Bella POV

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My senses alerted me, waking me from my comatose like state. A mile or two away I could hear something very faint that gradually became more audible. I quickly identified the sound as footsteps, running footsteps.

I stood with my back facing the tree's massive trunk, trying to prepare myself. A familiar scent became more and more palpable with each passing second. My entire body tightened and contracted as if ready to spring on an awaiting prey. I felt alive, I felt eager. My new strength pulsed throughout my body as I clenched my hands into tight white fists. Liquid spilled from the corners of my mouth.

"Bella, please calm down!" A very familiar voice rang out and completely startled me yet relaxed me all at once. There from the trees emerged my older tall blond brother Jasper. He was wearing a simple dark grey knit sweater and blue jeans. "The sweater was obviously an Alice purchase, she has the best taste."

"Sorry. This isn't easy getting used to."I muttered. I apparently had made him all stressed out as well. I stared at my feet out of guilt and confusion as I felt a pair of arms wrap around me. Confusion enveloped me, and a slow uncomfortable vibe sluggishly set into place.

"I would like to officially welcome you into my family, Bella." He held the embrace for a bit of an awkward amount of time, but that was the way it was with Jasper. Everything was always carefully planned out and awkward sometimes.

"Thanks Jasper. Another thing I'm not used to though! When I was human you had to stay like twenty feet away from me at all times and now you give me the longest hug in the history of hugs!" I chuckled and tried to break the ice, but apparently this came across offensive. He broke the hug and we shifted around uncomfortably. I was just about to open my mouth to sputter out some form of an apology.

"Don't worry about it Bella. You will soon understand though what it is like." His eyes filled up with a certain amount of amusement which made me curious.

"Oh God, has Alice seen me killing hundreds of people yet?"

"Well, if I had not come out here you would have been wiping out Washington's deer population." He laughed as my dead heart exploded.

"Jasper, I don't want to be a killer. Trust me, I want to live with Edward for the remainder of time, but I just don't know if I can do this." I plopped down on the rock and let out an exasperated sigh.



"Bella, what you are feeling- I feel that way every single day! But I then have to look in the mirror and realize that I am working hard to make the best out of a hard situation. I look at our brothers, at our parents and I just feel so inspired. I used to think that I could never change, and though it is so hard at times, I have Alice protecting me from myself twenty four-seven." His eyes were now filled with passion as they seared into mine.

"You're so right; I just hope that I don't fail Edward. I mean, after everything that has already happened, I seriously doubt that I am still as special as I was before to him. He has no reason to want me any-." I was abruptly cut off by furious Jasper.

"Bella! Don't you ever, ever think that Edward thinks any less of you! There has never been anything in his life that has made him happy, and ever since he met you he was a new man. He was confused, lovesick, and happy and he felt as though he had a reason to exist. You are his life now Bella. There is nothing that can change that." He snaked his arm around my shoulder as he spoke his words of encouragement.

"I know, I just love him so much and I just want to be everything he wants and needs." If I could cry I definitely would be at this point.

"You already are what he wants and needs Bella! Trust that. We better start heading home; Alice has a bit of a surprise for you."

"Let me guess? A shopping trip right!" If there was one thing I still remembered about my darling sister Alice, it was that her idea of a fun was going on day long trips spending ridiculous amounts of money on senseless items.

"I don't know she wouldn't tell me."

We made our way back to the house and were greeted with an eager looking Edward. I ran to him, nearly tripping several times and basked in the comfort of his perfect arms. He rubbed soothing circular patterns into the small of my back giving me chills.

"Hey," That was all I could manage to say.

"Come upstairs, Alice has to show you something".

"Should I be afraid?"

"Terrified."