Jasper's PoV

It had been a beautiful five days, stuck in Bella's room, tutoring her through numerous subjects that I had done a handful of times where a number of kisses had been exchanged. Meanwhile Rose and Emmett had worked on her school projects and homework that she had to catch up on. Char and Peter had headed home to relieve Jacob so he could return with Embry to their pack.

We were at the airport saying goodbye to Emmett and Rose who had decided to go travel France while we took a private jet to forks with all of Bella's projects and homework completed and carefully packed or sitting in the spare chairs. It was going to be just me and Bella in the house with no other vampires listening and hopefully no Jacob. I was happy Esme said we could stay at the house. She apparently had seen what I had done, kept some of the paint up but made some 'adjustments'. I wasn't sure what she meant by that but I was excited to find out.

I heard Rose and Emmett's plane number being called over the speaker so I quickly hugged my brother and sister goodbye giving Rose a peck on her cheek.
"I'll miss you Rose, don't be a stranger" I said.
"Maybe next year when you guys graduate, we can go to University together?" she asked hopefully.
"Yeah that should be fun, till next year then, we should meet for Christmas though" Bella said leaning forward to hug them both.
"See you guys at Christmas!" clapped Emmett excitedly.
"Yeah, see you at Christmas" I said beaming at my brother's childlike attitude towards the holiday. This Christmas would be Bella's first but for now we were heading home where Bella was going to stay with me but keep her father in her life. Somehow she had talked him into it saying he was hardly home anyways and that she had quite liked living with me. I had heard him question that but she had said that I helped her to get going on with the day which had made him cave. It was brilliant and fool proof since he wanted Bella to continue getting better not knowing she already was. She was now mentally scarred from a whole set of new issues but one daisy at a time.

I led her off to our awaiting private jet that would take us straight to forks. It was going to be the first time in several months that we got to have any real privacy and I was looking forward to being able to say things with only Bella hearing. Now that Bella and I were ready to start our relationship again we had both agreed it would be nice to have some personal time to just be in our own bubble to learn how to love without everyone else listening in.

Bella had chosen to wear this cute black crop top with a hoodie with cat ears on top. They were super cute and since there were no drawstrings, I patted Bella's cat ears instead before pulling her into my arms and reclining the seat back so we were laying down. Bella had pulled out the blanket and I helped cover us up while we pretended to sleep. It was the easiest way to be left alone and not asked to drink or eat anything so we stayed still, occasionally moving so we didn't look like statues. I had to squeeze Bella's hand a few times to remind her to breathe as humans walked past us, on the third time she nearly gave us away by giggling. At that point we had given up and decided to watch a movie.

Eventually we landed and carefully transported Bella's projects into a taxi to take home with us. We were going to unpack then head to Bella's school around seven to hand in all the projects with her teachers before the school day started. We pulled up to the house and I saw that instead of Alice and Edward's room, it looked like another floor had been added instead. Their rooms completely removed from the house, I was curious what Esme had done.

We made our way inside and were shocked at what we saw. Esme had kept all the paintings that I had done but instead she had added her own style to the mix. She had painted roses on vines climbing across the walls in white all throughout the house, some climbing to the ceiling, some climbing across the wall and up the stairs. Since I had painted over every white surface along the walls in a mixture of blood reds, pitch black, and rich burgundys, the white roses stood out in contrast.

I noticed there was an envelope on a table and pulled Bella over to read it once we deposited our bags onto the floor and closed the door behind us. Bella passed me a letter opener that I used to open it.

Dear Bella and Jasper,

Don't you dare let Jasper set any more fires in my house, we will be home for Christmas and there better not be anything out of order. Hope you enjoy your room and make sure you check out the garage!

Love Esme and Carlisle

Bella smiled then indicated we should go check out the garage that was behind us. We opened the door and found Edward and Alice's vehicles gone, and instead there was a beautiful black Veyron 16.4 Coupe. There was a blue bow on top with another letter that we opened.

A ride to get to school and home again since your bike doesn't work in the snow

Love Carlisle and Esme

"Damn, I'm kinda scared to see what they've done upstairs" said Bella as she read the note over my shoulder. I knew she didn't know how expensive the car was but it looked expensive with the beautiful body work. I wasn't one to accept such gifts but I knew they probably had sold Alice and Edward's cars to pay for it knowing how I felt about money. I put the letter down and led Bella off upstairs as I was curious what my mother had done. We walked hand in hand up the flight of stairs, passed the kitchen, passed the other bedrooms and Carlisle's study, to the hallway connecting Edward's and Alice's room except they were gone. Instead of seeing a room on each side filled with memories we would rather not face, we saw a set of stairs twirling upwards on the left with a glass plane looking out onto the back yard and a long couch next to a table with a stack of novels in the other corner of the small oblong shaped landing. Bella led me up the stairs to the new floor. It was massive, it was the size of the house in one big floor with separate rooms. We walked into a hallway that led off into different sections. There was a mini theater on the left with a balcony next to it that had a beautiful swing couch to sit on and look at the stars. Esme somehow had also built a pool which was epic with a storage room which I assumed would have a bunch of pool accessories. There was also a mini sauner and shower, me and Bella would definitely be checking that out once her exams were finished. On the other side of the hallway there was our room that had a king sized bed with silver silk sheets and a silver embroidered duvet with matching roses. Esme had painted our room a mix of the same crazy colors I had downstairs only up here she had added silver roses entwined with gold roses.

It didn't end there, we had a walk-in closet, a private bathroom with a deep bathtub that could easily fit two of us and a sliding glass door leading us to our own private deck with a hot tub. Esme had gone above and beyond to make a beautiful top floor for me and Bella to stay in and keeping my paint scheme felt welcoming rather than covering it up with more white. I had covered up the tatters of my emotions for so long so it felt nice to finally be able to let them out and see them on display. I could feel Bella coming to the same conclusion as she explored, she also had tried to hide her emotions from the world. No one but me had seen her struggle with living so much.

We would have summer and fall to ourselves then from the looks of it everyone was coming home for Christmas. I was excited to kiss Bella and not have everyone hear it. She was taking in the view from our deck outside so I zoomed up behind her to wrap my arms around her stomach and kiss her neck.

"Wow this is amazing" breathed Bella as she spun around in my arms to look up at me.
"Not as amazing as you are," I said. Bella looked down and had she been human, she would have been blushing bright red as she mumbled 'cheesy'.
"Ha ha, let's unpack and cuddle in bed for a bit before studying some more?" I said into her neck.
"Okay" she said before zooming off leaving me to roll my eyes at her. If she smashes into a wall by accident, Esme is going to be pissed.

Bella had gone to have a shower while put our stuff away and stored our suitcases into the basement. Once I heard Bella come out I climbed the stairs to have one of my own and saw her climbing into bed wearing my hoodie and what I hoped was underwear underneath. It was a beautiful sight and one that I quickly averted my eyes from and headed into the bathroom. I showered quickly and dressed in our walk-in closet which had a door between the walk-in closet and our room. Bella and I still felt uncomfortable out of clothes but Bella and I were working on that. I wasn't sure if Esme knew but something told me this was Carlisle's touch as he had also dabbled in counseling, he probably knew roughly how we felt.

I had chosen a pair of yoga pants and took a deep breath and walked out trying to not make myself look smaller than what I was. It felt weird without a top on and I resisted the urge to wrap my arms around my torso and kept them at my sides.
Bella had snuggled in and looked as if she was asleep although I knew better.
I climbed in under the covers with her and booped her nose with mine causing her to giggle.
"Vampires don't sleep" I said, smiling at her.
"It just feels weird to not take time to rest and close your eyes and I'm mentally just done with studying" she said before she pecked my lips then closed her eyes again.
"Come here then" I said as I indicated she could snuggle into my side so I could wrap my arms around her. She blasted me with surprise but slowly laid herself on my bare chest and I snaked my arms around her. It was hard for about a minute then I could breathe again and began to enjoy myself. Then I remembered what she was wearing and started rubbing her back with one of my arms, eventually stretching down far enough to pull up the hoodie from her waist to graze her butt. She was wearing underwear but from the feel of it, it was some lacy lingerie.
I adjusted by rolling onto my side so that I could kiss her softly at first but when I grazed her ass covered barely by a thin layer of lace causing her to gasp into my mouth then deepened our kiss. I had noticed that Bella felt a tiny spark of anxiety so I didn't push more than that, instead we laid there, deeply kissing for a few minutes with my arms tightly wrapped around her torso, both of us having no need for air any more.

"Alrighty study time" I said, pulling back and laughing at her pout.
"What if I don't want to?" she complained.
"Mmm well there are other motivations that I can think of to get you interested in studying again" I said, smirking. She gave me a challenging look, so I climbed on top of her in one swift movement, held her hands with one of mine and tickled her mercilessly using my weight to pin her to the bed.
"Okay okay I'm up, we can study, come on Jas stop please" she giggled as she squirmed and tried to get away. I stopped and captured her lips in mine for a brief passionate kiss, releasing her hands to cup her face in both of my hands before hopping off and finding my books on my shelf to go through with her.
"It will get easier with time, I promise" I said, coming back to bed and passing her a history book before sliding in under the covers with her.
"I don't think I want to repeat high school like you guys, it's boring" she complained.
"Mmm" I hummed as I moved her hair to the side to kiss her neck.
"That is distracting!" she complained as she tried to move away.
"Sorry" I said innocently before wrapping my arms around her.
"It will get easier, it's just because you're trying to cram an entire year into one week. You will see when we go through our senior year, it will be boring"
"Well good, looking forward to it being boring and easy" she said while rolling her eyes.

Some time later we had moved through most of the subjects and decided to take a break to snuggle into bed together again. Bella was laying in my arms with her head on my shoulder draping her arms across my body. We were looking up at the ceiling that was fully glass so we could stare at the stars. If I didn't know any better, Bella would have been asleep or dead but I knew she was just laying still and relaxing. Vampires couldn't get a headache but she was exhausted mentally from trying to remember everything. Tomorrow she will be taking her exam while I stayed outside and monitored her emotions. I knew she would be sitting in the hall with her other friends but we were going to time it so she would arrive just on time so she could quickly sit and focus. I was worried that talking too much with her peers might cause her thirst to rise up so I was planning on coming into the hall afterwards to help her keep it short. She wanted to say hi at least to them but agreed that she shouldn't socialize too much. Thankfully they were still under the impression that she was a shell of herself which gave her the perfect alibi. For now though, we were going to lay in this beautiful room, staring up at the stars above. After tomorrow we could spend the next six months in this room if we wanted to. The single thought filled me with joy and I softly kissed Bella's forehead before returning my eyes to the stars.