Chapter 2 my lovelies. not going to say much here because I said it all in chapter 1 :) enjoy
Jaspers POV.
It had been a long day. I don't know why, but suddenly every ones emotions are hitting me like a ton of bricks. Edward and Alice were bearable downstairs, but Emmett and Rose were really starting to get on my nerves with all the lust that they were giving off.
I was sitting in my room, slowly strumming the strings on my guitar, when I had finally had enough of them upstairs. I looked up at the ceiling and sent up waves and waves of calming vibes. I knew that would annoy Emmett, especially as he and rose were very close to jumping on each other soon.
I heard I low growl from upstairs and I had to try and surprises a smile. I knew that I was annoying then, but I really wasn't in the mood to listen to my brother having sex upstairs.
I heard Emmett and Rose leave the house. Well, I hadn't done that in a while. Actually made someone leave when I had annoyed them with my powers.
I heard Edward and Alice sitting and talking downstairs, they seemed really happy. well, when wasn't Alice ever happy. Carlisle and Esme had gone hunting a few hours ago, they should be back soon.
I heard Carlisle and Esme coming back to the house, and I could tell that they were not alone. I listened for a while when they came into the house. I listened to the conversation that was happening downstairs. I learned that the girl who had come back with Carlisle and Esme was called Bella, but that was all I knew.
I knew that I needed to go hunting so I got up of my bed and set my guitar down in the corner of my room and went downstairs.
I was not expecting the sight that I saw when I got to the bottom of the stairs.
The women who was standing next to Carlisle and Esme was nothing short of perfect. Her long mahogany hair hung to her shoulders, with light curls at the bottom of her hair. I could tell from her golden eye colour that she obviously lived by out life style. As soon as she looked at me she smiled. I could tell that she was feeling a little uncomfortable about being here.
"Jasper, this is Bella Swan. She is a old friend." Carlisle spoke after a while.
So she know Carlisle before she came here today.
"It's a pleasure to meet you" I said to her as I came down the rest of the stairs. I had the urge to kiss the top of her hand, but resisted as I knew that it would make her even more uncomfortable.
I notice that she looked directly in my eyes and I could tell that she saw that my eyes were getting darker. I told everyone that I needed to go hunting. As I went towards the door.
"Jasper, maybe Bella would like to join you, because I don't think she had finished hunting when Carlisle had met her." My brother asked me.
I looked over at Bella to see if she wanted to join me
"I don't want to impose, Ill hunt when I leave." She told me.
"No, you shouldn't let your self get thirsty again. I have no problem with you coming with me if you want to." I told her.
She took me up on my offer and headed followed me out of the door into the forest in the front of our house.
Once we were in the forest we began to run, looking for any kind of animal that I could find. I hadn't been hunting in a few days, so I was pretty thirsty.
"So Bella, how do you know Carlisle?" I asked her. I was really interested to know how she knew Carlisle and about our lifestyle.
"I met Carlisle only a few years after I was changed. I was surprised to fine another vampire that lived the same way as I did. I stayed with him for a few months, but I went my own way and lived off animal blood." She told me.
"Why do you live this way? not that I think it is a bad choice, but I have always found it hard to live this way." I asked her.
"Well for what I do, there really isnt a way that I can live like normal vampires can." she told me, smiling to her self.
"What do you do?" I asked her.
"I teach, preferable young children, but I have been working in a high school for the last few years but I would really love to start working with young children again." She told me, smiling widely at me.
We had been running now for a while and I caught the scent of a herd of deer a couple of hundred yards away. Bella had obviously caught it too, because suddenly her full attention was on what we were hunting.
It wasn't long before we had caught up with the herd of deer that we had caught the scent of. Bella let her instincts take over, and she gracefully stalked one of the larger bucks in the group. She must have been very thirsty because only seconds after she had caught it, she had drained it dry of blood. I couldn't help but watch her as she finished and stood up. You could tell that she had been doing this for a long time, because there was not a drop of blood on her at all.
She stood up and caught me staring at her.
"What?" she asked, smiling to her self.
I quickly averted my gaze so that I was no longer staring at her.
"Nothing. Its just you must have been very thirsty if you took seconds to drain an animal that size." I pointed to the carcass that was laying on the ground.
"I wasn't too bad. I could have waited until I left, but now ill be safe for a few days. I thought you had come to hunt, not me." she asked me.
I smiled slightly before running into the woods following the herd of deer. Once caught one I drained it quickly. The deer that I had caught was the biggest in the group, so I think that would be big enough to dull the pain in the back of my throat for a while.
I heard Bella running behind me, so I dropped the body on the floor and turned to face her. she was looking at me in a strange way. she was not looking at me in the eye but I didn't know what she was looking at.
"Whats the matter Bella?" I asked, standing still.
"Where did you get all those scars from Jasper?" she asked me, her eyes still wondering over my face and shoulders.
"I didn't have quite the same up bringing as my adoptive siblings Bella. it has only been a few years since I stared to live the way the rest of my family does." I told her. I knew she wanted me to explain more, but now wasn't the time for that.
"Come on Bella, we should be getting back. You have yet to meet Rosalie and Emmett." I smiled, knowing Emmett, he would probably give her a huge hug as soon as she walked through the door.
Bella's POV.
While I was out hunting with Jasper, I couldn't help but notice that he was covered in crescent shapes scars. Obviously vampires had tried to kill Jasper. A lot of vampires, but I couldn't see why. He didn't seem like the kind of man that would do something that would end up with him having other vampires who wanted him dead.
I followed him back to the house. When we got there, I could tell that there were more vampires here than when we left. Jasper walked into the house and I followed behind him. As soon as I got into the living room, Alice came out of no where and hugged me. I was a little shocked by her, but I hugged her back regardless.
"How was your hunt Bella?" she asked me as she let me go
"Um, it was good." I answered her as soon as she let me go.
Before I could walk into the living room on my own accord, Alice grabbed my hand and dragged me into the living room.
"Bella this is Emmett and Rosalie." Alice pointed at the two new vampires that were sitting in the living room with the others.
Emmett looked right and me and smiles widely. I have to admit, he was probably one of the biggest vampires I had ever seen, but I could tell that his personality did not suit his physical appearance. He came up to me and gave me a hug. I was not use to people who I didn't know coming up and hugging me like this.
"Hey Bella. its nice to meet you." Emmett said as he set me back on the floor.
"Its nice to meet you too" I answered Emmett. Emmett smiled at me and went back to sit next to the beautiful blond women, who I had yet to met. I assumed this was Rosalie.
"That means you must be Rosalie." I spoke the her.
She looked at me and smiled almost as wide as Emmett's
"I am. It's a pleasure to meet you." she came over to me and gave me a hug like Alice had done earlier. Now that everyone had been introduced to me, I didn't quite know what to do next.
I looked over at Jasper who was sitting on his own on a 3 seated sofa on one end of the room. I thought it would be a good idea if I sat down, so I sat next to Jasper.
Once I was sitting, Carlisle spoke to me.
"So Bella, what have you been doing since I saw you last?" Carlisle asked me.
"Lots of stuff. Been to university to so many different times, but always come out with the same kind of degree. I'm stopping going to school for a bit now and working a little. My bank is getting a little low on cash, I need the money." I told them.
"What is it that you did in university?" Edward asked me.
"Early years, child care, child psychology, nursing, social work stuff like that." I answered him.
"You work with children?" Carlisle asked me.
I nodded my head. " Yeah, ive just finished a teaching job Seattle, and im thinking about opening a crèche when I get to Boston. I finished my job in a high school, but I much prefer to work with younger children. The last crèche I worked in I had 21 babies under 2 in my care and I loved it." I told them. I really did love what I do. Children were just so clever and learned so much without people realising it.
"But what do you do with them all day. I mean, some of them cant even walk yet. I'd much prefer to work with teenagers myself, ones that can actually create a proper sentence." Emmett asked me.
"Well it is obvious that you have never spent time with babies. You have no idea how much they do with out actually realising they are doing it." I told him.
"I would love to work with babies. They are just so small and dependant on you." Rosalie said.
"Well once I get something set up in Boston, you are more than welcome to a job. I'm going to have to find staff somewhere." I told her.
A huge smile spread across Rosalie's face. I could somehow tell about rose that she would be good with children. I smiled at the prospect of having Rosalie work with me.
"So what does everyone else do? I really don't like being the centre of attention." I asked. I didn't feel comfortable with everyone asking me questions all the time.
"Well, at the moment everyone is still in 'school' but they all have degrees in something. I've actually lost count of the amount that they have accumulated all together." Carlisle told me with a smile on his face. I could tell that he loved his family very much simple by the way that he spoke about them. That was something I envied about Carlisle. I had been on my own, practically all my life. Sure I would run into vampires like Carlisle now and again and stay with them for a while, but apart from that I had been on my own. I suddenly felt very alone in the whole setting of this coven. No, Family would be a much better word to describe how these vampires acted around each other. I looked over to the side of me and saw Jasper looking at me as if he wanted to ask me something, but he was holding back. I smiled slightly at him and turned my head back to the conversation.
I learned as the night went on that Edward had several Medical degree's, Rosalie had degree's in music and Fashion, Jasper had numerous history qualifications, Emmett just had lots of degree's all varying and Alice was the same.
Everyone talked for hours before I excused myself to go outside for a while. I walked into the Cullen's huge back yard and sat on the grass and lay there looking up at the cloudy sky above my head. I closed my eyes and relaxed as much as I could. That was the one thing I missed about being human was the fact that I could no longer sleep. I wished that I could just leave this world for just a few hours, but I couldn't, so relaxing was the next best thing.
I hadn't been out there long before I heard someone walking towards me. I didn't open my eyes to see who it was, because I already knew. I felt them come over and sit on the grass next to me and lay down, mirroring my position.
"Whats the matter Bella?"
Ok, so maybe the last part was in Bella's but i promise the next one is in Jaspers (mostly :P) tell me what you think and i will try and update soon. Merry Christmas everyone :)
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