I tossed and turned all night. The dreams were too vivid tonight. A black haired and olive-skinned woman plagued them, with long robbed figures in the surrounding woods. I was alone, screaming for Jasper.
I woke up with a start, drenched in sweat.
"Woo. Calm down there little one." Craig soothed. "You okay?" He was kneeling beside my bed hand on my arm.
"Yeah, just a bad dream." I sighed.
"I'll say, I'd have bad dreams too after staring into his black eyes." He chortled.
"What?" I questioned still coming out of it.
"Well, you screamed his name. I figured it was about him." He concluded.
"Shit…" I relented to myself. "I'm sorry, did I wake you?"
"Hell no, we've been waiting for you to wake up so we can know everything! He was so intense."
I laughed. "There's not much to tell." I deflected.
"Not much to tell? You spent the night at his house, went to breakfast, went on a date, and came back well into the night and there's not much to tell?" Nicole's voice rebuked from the doorway. "Hell no, get your ass up and tell us."
I huffed and rose from the bed. "Can I at least get changed first?" I glowered.
They threw their hands up in defense and retreated from the room. I fell to the floor and immersed myself in the vision I had felt coming on. It was all of them in the room, but the father was closest. "Perhaps you would all care to step out" he suggested as he produced a needle from a sterile wrapper. I looked to my right and found Jasper staring at my arm. "Son?" Carlisle implored. "I'm fine, continue."
I exited the vision with a start. What the hell were they doing? I was terrified for what was to come next. I'd never been sick, never been to a doctor's, never had blood drawn. I was the epitome of perfect health, but perhaps that was the issue. Maybe my health held the key to what really happened to me. That was the only explanation I could think of for their actions.
This didn't make me any more okay with the situation.
In the meantime, what was I supposed to say to my friends? I couldn't tell them the truth. Should I just tell them I slept with him? That was what they wanted to hear, but no. I had such an intimate moment with him in the forest.
That kiss was unlike any I had experienced before. It drew each and every breath from my lungs in its entirety, leaving me gasping and clinging to him for each new movement of his kiss. I had felt something pressing against my stomach as he lifted me closer to him. Could it have been? No, Jasper was one, a vampire. Two, he was a god-like being who couldn't possibly be attracted to a simple mortal girl.
This hadn't always been true though had it. There was a time when we were man and wife, both god-like beings, and intimate together. I had seen this much in my visions.
I notified my friends that I wasn't feeling well and that a bath was in order. They accepted this for now but would demand details later. I would at least have until then to figure out what I was to say to them.
I knew for certain several things. I knew that Jasper and I belonged together. I knew that destiny wanted us to be together as much as I did. I knew that he was beyond anything I had previously expected him to be in both form and beauty. What I didn't know was what I was, and what kind of future we could possibly have together. How could a vampire and a human possibly be together? They couldn't; could they?