When I'm With You

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Bella couldn't believe how excited the guys from her gym class were to see her. She hadn't realized just how reserved she had become when planning out her meeting with the Volturi. It had seemed like time was passing so quickly that nobody could possibly notice that she had become so withdrawn from everything around her.

However the smiles on their faces when she walked in and waved at them told all. Jason and his date were almost immediately at her side a huge grin taking up his entire face as he looked at her.

"Long time no see Bella! You look great," he said excitedly keeping an arm wrapped securely around his dates waist. "This is my date Amanda."

"Good to meet you, you guys look amazing as well." Bella said smiling back at them as she leaned against Jasper's side.

"So what have you been up to that you've been so secretive about anyway? It seemed pretty serious what with you and Hale always whispering away." Jason asked curiously.

"We were planning for a trip to Italy that we're taking after graduation, I suppose I was just excited about everything that I didn't even notice how absorbed we were in everything until Rosalie knocked some sense into me this afternoon." Bella said feigning sheepishness as the rest of the guys and their dates gathered around her and Jasper.

"Why are you going to Italy?" one of the other guys dates asked her voice tinged with jealousy.

"Carlisle has a good friend that moved their a while back, we'll be visiting with him and seeing some sights before Rosalie, Emmett and I go off to college in the fall." Jasper supplied easily, his quiet southern drawl seeming to startle a few of the people in their group that had likely never heard him speak before.

"Are you all going to separate colleges then?" Jason asked recovering the quickest from Jasper's input into the conversation.

"No, the four of us are going to Princeton, so we'll be together but Alice and Edward both still have another year of high school and who knows where they'll go after that. So we likely won't have the whole family together again until either Thanksgiving or Christmas after we leave because we'll all need to adjust to college life and being so far from home." Jasper said with a carefree shrug.

Jason and the other guys gave a low whistle at the mention of Princeton their eyes slightly wider than normal. "That's great man, you're going Ivy League on us too Bells?" Jason asked turning his attention back to her.

"Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what I actually want to do but I'm going to be majoring in English and I figure I can go from there after that." Bella said calmly as if it was no big deal, which honestly for her it wasn't it was just another school even if everyone else thought it was better than the rest.

"It's been nice chatting but if you would excuse us I'd like to dance with my lovely date now," Jasper cut in with a winning smile to the group surrounding them before anyone else could interrogate them further about future plans.

"Sure man, try and get your head out of the clouds for the rest of the year though Bells, we've only got a week before we won't be seeing you anymore and it'd be nice to actually have you in the present with us for the home stretch of Senior year." Jason said grinning widely before he and the rest of the guys pulled their dates out to the dance floor.

After that the night seemed to pass in a blur of dancing. Mostly with Jasper but at one point Bella found herself in a crazy rendition of a waltz with Emmett who was more dragging her as she laughed at his antics than actually dancing with her. She had also danced with Rosalie a few times the two of them smirking at each other briefly as the noticed all the other girls in the gym staring at them enviously.

It wasn't until much later when she was changed out of her prom dress and back into jeans and a sweatshirt that Bella realize that she hadn't worried about what was going to happen in Italy starting from the moment that Rosalie made her start getting ready, aside from the few weak arguments that she had given in the beginning she hadn't thought of it at all.

She was almost startled to realize that the dance had actually served to calm her nerves. It seemed to center her in a way that made her realize that there was nothing else to plan for. She and Jasper had been over every detail and possibility so many times that even if they didn't have photographic memories they would have had them memorized by now.

There was no more planning left to do. All they could do from this point on was wait it out and hope that either the Volturi wouldn't see her as a threat and leave her alone or they would realize that there was no way they could over power her, especially not with the help of the majority of the Cullen clan on her side. They would be insane to try and go against somebody that had taken out an entire army of Vampires single handedly when they had been trying to get a handle on them for several decades now.

Jasper sent her a questioning look as she came and lay curled against him on her bed at Charlie's house. She smiled at him in return, brushing her fingers lightly over his wrinkled brow, smoothing out the lines of worry.

"Everything's going to be okay now, I can feel it." Bella said her voice so quiet he wouldn't have caught it if not for his enhanced senses.

"Everything is always alright when I'm with you." Jasper agreed pressing a light kiss to the top of her head and relaxing on the bed once more, simply reveling in the presence of his mate and feeling at peace for the first time since she had gotten the summons from the Volturi.

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I really am sorry that these update take so long but hopefully you like it anyway…