Bella's POV
"After the birthday party Carlisle stitched me up and by just his manner alone. I knew something had changed that night.
In the past whenever Carlisle had to stitch me up he always made jokes trying to put my mind at ease."
"But that night he worked in complete silence, in fact the rest of that night was spent in quiet.
When Edward came back to the house after I was all doctored up he didn't speak a word, just silently drove me home."
"He didn't open the car door for me when we got to my house and he didn't walk me to the door.
Just waited for me to get out of the car, then speed out of the driveway. That night he didn't come to my room."
"The three days that pasted before he broke up with me were spent in utter and complete quiet. On the fourth day he asked me to take a walk with him.
We went deep into the forest and there he broke my heart. If not for the La Push pack, I would not be here today."
"Sam the alpha found me on the forest floor close to hypothermic. He carried me back to the house where the doctor instructed Charlie on how to take care of me.
I was never the same though, for months after the break up I was a zombie. Not dead but not living either."
"My dad was my rock throughout those long months. Having gone throw almost the same thing when my mother left with me, he was the prefect father.
He took care of me and never once did he complain about having me wake him in the middle of the night. I had horrible nightmares and often times I woke up screaming, he just held me as I cried."
"It was with my dad's help that I started to be a teenager again. I went out with my friends and I acted like a teenager.
I started to hang out with Jacob and we worked together on rebuilding a pair of old motorcycles."
"Jacob tenderly and caringly repaired the damage done by Edward and I loved him for it, for a time we dated. We were happy, but then Jacob phased into a wolf.
Wolves when they first phase are extremely volatile and dangerous to humans until they can gain control of their wolf instincts."
"To protect me Sam made Jacob break up with me. I didn't fall apart like I did when Edward broke up with me but I was depressed again.
I was walking in the woods trying to find Edward's meadow when Laurent came upon me."
"He was back to feeding on humans and he was there spying for Victoria. She wanted me dead and Laurent was suppose to tell her if the Cullen's were still hanging around me.
He hadn't hunted in a while though and so he was thirsty. It was just my luck that I stumbled upon him and not Victoria, as she had plans to torture me to death."
"He told me all this as he was stalking me, just as he was about to reach me. Giant wolves exploded out of the woods and took him by surprise.
They tore him to pieces, then before my eyes, one of the wolves phased to a human and pulled on a pair of cut off jean shorts."
"He grabbed a lighter from his pocket and set fire to the vampire and the wolf was out of the bag, as Embry would later say.
Sam told me about the pack and about imprinting. Which is how the wolves found their mates."
"After I knew their secret I got closer to them all. Spending all my free time with them they became like a family to me. Sam and his fiancée/ imprint Emily were like my older brother and sister.
Jacob and I decided it would be better for us both if we just stayed friends. He, Embry, and Quil became my best friends. Quil's imprint Claire was like a little sister to me."
"Jared and his girlfriend/imprint Kim became like another older brother and sister. Seth and Leah actually become my step-siblings, when Charlie married their mother Sue.
The twins Collin and Brady, like Seth, became my younger brothers. The only one I wasn't close to in the beginning was Paul. His girlfriend/imprint Rachael was on of my closest friends."
"So I still considered him as part of my family and over time his hostility towards me slowly went away. Paul taught me to stick up for myself and he helped me to come out of my shy shell."
"He helped me grow a backbone. By that time a year had passed and I had barely known it had passed. I was so happy that time seemed to pass by slowly.
But my happiness was fleeting, I was two months away from graduating and I was hanging out with the pack."
"It was a rare sunny day so we went to the beach. The boys were throwing around a football and us girls were just chatting.
When one of the wolves howled, Sam had one wolf patrolling the lands at all times of the day or night."
"The howl was the signal that a vampire was around. Then all boys but Collin and Brady phased and took off into the woods.
As the youngest pack members they were still to young and inexperienced to kill a vampire. So they were always put in charge of protecting the imprints."
"What felt like hours later the boys finally returned but they weren't celebrating like they always did when they killed a vampire.
In fact Sam was paler than I was. Sam ordered the pack to go back to his house and I was left with Jake."
"I knew then that something horrible had happened. When Jake started to apologies to me as he tried not to cry. I knew my worst fear had come to pass, Victoria had killed Charlie.
To this day I still don't know how she did it, I passed out after Jake said her name and no one in the pack ever talked about it."
"After the funeral I stayed just long enough to graduate. Then I packed up my belongs and left Forks.
Forks just held to many bad memories for me and I needed a fresh start. The death of my father gave me the courage to leave."
"The pack all tried to talk me out of it, they said they couldn't protect me from Victoria if I wasn't on the reservation.
I left anyway, I couldn't stand it if something else were to happen to my family. For months I wondered in a haze of despair."
"When I reached Texas I was low on money so I got a job at a café to earn money. I only intended to stay for a few months but I got attached to Texas and bought this house.
On the weekdays I work as a farm hand at the large ranch on the outskirts of Wichita. On the weekends I tended bar at the Tavern. I've been here for two years now."
Jasper's POV
When Bella finished telling her story she was sobbing, I stood from my chair and took her into my arms. I walk from the kitchen into the living room and sat on the couch.
I held her to me and just comforted her the best I could. She needed to cry and even though it pained me to allow her to stay in so much pain.
I didn't try to manipulate her emotions. She needed to grieve if she was ever to move on and get better.
So I held her as she cried on my shirt. I soothed her hair and purred to her. After about an hour she had cried herself to sleep.
Picking her up again I carried her back upstairs to her room. Removing her boots I laid her on the bed.
Then I got in behind her and warped one arm around her. Even in her sleep she recognized me.
She snuggled closer to my cold body and laid her head on my bicep. So I warped both my arms around her tiny waist and I held her even closer than before.
She was my whole world now and I would never grow tired of holding her or comforting her. I would allow no one to harm her, not my sire or that redhead bitch.
I would kill anyone and everyone who tried to harm my mate. She was the most important thing in my existents.
For her I would move heaven and hell. I will do everything I can to make sure she is safe and protected for eternity. For without her by my side I could never live.
For many hours I held her as she sleep. Finally at five o'clock in the evening she started to stir.
Learning my lesson from this morning I waited until I felt awareness enter her emotions before I spoke.
"Feeling better Darlin'," I asked her.
"A little thank you for listening Jas. It felt good to finally talk about what happened. What time is it?"
"Its five o'clock. Why…" My question was cut of by the ringing of a phone. But it wasn't my phone Bella reached over me and grabbed the cordless landline before the call went to voicemail.
Bella's POV
Waking up I was confused on how I got into bed. The last think I remember was taking care of the horses.
As I woke up more I remembered telling Jasper my story. He must have taken me to bed after I cried myself to sleep.
"Feeling better Darlin'," Jasper's sexy voice finally broke throw the fog of just waking up.
"A little thank ya for listenin' Jas. It felt good to finally talk about what happened. What time is it?" And it did feel good to talk to someone who understood. I felt better than I had in years.
"Its five o'clock. Why…" the rest of his question was cut off by the ringing of my landline. Reaching over Jaspers body, I grabbed the phone off the bedside table.
"Hello?"
"Bella. Oh thank God. Do you have any idea how worried I was. I must have called you like a thousand times today. Why didn't you pick up. I was starting to worry something bad had happened to you." The frantic voice of my step-mother rang out over the line.
"Sorry Sue I must have let my cell phone die or somethin' cause I didn't get any calls today. What's up? What's got ya so worried." I was confused I had just called her the night before I met Jasper and his friends, so I had no idea why she was so freaked out.
"I was looking over the guest list for Leah and Mark's wedding, when I saw that you had still not RSVP'd to the inventation. Bella the wedding is in one month exactely. I need to know if your coming or not and I need to no if your going to bring a date or not."
"Sue calm down ok. Take a deep breathe in," hearing her do that. I continued in a soothing tone,
"I havent RSVP'd yet casue I wont know until next week if my request for a break will be granted. My boss at the ranch said it was fine as long as I didn't take more than a week off.
But my boss at the bar hasn't made up the schedule yet and won't be able to tell me if I can take off until next week. I was planing on calling ya or Leah as soon as I knew."
A lot calmer now Sue and I talked about the wedding and how everyone was doing. Even though I had just talked to her two days prior it seemed much had changed.
Both Emily and Kim had found out they were pregnant, for Kim and Jared this would be their frist child and Sue said Jared was a mess of anxious nevers.
For Emily and Sam this would be their fourth child and while both were happy. It was quite the suprise for them as they were not planing to have another child after Emily almost died in childbirth with their third.
I knew Sam had to be scared for her and decided to call him and Emily sometime this week to check on them. I was the only one able to get those two to talk about their worries, no one else could.
I knew Sam and Emily had always wanted a house full of children, so I knew they were happy that she was pregnant again but because of Emily's complications with the last pregnancy.
Both were fearful of what would happen the next time she got pregnat and so had decided to stop at three kids. The fact that Emily was pregnant again had to have scared them and I knew both of them would need someone to vent to.
While I was talking to Sue I forgot all about Jasper, that was until he slip his arm around my shoulder and pulled me to lay back down against him, on the bed.
Laying my head on his chest I contuined my conversation with Sue. Never once did Jasper interrupt, he just closed his eyes and listened and that made me love him a little more.
Edward was always so controlling and jealous, everytime I would call Renee when he was around he would always hurry me off the phone or sit there and scoff at our conversations.
I was very glad that Jasper wasnt like that, I was glad that he understood my need to keep in contact with my loved ones.
Author's Note: So what do you think about the way I changed this chapter. Please review and let me no what you all think.