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Chapter 11: Suspicion

What I wanted more than anything was to say yes to Jasper, go with him now into the shower and never come out. I wanted to listen to the lustful half of my brain and just give in to temptation, but the stupid logical part was shouting to me loud and clear.

You can't go shower with him, what are you crazy!? The entire family is downstairs! Just because you can put a barrier between Alice and you, doesn't mean that a physical barrier will erupt around you and Jasper, making you unseen to the rest of them!

Oh, will you just shut up for once? The lustful part countered, It's her body she can do what she likes with it.

Ugh. The lustful half was right, I could do what I liked, but I wasn't going to. The logical half had made a good argument; any one from the family members could walk in, especially since I had broken the door knob.

"Bella?" Jasper asked, breaking my internal debate. "You coming?"

"Eeehhh….. I don't think I should," I managed to push out of my unwilling mouth. "Any one of them could walk in at any moment."

Jasper sighed, incredibly melodramatically.

"Well, if that's what you want… I guess I'll just have to clean all those hard to reach places myself…" He said, winking at me.

I whined loudly, then ran from Jasper's presence -afraid of how much self control I had left.

I ran up a level, to mine and Edward's bathroom and turned on the shower. Hot steam soon filled the entire bathroom and I struggled to see through it. I groaned inwardly when I realized there weren't any towels in the bathroom, and I ran at vampire speed down the stairs and to the linen closet.

As I grabbed a couple of cashmere towels, something caught my attention downstairs in the living room. I could hear faint voices whispering that even my vampire hearing struggled to make out. I managed to discern two voices speaking to each other. It was Edward and Alice.

"I just don't know what's going on with him.." came Alice's small voice, "He hasn't even really been acknowledging my existence since the change. I think the first time he touched me was when I was upset over the Volturi coming for Bella."

"There something else…" Edward's voice replied, "Jasper… well he's been thinking some pretty weird things. Nothing too serious, I just see flashes of Bella every now and again. In particular he likes to replay her first hunt."

Crap. Crap, crap, crap, crap. What had Jasper been thinking? Is that why Edward had been acting a little possessive around me lately?

"That is weird.." Alice spoke, giving me a blow of confusion. "I know they've grown closer and everything since her change, but I expected that. Jasper knows so much about newborns I knew he'd be able to Bella so much with the transition. But maybe… well maybe he's grown sort of infatuated with her."

How dare she?! He wasn't simply infatuated with me, he was in love with me. We were in love. And I was beginning to really struggle keeping it a secret.

I heard a low sigh coming from what I assumed was Edward.

"I don't know what to do… maybe Jasper should come with Carlisle and I to Italy, Help him get Bella out of his system. But we have to stop worrying. If something was going on between the two of them we'd know, you'd have a vision, or they'd slip up. I think it's just a case of a friendship going a little too far."

Alice didn't say anything to that so I assumed she must have merely nodded or something.

"Come one then, let's get the others back inside now. We've still got to pack up the entire house and explain the plan to both Jasper and Bella. Where are they anyway, I know they're both in different showers because I can hear the water running, but really! How long does it take?"

I rushed back to the bathroom, eager to get away from the voices. I stepped into the shower mechanically, unaware of what was actually going on around me. Was Jasper going to have to go to Italy too? I was so looking forward to having the extra time with him. But I couldn't handle the stress any longer. We had to tell the others, the guilt was eating away at me. As I washed away the blood and dirt from my skin, I made a decision. We would tell them when Edward returned from Italy. We had to.

I stepped out of the warmth from the shower and toweled myself dry. When I had dried my hair and tied it back loosely, I stepped out of the comforts of the small bathroom and into the bedroom. Alice -I assumed- had lay out an outfit for the day. I slipped it on quickly, not really taking the time to notice what it was, or how it looked and I skipped downstairs.

Jasper was already in the dining room with the others, fully clothed this time and toweling his hair off.

"Good Bella, You're here. We can explain it all to the both of you. Please, come sit." Edward said, gesturing to the dining room table where the entire family was seated around several maps and notes. I took the only available seat next to Esme and Jasper, then looked up to Edward, willing him to continue.

"Okay, as you know, thanks to your suggestion Alice saw in her vision, We are going to go to Italy to stop the Volturi coming here."

I nodded along, not speaking up.

"Not all of us are going of course, we've decided only myself, Carlisle and Jasper will go." I felt Jasper rear up next to me, clearly unaware of the change in plans till now. I sent him a wave of drossiness, hoping he would stay down so that I could speak.

"Uh Edward," I began, "I don't think it's a good idea if Jasper goes with you."

Edward and Alice briefly exchanged looks then both looked at me.

"Why is that?" Alice asked, allowing a little bit of venom to seep through her words.

I sighed loudly and looked down at my hands, preparing to act out my next part. I knew what I was about to say would be both true and make sense, but I couldn't risk Jasper telling Edward anymore through his mind than he already had. I quickly and silently built up a wall between Jasper's thoughts and Edward's mind.

"I didn't want to have to tell you this…" I said nervously, "But something happened the other day, on my second hunt.."

Jasper looked at me confused, clearly not understanding if I was about to tell them about us.

"Yes…" Edward said, "Go on…"

"I… well.. I came across a human scent."

Six different gasps were heard around the room. Jasper looked at me smiling, clearly understanding where I was going with this.

"Why didn't you tell us Bella?" Carlisle asked in his fatherly tone.

"As I said, I was hoping that I wouldn't have to. I was ashamed at how I had behaved and I didn't want any of you finding out…. I also asked Jasper to try not to think about it too much. I asked him if he could think of my first hunt more, so that Edward might think it happened the same way the second time around," I blurted out, weaving a huge web of lies around a tiny morsel of truth.

Edward suddenly turned to face Alice, and I was sure she had said something in her mind like; 'so that was the reason.'

Edward turned back to face me and squeezed my hand.

"So what happened?" he asked, concerned.

"Well.. I sort of lost all control. It was like I wasn't even in charge of my body anymore. I ran away from Jasper fast, following the scent, but Jasper was fast too, and he managed to pin me to a tree.."

The entire family was leaning in, listening intently. Even Rosalie was looking at me wide eyed, as if she would burst into tears at any moment.

"Jasper just kept talking to me, he said he knew that I was still inside somewhere and that I had to come back.. And then.."

Jasper squeezed my other hand tightly and sent me a wave of love.

"…And then I just came back to him. It was hard but I managed to beat the monster back."

The whole family was just staring at me, mouths agape. I felt a various amount of emotions coming from each of them; pride, concern, admiration.

"Good on you bro!" Emmett said, hitting Jasper on the back, "You beat the Bella monster back, a task never before conquered by man or vampire!" He said laughing.

I smiled at Emmett, then continued.

"So… I don't really think I trust myself without Jasper around. So if it's okay with everyone… could Jasper stay?"

They all nodded enthusiastically.

"Of course Bella, I wouldn't dream of taking him with us now after hearing that." Edward said earnestly.

I nodded at him softly and said, "Thank you."

I also felt a large wave of gratitude come from Jasper and he mouthed the words thank you to me too.

"Okay," Alice said moving on. "Onto the rest of the plan!"

"So just Edward and Carlisle will fly to Italy. There they will tell the Volturi that Bella will not be coming, nor will she join their guard. Now I've seen that Aro will get quite upset over this, but once Carlisle explains Bella's ability to protect, they calm down a little."

I nodded at her, wondering where the rest of us factored into the plan.

"Meanwhile, in the small town of Forks," Alice said, cracking a smile. "A lustrous, beautiful family of vampires will be preparing for their big move. Now in light of recent events, I propose that Bella and Jasper leave first, taking one car with them. This will ensure that Bella does not bump into any more humans, as we will have quite a few delivery men helping to load everything."

What? I thought to myself.

"But Alice, We're vampires! Surely we'd be a lot quicker than humans?"

"That's true Bella, but it's all about keeping up pretences. When you have a secret like we do, you do everything you can to ensure it doesn't get out."

I nodded then looked over at Jasper. Her words had described perfectly how I had felt about our secret. I found Jasper looking at me too, so I gave him a wink, making him smile.

"So you two will arrive at the house first," she said continuing. "And the first thing you should probably do is hunt. It will be a while till the rest of us get there, so take something to amuse yourselves."

I laughed inwardly at what we could do to entertain ourselves.

"Okay," Alice said finishing up.

"Troops! let's move out!"

Okay, so next chapter the move. Should be fun, lol!

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