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Chapter 14 : Announcement

Jasper's POV

Hunting was necessary but it was not as enjoyable as previous times. I was too consumed with my thoughts about my beautiful Bella; I love her so much. I couldn't wait to see her and to hold her in my arms again. I know I'm fast, but why couldn't I go faster? It seemed as if it would be eons until I could finally enter our apartment. I finally saw it but in all its luxurious and fashionable glory, all I could focus on was the sound of Bella's beautiful heartbeat and the strength of her scent reaching me from it. At times like these, I feel thankful for having heightened senses. Wait, I felt desperation and anxiety coming from our apartment. I hope she's fine.

Bella's POV

I heard the door click which must mean that Jasper had come home. Ok, what to tell him? I had been thinking about ways to break the news for three days and yet I still hadn't come up with a way to just say it without hurting him. What if he wanted a child and I didn't want it? Or what if he didn't want a child and I suddenly changed my mind? I got up from my place on the warm bed. It seemed as if I'd been frozen in the same position for thousands of years.

I was suddenly in his beautiful arms; he held me close and kissed me on my forehead and all over my face and then he captured my mouth with his own and I responded passionately, knowing that this might very well be the last time I ever felt those beautiful lips upon my own. I inhaled his scent as if I had never smelled him before. He's amazing in so many ways, and here I am…carrying his child. I suddenly felt love and maternal instincts rushing in. It's his child; how can I not want it? Tears started rolling down my cheeks.

Jasper's POV

I felt a sudden rush of love and remorse at the same time coming from her. What had she done that was making her regret it so deeply?
"Jasper," she said. I looked at her. Tears were rolling down her cheeks.
"What's wrong darling?" I asked.
"There's something I have to tell you."
"Well, you know you can tell me anything sweet pea," I replied.
"I love you," she told me.
"I know," I told her, "is that all you were worried about telling me? I've known for a long time that you love me."
"No Jazz," she told me, "That's not what I had to tell you. Jasper, I'm pregnant."

Wait…had she just said pregnant? I…I can't father children; I'm sterile. How could this happen to me? So was this what the remorse was for? Her…betraying me? I felt my eyes turning black and it was not out of thirst at all. All I wanted to do is to rip the head off of anyone who even thinks of touching her. But then I guess she was ok with it if she carried on with it.

There was only one plausible person, unless she cheated on me with someone from school. But this was unlikely; I would have smelled him on her. So there was only one possible candidate; Jacob. How could he do this to me? I thought we were friends…maybe Edward was right – maybe I shouldn't have trusted Jacob alone with her.

Pain hit me like thunder and it struck my dead heart, causing it to divide and then break into a million dead little pieces. I wanted to curl up in a corner and die. She looked at me with her eyes full of pain, regret and love. But is that love for me, or for someone else? Is that love for Jacob Black, my friend who deceived me? How could he? How could she? I thought what we had was special. I thought that I was her mate as much as she was mine.

"What's wrong?" she asked, "What are you thinking?"
I could barely speak…had she thought I would take this lightly? I had trusted her fully. My heart had been hers; I had given it to her and I had opened up in ways I had never thought of opening up before. But she had broken me terribly and now I couldn't stay here. I couldn't stay here if she was pregnant with Jacob. It was his place to love her and protect her and his child now.

"Did you think I was going to take this lightly?" I asked.
"No," she replied, "of course not. I didn't take it lightly…but…I didn't think you'd take it this way. I knew it would be hard to accept, but now things are like this…"
"I can't…" I told her, "It's not my place anymore."

"Of course it is," she replied, "We belong together. We can get through this."

"I'm not sure we can."

"What are you saying Jasper?"

"I'm saying we're through."

"No," she told me, "Anything but that. I didn't know that this could happen; I would have taken precaution if I knew."

"Well," I replied, "you shouldn't have been fucked in the first place."

"You're one to talk," she told me, "You were fine with it."

"Yeah," I told her, "well I'm your boyfriend; I should be fine with it."

"Then why are you being so difficult? I thought you would love me no matter what the circumstances. I thought you would love me no matter what happened between us. I think I was wrong."

"No," I told her, "Just because what we have has been broken does not mean that I don't love you anymore. That is one thing that will never change Bella."

"Please, Jasper," she replied, "Please…don't." I could feel her desperation and her pain flowing slowly into my very soul. My dead heart went out to her but she had broken me and I was feeling my own pain on top of her own. She had betrayed me with my friend; with her friend. She had betrayed me so badly and it had crushed me. My dead heart was scattered in a million little pieces on the floor and I had to pick them up all by myself. Every little piece was still hopelessly in love with her and I knew that would never change, but this wasn't my place now. I had to leave. My pain would blind me. I would be too vulnerable to trust myself around her with that beautiful and delicious scent. And now it was Jacob's responsibility and Jacob's place by her side. He had fathered her child and now he deserved to love them both.

He had betrayed me; she had betrayed me…they had betrayed me together and yet I loved her so deeply still and I still cared for him. I may seem like a fairly regular person on the outside. People may think I'm quite average although weird. My own family may think that I'm normal but I'm not. I feel everything so deeply. Everything is so thorough for me. And I know that my heart will always be hers. I know I will never love another. She will always be the one. My Isabella. How I had wanted to make her my wife. How I had worried about her while she was probably in bed with him.

"Jasper…I know it will take some time to adjust but let's just think about everything before we do anything we might regret later on."

"I have to go," I told her, "I don't belong here anymore."

The very words I spoke were breaking my heart even more. I knew that being away from her would be more excruciating than any other pain I had ever been through; than any other resistance to my undying bloodlust. I would miss her. I would miss her face and her smile and her scent. I would miss her loving character, her selflessness…but why would she do this? It was so unlike her. I wanted to believe that it had not happened but there was no other explanation. I needed something, something to hold onto. So in one quick move I removed her necklace and held it in the palm of my hand.

Her hand flew up to her neck and clasped itself around the empty area where the chain had been. Tears filled up her eyes.

"Am I no longer one of you?" she asked.

"No," I lied, "You aren't."

Her heartbreak was excruciating. I could literally feel her soul shattering. I could feel her heart tearing up and a huge hole breaking open inside her chest. I could feel her digging out buried emotions; things she had felt before. But I could tell that this time, she was feeling everything more intensely.

"I'm sorry if I'm hurting you," I told her, "But you hurt me too. Take care of yourself. Don't try to contact me; I won't have my cell phone. Tell Alice not to look for me; I don't want them to talk to me – I need some time. If you're ever in any mortal danger…then that's an exception…"

"Jasper…" she said as she swallowed back her choked tears, "don't."

"Goodbye Bella."

"No," she whispered. She took my hand in her own and I could feel my heart fluttering but then my pain came crashing back down on me. I released her hand and looked at her for one last time.

"Oh," I said, "And tell Jacob I said congratulations."

"Congratulations for what?" she asked.

Bella's POV

"For becoming a father," he replied. And then he was gone in a flash and realization hit me like a ton of bricks.

"But Jasper...you're the father," I whispered. But he was long gone, far far away where he would never hear me.

So I curled up into a ball on the living room floor and waited for death to come and devour me.

A.N. I'm sorry if that chapter was short. But I promise next chapter will be much much much longer. This was probably one of the most important chapters in this fanfic. Don't give up on this story. I'm sure you'll love the way it turns out.

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