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"Is she dreaming what I'm thinking?...Is she trouble, like I'm trouble? Make it a double twist of fate or a melody..."

-Green Day "She's a Rebel"

Chapter Four: Double Twist of Fate

After my run in with Melinda, we immediately went home and gathered in the living room.

"She knows," I exclaimed as I paced the room.

"What did you tell her?" Rosalie accused.

"Nothing!" I was met with looks of doubt and I continued, "I went to walk her to class and talk to her. She basically said she knew we were vampires and she didn't want to get involved in anything."

"He's telling us the truth. There is no reason for him to lie," Edward said.

I nodded and Rosalie asked, "Is she going to do something? Tell someone?"

"I don't know! It seemed like she knew the moment we got here..." I answered frustrated.

"Well if she knew what we were when we got here and planned to tell someone she would have already. I don't believe she's going to tell anyone," Carlisle said.

"Well what are we suppose to do? We just moved here and once again Jasper is the reason we have to leave when we aren't ready," Rosalie said harshly.

I immediately shut down and in a voice devoid of all emotion I answered her question, "You don't have to do anything. I'll figure something out. I won't ever be the reason to force us to run again."

I left the room and headed upstairs. I crawled into my bed and covered my entire body with the covers. I wished that I could fall asleep. I wanted to turn my brain off, I didn't want to think anymore. I felt like there was a war raging on inside of me. I missed Alice; this would be the time when she would crawl in my bed with me and tell me everything was going to be alright. I also felt terrible for being so spellbound to this girl. She barley talks to me, but I need to talk to her. What did that mean?

"Jasper?" Bella called as she entered the room, "What are you doing under the covers?"

"Sleeping," I responded.

She lifted the covers and crawled in next to me, "Sleeping huh? I'm in need of a good sleep too. It has been over a century since the last time I had a good nights sleep."

I answered by rolling over on my side with my back turned to her. I wasn't in the mood for jokes.

"Ok then, how about we talk?" Bella asked.

I grunted, "I just want to lay here. Let me lay here please."

"Nope, not gonna happen mister. If you don't want to talk, I will. Rosalie is a bitch; I know you know that so let's just get over what she said," Bella said forcefully and continued, "Don't let one thing she said bring you back down. You've made so much progress, granted it took you a century but, it can't have been easy to lose your mate, I can't even imagine and nor do I ever want to. You can't let mistakes and regrets ruin you; I know it's hard, but you have to learn from them and move on. If you don't, Jasper, those mistakes and regrets that ruin you will take down everyone else that matters to you. You absolutely can not lay in bed and torment yourself."

I sighed loudly and returned to laying on my back, "I'm vampire, I'm suppose to be tormented."

"Wow...that was really depressing Jasper, and that sounds like something a vampire in a movie would say. Your life can't be a constant torment," Bella replied.

I furrowed my eyebrows and looked at her, "You know my life story, it is a constant torment."

Her eyes met mine, "Everybody has ups and downs."

"Alice was my only up, Bella."

"Maybe...but Melinda seems to be an up for you," She suggested.

"No, she's definitely a torment," I argued.

"Other than her not wanting to talk to you, how so?"

"I feel bad..." I hesitated.

"For..." Bella prompted.

"Well, Alice was my mate...and...thinking of her just hurt too much and now that there is Melinda, whatever my pull to her is. Well I hardly think of Alice; I feel terrible, like I didn't love Alice the way I should have if another woman is consuming my mind. It also feels like I just stopped loving her because it hurt too much," I admitted.

"Oh Jasper, as cliche as it sounds, no one will ever take Alice's place. Just because someone else has come into your life doesn't mean you've stopped loving her. The fact that you still think about Alice and feel guilty tells me that you continue to love her still. As long as you don't let that guilt cripple you, its a good thing to continue loving Alice and what you had together," she said offering a small smile.

I smiled too, "When did you get so smart, Bella Bee?"

"When? I've always been this smart?" she answered and we both laughed.

There was a knock on the door and Edward came in as we were laughing.

"What is going on here?" his tone was sharper than normal.

Bella jumped out of bed and ran to Edward embracing him, "Hello love, I was just cheering up Jasper and making sure what Rosalie said didn't get to him."

I felt him relax and he turned his attention towards me, "I was thinking maybe we could scope out Melinda and just make sure she isn't up to anything. I thought that I could skim through her thoughts and we can figure out how she knew about us."

I nodded and Bella clapped her hands, "I'm coming too! It'll be like a spy movie. Vampire spies." She ran out of the room before we could respond.

Melinda lived just outside the reservation. This was really lucky for us; we weren't sure if there were still werewolves in the area. It was late in the afternoon and we stared at her house from the forest across the street from her house.

"I don't think anyone is home, maybe we should go. I feel like a stalker," I said to Bella and Edward.

"We need to know what she knows, Jasper. We can't just leave," Edward responded.

"Yeah this is kind of fun, vampire spies. We never do anything this exciting anymore," Bella said excitedly.

I rolled my eyes, "Fine, just stop saying vampire spies."

Just as Bella was about to answer we saw Melinda's light blue Prius pull into the driveway. We watched her step out and go to the passenger side.

"C'mon honey. Lets go inside and see if dinner is ready," Melinda said to the two year old boy she held at her hip.

I whispered to Edward, "Do it now, while she's out here. I don't want to go inside."

Edward concentrated on Melinda and felt the same resistance as before. Again he pushed through it and began to shuffle through her mind. All of a sudden all her thoughts went blank and he could no longer hear her thoughts. I watched Melinda turn around and look in our direction.

She couldn't see anything, but she called out, "Hello? Is anyone out there?"

She shrugged and hurried inside.

"What the hell was that Edward? Why was she looking in our direction?" I asked.

"I have no idea. One moment I was in her mind and the next everything went blank. There was nothing there," he explained.

"Intriguing, she's like me," Bella said.

"What are we suppose to do now?" I wondered out loud.

"We wait until its complete dark or when she's asleep. Maybe then I can get in," Edward answered.

I was about to argue when the door flew open and a very large man stood on the porch looking in our direction.

"Come out vampires! I know you're there!" he called angrily, "If you don't leave now I promise this will not end up well for you."

Edward and I stared at each other with wide eyes while Bella couldn't take her eyes off the man.

"How did they know we were here?" I asked nervously.

"How am I suppose to know?" Edward responded clearly irritated, "What is going on here?"

"We should go. Lets get out of here," I said quickly.

Edward and I were getting ready to run when we noticed Bella was still staring at the man.

"Bee, we have to go," I said urgently.

"Jacob?" She whispered.

Edward's head snapped back to the man and took a good hard look.

"It's Jacob!" Bella exclaimed. Before she even realized what she was doing she was running towards him.

"Bella wait!" Edward called and chased after her.

"Aw jeeze," I breathed as I followed them.

A/N: hehe...