"I was just hoping that I didn't have to tell you this way."
Tell me this way? Tell me what and what way? Everything was spinning. First the dream, then the picture, and now him having to tell me something? I had never expected for an of this to happen when Carlisle had asked me to come and live with him.
I stood and waited. Jasper was just staring down at the floor. I needed answers and I needed them now!
"Tell me what Jasper? What is this about? Did I know you?" Each word slurred together in frustration. That wasn't all that I wanted to know. No, I needed more than that. I had to do it now or I would never do it. "Where is your wife Jasper? Who is she? What happened to her?"
He laughed and shook his head. "Like I said. It's a long story." He held out his hand towards the bed. "Do you have time?"
I didn't know what to say or do. I was mad, and confused. I wanted to hear the answers I had asked for. That would require him explaining them. I nodded and walked to the bed sitting on the left hand corner.
Jasper walked behind me and sat on the opposite corner. After a second of quietness, I heard the soft and beautiful sound of someone playing the piano. Was it Edward? It sounded too perfect to be real, but too loud to be a recording.
He looked up at me with worry in his eyes.
"My family, we're different from others." He started. What did he mean by that? That had nothing to do with the picture.
"What does this have to do with anything? And I already know about Edward being able to read minds."
He chuckled. "Darlin', that is only the beginning." I looked at him with a strange look on my face. Where the heck was he going with this?
He breathed deeply and laid his hand on top of mine. I gasped at the shock at how cold it was. I took his hand in both of mine and tried to warm it up. I didn't know why, but it didn't feel like it was working.
"We're vampires." He let out in a sigh of breath.
I gasped. Never in a thousand years was I expecting that. I wasn't scared like I knew I was supposed to be. No, it was the exact opposite. I felt like he would never ever hurt me. I smiled at him.
"Well that really does explain a lot. Why you didn't eat, how you got to the other side of the counter so fast, the red eyes, and the skin." I vented trying to show him that I wasn't scared.
He looked at me with a weird face. "Red eyes? Skin? But I didn't show you any of that."
I looked at him with my eyes widening, and then I looked down. I had forgotten that that was only in my dream.
"Oh yeah, about that. I sort of had a dream, and I had red eyes and sparkly skin. We were in a field. But I don't think that it was a dream."
"What makes you say that?" He inquired.
I pointed over to the mirror from my dream. "That mirror was there, and it had that same exact frame. Also," I then pointed to his guitar. "That was there to."
He just shook his head smiling. "Wow."
"Is that too weird?"
"No! I would have expected it really." He laughed.
I looked at him questioningly.
"There is so much more that I have yet to tell you darlin'."
"Okay…So start with Alice. I mean the girl in this picture. Who is she?"
"Alice? Well, there is only one way to say this. She was you."
My jaw dropped. I had no idea of what to say. He just nodded. How could she possible be me. I was me. I would have know if I was married to Jasper, wouldn't I?
"Yup. You were a vampire. You were turned in 1920 and spent 28 years looking for me after having a vision when you first woke up."
"Wait, so you were the first thing that I saw when I was a vampire?"
He chuckled. "Well actually, I am your oldest memory. You see, you could remember nothing at all from your past."
"Why?" This all seemed so hard to believe, and if it was anyone else besides Jasper, I probably wouldn't have believed them.
"We never found out." He explained.
"Oh, so what happened to me?"
"That is what we were hoping that you knew. You and I were lying in bed one night, and the next morning, you were gone. Edward had read your mind and tried to get to you, but he was too late. All you had told him is that you had to go." He shrugged.
I leaned over and hugged him. "I am so sorry to have put you all through that." I truly was. Having the love of your life and then one day she just up and disappeared without a trace or an explanation. That had to be horrible.
He chuckled and held me tightly. "There is no need to be sorry Alice. All that you have to do is promise that you will never leave me again."
I let out something that was either a sob or a chuckle or even both. "I promise."
"Oh, Alice. Please don't cry Darlin'. I didn't mean to upset you."
"Oh, no! It's not that! No, it's just that…I'm glad that you aren't already claimed."
He burst into a fit of laughter. "As I am you, Alice." He exclaimed.
"So I could see the future in that life to?" I inquired.
"Yeah. It was your power. As Edward's is the ability to read minds. Bella's is the ability to shield herself and others from a vampire's power. Your niece, Renesmee has the ability to show you her thoughts. And my ability is that I can sense and manipulate other's feelings." Yeah! So I wasn't a freak!
"Wait, so I have a niece and you can really do that?"
Out of nowhere, I started doubling over in laughter. I had no idea why. "What do you think?" he teased.
"Okay, okay! I! Believe! You! Please! Stop!" I begged where I could.
"As you wish my love." What ever he had done, he stopped. I sat up straight and punched him in the arm as hard as I could.
"Ouch!" He mocked while grinning.
"What, a big bad vampire can't handle a little pixie?" I scoffed at him.
"Oh, I'm going to make you wish that you never said that." Within a second he was on top of me smiling a beautiful smile down at me. He leaned in ever so slowly and kissed my lips repeatedly. He chuckled and continued kissing me passionately. "God I missed this." He moaned into my mouth in between kisses. He then pulled away and kissed from my cheek down to the side of my neck. God, I was loving every second of this. He looked down at me and I could feel my pulse racing inside of my chest.
In a motion too fast for me to follow, Jasper was on the other side of the room, and Edward was pinning his shoulders to the wall. What had happened?
He looked from Edward to me and back again. What was going on?
"No, you weren't dear brother, but I was just taking a precaution. You cannot be doing that Jasper. I was barely able to when Bella was human. You do not have the strength. Especially since you let it decline when she disappeared." Edward explained to Jasper in a calm and brotherly manor.
Do what? What were we….Oh my god. I hadn't even realized the danger of what we were doing. Jasper was so close to me. I hadn't given much thought to what being a vampire entitled.
I Jasper looked down at his feet having obviously realized his mistake.
"Maybe you should go hunting while I finish the story for you. Please brother." Edward pleaded.
Jasper nodded, looked over at me with an apologetic look, and disappeared out of the door in a milli-second.
Edward turned to me and shook his head smiling.
"I get it. You two are in love, but he really needs to be careful. I know that in your eyes, he can do no wrong, but this literally could not have happened to the worst person. Due to his past, he doesn't have a great amount of self-control."
I nodded my head. "I know, it's just that… Well, I don't know. What is it that you wanted to tell me?"
"Ah. Yes. Our family is not like others of our kind. We do not feed on the blood of humans; but rather on the blood of animals. We like to call ourselves vegetarians. " He laughed at their inside joke.
"Oh. Wait, you said because of his past. What happened in his past?" I asked curiously.
He hesitated for a moment. "I really cannot tell you that. That is something that he is going to have to open up tell you with time. That is the one part of his life that he would prefer make disapper."
I wrinkled my eyebrows. He just smiled. "That is something that you will understand only when it is told. So, do you like the piano?"
I smiled and nodded. "That, believe it or not, was what I always loved when I was little, and I excelled in it when I took lessons."
He pursed his lips. "Well then." He stood and walked to the open door, holding his arm out in front of him motioning for me to follow. "Show me."
I laughed and shook my head. Smiling, I stood and walked past him and down the stairs. This was going to be fun.
