A/N: Still dont own twilight.

Chapter 14 The River

We arrived home before the boys. Esme and Carlisle were already back from their hunt and were sitting in the living room when we walked through the door. "How was your evening girls?" Esme asked.

"It was a lot of fun and Jasper even got Bella to loosen up and dance." Rose said with a huge smirk on her face.

"I'm glad you guys had fun. Where are the boys?" Carlisle asked.

"Jasper needed a run and to go hunting after the night he had." Rose said with a giggle. She was not so subtlety indicating that something had occurred.

"Really." Esme said with curiosity dripping from the word.

Carlise could tell that this was not something he wanted to hear so he told Esme that he had some reading he needed to finish before he showed us campus tomorrow. He gave her a kiss and headed for the stairs. "Tell me what happened" Esme said after he had gone upstairs. She sounded like a teenager who was getting the juicy gossip.

I decided that I didn't want to hear what Rose was going to tell Esme, so I headed up to my room. I figured that I didn't have much time until Jasper came home and I wanted to be ready when he returned. I needed to calm myself down or I wasn't going to be able to tell him how I felt.

When I got to my room, I turned on my computer. I noticed that I had an entire library of music on my computer and assumed the same music was on my ipod. I tuned the music on and laid down on my bed. I needed to keep my head clear if I had any hope of telling Jasper how I felt.

I didn't know that Jasper had returned until he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me to his chest. I didn't say anything for a minute but let his sent wash all over me. It always calmed me down.

"Jasper, do you want to go for a walk with me?" I asked. I wanted to be able to talk to him out of range of vampire ears.

"Actually, there is something I wanted to show you if you don't mind. We have to run there though." He seemed really excited about it.

"Sure that's fine." I said with a smile. I followed him out of my room and down the stairs. We told Esme and Rose that we were going out. I could tell that they were still discussing us because they both gave us the "I wonder that they are gonna do" look and were trying very hard not to laugh.

We stepped out on to the porch and I shivered. I didn't realize it had been so cold out. "I'll be right back." Jasper told me. Before I had time to answer he was back and handing me one of his sweatshirts. I didn't question it. I just put his hoodie. It smelled like him and was a little big on me.

Jasper grabbed me and helped me onto his back. I wrapped my legs around his waist and my arms around his neck. I tucked my head between his shoulder blade and his neck. He took off running toward the forest. I was used to running by now because I had done it with Edward so many times and it didn't make me sick anymore.

I liked being so close to Jasper. As we ran I thought about different ways to tell him. We ran for about ten minutes before he came to a stop. He put me down on the ground and took my hand in his. He pulled me along through the trees for a few minutes and then stopped.

"Close you eyes I want to surprise you." I closed my eyes as I was told and let Jasper lead me the rest of the way. When we stopped I felt him release my hand and then wrap both arms around my waist. "Open them" He whispered into my ear.

The sight in front of me was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. I was on a cliff that over looked the forest and the river that ran through the forest. I could see the clear sky with the moon and the stars above me. I turned to Jasper and I had tears in my eyes.

"Thank you Jasper." I whispered. "It's beautiful."

"Not as beautiful as you." He said. He led me a little further and than sat on the ground. He pulled me down with him and sat me on his lap. "There is something I wanted to talk to you about Bella." He said.

I knew what was coming but he didn't have to say it. I put my finger up to his lips to stop him from saying it. "Don't" I then leaned in and kissed him.

I put everything I had into this kiss. All of the hurt that Jasper had made better, all of the trust I had for him, all of the lust that I had felt and most of all, the love that I had finally admitted I had for him. I caught him off guard at first but he responded to my kiss very quickly. I could feel the love and trust in his kiss as well. I pulled back for a minute to look at his face. I wanted to make sure that I hadn't been out of line and pushed him too far. His eyes were a bright butterscotch color and were sparkling like I had never seen them sparkle.

We had told each other everything we needed to in our kiss. I could feel the love and trust coming off of Jasper and for once he wasn't trying to influence my emotions but show me how he was feeling. He leaned in again and started to kiss me again. Kissing him was different from kissing Edward. His lips were hard granite just like Edwards but his seem to mold to mine. He put his hands on either side of my face and my hands wondered up to his hair. This kiss had more passion and want in it than the last one. I pulled myself closer to him wanting to close the distance between us. I knew that he would soon have to break the kiss because of his blood lust but until he did, I wanted to be as close to him as possible. I had to remind myself to breath because I was starting to feel the all so familiar light headedness that I used to get when kissing Edward. I didn't want this kiss to end but all too soon he broke it. He gave me one final kiss then pulled back putting his forehead on mine.

We sat there like this, both breathing hard, for a few seconds. His eyes had been starting to turn black but were returning to there normal color now. We just stared into each others eyes, neither one wanting to break the silence.

"Isabella, I think I'm falling in love with you." Jasper finally said, breaking the silence. "I don't want you to think that I'm settling for you since Alice left me because that is not the case. You are a beautiful, clumsy, intelligent, cunning creature that has captured my attention. I find myself wantint to hold you closer to me and never let you go. I want to always be able to protect you and face your problems together with you. I want to be the one that you spend eternity with."

I could feel the tears starting to well up again but I pushed them back down. "Jasper, you were the one who was able to put me back together after Edward broke me. You knew what I was going through and I was able to talk to you about everything. I am always learning something new with you and I enjoy just being in your company. I get antsy when I don't know where you are and I don't like not being with you. I feel like I can be myself when I'm with you. At first I just thought that it might be because I needed to get my mind off of Edward but the more I'm with you the more I realize that I need you."

I had just told Jasper everything that I was feeling and it felt amazing to get it all off of my chest. I knew that he could feel what I was feeling and the things I didn't say he could feel. I felt like Jasper could be my other half for the rest of eternity. I loved Edward and I always would but Jasper was the keeper of the key to my heart.

I curled up onto his lap and laid my head on his chest. We sat there for an immeasurable amount of time. I never wanted this moment to end. I finally felt like all was right in my life and the pieces had fallen into place. Being in Jasper's arms was where I was meant to be. We had said all that we needed to say and the rest we understood with out saying. I loved him and he loved me and that was all that mattered now. We would work out all of the details in the morning. I let out a yawn realizing that I was probably close to 4 in the morning. "Sleep my Bella. We will talk about this in the morning." Jasper said. Then his whispered in my ear, "I love you" The last thing I remember was Jasper humming to me and running his fingers through my hair.