I stopped a little bit on the path as Jasper lead me behind their huge home and towards what looked like a forest.

"What's wrong?" he looked over at me.

"Where are you taking me?" I sort of panicked a little. Why did they send Jasper to tell me about Edward? Why was Jasper taking me into the forest just to talk? I could feel the panic rise in my veins. Realization hit his face and he shook his head.

"Oh, God I'm so sorry Nadia. I know that being in a forest wouldn't bring up any good memories. Forgive me."

"Oh, it's not the memories that were getting to me. I mean, no offense Jasper, but you have to see this from my perspective. I have a vampire taking me out into the middle of no-where just so we can talk?" He didn't say anything, he just let out a small laugh.

"I'm not taking you out here so I can kill you Nadia." Instantly, my mind relaxed. But, I wasn't sure why. "I just thought I could talk to you better out here…just the two of us."

"Oh. Well, I suppose that's fine." I gave him a small smile before we continued on our way. He led me to a small creek that ran thru the forest. He stopped and encouraged me to sit. I complied, and he followed suit.

"Was Alice really telling you the truth when she said that Edward would be fine?" I asked him upfront.

"Well, I'd take her word on it. She's usually right." He shrugged looking out across the water.

"Really?"

"Most of the time. Although, she didn't see you coming…so sometimes we get caught a little off guard."

"What do you mean, she didn't see me?" He looked back at me, a bemused look on his face.

"Alice has sort of a special talent in case you haven't noticed…" he raised his eyes at me.

"She sees the future?"

"Yup."

"And Edward, he obviously reads people's minds." I rolled my eyes at that on accident.

"I take it he likes to intrude on you?" he laughed "welcome to the club."

"It's just a little hard. I'm so used to reading everyone else's minds…not having someone read mine you know?"

"That's understandable. Well anyways, I'm guessing that they wanted me to tell you how we live and so forth."

"Ok. Spill."

"Well, first off I guess you should know that we don't drink human blood. We only live off the blood of animals. Sometimes it's hard of course. Like today with Edward for instance, I'm still trying to come to turns with that myself. Edward is by far the strongest out of all us when it comes to the smell of blood. He's grown sort of immune to it over the years."

"Is it really hard for you guys to only drink human blood? I'm guessing it would be like that if I was a vegetarian. Once in awhile, you want a little meat…so you cheat?"

"It doesn't sound so bad when you put it that way, but yes in a way…but, it is worse than it sounds. Because that means we'd have to take away a human life…and Carlisle definitely frowns upon that."

"What if the person was on the verge of dying? Would you do it then?"

Is she actually condoning our behavior? It's like she's encouraging the monster to come out.

Jasper's words frightened me a little bit. I scooted back a little after his hearing his thoughts.

"They were just thoughts." He breathed heavily, as if he was concentrating.

"How do you do that?" I whispered.

"What?"

"Every time I'm with or near you, my emotions suddenly change…or you look like you feel what I feel."

"Yea, that's sort of my talent I guess you can say. I can't read minds, but I can read emotions, manipulate them, and of course, feel them off other people." I just looked over before I reached over and pushed against his arm, but he didn't budge and it kind of hurt my arm.

"Oh that's way cooler than being able to read minds!" I smirked.

"I think we're getting a little off topic." He laughed.

"Oh yea right. Well, if you say Alice says that everything will be fine with Edward than I believe you. I was just wondering something."

"Which is what?"

"You say that Edward has been immune to the smell and his thirst right?'

"Yes."

"Then I wonder, what was it about Bella that made him so…so intoxicated I guess you can say?"

"Well, I'm not exactly sure…but I have a pretty good guess."

"Well, you want to share?" I eyed him.

"I think Bella is his singer." He said simply which of course I was completely confused.

"His singer? Like she sings for him?" Hmm, I had no idea Bella Swan was so talented.

"Yea, but not in the way you're thinking." He laughed

"Oh, well…is this some sort of vampire thing?" I sighed. It had to me. I had no clue what he was talking about.

"I'm afraid so…it usually happens at one point or another. Let's see how do I put this? Okay, so blood…human blood of course is almost like a drug for us you see?" I nodded slowly. "And sometimes, there is a human out there…whose blood smells especially enticing to a vampire. It hits us like a ton of bricks and usually we can't help ourselves…" he eyed me, and I'm sure my mouth was hanging wide open in shock. I had never heard anything like that before.

"Um, Nadia aren't you going to say anything?" he asked, a few moments later.

"So…you're telling me that basically Bella is Edward's drug? She's like his crack? Can't get enough?" I shook my head. I wanted to laugh, scream, runaway, and ask more questions.

"Well first of all, can you pick just one emotion while we sitting here. It kind of hurts when too many emotions come at one time."

"Oh, sorry…" I blushed.

"And yes, I think Bella is Edward's drug."

"You think she's going to accept him…and your family when he tells her?"

He stood up fast, not even letting me see it actually happen.

"I hope that for that poor girl's sake he never, EVER tells her what we are…it's only going to cost her her life!" he clenched his fists at his sides, closing his eyes taking breaths that I'm positive he didn't need.

"You think her knowing would kill her?"

"Accidents can happen Nadia. With one wrong move she'd be gone…" he said opening his eyes and looking at me. I couldn't be sure but, I was pretty sure he wasn't talking about Bella anymore. He grabbed my hand again and took me back towards the house.

"I think Emmett or Alice should go back with you to get your car so you can get home." He muttered as we reached the house. I was still in shock that I didn't say anything. I just nodded. I wasn't sure what happened but I was positive that this wasn't the last I'd be hearing of the Cullen family.

*Three Months Later*

In the three months since that initial meeting with the Cullen family, my entire life has changed. Which, I welcomed change with open arms. It was so hard when it was always just you and your parents. After that day at their home, they always invited me to have 'lunch' with them. Usually I was the one who ate, not any of them. About three weeks of being a no show, Edward finally showed up. I promised Alice that I would watch over Edward in our science class to make sure he wouldn't do anything stupid. He didn't that day, or the next. It seemed as if he was getting used to being around Bella. And, it was almost like he actually cared about her. It was all going pretty well until one day about two and a half months ago. That's when things all sort of started to get a little crazy. It was after school and Alice had invited me to come over to her house to do something with clothes. I thought it was a little weird. Lately, she kept me wanting to come over all the time. Which was nice and all but still a little weird because of Jasper being there too. As much as we didn't say it, there was obviously something there. I just didn't know what that was.

Nadia, are you ever going show up? I kind of want to go home already. I heard Edward complain as I made my way down the stairs to meet them.

"Yea, yea I'm comin-" My thoughts stopped as I tripped on the last two steps and stumbled forward towards the wet pavement. Luckily, a huge arm grabbed me so I didn't whack myself. After calming myself down, I looked up and saw a smirking Emmett looking down on me.

"Thanks." I laughed, just a little bit embarrassed.

"Anytime." He beamed, setting me back down. I swore he winked at me too.

Are you sure you aren't actually human? Edward laughed.

"I do have my human moments…we can't all be perfect like you." I smiled at him before walking over to where Alice was waiting for me.

"Hey Nadia, are you ready to…." She trailed off and stared off into space for a second before gasping. About a minute later, both mine and Edward's eyes widened in shock and before I knew it, he was across the parking lot, blocking this van from crushing poor Bella. Only she would get herself into these predicaments! I knew that wasn't a good thing. Bella may have hit her head, but she wasn't stupid. She would know that Edward hadn't been there.

"Let's go!" Alice said loud, but only we heard her. We all got into her car. I sat in the back wedged between Jasper and Emmett. Rose and Alice sat in the front and sped off home.

God I can't believe him! What an Idiot…I swear, I'll kill him myself. Rosalie yelled in her thoughts and I turned to not tune her in so much but it wasn't helping.

Everything's going to be okay…I know it. They have to. That's all Alice kept repeating. Over and over.

God, Rose looks so hot when she's angry. I didn't need to read minds to know that Emmett would be thinking that. I slowly turned my heard in the direction of Jasper. I couldn't place a type of emotion in his thoughts. There were so many of them.

"Are you okay?" I asked. That was a stupid question I know but, I was stumped.

"No…" he quietly growled at me. Yes, he actually growled at me. Before I said something, he looked back at me, his eyes pitch black. If I wanted to scream, nothing was coming out.

Why would Edward do this to me! Just the mere thought of her blood spilling on the pavement. It was right there…it was so close. Of course, Bella's blood doesn't have the same effect on me as hers…I don't know if I'd be able stop…Jasper rambled on nonsense and my heart starting beating faster which made it even more worse. He could hear it! He slowly turned to me and just stared at me. Sort of a look that people would say was crazy? He kept thinking but I couldn't hear it. I was too scared. Slowly, I started to lean away from him, until I was practically in Emmett's lap.

"Hi there." He laughed and I looked at him, nothing but fear in my eyes. I sort of just jerked my head towards Jasper's direction and Emmett looked over and saw Jasper still eying me, slowly creeping closer to me.

"Oh great." He mumbled, switching seats with me quickly. I was pretty sure Jasper couldn't see me anymore, but that didn't matter. He could still smell me.

"Jasper, focus man…"Emmett grabbed his brother shoulders.

"Get off of me Emmett…this has nothing to do with you." He said thru gritted teeth, trying to look behind me.

"You don't want to do it, it would only hurt you in the long run…." I was shaking from head to toe now. I thought about jumping out of the car, I would only get a few scrapes at the most. But, just then, Alice screeched the car into the house and in an instant, I found myself buried underneath Emmett, him suffocating me somewhat. Rose was in front of him and Alice was tugging on Jasper, taking him into the forest as far away as me as possible. As soon as they were far away, Emmett stood up off of me and Rose pulled me up to my feet. My face was emotionless. But, I was still shaking, silent tears dripping down my face. I hadn't be so afraid…not so afraid since that night at the mental hospital.

"We need to get her something sweet." Rose said calmly as she dragged me into the house, Emmett trailing right behind her. She sat me on the couch and left and was back before I could register what was happening.

"Here, drink this." She said, handing me a glass of orange juice. I drank it, my hands still shaking. We all sat there in silence for what only seemed like a few moments but it had actually been an hour or so. I heard their front door open and I froze, not knowing who was in there.

"Where's Nadia!" I heard Jasper yell walking into the house.

Oh no he doesn't. Emmett stood up and blocked the doorway between the two of us.

"Please Emmett, I need to talk to her." He pleaded with Emmett but he wouldn't budge.

"C'mon Emmett, he's hunted…he's better." Alice said coolly like she didn't have a care in the world.

"Emmett move." Rosaline said and he reluctantly moved out of the way. She grabbed my arm a little forcibly and stood me up.

"Well here she is Jasper!" Rose sneered. "Have you seen what you did to the poor girl? You practically made her die of fear!" she gritted her teeth. She might have been over exaggerating that part, but I was still pretty shaken up.

"Can I talk to you?" Jasper asked me calmly. Like a fool, I nodded my head and moved across the room where his hand was outstretched towards mine. I took it and he led me outside.

"I want to apologize for earlier." He said it so simply, so…calm!

"You what! Jasper, you almost ripped my head off in the car. And all you can say is you're sorry! What's the matter with you…." I let all my anger go towards him and he felt it.

"You know how I told you Edward was the strongest of our family?"

"Yes…but what does that have to do with you…."

"Well, whenever there's a strong one…there's always a weak one. And well Nadia, I'm the weakest one of the family." He looked up at me, his eyes now a totally different color. They were almost memorizing to me. I had to shake my head to stop staring at him.

"Oh…well that would make sense." I said. Before I knew it, there were tears coming down my face. In another instant, there was a pair of cold arms wrapped around me, pulling me close to him.

"Please don't cry Nadia…" he whispered against my hair. Please believe me. I really didn't mean to scare you so much. It was the last thing on my mind. Nadia…you're my singer and I think…I think that I love you.

I instantly pulled away from him and stared up into his eyes.

"I'm your what.…and you what!" I asked him shocked.

"I love you Nadia Morgan…I don't know why and I don't know how…but somehow you are also my singer." I had no words. I had no idea which part shocked me more. The fact that Jasper said I was his singer, which made my scent almost impossible to resist. Or, that he just told me he loved me. I hadn't even known him that long.

"But…but you and Alice…"

"Are through." He whispered before leaned down towards me.

"No, no please don't do this." I pleaded, closing my eyes expecting any second for some teeth to sink into me. But, I felt no teeth…just a pair of lips softly brush against my own. I, like some school aged girl, reacted quite oddly to kiss and went limp in Japer's arms. Just before things went dark, I swore a I heard a small laugh.

And THAT…that was my first experience with the mood swings that are Jasper Hale. But, I was pretty convinced that I was in love with him too.

*I had a really fun time writing this chapter…I hope you all liked it! Review! I'm a little stuck on where I should go next with it….*