BPOV
The next few weeks were strictly Jasper and me. Mean of course I went over to his house to meet his family officially but other than that it was I constantly talking to Jasper, walking with him, sitting with him at lunch or just enjoying each others presence.
School is the same, except of course now there are rumors that I am together with Jasper because we are always together. In other words, inseparable. We didnt really care about what others think because really? What was a rumor to a vampire? Rumors were probably one of the last things on their minds.
After school most of the time we hung out over at the Cullens house because I really didnt want to have to explain Jasper to Charlie. He would get all these ideas, and one thing would lead to another, and then all of a sudden Im not allowed to talk to Jasper anymore. I wasnt willing to take that risk. I couldnt live without Jasper in my life because over the last few weeks, I realized something that I never thought I would.
I am in love with Jasper Hale.
Whitlock, I mentally corrected myself. Yes that sounds right.
Jasper Whitlock.
But of course I would never tell him that because I knew when Jasper said he loved me back, that there would be something totally wrong with the world. But maybe that would be in a thousand years, when I would be dead. Or my subconscious crept up, why dont you ask him to become one of them. I stopped walking in the middle of the hallway on my way to class with Jasper. He saw I stopped and turned around a worried expression etched into his perfect features.
Bella darlin, whats wrong?
I got used to him calling me darlin because I knew not to take it to heart like that. He used it whenever he felt the need to comfort me or inform me of something.
Nothing is wrong, I saw the look of reluctance on his face as the bell rang. Ill tell you later, I said, not ready to see his reaction if I told him now. He simply nodded and led me to my seat. There we sat in complete silence until the end of school.
When the bell rang, and everyone was let out of the building I went to Jaspers car with him following closely behind. We got in and started driving. I dont know where, we were just moving.
We eventually stopped and found ourselves near our meadow. We walked over and sat down wordlessly. I looked deep into his ocher eyes and took a deep breath.