Author's note: Hello all my fellow Jasper lovers!! I am pleased that there are so many of you interested in this story, however out of all the hits I got only 2 of you reviewed:( So now I am here to beg and plead for you to tell me what you think. Please, Please, Please!! Read and Review. I am not below begging on my knees. Okay I'm done now so here you go, the next thrilling chapter...

Disclaimer: All the amazing characters (aside from Conner) belong to Stephenie Meyer I am just having fun with them

Chapter 2

So here I was an hour and a half later sitting on my couch after dropping of Conner at my dad's. With a man I never expected to see again in my life, listening to him tell me about the family I once hoped to join and everything they had done in the past six years. Apparently after leaving, the family moved to Alaska. Jasper and Alice grew apart and broke up after which Alice and Edward left for collage. They had decided to stay in New York after graduating from NYU but they called once a week to check in with the family. Jasper said there were no hard feelings between him and Alice that their breakup had been mutual and what they both thought was for the best. Esme, Carlisle, Rosalie and Emmett were still in Alaska. Esme still like to garden but since it was cold in Alaska so Carlisle had built her a greenhouse. Carlisle had opened a clinic in the small town they lived near. Rosalie was still fixing cars and worked part time as a mechanic. Emmett and Jasper had taken their love of video games and made a career out of it they now spent their time designing the games as well as playing them. But he said that when they left everything had changed, no one was as happy as they had been in Forks. He hoped that I would be okay with seeing everyone again and maybe cheer everyone up.

"Really, Bella, you were like the glue that held our family together and when we left everything just fell apart. None of us have been the same since." he said, finishing his story.

I sat in shock for what must have been awhile because I came back around to Jasper waving his hands in my face and looking concerned. "Sorry Jasper I'm fine really….Wow I don't know what to say really. I expected everyone to move on that you would all be happy I never realized…I never thought that it would be as hard for you as it was for me. After all Edward told me I was merely a distraction something to take up his time while in this boring little town." I said, looking up I was surprised to see the anger on Jasper's face.

"Bella, I don't know why Edward would say such a thing. You were never "merely a distraction" he thought by leaving you the way he did you could move on faster and be happy instead of trying the long distance thing which he said wouldn't work out. While I can see you've move on, your life can hardly be viewed as happy. We love you Bella you mean so much to all of us, you've always and will always be part of our family. We've missed you so much. " Jasper said, while stroking my cheek. "I've miss you so much." he said softly.

I blushed slightly at his last comment, a little confused. Jasper and I had never really been close. But I couldn't deny that I hadn't missed him just as much as I'd missed the rest of the Cullen's. "I've really missed you too Jasper."

We both jumped at the sudden banging on the front door. "Bella open up, its Sam." I rushed to the door thinking something had happened to Conner.

"Sam what wrong?" I asked, throwing the door open.

"Bella I stopped by Charlie's and Conner told me Jasper was here are you okay? What's he doing here Bella they were supposed to be gone?" Sam said calming down slightly.

"He came to visit me Sam, I think I'm allowed to have friends in my own home and he's here alone." I replied, feeling my temper start to rise.

"Sorry Bella, I guess I kinda panicked." he said, looking around me at Jasper sitting on the couch.

"It's fine Sam. Is there anything else?" I questioned cautiously.

"No Bella we haven't found anything else." he stated sadly, looking at the ground.

"Its okay. I understand I think maybe its time to stop looking so hard, I know Emily misses you." I said with tears in my eyes. I watched the waves of emotion pass over his face as he took in everything I was saying from anger to guilt, sadness, shame, confusion and finally acceptance as he realized I was right. He just nodded and told me he would call to check on us later as he turned to leave. I wiped the tears from my eyes as I turned back to Jasper to once again apologize.

"Oh Bella, I'm so sorry are you sure you want to do that? There's always a chance..."

"No Jasper, its time the force has spent the past 6 months looking for Jake they haven't heard from him or found any evidence they found his cruiser out by the cliffs in La Push and the only thing we can figure out is that he must have somehow fallen or been pushed off the cliff but they never found a body which doesn't mean much he could have easily been carried out to sea. The guys needs to move on. I need to move on. For Conner, and for my own sanity." Jasper was once again trying to comfort me, he'd been here a total of 5 hours and I'd lost count of the number of times he'd held me while I cried.

"Bella can you take some time off work?" he asked quietly.

"I don't know Jasper, why?"

"Well I was thinking you and Conner could come to Alaska for a couple of days and see the family. Conner has a whole other family he's never met and I know they'll all love him." Jasper pleaded.

"I'll see what I can do Jazz. But I can't promise anything by boss isn't exactly easy going." I laughed.

"Where do you work anyways?" He asked.

"I work for my Dad down at the station." He just looked at me for a second then picked up the phone. "Hey who are you calling?" He pressed his fingers to my lips and shushed me.

"Hello Chief Swan….yes this is Jasper Hale I was calling to see if Bella could get a few days off work….well sir my family would really like to see her and meet Conner…No sir he isn't there and I wouldn't ask her to come if he was." Jazz handed me the phone while smirking at me while I glared at him.

"Dad…hey is Conner behaving? ….I told you I don't like him playing with that Newton kid…he's just weird… Yeah I think we'll go if you can get someone to cover for me… thanks Dad and yes Conner can stay with you tonight… Love you too Dad. I'll call Conner later and tell him goodnight." I hung up the phone still glaring at Jasper.

"That was not funny Jasper Hale!" I threw a pillow at him.

"So, I guess you're coming home with me then huh?" he asked smugly.

"Don't push your luck, I can always call Charlie back and tell him I change my mind." I said evilly. He rolled his eyes.

"Bella, I know you want to see them as badly as they want to see you." he smirked.

We spent the rest of the night on the couch talking and watching bad made for TV movies just like we used too.

I awoke the next morning with my head in Jasper lap with him stroking my hair and smiling down at me. "Good morning sleepyhead."

"Good morning Jazz, sorry I should have shown you to the guestroom." I said while sitting up and yawning.

"Don't worry about it, I prefer to wake up like this anyways." he replied smiling.

I didn't know what to say to this so I just busied myself in the kitchen while peeking a Jazz every once in awhile. Somehow during the night his shirt had come unbuttoned leaving me to stare at his perfect chest and the way his low slung jeans hugged his hips. I kept myself from staring and felt slightly guilty not only about Jake but he's Edward's brother. I brushed it off I mean he is a very attractive man and I am a lonely woman, what would anyone else have done? After breakfast we got ready for the day and I packed for our trip, we picked up Conner from Charlie's and made our way to the airport.

The flight wasn't that long and thankfully Conner slept the whole way, not waking up until we were strapping him into Jasper's car. Then the questions started. Where were we going? Who would be there? How did I know these people? Did they have any kids? Would they like him? I answered them all as best as I could. And before long we were pulling up to the house.

Author's Note: More pleading? No I won't do that to you. Hope you enjoyed! The next chapter will be up roughly the same time tomorrow.

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