said.
-End of BPOV-
A little while later Bella and Charlotte went to talk to Charlie to get his permission so that Bella was able to stay at the Cullen's to get to know Jasper's long lost family. While the girls were gone Peter decided to call Carlisle to let him know Bella's theory on Jasper.
"This is Carlisle, how may I help you?" He asked.
"Carlisle this is Peter, Jasper's friend and I have a theory to run by you." Peter answered.
"Sure, go ahead." Carlisle said.
"Have you ever thought that hunger is an emotion that Jasper could feel seeing as he is an empath?" Peter asked.
"I have never thought of that, but I will be calling a family meeting and take care of this." He said.
"Thank you Carlisle for listening." Peter said and hanging up.
Carlisle sat there for a few minutes before calling Esme to gather the family for a meeting for when he got home. After calling his boss to tell him there was a family emergency and had to take the rest of the day off. He headed home soon after that, while thinking just how wrong they have been about Jasper. Once at home he joined the others at the dining room table for the family meeting.
"First off, Jasper I'm sorry about how we have treated since our move here." Carlisle said.
"What is this about?" Edward asked sounding bored.
"I got a call from a family friend with a theory about Bella's party." Carlisle said.
"What's the theory Carlisle?" Emmett asked.
"That hunger is an emotion and we fed Jasper that night, so not only were you feeling your own hunger but ours as well."
"So what?" Edward asked not really caring.
"She was your girlfriend Edward." Rosalie said.
Carlisle knew the family never thought that they were hurting Jasper. What surprised him was it looked like there were two members that seemed not to care to even be there Edward and Alice.
"It doesn't matter to me Jasper still attacked my best friend." Alice said.
"Then what do you want Alice?" Jasper asked knowing how unhappy they have been since the move.
"A divorce." Alice said shocking the family.
"Fine, do you have the papers?" Jasper asked
"They are right here." Alice said sliding them across the table to him.
After signing the papers he gave them back to Alice.
"Don't worry there is not any hard feelings, I still see the rest of you as family, but I am going to leave now." Jasper said standing up.
When Jasper got into his car he called Peter to thank him for calling Carlisle, knowing he is the only one that knows him the best.
"Hi, Major." Peter said answering the phone.
"Lieutenant, thank you for calling with that theory." Jasper said.
"You're welcome, but I didn't come up with the theory, Bella did." Peter told him.
"So you are in Forks then?" Jasper asked.
"Yes, and you need to get your ass back here or did you guys forget that a vampire named Victoria is still after Bella." Peter said.
"Damn, we did forget about Victoria, I'm on my way now so I will see you in a few hours." Jasper said.
"See ya, Major." Peter said.
After getting off the phone Peter let Charlotte know that the Major was on his way home. In the days since meeting Bella, he noticed how much Bella seemed to be sleeping better each night. Hours later when Jasper got there Bella was already asleep. She didn't know that her new friends were keeping watch over her. Peter filled Jasper in on how the met Bella. But knowing the Major as well as he did, Peter knew that Jasper would want to talk to Bella himself. So he led Jasper to the room where she was sleeping.
"Bella." Jasper said softy, shaking her gently awake.
"Jasper?" Bella asked slowly waking up.
"Hi, Bells." Jasper said.
"Missed you." Bella said hugging him.
"Missed you too." He whispered surprised by the hug.