Disclaimer: Familiar characters belongs to Stephenie Meyer. So does Twilight.

SORRY!I always keep you guys waiting but hopefully this chapter will have been worth the wait. This is what you have all been waiting for. Answers. Here goes the chapter.

Previously...

"What is it?" I was hesitant in asking.

"Well I was just wondering when you were going to ask me questions about Alice and Edward." He admitted after a moment.

"Oh. I don't think that was going to happen anytime soon, but since you brought it up... How long has this been going on?" I asked, jumping at the opening of the discussion.

Jasper was silent for a moment and I could only guess that he was calculating how long it had been or how to phrase it. He didn't keep me waiting for an answer too long. I know because I was totally floored with the answer he gave and what was left of my ego was crushed.

"Seven years. More or less."

"When did you find out about it?" I asked. My curiosity was making an appearance today.

"Well Alice and I had broken up about a month or two after you left, and the next month, I found out." Jasper said. Wow. Now my curiosity was turned towards another question that was now plaguing my mind.

"Why did you guys break up?"

"Me and Alice had been drifting apart a long time before you came, and I think that it was mainly me and the rest of the family that chose to ignore it all. When I took a snap at you— which I am truly sorry for by the way."

"You were forgiven the night that it happened. Did you not know of this?" I asked. Maybe none of them told him. Just that thought made me mad. He told me that he had been informed and then he continued his story and I was listening intently.

"As I was saying, when I took a snap at you, Alice never forgave me. She said that she couldn't stand the fact that her best friend," I scoffed. " had almost been my meal and that she couldn't stand the fact that she had to keep a constant watch over me and my future top stop me from taking the innocent lives of others. She told me that she could never forgive me for what I had done. She completely blamed me for Edward leaving you and resulting in the whole family leaving with him.

"I blamed myself as well. Alice, knowing this, played on those thoughts of mine and now that I think about it, I believe even Edward was in on it. The day she told me these things, she also said that she believed it was best that we broke up. If I said that I was heartbroken and sad about the break up, I wouldn't be speaking of the truth. I'm glad that I wasn't because it would have made the knowledge of her cheating on me with my brother that much harder. I'm sorry about all this Isabella. I can't help but feel responsible for all of this—," I wasn't upset over any of this, I had this ridiculous sense of hope. For what I didn't know, but I had plenty time to think about how unworthy I was later. For right now my only concern was getting Jasper to stop thinking that all of this mess was his fault.

"How?" I asked that simple one worded question, but it was filled with so much meaning and wonder that the length didn't matter.

"Maybe I wasn't so daft and thick headed, I could have figured all of this out before and saved you all of this heartbreak. For that I am sorry." He said.

"But then I wouldn't have even met any of you. I wouldn't have enjoyed any of my stay at Forks and wouldn't have experienced any of the happiness that I felt. Even though it was only for a short time, I'll always remember. Not only that, but I like to have a laugh at my expense when I sit back and look at my life. I can see the naive little girl I was and I can see how little I knew of the cruel world that has graced me with it's presence. I can't believe sink into this life of such pain. Not only did my family not deserve to be treated as if I didn't care, but I pulled two of the most beautiful girls that I have ever known and loved into it with me. I'm happy on some sick level that I miscarried. I honestly don't know how I could have handled it all." I said.

I believe that the majority of what I said was more of me talking to myselt. How did I get here? Why did this happen to me? To my girls? What did I do wrong that this life was chosen for me? I knew all of the answers, but at the same time, I didn't.

"What are you thinking about that has you feeling such confusion?" Jasper asked.

"About everything. Wondering how I got here. How I got in this situation." I told him truthfully.

"Will you tell me about it all?" Jasper asked after a moment of silence passed between us.

I felt comfortable with Jasper. I felt like I could tell him anything and everything would be okay. I just didn't know where or how to begin. Should I start from when they left or should I start from when I met Logan?

"Well, I guess I should start at the beginning. Where it all started. You all left without a goodbye and that hurt me, then after being distant, Edward tells me that he didn't love me anymore, that he had his distractions, and that what we had was nothing. I was this shell of myself for a few month before I started to get these feelings that something bad was going to happen. That someone was watching me. At night, I could swear that I could see Laurent's or Victoria's face in my bedroom window at the strangest times." Jasper hissed when he heard their names and cursed Edward for not listening to him when he told him that they needed to kill both Victoria and Laurent even after the death of James.

" An old family friend, Jacob Black, became like my sun on one of the darkest of nights. We hung out had fun. He pulled me out of the daze I was in and he taught me how to ride a motorcycle." I had to stop him from interrupting when he heard this bit of information. "Jacob started getting distant and he told me that he couldn't hang out with me anymore. He couldn't tell me why or anything. He just lost all contact. I thought he had stopped talking to me because when he confessed his love for me, I told him that I didn't reciprocate those feelings. I tried my best to ignore the second hole that Jacob had unknowingly created in my chest.

"In desperate hopes to try to get closer to Edward, I started looking for the meadow. Our meadow. The one where he first showed himself to me. One time when I got lost, I saw these huge things. They looked like huge dogs, but they were the size of bears. I later found out that Jacob was a werewolf. Of course that was after my encounter with Victoria and Laurent after I found the meadow. Jacob and his pack killed them both and I never had to worry about that again.

"Jacob and I started to hang out again because I already knew the secret that he was trying to hide from me and he was still in love with me regardless of my feelings or lack thereof. I started to think about everything and I asked myself why shouldn't I try something with Jacob. About two weeks into it, we had slept together and I had fallen hard for him. Then, one afternoon we went to the store. He locked eyes with this gorgeous girl and after that, he didn't have a second thought about me. He told me that it was called imprinting and he was sorry that it had to end that way.

"I slipped into a semi depression and I fast tracked my way through the rest of high school and speed through my first year at the University of Alaska. That's where I met Logan. He was finishing up his internship at one of the local hospitals and was volunteering and giving lectures at my college. He started coming more often and he flirted even though I didn't flirt back. He became my best friend and I slowly started to depend on him being there. We dated and fell in love. We married quickly and before I realized it, we were in New York and I was pregnant with twins. That's when he started the verbal abuse. Picking on my weight and looks. Telling me that I looked like a whale among other things. After the twins were born, he started to drink. Heavily. He'd get upset over the tiniest things and hit me. The next day, he'd always get me a gift and apologize.

"I saw this movie called Enough and I realized the deep shit I had buried myself and my girls into. When I confronted him and told him that I was leaving, he threw reality at me and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I didn't have money. I hadn't talked to my parents or anyone from my old life since I finished high school and he told me that he'd always find me. I stayed. Everything got worse. He he'd umm make me pleasure him when ever he felt like it. Even in front of his friends. They didn't care. He'd yell at the girls for playing or laughing. He'd make the food in the house scarce. That went so far 'til the point were I had to give my meals to the girls so they wouldn't be hungry. After a while, we ended up here. Ad that is about it. My life. It sucks." I finished my story.

Jasper wiped his thumbs against my cheeks and told me not to cry. I hadn't even realized I was crying.

"I can't imagine what you went through. All I know is that most 60 year olds haven't had near as much pain in their lifetime that you've had over the last few years. All I can say is that you are an amazingly strong and beautiful woman. Any good guy would be lucky to have you and that is the truth. I promise that I will never let any of those bastards ever hurt you again." I suddenly realized how close he was to me. I quickly closed the distance and pulled him in for a kiss. I had no clue where the burst of confidence came from, but I certainly needed it and I would never regret the kiss even if Jasper had no feeling for me whatsoever. I pulled away and apologized, although I didn't mean it.

"I'm not. Sorry, I mean. I don't regret that kiss and I can't read your emotions for some strange reason. I could a minute ago, but I know that deep down, you're just as sorry as I am," Jasper said.

I found myself leaning in closer. I unknowingly licked my lips as I marveled at the fine structure that was called his lips. As soon as the thought crossed my mind, his lips were on mine. I smiled into his lips and we kissed each other passionately.

"We can move slow," he said as soon as we broke apart.

"I'm honestly not worth the time that you would be wasting on me. I don't want to start something that is just going to end badly for the both of us" I said quietly. I turned my head away and let my hair fall as a curtain between us. I couldn't handle the rejection. I knew it was coming. He would admit that I am right, I would be heartbroken, and we would both regret both kisses.

He moved the hair away, but I closed my eyes and avoided looking into his.

"Please look at me, Isabella," Jasper said in a desperate voice. I couldn't deny that voice anything, so I begrudgingly opened them and met his golden eyes. They seemed more smoldering than anything. More passionate.

"Anytime I spend with you will be worth it. Never don't your worth. You mean so much to me already and I don't even known all of you. But I would most certainly love to get to know you better Bella. If you don't want to start anything, I think that is too late for that because I'm already falling for you." Jasper confessed. He was falling for me?

"I'm falling for you too Jasper, but I just can't. Not right now. I don't want to risk my heart again." I whispered the ending, but I knew he could hear me anyway.

"We're going too fast then. We can start out friends. If you want to continue, then we can keep going. We can take it as slow as you want. I'd never hurt you are your girls intentionally. Rather it be physically or emotionally, and I will always be here for you. No matter what because you are worth it."

Again, I'm sorry for the terribly long wait. Time slipped away from me. So how did you like it? Was it worth the wait? What will Bella do? What will Bella say? Review. Because I want to know all of your opinions.