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Chapter 13

Stay

Jasper moved around me faster than the eye could see, stopping here and there around me, surprising me with where he may land and I couldn't help but laugh with him and at him. We'd been up in this tree for hours and hours talking laughing learning about one and another. We'd been up here so long the sun was beginning to set and the air beginning to cool. I shivered lightly trying to hide it, I'd gotten cold at least an hour ago but I didn't want to leave this spot, unfortunately that time Jasper had noticed.

"Bella," he said with a tinge of scolding in his voice.

"What?" I asked innocently.

"Why didn't you tell me you were cold?! You don't even have a jacket on!"

"Really Jasper I'm fine."

"No…" he was interrupted by my cell ringing.

"Hello"

"Bells where are you?"

"Oh sorry Dad I'm at the Cullen's still."

"Do you plan on coming home tonight?"

"Uhm…I'm not sure if I don't come home then I'm still here and I'll just go to school in the morning from here."

"Well ok, love you Bells."

"Love you too." I hung up and looked at Jasper.

"Stay?" Jasper asked. I simply shrugged my shoulders. "Either way we need to get you warm." He removed the sweater he wearing and handed it to me. "Put it on."

"But…"

"Don't argue Bell, please, the last thing I need is for you to get hypothermia and I'd loose you again." The pang of pain in his voice was something I couldn't ignore and I put the sweater on. It was cold, as if he had just pulled it from the dresser instead of wearing it but the smell that surrounded me it was amazing and then suddenly Jasper along with the tree tops and horizon began to fade.

I was wrapped in arms so warm and loving the smell of rain and magnolias surrounded me. I was standing on the porch of my beautiful plantation home. "Bell?" I looked up into the face of the man holding me and smiled.

"Yes Jazz?"

"I love you Bell…Bell…Isabella." With every repeat of my name the dream world began to fade and instead I was finding myself still in Jasper's arms but I was back in the tree again.

"What the hell was that?" Jasper asked.

"I…I think I was remembering something, something from the first time we were together." He smiled gently at me, but didn't question me further, before pulling me onto his back.

"Hold tight." His voice was just above a whisper and then we began to descend the tree at an inhuman speed. I closed my eyes to keep from getting sick and just simply held tight the marble hardness that supported me. The wind was blowing through my hair as he ran us home and I simply enjoyed the spot I was in.

"We're home Bell." I opened my eyes and sure enough we were back at the Cullen's standing in Jasper's room.

"What'd you do come in the window?" I joked and slid down from his back.

"Ya." He said in all seriousness and I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of it. He smiled at me; this gentle and loving smile and I couldn't help but smile back. Somehow he could say so much without ever even opening his mouth. "Bell," he took my hand and led me to the bed where we sat down, "do you realize you put yourself in life and death danger every time you're around me?"

"Jasper, I've been around your brothers and sisters for awhile now and never have had to worry. You wouldn't hurt me."

"Bell you are what they call my singer."

"Singer?"

"Your blood sings to me. It's not something that's very often found, quite rare actually. Even more rare for the vampire not to pretty much, well, devour the human at first smell. When I saw you, when I smelled you in the hall that day it took all I had not to do so then. That's why I ran. You are my own personal drug. Just your smell is intoxicating."

"You wouldn't hurt me Jasper and I know it."

"It's still hard for me to understand why you're not scared of me, when you should fear me more than anything. I truly am the most dangerous predator there is in this entire world."

"Because Jazz, I trust you and I'm not scared of you."

"You'll forever be a mystery to me my beautiful Bell." He said and gently kissed my forehead. I yawned before starting to reply but was stopped. "You're tired."

"No I'm not, not at all."

"You can't lie to an empath Isabella."

"I'll be fine I just had trouble sleeping last night."

"Let me take you home, please?"

"My truck's here, I can't leave it."

"Then I'll drive you home." I was tired but at the same time I didn't want leave, I didn't want to be away from him. I was torn, it was like since I'd found him and had finally learned the truth and understood my life I couldn't stand to be away from him, for even a moment. "You Dad will worry if you don't come home Bell." He said gently.

"I know." I replied. There was a silence between us again I had to go home but I didn't want to.

*Jasper's POV*

I was trying to ignore the feelings coming from Bell, doing my best not to invade her privacy but with her it was so much harder than with anyone else. Her feelings were stronger, I was more aware of even the smallest feelings she had. She was fighting with herself and I knew it. She knew what she needed to do, go home get some sleep but she didn't want to be away from me either. I had to admit I didn't want to be away from her either. I never wanted her out of my sight; it took all I had not to keep her in my arms all the time. Plenty of times already I had wanted nothing more than to lay her on this bed and have my way with her. Sure last time we were together was 1859 and you would think that sex was something that we'd never even come close to having but I wasn't always the gentleman people saw in public and she wasn't always the perfect lady everyone saw either. We had our little secrets and that was one of them. There'd been a fairly long silence between us and no matter how I battled with myself there was no way I could be away from her.

"I can stay with you if you'd like." I whispered in her ear, so close my lips were brushing against her skin. I felt her shiver and smiled.

"Ok." She replied; her voice was quiet, just above a whisper. In my own way I knew that was what she wanted and I knew it was what I wanted. I had spent a week already denying myself of her and I couldn't do it anymore. She was the only one I had ever loved and would ever love. I was done keeping control.