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You Promised Forever

A/N: This story was adopted from I-Have-A-Dark-Side. I will be revising some of the chapters before finishing it. We both hope that you enjoy the story! Read and Review!

Chapter 3: I stopped believing
(Bella's POV)

He closed his eyes, inhaled and then his eyes snapped open. So many emotions played through his eyes and I couldn't get a fix on any one of them.

"It's really you," he said in almost a whisper with the same amount of shock and awe. Though I had to strain over the noises in the club, I could still hear his amazing voice perfectly.

"Yeah, it's really me, Jazz. I'm just a little less innocent," I said with a smirk on my lips and, no doubt, a playful gleam in my eye.

"You can say that again, sugar." He grinned. "The old Bella Swan wouldn't grind up on me and would blush at even the suggestion of it." He smirked with a good amount of amusement in his voice, but there was still that undertone of lust that had been battling between us earlier. I may not have the gift of empathy, but I know when a male is 'up for it', and sweet Jesus, Jazz was so up for it.

"Well, that's because I never got the chance," I purred as I leaned over on the table so that my cleavage was in clear view, leaving little to the imagination. I could see his friends- I presume- looking at us with a lot of curiosity, lust and confusion.

"Cowboy, I think you better explain," I suggested nodding towards the rest of his group. "They look a little lost and confused. Like a pea without its pod." Yes I question my own sanity sometimes as well.

"Really, Pea's without their pod?" The dark haired, sexy brute said with a smirk on his irresistible pink lips.

"Hey, give a girl a break! It was the best I could come up with on short notice," I giggled.

"Guys, this is Isabella Swan, but she prefers Bella -"

I cut him off right there. "Izzy; I prefer Izzy or Iz, now." I corrected him as I smiled a small smile.

"Why?" He asked with his eyebrows creased with shock and confusion. "Before you only liked to be call Bella. As a matter of fact, I distinctly remember that you would practically kill anyone who called you anything aside from Bella."

He was clearly confused with my preferred name choice, but how do you tell someone from your past that you never expected to see again that the reason you've changed so much is because its hurts too much to be the person that you once were before? How do you say that to the person that no doubt will blame himself?

"That was the old me, Jasper." I murmured in almost a whisper, but I knew that they had heard every word as if I was shouting. "I'm not that girl anymore. Isn't that obvious?" I asked putting my hand on my hip and with more volume and a smirk, trying to turn around this conversation before it past the point of no return.

"Well, yeah, but -"

It wasn't me who cut him off this time, but the guy who could pass as his biological brother.

"You two know each other, how exactly?" He asked as he was obviously talking to Jasper. I could tell from his eyes that he was asking if I knew their secret, but I decided to cut the crap and side stepping and get to the point.

"To save you the time, yes, I know what you are and no, I won't tell anyone! I haven't for three years, so I think your secret is safe with me." I said with an eye roll. "Not to mention, you're not the only supernatural creatures that I've met."

They sat there with stunned looks on their inhumanly beautiful faces, mouths dropped open and eyes wide.

"How?" the female next to him asked. I noticed that her voice also had a slight southern twang to it, but it wasn't half as noticeable as the two cowboys; Jasper and his look-alike.

"Well... let's see," I pondered sarcastically, tapping my chin as though I had to think carefully about my answer. Ha, as if I could ever forget! "I started to date Jasper's brother, fuckward, and fell in love with him pretty quickly. I thought the feeling was mutual, but, well, I guess it wasn't! Anyway, I knew that there was something different about him; about all the Cullen's." I said as I looked at Jasper. "It wasn't hard to figure things out, I'm very observant, after all. You see, my friend, Ja..." I paused, my throat catching on his name.

I couldn't finish his name. Even thinking it brings emotions to the surface that I've tried to keep under lock and key and hidden away.

I took a deep breath as I waved away what I was previously saying. "Anyway, I had a friend who lived on the Quileute reservation. Special members of their tribe are decadents from wolves. He told me the legends of his tribe and how the protectors of the land turned into giant horse sized wolves when the 'cold ones' were around. Their only enemies are vampires.

"I had asked him why his friend had said that the Cullen's didn't come down to the reservation and he said that it was because a treaty was formed many years before, which claims that the Cullen's aren't like other vampires; that they didn't drink human blood.

"It wasn't that hard to figure out what they were and then to top it all off, I got tracked by vicious tracker named James." I told them as I looked into all their blood red eyes around the table. Luckily they didn't seem evil like James had what with them all being human drinkers, though, I highly doubt that Jasper would surround himself with that kind of company.

Their expressions had changed at the mention of the tracker into ones of anger and awe.

"He had lured me into a ballet studio under false pretenses and broke five of my ribs, my leg, fractured my right arm and..." I absent mindedly traced the cold bite mark on my wrist, the only reminder that I had left that proves that I'm truly not insane, "he bite me."

Audible gasps came from around the table, apart from Jasper who just grimaced. He already knew the story.

"How... how are you not one of us?" the vampire with the dimple spoke, disbelief coating his tone.

"Fuckward sucked the venom out. He didn't want me to be like him. He didn't want me to be a soulless monster..." I shrugged nonchalantly, "that's what he said anyway, though I never believed that." I finished with sadness in my voice,

"He never wanted you to be one of us; he still doesn't." Jasper said softly. "He wants a human life for you. That's all he's ever wanted. He put that and your safety above his own love for you. He did it, because he didn't want you to get hurt. He could take protecting you from James... just about. But it tore him apart to have to protect you from m..."

"I forgave you for that, Jasper, the second that it happened, it wasn't you fault." I told him, looking into his tortured eyes.

"I tried to kill you. How can you be so forgiving?" He said with such disbelief and self-loathing in his voice.

I crawled on top of him and straddled him again. This time there was no lust. I wanted to make him believe me and to be close to him.

I put my palms on either side of his face and held his head so that his eyes locked with mine. Of course, he could easily break my hold, but he didn't.

"Jasper, did it ever enter your mind that you weren't just feeling your blood lust, but six other vampires as well? Not to mention, I am a singer to one of them. You felt all of that and your own lust. No one could handle that. Not even Carlisle. They all had played a part in it and if they blamed this on you, then they don't deserve to call you family."

He looked at me, eyes wide and full of an emotion, so foreign to me, yet so familiar.

"Don't blame yourself, Jasper. Please?" I ran my thumb under his right eye, his cold skin almost soft to the touch. "I don't blame you; it's in your nature. I'm your natural food source, so it's only logical." I finished with a small, weak smile. I could tell that my eyes held anything, but happiness,

We sat, staring into each other's eyes. Time passed, yet, I didn't pay attention.

Then, he spoke in his angelic southern twang, "What happened to you Isabella Marie Swan? There used to be such life in your eyes; such a sparkle."

"The supernatural may exist, but fairytales don't." I said as I looked away from his piercing red eyes. "I stopped trying to believe in happy endings the day mine was taken from me." A tear slide down my cheek and I could taste the saltiness on my bottom lip. "I guess that's the day that the sparkle left, the day I stopped believing."

He captured my chin in his grasp and turned my head so that I was facing him once again, his eyes meeting mine once more.

"Well, you better start believing again, darlin', because I wanna' see that sparkle again." I could hear the sincerity in his words and I felt another tear slide down my painted cheeks, leaving a damp path in it's wake.

"You'll be waiting a long time, then." I whispered.

"Good thing I've got forever then, sugar." He smirked laying his accent on thick.

"Well, no matter how much I wish I did too, I don't." I said quietly, looking down in between our bodies.

Either way, a human life time isn't enough to fix me; forever might not even do the trick now that I think about it.

I climbed off Jaspers lap, taking a deep breath of his scent before turning back to the table that I had forgotten about. They were occupied with their own conversations and were giving Jasper and I as much privacy as they could with super senses.

"Does it matter what drinks I bring you or do you have something specific that you all would like to order?" I asked as I tried to steady my voice. It worked... slightly.

Before any of them could answer, Jasper gave it one last attempt. "What happened, Bella? I promise that I will do the best that I can to make -"

"Don't promise anything that you don't intend to keep, Jasper. Promises mean nothing to me. They are just made to be broken and it hurts. I can't take anymore hurt. I came here to try and live my life, without pain, without... this whole world." I waved my hand around as I motioned to him and his friends. "Edward was right about one thing; I'm too fragile for this world. It keeps breaking me and I don't know how much more I can take..." I choked, sounding resigned as I walked away, my head bowed...

Of course, I didn't hear him follow me...

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