AN: Hey everybody! Thank you readers and reviewers for joining me for my last chapter :) (Should I be crying?)

"Letsjustdance" did a great job pre-reading / beta-ing this chapter, and she was super fast! Thank you!

Two more optional Chapters coming up. An epilogue, where Edward shows up, and an alternate ending that includes some more time travel!

Happyghost LOVE to you all!

Chapter 34

Bella left a note telling Edward not to come looking for her, and more than enough cash for the Cullens to buy a new couch. Jasper and Bella then took a nice long shower together and changed into some of the clothes that Alice had packed for them.

Then Jasper left Bella at the house and ran into town to find a rental truck. He hated leaving Bella at the house alone, but she was a newborn and was not yet ready to control her feeding urges. When he returned with a small U-Haul, Bella ran out of the house and met him half way down the long winding private road that led up to the house.

"What's the matter, Bella?" Jasper asked as he jumped out of the truck.

"Nothing really, I just couldn't stand you being gone. I felt so alone and worried. I didn't know if or when you'd ever get back." Bella said as she held on to Jasper tightly. He could feel her anxiety and he remembered how difficult it was to be a newborn vampire.

"It's alright, honey. I didn't like leaving you either. I will get us some new cell phones, so if I ever have to leave you again, we will be able to call one another." Jasper said as he tried to calm her.

"You are never leaving me again Jasper." Bella pushed her face into Jasper's chest as she spoke. She knew that she was being irrational, but she didn't care.

"You aren't ready to control yourself around humans Bella. You could slaughter a whole town, and then we'd have to go back to Volterra." Jasper warned.

"How do you know? I bet I could handle being around humans just fine." Bella crossed her arms stubbornly and stood back from Jasper as he smirked at her.

"Bella. Go take a seat in the truck for me." Jasper said as he opened the door.

Bella smelled something delicious coming from the cab of the truck so she jumped in. Venom filled her mouth and she had to swallow it back many times. Her senses were on high alert, she felt anxious, and her throat was burning with thirst. It felt like her throat was filled with hot sand all of a sudden, and she knew she would do absolutely anything to quench her thirst.

Jasper could feel all of her emotions go haywire, and the strength of her bloodlust was so potent that it started making Jasper extremely thirsty as well. "That's the scent of a human, Bella. Just imagine if there was one here beside you."

"Is there one here?" Bella became excited at the thought, and jumped out of the truck.

"No, there's no one here but me, darlin'. Let's go hunt."

After their hunt they put their luggage in the truck and started off on their long drive to Texas. Bella could handle being in the cab of the truck and smelling the sweet scent of the human after she had hunted. They had only driven a short while before Bella started worrying again.

"What's going on, Darlin'?" Jasper asked, feeling her worry and also some guilt.

"I don't want to kill anybody. What if I can't control myself?" Bella cried.

"I promise I will help you. I can feel you Bella. If you start to get worked up, I can calm you down. Heck, I can even knock you out. Stop worrying, Honey." Then Jasper turned on the radio and Bella started to feel a lot better.

They had been driving almost non-stop and the trip had gone very well. Jasper and Bella were both very excited to start their new lives together. They knew they were getting closer to Texas when the radio stations started playing a lot more Spanish music. When Jasper scanned the stations, it seemed like every other one they heard was in Spanish.

"We need to stop and get gas again Bella. I'm going to get off at this exit. You did great last time. Just hold your breath, and I'll handle everything else." Jasper said as he sent her some much needed reassurance.

When they pulled up to the gas station there was hardly anyone around. Jasper ran in and paid. Then returned to the pump and smiled at Bella as he filled up the tank.

An old work truck pulled into the pump on Bella's side of the truck. Its speakers were blaring Spanish Banda music, and four workers got out of the truck to stretch. "Mira, la gringa." One of the men said as he walked around the truck.

Jasper felt everything at once; Bella's bloodlust and the lust of the workmen that were now all staring at Bella and making whistling and clicking noises with their tongues.

Jasper wanted Bella to kill the men, sort of, but he knew she would feel bad about it later. He wanted to kill them himself, but he couldn't put Bella at risk. Thinking quickly, he made Bella extremely lethargic, and then he stepped around the side of the truck so that the men could see him.

The workmen were very intimidated when they saw Jasper, and they immediately became very frightened. Jasper used their fear and magnified it until they were all cowering and pissing themselves. Then he got in the truck and drove away. When the coast was clear, he woke Bella up and explained what had happened, what nearly happened, and she was grateful to him for both fending off her 'admirers' and keeping her from killing them.

By the time they were back on the highway, Jasper decided that wherever they settled it needed to be far away from humans.

When they arrived at Jasper's old property, everything was pretty much how he had left it. It took him some time to get his sculptures loaded in the U-Haul. Then he found Bella in the house messing around in the bags of stuff that he had bought before they had been taken to Volterra. "You really did tear the roof off!" Bella ran to Jasper and kissed him. "How did you get all of this stuff Jasper?"

"I paid someone to buy it for me. I'm sorry we didn't get to have our romantic evening." Jasper said as he looked at the pile of stuff that he had bought for Bella when she was still human.

"We are going to have a very romantic evening Mr. Whitlock, just as soon as we get to our new home." Bella smiled as she picked up a bag from the floor.

"I guess you won't need these anymore." Jasper teased as he picked up a bag of Doritos and handed it to her.

Jasper could feel Bella's curiosity as she opened the bag and took out a chip. "It's not going to taste the same." Jasper warned.

Bella quickly stuck the chip in her mouth and started to chew it. "It tastes like dirt!" She groaned, as she ran out the door to spit out the offending food from her mouth.

Jasper just laughed at Bella, and picked up the futon to load it in the truck.

After Bella recovered from her first taste of human food as a vampire, she grabbed a few bags and helped Jasper load the truck. She saw Jasper's statues lying in the back of the U-Haul and a fabulous idea came to her. "Jasper, can we send my Mom the statue of me sleeping? It would mean so much to her."

Jasper knew that Bella felt guilty over her parents' suffering. They thought she had died in a freak accident, which was the cover story set up by the Volturi. "I think that's a great idea, Darlin'. We can ship it to her anonymously. Besides, I don't need it anymore now that I have the real you, forever." Jasper smiled. He really didn't want to give up the statue, but Bella's happiness was more important to him, and giving the statue to her Mom would make her happy. So they would do it.

"I think that's everything." Jasper said as he closed the roll down door over his few possessions. "Where are we off to now, Mrs. Whitlock?"

"Let's go far, far away where no one will ever find us." Bella smiled.

"How about Alaska?" Jasper asked.

"Sounds good to me!"

Bella and Jasper drove off into the sunset and their future together looked bright. They were fortunate because nothing bad would ever happen to them again…or so they thought.

Until 10 years later! Edward shows up in my Super Epilogue !