Sunday morning found me feeling not only refreshed, but downright giddy. Life was good. I had my best friend in the world visiting me, new friends that I didn't secretly hate or even mind being around, and a beyond awesome boyfriend. Was he my boyfriend? I mean we went on a couple of dates and have been getting to know each other. Plus we have had two of the most wonderful kisses I had ever experienced. Not that I had experienced a lot but I'm pretty sure that Jasper would have still beaten any other kisses out. I guess that just meant that I would have to ask him, right? It had to be that simple.

After the usual mundane morning routine I headed downstairs to find my dad reading the paper and eating breakfast.

"Morning dad."

"Morning, Bella. I didn't really get to ask you, how was the dance last night?"

Of course, he didn't get the chance. He was passed out in his favorite chair when I got in. I basically had to drag him upstairs to his bed. Let's just say that it's not the easiest thing to accomplish when you're enormously clumsy and wearing three inch heels.

As for my night…how would I describe it? Wonderful, amazing, life changing. Like I was going to tell my dad that….ha! I did what every girl does when she has a fantastic time with her boyfriend and doesn't want her parents to know. I tried to hide my smile and appear nonchalant as I fixed myself a bowl of cereal.

"It was okay."

"Good to know. What are you up to today?"

"I'm not sure of the exact plan but I know it includes Lucian. What are you up to today, dad?"

"Going by to see Billy for a little while. There's supposed to be a game on this afternoon so Harry might be dropping by with Billy later."

"Well, don't worry dad I'll be out of your way for man-time," I said with a genuine smile.

The rest of breakfast went by quickly and quietly. My dad went to get ready for the day and I went upstairs to do some house cleaning before Lucian showed up. However, as soon as I got to my room, my cell phone began to ring. I didn't bother looking at the caller id before answering as I was expecting it to be Lucian.

"Hello."

"Hey, Bella! It's Alice. I was wondering what your plans were for today."

"Like you don't know."

"It's still polite to ask."

"Fine. I don't have any definite plans for today other than hanging out with Lucian. Why? What's up?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to come by and hang out with the family today. Lucian can definitely come too!"

"Well, I don't know. I would have to run it by Lucian first but I would to."

"We'll see you later today then. I already see Lucian coming along. I'll text you the directions to the house."

"Alright, Alice see you then."

I sighed as I was hanging up. A day spent with Jasper. Okay, okay granted it's a day with his family and Lucian but it's a day with Jasper nonetheless. I wonder why he didn't invite me himself. Did he want me to meet his family? Well, technically I had met everyone else but his parents. I guess I'll leave it up to Lucian. If he wants to go we'll go and if he just wants to hang with me then I'll let Alice down gently. With that decided to just call Lucian and get it over with.

"Zsa, zsa! I was just getting ready to head over to your house."

"Hey! I was hoping that you were already awake. Did you have any plans for us today?"

"No, not really. Why?"

"It seems we have been invited to spend the day at casa de Cullen. Are you up for it?"

"Uhhh….sure. Do I really have a choice?"

"Of course you do. If you just want it to be you and me for the day I'm good with that. I really missed you since I moved up here. I wouldn't mess up an opportunity to spend time with you just because of Jasper. He'll be here when you go back to Phoenix. How could you think that you didn't have a choice?"

"Well let's see…I have two options. A) Hang out with a bunch of vampires and watch my best friend drool all over her boyfriend or B) hang out with my best friend while she tries to hide the fact that she's bummed out I didn't want to hang out with her bloodsucking boyfriend and company. Hmmm…I wonder what kind of friend I would be if I chose option B, knowing that my friend would be thinking about the shoulda coulda wouldas of spending the day with not only her best friend but the guy she wants to bone. So I guess that means option A is a winner."

"Thanks Lulu. You really are the best friend a girl could have. You know I love you, right?"

"Yeah yeah. How about you owe me one, stop calling me Lulu and I'll see you in 15 minutes."

After hanging up the phone, I admit that I did a small victory dance that included some running in place, arm flailing, and a girlish squeal or two. How I didn't harm some part of myself I'll never know.

I quickly got dressed and ran a comb through my hair before putting it up into my customary ponytail. Lucian as punctual as ever showed up just as my dad was leaving. I let him know that we were heading over to the Cullen house and that I would be seeing him later that night.

Lucian drove us to the Cullen house, following the directions that I had received from Alice.

When I caught sight of the house, my mouth fell open. It was old fashioned three story pale white house.

"Close your mouth Zsa zsa. That's not a very flattering look for you."

I promptly closed my mouth and swatted at Lucian. We both exited the car and walked up to the porch.

"I do have to say that I can't believe the amount of greenery around here. At least they used an old house. Maybe the vamps here aren't as bad as I thought," Lucian said casually.

"Ready?"

I quickly took a deep breath and nodded before knocking. Almost immediately the door was opened by a golden haired god. He had nothing on my Jasper but I was sure he could give Hollywood a run for its money.

"Hello, you must be Bella."

Did all supernatural creatures have such smooth voices?

"And you must be Dr. Cullen. This is my best friend Lucian."

"Call me Carlisle, please. It's nice to meet you both. Please come in."

He quickly stepped aside so that we could enter. Upon entering I had no choice but to bite my lip to keep my mouth from falling open. Even if I didn't admit it to anyone else I wasn't expecting the house to look as it did. I was expecting to see a home fit for Dracula (even if they didn't sleep) rather than Martha Stewart. I hadn't even seen the rest of the house yet and I was already in awe. The room was huge and decorated with varying shades of white. To my left, there was an enormous staircase while the south side of the room was entirely made of glass. The room had the standard amount of chairs for such a large family and even a rather ostentatious flat screen television. There was even a grand piano! The room was completed with a combination of high-beamed ceilings, thick carpets and hard wood floors.

And then there was Jasper beaming at me. I couldn't help it. My body immediately began reacting to him. And just as suddenly as my body began to react, it quickly fizzled down compliments of Lucian sharp elbow to my ribs. I knew it was his not so subtle way to remind me now was not the time. We weren't the only ones in the room…Oh. Right. His family was in the room along with my best friend. As the realization hit me so did my tell tale blush. I didn't even notice the rest of his family was in the room.

I had to figure out a way to keep my hormones in check. So I decided to send a special silent prayer to God in order to keep my inner whore suppressed. At least until I was alone with Jasper.

"Bella. Lucian. I'm so glad you could make it," Alice called out bringing my attention to her and the rest of the family.

Introductions were made and greetings were exchanged while we were invited to sit down. Rosalie seemed to have some sort of stick up her ass from the way she was glaring at me, but I could honestly care less.

"Thanks for inviting me Alice."

She waived me off.

"The only reason Jasper didn't ask you over himself is because he didn't want to make you feel like you were being suffocated."

I looked over at Jasper who seemed to be shooting proverbial daggers at Alice, causing me to giggle.

Silence ensued and I quickly realized why. Emmett and Lucian seemed to be having some sort of staring contest. I began to get uneasy when Emmett finally blurted out what was on his mind.

"So, what the hell are you?"

"He's an elf. Well half-elf anyway." Jasper said nonchalantly.

Emmett seemed rather aggravated by Jasper's knowledge.

"How the hell did you know that?"

"I came across a lot of different things where I'm from," Jasper said seemingly bored with the entire conversation.

"So, that's why Bella here doesn't give a damn that we're vamps. She already had her supernatural cherry popped," Emmett chortled while wiggling his eyebrows at me. I began to blush at the insinuation but quickly recovered.

"Vampires are okay. Sure you can run fast, you're extraordinarily beautiful, impressively strong but can you make things fly? Or transform into an animal. No offence but I think Lucian got the better hand in life's poker game," I said grinning. The next thing I knew I was in a fit of giggles recalling exactly why Lucian was dubbed Lulu.

"Not funny, Isabella."

Lucian must have caught on to why I couldn't stop laughing. That only made me laugh harder while spluttering.

"Whatever you say Lulu!"

"Lulu?"

Jasper seemed quite amused by the nickname while Emmett chortled. In fact the entire family seemed quite amused by Lucian's nickname. Lucian released an exasperated sigh before reluctantly replying.

"Long story short, I turned into a squirrel and I ended up getting captured by an old lady who had a penchant for capturing animals, fattening them up and the getting them stuffed for her collection. She coincidently named me Lulu and kept me caged up until Bella snuck into her house and broke me out."

"How was she able to keep you let alone capture you?"

"She had traps in her yard. I wasn't expecting a little old lady to have her yard booby trapped. When she caught me she collared me and kept me in an electric cage. Bella realized something was wrong after the old bat left and I still hadn't come out after a couple of hours. "

"Why did you turn into a squirrel and creep into the old lady's yard in the first place?"

"Well, whenever I went over Bella's I noticed animals would go in but they wouldn't come out. Normally I would think that she just loved animals and was secretly running some type of animal shelter out of her house but something about her rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't get the sense that she was eating them either."

"Wait, why was she fattening them up if she wasn't eating them?"

"Apparently, she liked her trophies chubby."

"When I got in the house I found him trying to pry the bars open while getting shocked. I had to take the whole cage because she didn't leave a key or anything. He couldn't get back to his original size while he was in the cage or while wearing the collar. So, of course I had to take advantage of the situation and find out just how bad he wanted out of that cage," I added in grinning like a mad woman.

"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up. Get your kicks and giggles while you can."

"Uh uh uh. According to the agreement, I can laugh about this and call you Lulu as much as I want."

I couldn't help but follow up the statement by sticking my tongue out. The Cullen family seemed to be quite pleased by our discussion, if the laughter was anything to go by.

Once the laughter died down, Carlisle took the lull as an opportunity to feed his curiosity.

"I've come across some half-elves in my time but I've never gotten the opportunity to speak with one so freely. Would you mind answering a few questions for me?"

"Sure."

"How do you become half-elf anyway?" Emmett immediately blurted out as if he was dying to ask the question all along.

"My mother is human, my dad is an elf. Need I say more?"

"Why did it bother you so much that the old lady was taking animals?"

"I'm what you would call an environmentalist. I don't like it when nature is being tampered with especially just for someone's enjoyment."

Soon Lucian was bombarded by questions from not only Carlisle and Emmett but the entire family.

"How about a tour of the house, darlin'?"

It seemed that Jasper used his family's fascination with Lucian to get me alone with him. Not that I was complaining.

"I would love that."

Hopefully that would include a long and thorough tour of his bedroom and to hell with who could hear us. I had a feeling that he wouldn't let it go too far but I sure as hell was willing to try. And try I would.

Since I had already seen most of the ground floor, Jasper discretely led me to the stairs. He grabbed my hand and I immediately forced myself to concentrate on breathing and steadily walking. It would do no good for me to trip on the stairs and bring attention to ourselves when he was so obviously trying to slip out of the room unnoticed.

Once we made it to the landing, Jasper began to point out the various rooms as we passed them by.

"Em and Rose's room…Carlisle's office…Edward and Alice's room…"

I was then led up another flight of stairs at the end of the corridor.

There were only two doors on this floor. They were diagonal from each other. Jasper quickly pointed out Carlisle and Esme's room before leading me down the hall to the other door.

"And last but not least my room."

He led me just inside the doorway, allowing me to take in the room. The wall I faced was completely glass, which was good because it had a wonderful view of a river and the mountain range. On my left, I noticed that he had a confederate army suit encased on the wall along with a "Philly's diner" sign displayed. Atop his dresser were three pictures; one of a horse, one of the entire Cullen family with various strangers and the other one had people I didn't recognize at all. There was also a rather large bed in the room. A passing thought allowed me to contemplate why he had a bed if he didn't sleep and just how many people had been on it. I would store those kinds of thoughts for another time. I looked at him quizzically.

"What's with the diner sign and the pictures?"

"The sign is from the diner that I met Alice at. It was sold about three years ago, so I salvaged this as a reminder of the day my life changed. The pictures are of my family. This one is, of course, the Cullen's and the Denali coven. And the other has my friends Peter and Charlotte. My brother and sister of sorts."

The picture he described with Peter and Charlotte had a man of average height and silver blond hair and a woman about the size of Alice with white blond hair. It didn't escape me when he didn't go into details about the Denali coven but I shrugged it off. That's to say, it didn't stop me from noticing that there was only one male in their group versus four very attractive females.

"Who knew you were so sentimental?"

I said turning to smile at him. I don't know if it was something in his eyes or the way he was looking at me, but the next thing I knew, my hormones were no longer in check. I came to the sudden realization that Jasper and I were indeed alone in his bedroom. Which seemed to make me nervous. I wasn't nervous long though. I suddenly felt extremely confident. Too confident.

"You know Jasper, if I didn't know any better I would think that you were in quite a hurry to get me into your room."

I slowly approached Jasper and began to run my hands up and down his arm. I found myself in rather close in proximity to his while trying to calculate exactly how far we were from his bed.

I'm still not sure how it happened, how we got on the bed, or even who started it but his lips were on mine and I was straddling his lap before I could even process what was happening. The feelings coursing through me were unlike any I had ever felt before. Okay, maybe I had felt something similar last night, but that's completely irrelevant right now.

I could feel his hands on my hips while one of mine were working into his hair

"Jasper, I really think you need to cut out the surges of confidence before you get one of your limbs humped."

He laughed even though we both knew I wasn't joking.

Alice suddenly appeared in his bedroom just about chirping.

"Why don't you join us for a game of baseball?"

"Sure. Who knew that vampires like baseball?" I replied hesitantly. I sucked at sports. I was going to make a total fool of myself to spend some time with Jasper.

"I don't think that would be such a good idea…"

"Oh, c'mon Jasper. Nothing is going to happen to Bella. The visitors might not be here for days or even weeks. Don't worry about all the what ifs. You're being overly cautious"

"Fine. If Bella and Lucian want to join us, I'm all for it."

Somewhere in the mist of the conversation I had gotten lost.

"Hold on a minute. What visitors? Am I missing something here?"

"There's a small coven of vampires that are supposed to be passing through here soon. They aren't like us; in diet I mean. They also know we're here but they're just curious. There's nothing to worry about."

"Okay then let's play some ball," I tried to say enthusiastically.

"Oh, no. You won't be playing. You darlin' will be watching."

Lucian laughed as I let out a sigh of relief. I was bad enough in gym…I would hate to see myself in front of Jasper no less. How embarrassing that would have been!

Apparently, I was the last one to figure out that we were going to run to the field where said baseball game was to take place. Whatever happened to going to a park with a baseball diamond complete with a dugout? To be honest, though I didn't really mind once I found out I was going to get a ride there via Jasper. Oh, how I wish it was a different kind of ride.

Everyone else took a head start while Jasper helped me onto his back. I had to admit that I pretty much assaulted the guy with the amount of lust that was pouring out of me at this point. Once I was situated with my legs wrapped tightly around his waist, I closed my eyes and decided to just enjoy the feel of him between my legs even if it wasn't the way I wanted it.

"Ready, darlin'?"

"As I'll ever be."

Why did that come out all breathless and husky? I sounded like an out of breath porn star. Whatever I sounded like Jasper didn't draw any attention to it as he took off after the others.

Oh dear god. I was slightly bouncing on his back and let's just say it was making me extra…happy? Poor Jasper. I was basically humping his back and enjoying the hell out it. I needed to calm the hell down. My first orgasm with him was not going to be during a fucking piggy back ride! This is bullshit.

I hid my face in his back as I took a few deep breaths and concentrated on anything else but the feel of him against me. Not the easiest thing I've ever done but I managed to bring it my lust down to a more acceptable level…for me at least.

Not too long after we came to a stop. I gradually opened my eyes to find that we were in a clearing. The rest of the group seemed to be prepping themselves for the game in various places throughout the field. Carlisle seemed to be marking bases. Alice and Edward were throwing something back and forth—presumably a ball. Lucian was stretching while the rest seemed to be talking amongst themselves.

I figured it was time for me to get off of Jasper. I reluctantly began to unlock my legs only to find that they were being held in place by a pair of strong cold hands. Well, hey now. If Jasper wanted me to keep my legs wrapped around him I really had no problems obliging. Especially if at some point we'd be naked and I would be attached to his front rather than his back.

After a moment he finally released my legs and I let my body slide down his until my feet touched the ground. So not a good idea. I had to close my eyes and calm my heart rate down. I let out a whoosh of air before reopening my eyes. Jasper seemed to be amused by my lack of control.

Alice and Edward seemed frozen. What the hell was going on? Jasper seemed to go rigid and a feeling of panic spread through the field as he pulled me into him.

"Alice? What's going on?"

Jasper's voice was a mix of terror and menace. Both of which didn't help ease my state as I was on the brink of a panic attack. What in the world could cause vampires to freak out? Alice turned towards Jasper and me. Her contrite facial expression was exactly what I needed to push me over the edge.

"I'm so sorry, Jasper. They're coming."