Author's Note:
Sorry I meant to do this last chapter and I forgot. Thank you so much for the reviews, I am still trying to learn how to navigate this site so bear with me :) Yes, the characters will most definitely be out of character throughout the story, guess I should have put that in the summary huh? ;) Also, Jasper is going to be Dark and Dominant- just the way I like him. Lastly, I don't have a schedule when I update. I have a 3 week old so I write when he naps, which right now is all the time lol I welcome criticism and ideas.
I obviously don't own the Twilight Series, but I do own a rather comfortable pair of pajama bottoms that I will not be taking off any time soon ;) Enjoy!
"Okay," I said to Charlotte, "This place doesn't look like a bunch of vampires just moved into it. It looks like someone has been living here for years." We were outside in the garden and Charlotte was right it was a beautiful day outside. The sun was shining and it was very warm. Across from where we were sitting was a little pond that had huge goldfish inside of it. It was pretty cool to watch them swim around.
"Of course it doesn't," she replied. "We're vampires, we had 5 days to move and set up everything. Plus we don't need to waste time sleeping, we worked through the night." I couldn't help but laugh at that statement. It was too true. "Okay," I said, "I have another question, you and Jasper keep saying that I'm his mate. How does he know for sure that I'm the one? I mean he barely met me last week."
"Oh that's an easy one," she replied, "Mating for Vampires is a one time thing...Personally I've never seen anyone mate with a human before so I can't be sure if it's the same for you or not. Only you will truly know that. But when a vampire mates it's like the world stops in that split second that you lay eyes on that person. There's like a tug in your chest, that tug will lead you straight to your mate. Did that make any sense?" She asks while chuckling to herself.
"Umm yea, plenty of sense, thanks." I reply. Yepp we're for sure mated. Super, I think sarcastically to myself. I don't get it. I want him, I know that much, it's just that I don't know him. He is so old fashioned and standoffish, it's actually pretty intimidating. It's like no one can break through his ice wall that he has up around him. Something about him draws me in. I don't even care that he drinks from humans.
I want to please him, I want for him to be happy with me. When he was punishing me last night, afterwards I felt bad that I had yelled and cussed at him, but when he said that he forgave me I was relieved. It was like I knew that he still wanted me, he was just correcting me and helping me see the error in my ways. I was happy that he took the time to correct me, it made me feel like he cared.
Man I am one sick fuck. Who actually thinks this way? I don't remember Carlisle or Edward correcting Esme or Alice in this sort of fashion...is this even normal?
"Hey Charlotte?" I ask. "Yea?" she replies as she looks over at me. "Umm you know those rules for me that Jasper has in place? Well, should I break a rule, the way he handles it, is that normal?" I ask embarrassed out of my mind.
She looks like she wants to laugh but is holding it in. Not making me feel any better! "You mean when he spanked you?" she asks me. "How did you know about that?!" I asked appalled, did he freaking tell her?! This time she can't hold back her laugh. "Hun we heard it. Incidentally, you have a mouth of a trucker don't you?" she says still laughing. "I'm sorry Isabella, but you looked so shocked, it was pretty funny. But you know vampires have sensitive hearing. It's not like we were trying to listen, trust me."
"How embarrassing." I mutter to myself. "No hun, it happens." she says "And yes it is normal. It might seem strange to you seeing as you are still human but a male vampire has an 'animal' inside him if you will that needs to make itself known once in a while to his mate to show her that he is the Dominate in the relationship. When the female goes against her mate it releases that 'animal' from the male. You just happen to have it about 100 times worse because not only are you human but your mate is The Major. The biggest bad ass around." At this point she starts giggling again.
"Please call me Bella," I say off handed "and why is that you are female and can swear but I can't?!" "Hun the only person that will punish you for swearing is Jasper...and he's not here and nor do I think he can hear you." she replies like it's no big deal, "but also Jasper is not my mate and Peter just so happens to not care if I swear or not as long as I am not swearing at him. Don't you see it yet? You only need to please Jasper and worry about the rules he has set out for you. The rules I have and the rules you have are completely different."
"Hold on," I say confused, "You have rules too? I thought it was just me...Does that mean you get punished like I did if you break one?" I asked her knowing that my tone of voice should be one of concern, instead it's hopeful that I'm not the only one in this situation. "Of course I have rules," she says, "and yes I think that is the most normal approach that most Dominate males take with their mates is a spanking. It usually has the best effect. Did you not see your sisters get punished before? I mean you lived in a house of vampires!"
"I don't think that they did that there." I say, but I'm not so sure. I definitely need to talk to Alice tomorrow at school and find out. Oh crap, I still haven't come up with any good arguments to keep myself at school and tomorrow is Monday. I have a freaking Chemistry test tomorrow! "Char, can we finish the tour?" I ask and stand up before she can reply. "Of course," she says, "let's walk this way", as she points to the right to a path that leads to the side of the house, "and I can take you to the kitchen."
I follow her on the path that leads to the kitchen. She opens the door and steps through the threshold with me following close behind. The kitchen is amazing! It has a nice wood table sitting in the middle where a couple of people are sitting down and eating and a brunette is at the stove stirring something with her back to us, not to mention the huge refrigerator directly across from us. But I'm confused, why would they need all these things in a house full of vampires?
Before I can ask Charlotte, I see her making her way over the woman at the stove. "Big Mama," she calls as she slides up next to her, "I'd like you to meet my new friend Bella, Jasper's mate." The woman at the stove turns and looks at Charlotte and gives her a hug. "Well hello to you too dear," she says fondly, "And hello Miss Bella, can I get you anything to eat?" I can't say anything for a minute because that women at the stove is as human as I am.
"N n no thank you." I manage to stutter out. "Well you just let me know if you need anything dear you hear?" she asks me. "Yes, Ma'am." I reply. The lady known as Big Mama chuckles at me, "Oh no sweetie, please call me Big Mama, and it was nice to meet you, but if you'll excuse me I need to start getting everything ready for lunch." Big Mama makes her way to the pantry with a last small smile at Charlotte.
"Come on Bella," Charlotte says as she makes her way back over to me, "let's finish the tour, then it will be lunch time, then I'm sure The Major is going to want to see you." She leads me through the kitchen and downstairs back to the main entry way that we were in the first night I was here when Jasper introduced me to his staff. Not only does the downstairs have an indoor swimming pool but it has a huge game room as well with a flat screen on the wall with all these gaming systems hooked up to it.
Emmett and Alice loved to play the Wii and X Box 360 at home...maybe it's a vampire thing I don't know.
"Charlotte," I ask, "How many humans are here? Are they all employed by Jasper? And what are they doing in a place full of vampires? I thought ya'll were supposed to stay hidden..." I trail off and take a breath, I didn't mean for it to come out sounding judgemental but damn, there were other humans here! It just threw me off I guess. Charlotte looks at me like I'm crazy, "Well most of the staff is human, we don't drink from them Bella, we have self control, give us some credit." She says hurt, "And we are hidden. Aro, one of the Kings from the Volturi, sends them. It's mostly just wives or daughter's of the men that Aro recruits for the Guard, that don't want to leave their loved ones alone. So they come here."
"Oh," I said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, it's just that I thought I was the only human here, it caught me off guard is all." I said apologetically. We were walking down the hall back to Jasper's bedroom when Charlotte stopped all of a sudden. "Ugh," she said, "Bella stay right here, don't move please, there's a problem in the kitchen I need to go and fix really fast," she says while looking me dead in the eye, "I mean it please just stay here." She's gone before I can tell her I won't move.
Jeez, trust me there much Char? I look up and down the hallway, there's no one around. Now would be the perfect time to run, but where would I run to? The Cullens? No that's the first place Jasper would look. God even thinking about running makes the pull in my chest more profound. Like it knows what I'm thinking and it's reminding me that it will hurt me physically to attempt such a dangerous stunt.
"I don't care Carlisle! She is not leaving my sight!" I whip my head to the right. Was that Jasper? And why is he talking to Carlisle? Is Carlisle here?! I tip toe to the right where I heard Jasper's voice. "No!" he exclaims. I look at the door on the right, it's cracked open a little bit, just enough for me to peek inside and see Jasper pacing in front of me. He stops pacing and looks up at the ceiling, "We will finish this conversation later," he growls then snaps his phone shut. He takes a couple of deep breaths while I try to discreetly move back to where I was standing before Charlotte left.
Suddenly the door is flung open and I'm staring guiltily into the pitch black eyes of Major Whitlock. Shit. "Bella!" I hear Charlotte's frantic voice behind me. She runs up beside me at vampire speed, "Major-" she starts, but Jasper cuts her off, "Leave Charlotte, I will deal with you later," he says with venom dripping from his words, "Isabella," he says as he steps to the side of the door, "come in."
Knowing that it's not a request I hesitantly step into what I now know as his study, where just yesterday I got my first spanking on that chair right there. Oh God, he's not going to do it again is he?! I hear the door shut softly and the lock slide into place. I'm so screwed. "Jasper," I start "I'm sorry, I didn't meant to eavesdrop-" but he cuts me off. "Silence Isabella, I will let it slide this time. I am not mad at you, I'm upset that you were left alone. I needed to talk to you anyways, and there's no reason why we can't talk now."
"Sit." he commands, pointing to one of the leather chairs. I hastily obey, just thankful that he's not upset with me, but also wondering how I was going to get Char out of trouble. "It appears that Carlisle has already paid your tuition at St Mary's for the year and would like to see you graduate. I on the other hand do not want you out of my sight. I am not comfortable with you going back to school. If you would like to continue your schooling there is no reason why you cannot do it here."
I knew that this was going to happen. Stupid, controlling vampire! I bow my head and know that there's nothing I can say to change his mind. I hadn't even had time to think of a good reason for him to keep me in school. I can feel tears start to leak from my eyes. I just nod my head at him knowing that I wont be able to talk.
"Don't Isabella-" He says his voice sounding pained. I look up at him and see that his face looks just as pained as his voice sounds. "Don't cry Isabella, please" he says. I quickly try to dry the tears as they fall, I don't like seeing him in pain. "I'm sorry," I whisper to him, "I'm just disappointed."
He kneels down in front of me and takes my hands. "Why is it so important to you my love?" he asks. I look into his beautiful red eyes and the words just tumble from my mouth. "I've spent 11 years dedicated to school so that I could make it to my Senior year and graduate. My whole family has graduated numerous times and always said that you only graduate from high school as a human once. This was supposed to be my turn. I've worked so hard to get to this point and now it's gone." As I'm talking I can't help the on flow of tears that keep coming.
"Isabella," he says softly, "it's really important to you isn't it?" he asks.
"Yes Major," I reply softly, not breaking eye contact, "I really want this."
He stands up swiftly and takes a couple of deep, un-needed breaths. "Okay," he says, "If you are going to continue to go to that school then I have a couple stipulations-" Without letting him finish his sentence, I throw myself into his arms. "Thank you Jasper!" I gasp, "Thank you so much, you have no idea what this means to me!" I have my arms wrapped around his neck in a death grip with my head buried in his chest. After a second I feel him wrap his arms around my waist, and bury his head into my neck.
Remembering that he is an Empath, I muster up as much love and gratitude as I can and send it to him in one big wave. He looks down at me and smiles and kisses my forehead. "Your welcome Darlin', but like I said there will be a few ground rules." Without breaking eye contact all I can do is nod my head, I'm too lost in his gorgeous red eyes. I wonder what it would be like to kiss him, to have his body covering my own. I can feel my panties start to get damp and because they're the damn lace it just goes right through onto my jeans.
Jasper's eyes turn impossibly more black and I realize that I just pushed all my lust onto him. I feel my cheeks start to burn with embarrassment and try to untangle myself from his embrace. "No, Darlin'" he whispers while holding onto me tighter so I can't move, "I know that you are grateful for getting to continue on with school, to be honest if I had known it meant that much to you I wouldn't have considered taking you out. I want to see you smile more often, and I want to make you happy, and I want you to love me. I know that you feel our connection but until you can accept it I will not claim you. I can make you feel really good Isabella, and I will, but it's going to be when your ready. Not when you are feeling grateful to me for allowing you to do something."
I'm truly flabbergasted. All I can do is stare at him. He means that he won't force me into sex or anything sexual until I'm ready?! I feel ready, but he's right it's not because I've accepted him as my mate, it's more that I'm thankful that he's allowing me to finish school. I've acknowledged that he is my mate but I haven't truly accepted it inside. How do I go about that?!
"My pet," he says, still holding onto me tightly, "don't think so much. Just go with it. You'll know when you are ready, it's not something that you can force. Now about those stipulations..." Damn, I thought, so close!