Chapter 6
I stood next to Jasper as we waited for school to start. Rosalie, Emmet and Alice walked up to us.
Emmet punched Jasper's arm with a small smirk on his face. Rosalie scowled at me while Alice had the happiest smile out of all of us.
I saw Edward's car park and then out came him and Bella.
"Oh my god." I breathed out. "They are finally dating."
"Bella found out about us." Alice said and spun around so she was facing me. "Now that it's okay with all of us, Jasper can tell you."
"She guessed what we are and she was right." Jasper said and tightened his hold on me. Did he sense the tension from Rosalie?
"Well, this is just great." Rosalie hissed out and strutted away.
"Babe, come on." Emmet sighed out and looked at Jasper and I. "Hey, I'm happy for the both of you. Rosalie is too in her own little way. It's just hard for her to deal with this kind of thing. Just be careful to not spill anything about us. I'd hate to see this ending badly." He shrugged and ran after Rosalie.
"Jasper, is it okay if I ask you questions about it now?" I asked and he nodded. "I don't mean here though. I know none of you would want people overhearing us."
After school, Jasper and I went out for a walk. I had questions and he knew I wanted answers right away. My anticipation was starting to get to me.
"What does it feel like when you change? Does your body die and then you become one? All my vampire knowledge is based off of that one movie with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise." I took his hand in mine as I spoke. "Oh, and I guess Dracula."
"It feels like your whole body is being covered in lava. You're in so much pain that you can't control your thrashing and screams. It takes a lot of willpower and control to not make any noises. Carlisle is one of the few who I know that has that willpower." He explained. "Your heart stops beating. That's the last thing that changes you into a vampire. So in a way you do die."
"Do you have to be dying to change or can it be anyone?"
"It can be anyone. We have venom, so when we bite humans it goes into their bodies. That can change them, unless we drain their blood first."
"Is it hard for you to talk about blood?" I asked.
"It is." There was no hesitation when he responded. "I'm getting the hang of it, but it's hard to be around you most of the time. I have the urge to kill, but I don't want to. I'd lose the most precious gift in my life, you."
I tried to control my excitement when I heard I was a precious gift to him. "If I was…dying, would you change me?"
Jasper stopped walking and looked at me with furrowed eyebrows. "If I must, yes. I can't lose you. Without you there is no reason to live anymore. Life before you was a blur, a long blur of being numb, bored, full of hate at first, and then stupid."
"Now it's bright and stupid?" I joked and it got him to smile. "I guess, if I was in your place then I would change you."
"It's not easy though. When we taste human blood, we go into a frenzy. It's like we can't stop. I'd have to have Carlisle change you. He would be better at it than I would. I'd kill you."
"Does your family hold a grudge against Bella and I?"
"No, why would you ask that? Rosalie and Emmet?" I nodded. "She's always like that and Emmet just doesn't like to go against Rose. Ignore her. Esme is thrilled about you and Bella. She can't wait to meet you two." Jasper raised an eyebrow. "Maybe you could stay the night too."
"That would be fun. One human alone in a house with six or seven vampires. Depending on if Edward would be there or not."
"They wouldn't hurt you. My family isn't like that. I'm the new vegetarian in the family."
"When did you join the family?" I asked.
"I joined in nineteen forty-eight. When I was bitten though, that was the year of eighteen sixty-three." Jasper and I sat down on a bench and I curled up in his lap, listening to him carefully. I wanted to soak up everything he said.
"When where you born?" I asked.
"I can't remember my birthday, but I remember the year. It was eighteen forty-four."
"So you were…nineteen when you changed?" I asked as I did the mental math.
"Yes." He smirked a bit. "I hope you have a thing for military men."
"Right. The Civil War would have been going on." If my history was correct then I was right.
"I was a major in the Confederate Army." His voice was filled with pride. "I joined when I was seventeen. A couple years later I changed into a vampire."
"Major Jasper Hale?" I asked.
"Whitlock. Hale is the name Rosalie and I use because we needed to make our family look and seem real." Jasper ran a hand over my back.
"I was going to say, Hale didn't suit you. Major Jasper Whitlock…" I shifted in his lap. "I'll have fun dreaming about that tonight."
Jasper put his hand over his face as he chuckled. I think he was face palming himself. What did I say?
"You're so sexual and cute. How can you do that at the same time?"
"How can you be a sexy cowboy vampire but also have an adorable silly side?" I shrugged my shoulders. "So, you're a vegetarian vampire. What does that mean?"
"Sexy cowboy?" He grinned crookedly. "I drink animal blood instead of human blood. I wasn't created in that kind of world, so it's harder for me to control my hunger."
"Yes a sexy cowboy." I felt blood rush to my cheeks. "What made you change your mind?" I asked. "About the whole dieting thing." I saw a stray of his hair fluttering in the wind.
I trailed my hand up his face and into his hair. It was so fucking soft. It's like I'm petting a kitty or something.
"I left the life I was living. I feel emotions, so when I was killing humans and vampires I felt their fear and agony. It made me realize how much of a monster I am. It eventually became too much for me. Alice found me and I was hooked onto her immediately. Her joyfulness had me around her all the time, that's why Alice and I were always together. I enjoy living with my family. I do love them as my siblings and parents." Jasper leaned into my touch. "Would you mind me asking a question?"
"I don't mind. Ask anything you want." I kissed his cheek. "You're not a monster, by the way. If you were I would be scared of you, not sitting on your lap and having a casual conversation with you."
"If you say so, Ma'am." His attitude changed and he became cautious. "What happened with your dad? I feel like your family resents you because you're his daughter. Why?"
I took my hand away and sighed. "My father isn't a nice guy, especially towards women. My mother was a victim to domestic abuse. Long story short, he wouldn't leave her alone. The only time he left her alone was when he went to prison for five years. When he got out, his stalker tendencies increased. It started to scare my mom, so we moved here. Ever since he got out, my mom and step dad want nothing to do with me. I feel like I burden them and that they wouldn't miss me if I disappeared off the planet."
Jasper's mood changed from concerned to anger. "I don't get it. Why can't your mother love you? It's not your fault you were born with a father like that." He spat out.
I placed a chased kiss to his cheek. "Don't get angry." It didn't work, so I kept kissing all over his face and neck.
Finally my playful method worked and he was laughing with me. Who knew vampires had a weakness to kissy attacks?
"I have a question. Who created who in your family?" I asked when our laughing died down.
Jasper's smile didn't disappear until he talked about his change. "Carlisle changed Edward first. His birth name was Edward Anthony Masen Jr. Then he changed Esme, Esme Anne Platt. Next came Rosalie, Rosalie Lillian Hale. Finally he changed Emmet, Emmet McCarty. Alice was changed by someone who worked at an asylum. Her birth name was Mary Alice Brandon. Carlisle was changed by some ancient vampire." He paused for a moment. "I was created by Maria. She wanted me to aid her in her newborn army she was creating. She wanted to conquer feeding grounds in Texas."
I saw the change in his mood. He didn't like talking about his past, so I decided to change the subject. "How old is everyone? And I mean from birth year to now." I laughed.
"Guess Carlisle's age. He's the oldest out of all of us." Jasper challenged.
"You said ancient…so…" I thought for a moment. "Three hundred?"
"You're close. He was born in sixteen forty."
"So, that makes him…" I pointed at the air as I wrote the invisible numbers. "Three hundred and sixty-five?"
Jasper nodded with a proud smile on his face. "I love watching your face and reactions to things."
"Oh, shush." I hushed and placed a finger over his mouth. "Okay. Next person." I took my finger away so he could speak.
"Edward is one hundred and four. Esme is one hundred and ten. Rosalie is ninety." Jasper started to absentmindedly trace patterns on my back. "Emmet is also ninety years old. Alice is one hundred and four like Edward."
"And you're…" I started to do the math again. "Fucking shit okay." I concentrated hard, math isn't the best subject for me. "One hundred and sixty-one?"
Jasper clapped his hands, applauding me playfully. "I am so proud of you."
I placed my finger on his lips again, shushing him. "We have been talking for a long time. I told Bella I'd help her wash her truck. Mind taking me there?" Jasper wrapped his arms around me, lifting me up and carrying me. "Jazz, I can walk." Although I do like the idea of him carrying me.
"I know." He chimed out and carried me all the way to Bella's house. It was only a fifteen minute walk.
"So you can read emotions and control them?" I asked.
"Yes, Ma'am."
"Prove it. Make me…really horny." I giggled out.
Jasper looked at me with a confused expression. "Why that?"
"Because I want to see if it's true."
"I have been kind of controlling you a little bit. Only when you're sad or when you aren't open to me. Lately I haven't been." He explained and then looked at the direction he was walking to.
I felt desire run through my body. Heat pooled at my sex and I felt so hungry for him. I wanted him to mark me, to take me how he pleased, and to spank me. I wanted all of these things. Then the feeling like I was getting tugged to that feeling was gone and I became slightly horny.
"Was that…it?" I asked, feeling sweat bead at my brow.
"Yeah." He gritted out. "That was hard for me to control. When I make you feel that then I feel you feeling the emotion. You desiring me made me desire you more."
"I see." I thought back to our discussion about his powers before and remembered about Edward. "Edward can read minds? Seriously?"
"He can. It's not something he can stop though. He constantly hears everyone's thoughts. He can focus on a certain person but that's it."
"Who else has powers like that?" I asked.
"Alice can see the future only when it involves decisions. For an example, if she was watching your choices she would see what birthday gift you would get Bella. Carlisle, Emmet, Esme, and Rosalie don't have that extra ability. Although Carlisle's compassion is amazing, so I guess that would be his power. Rosalie's power would be to annoy everyone. Emmet's power would be to kiss Rose's ass." I giggled when he continued. "Esme's would be motherly love. She has such a gentle heart."
"I wonder what mine would be if I had one." I thought as I started to space off.
"Your excellent math skills." Jasper teased.
"I'll going to have to buy duct tape for that mouth of yours. Oh but then I wouldn't get to kiss you or watch you smile." I turned away, frowning playfully. "Damn it."
Jasper laughed, letting his head tilt back. He brought me up to his face and kissed the top of my head.
We finally got to the house and I saw Edward leap onto Bella's truck. I rolled my eyes. Does he like showing off that he has superhuman shit?
"Yes, I do." Edward said when we made it to them and Jasper sat me on the ground.
"Stop that." I frowned and hit his belly.
I didn't hurt myself. It was like tapping stone.
"I'm going to take you to my place tomorrow." Edward said with enthusiasm to Bella and fixed the dent in Bella's truck. "You should come too, Lori."
"Can I?" I looked over to Jasper with bright eyes.
He felt my mood and saw how happy and excited I was. "I don't see why not."
"What if they don't like me?" Bella asked and I turned my head to look at her.
"So you're worried, not because you'll be in a house full of vampires, but because you think they won't approve of you?" Edward laughed and Jasper chuckled.
"I'm glad I amuse you." Bella frowned at Edward.
I looked at the truck and saw it was pretty much washed. "Um, sorry I didn't get here earlier." I frowned.
"Oh, I started before you would have been here. Don't worry about it."
Jasper and Edward froze and looked at one another.
"Lori, I'll see you tomorrow. We have to go." Jasper said and kissed my head.
"Why?" I looked over at Edward.
"…Just complication." He looked at Bella and smiled softly. "See you."
They both went to Edward's car and drove off quickly.
From the corner of my eye I spotted a vehicle driving up.
"Who's that?"
"It's Billy and Jake Black. They are old friends of my dad and I." Bella explained and put on a smile. "Hey Billy. Jake." She greeted.
"Hey, Bells." Jake Black said, showing a full set of white teeth. Whoa.
"This is Lori Crowe."
I smiled and waved shyly at the two men. Jake got out a wheelchair for his dad.
"We came to visit your flat screen. First Mariners game of the season. Plus Jacob here kept bugging me to see you again." Billy pointed at his song with his thumb.
"Great, Dad. Thanks." Jake rolled his eyes, unhappy with his father.
"Just keepin' it real son." Billy smirked at his son before going inside the house.
A/N: Yay, another update! I hope this chapter helps with some confusion about Lori's father. I won't be updating until Sunday night or Monday. I have to work and I have no motivation to write when I have to work that day. Anyways, thank you for all the reviews. :) I hope you enjoy the long chapter! Have a nice day or night.
