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"We need to talk," Jasper said, his deep, angry voice sounding more like a sensual purr to her ears.

Rayne felt a trace of fear at the anger in Jasper's coal black eyes, a change from their usual butterscotch color. The naive part of her even felt a little thrill from the way he was looking at her, but she quickly pushed that feeling aside. This was serious she realized.

"If you wanted to talk to me Jasper, you only needed to ask. No need to get so rough." Rayne smirked, and instantly regretted it as Jasper's eyes darkened even more (if that was even possible) and he growled; that's right actually growled.

"I thought we had an agreement on our relationship. You're not allowed to interfere with mine and Alice's relationship. That means that you can't go around giving me pecks on the cheek and flirting in front of m siblings, they'll get suspicious!" He growled with a savage look in his eyes.

"Well if you just told your family already this wouldn't even be a problem. You told me yourself that vampires have life mates and they usually just hookup with the vampire they have the closest bond with until they can find their life mates." Rayne said matter-of-factly. "Wasn't it also you who said that Alice Cullen, no matter how undeniably cute was not your life mate?"

Jasper didn't answer her question but glowered at her instead.

"You have out of your fucking mind if you think that I'm going to be in an actual relationship with a stalker Shaman," he said spitting the word Shaman as if it was a curse.

"Our races don't even mix nor do they enter into relationships with one another. While our races don't all out hate each other, our love could never be accepted." He continued, calming down slightly.'

"I've always been the odd one out in my family. The one with the least control, the one with all the scars physical and mental, carried on from their human lives, and now the one who fell for a damn Shaman! Why can't you just understand that I don't want to be different anymore? I'm tired of taking risk and coming out burned, no, this time I'm going to stay where I know everything that's coming my way, there's no surprises." Jasper said, sounding as if he was trying to convince himself more so than he was Rayne.

Throughout Jasper's whole speech Rayne had become angrier and angrier, and her eye had developed a barely noticeable twitch, but it was there none-the-less. Suddenly she shoved Jasper backwards with all the strength she could muster, and to her surprise, he moved. Jasper was too shocked to actually hide his surprise and let it show; which is why he was completely unprepared for what happened next.

Smack!

Rayne punched Jasper in the jaw with all the force she could muster, and while it wasn't enough to make him move, she noted with smug satisfaction that his head snapped t the side with a sickening crack.

"I've had just about enough of your sass, Jasper! Now, I'll tell you for the last time, my kind likes to be called Dream walkers, neither Shamans nor Stalkers, Dream walkers! As for me being a stalker, you didn't seem to mind when you were nibbling on my neck Mr. Nibbler. Did you think you could get a sample of the milk without putting a down payment on the cow? In this case the down payment was a relationship-a real one- but since that didn't happen, we're over.!" Rayne screamed angrily.

Jasper was suddenly glad that he'd taken them to a secluded location; he was sure his family would have heard her scream on the other side of the campus if they were back at school.

"Rayne, I've already explained my reasons-" Jasper began, but was cut off with a growl from Rayne.

"Yes, you already explained to me how you're too much of a coward to stand up to your family and too much of a coward to be with me. I guess it's for the best anyway, being with a coward just never really appealed to me anyway." Rayne said bitingly before strolling off, making sure he didn't see the tears in her eyes though she knew he could smell them.

Jasper was left standing all alone in the clearing with an aching jaw and a bruise pride. The only thing running through his mind was, 'What the hell just happened, and what now?'