I was stumbling along with Jasper. I had no idea where we were going, but I was honestly at this point too drunk to care. What would my friends think...they had always encouraged me to put myself out there but their faces tonight. Perhaps they saw something I didn't, maybe even something that I should.

Nonetheless, I found myself trusting him. I know now that I've seen him before, in those stupid visions of mine. He has been a reoccurring theme in them, it was finally him. He's really real.

I didn't realize it at first because it was too good to be true, but it's him.

I felt that twirling feeling you get when you've had entirely too much to drink, and then it was like a scene from Alice in Wonderland. I swirled into the blackness of unconsciousness and then suddenly I was in a field, twirling, dancing, and laughing. Although there was no music, there seemed to be a rhythm to my dancing.

I tried to focus more on the details around me, and I started to hear a silent humming. It took me a while to understand what it was. After a while I heard the beautiful sound of a guitar, and an angel's voice. After I listened and danced, I recognized the song.

It was The Five Satin's "In the Still of the Night", and it wasn't just any angel's voice. It was Jasper's. A beautiful country rendition of the song that I didn't know I knew.

He was sitting on the ground with a guitar in his hand, his long legs stretched out in front of him. His voice was as clear as a bell and as soft as a freshly blossomed rose petal.

As he played and sung the song, I danced in circles, round and round.

The song finished, he laid down his guitar, and came to me. He laid his hands on my hips to stop from spinning, turned me around so that I was facing away from him, and he kissed the tip of my ear, working his way down my neck.

"I love you, Alice Whitlock." He whispered deeply into the nape of my neck.

"I love you to Jasper." I couldn't figure out what was happening. Ten seconds ago we were walking somewhere on campus, and now we were in this beautiful clearing somewhere.

I looked out into the field to try to see where we were, and I saw a mirror. Somehow, I could see into it crystal clear, although it was about one-hundred feet away. What I saw in the mirror was odd at first, but then shocking.

It was Jasper with the most beautiful woman in the world. She had a small and petite body, perfect ivory skin, and a head of little black spikes. She... resembled a malnourished me. What she also had was a violent shade of red for her eyes. I jumped back into Jasper's body upon seeing this. The girl in the mirror mimicked my actions.

Who was she?

"What's wrong Alice?" he asked me with a concerned voice.

As he looked at me, he looked at the woman in the mirror.

Was it possible? Could it have been me in that mirror? What happened to my eyes? Why didI look like that?

"Alice?" He turned me back around and tilted my head up forcing me to look into his familiarly brilliant golden eyes.

I couldn't help, but smile. He was so perfect and gentle.

He smiled back and kissed my lips lightly, but meaningfully.

I reached my hands up to tangle them into his hair, as he pulled me closer to him, lifted me up so that I wrapped my legs around his waist, and lowered us down so that my back rest gently on the ground.

I loved being this close to him.

I opened my eyes when he stopped kissing me. He was saying something, but I couldn't hear him.

"Jasper?"

"Yes Darlin'?" I heard a distant voice answer. The voice was far away, but as it rung in my head, it started to get closer.

I opened my eyes, and suddenly I wasn't in that field anymore. I was in the farthest place from there.

It had been a dream. All of it?

"Of course it was a dream! Jasper would never fall for a silly little girl like you! I yelled internally.

The room that I was in looked like a high-class apartment. Certainly, one that is not readily found on campus.

It was a while before I realized I was not alone. I looked to my right, and saw Jasper sitting on the edge of the bed, gazing at me with concerned eyes.

"You called Darlin'?"

Oh god. I had called his name aloud? How was I to explain that? I quickly thought of something.

I shook my head anxiously. "Where am I?"

He laughed a light and whole-hearted disarming laugh. That was a sound I could easily get used to. I loved everything about him, yet I knew nothing about him. "Do you remember anything about the Walk last night?"

I shook my head again, realizing that it was a bad idea, because I felt slightly lightheaded. "I only remember bits and pieces. I'm sorry about spilling my drink on you… Did… Did you change me?"

He shook his head at me this time. "There is nothing for you to apologize for little Miss." He smiled a breathtaking crooked smile. "And no, that would be something you thankfully managed to do for yourself. I am sorry however that I didn't have a pair of pants that came close to fitting Alice."

I was never overly fond of my name, but boy was I now when it came out of his mouth with that southern drawl. "Oh…" I said looking down at my sorry state of being. "I'm sorry…I'm a mess, clearly."

"Alice, you are the furthest thing from a mess. You must be hungry. What are your plans for today Darlin'?" he asked.

I thought I was going to melt at that god forsaken word. I'm glad I was flushed from being out in the cold last night, or else I would have a horrendous blush. "Actually? Nothing." I giggled in response and relief.

"Would you mind if I took you for a breakfast date? Get something back into your system other than hot chocolate and vodka?" he joked

I looked up at him and for the first time, I realized that I was really hungry.

I nodded, and he motioned for me to follow him.

As I got up, I tugged at the hem of his oversized hoodie preserving as much modesty as was possible. I then looked around the room again, there was a guitar in one corner. Not just any guitar, but the guitar from my dream.

How did I know about that guitar? I hadn't been awake when Jasper….I hadn't realized until then how I had gotten to the room. Had Jasper carried me? And how far? God I was pathetic.

All of the questions had to wait, for I was surely starving. How much did I drink last night? No wonder why I felt like crap.

Jasper had washed my leggings from the night before so I put those on under his hoodie. I went to the bathroom to assess the damage. I looked and felt better than deserved. I located and ran a comb through my tangled curls putting them into a pony tail. When I walked out of the bathroom, Jasper smirked his approval at me with hat damned crooked smile. That would truly never get old.

"You ready Darlin'?" I shook my head. "What?" he asked with an amused look on his face.

"You know what you're doing and I don't appreciate it this early in the morning Mister…" I was only just now coming to the realization that I didn't know his last name, or maybe even his first name. "Whitlock?" I asked, referring to the name I heard in my dream or vision or whatever that was.

His face lit up with even more amusement.

"Well, it's Hale. But Whitlock was my last name, before I was adopted." He admitted.

"I'm so sorry…Gosh. Can we start over?" I asked sheepishly holding out my hand.

He shook his head with a laugh and took my hand to his mouth, gently kissing my knuckles. "I'm Jasper Hale. It's a pleasure to meet you Darlin'." He laid on the accent heavily and I almost melted.

"I'm Alice. I have had a lot of last names being bounced around foster homes and don't really have a preferred one." I stated matter-of-factly. "But to the school I'm Alice Brandon." I giggled away any awkwardness.

Jasper looked at the ground, smiled, and laughed. "Alright then Miss Brandon. What would you care for for breakfast?"

"I'm glad you asked Mr. Hale." I smiled brightly and took his arm, guiding him to the dining hall.

"We don't have to stay on campus you know Darlin'."

"Oh, I know. We're going to go off campus for dinner tonight, so I can get all dressed up and actually make a good first impression on you." I sung while skipping along.

"You know, I would have bet money last night that there would have been no skipping from you today." He joked."Oh, my dear Jasper. Never bet against me." I looked back and winked at him as we entered the dining hall.