Jasper left early that day, which left me thinking about him for the rest of the day. Maybe he hated the sight of blood, and that made him sick. I don't know, but it wasn't good. I asked Emmett, and he said that he would be fine tomorrow and not to worry about him. Bella said the same.

But how could I not worry about Jasper? It looked like he just had a heart attack. But I had to believe the rest of his family. They new best, they wouldn't tell me any lies. Or would they?

The rest of the day went quickly like the last one. Gym was last. I was good at gym. I thought it was fun, but since all I could think about was Jasper, I kept getting hit by shuttlecocks the whole lesson.

I wanted to see Jasper, to know that he was OK. I didn't even know his number. I would just have to wait for tomorrow.

When I got home, Charlie was there.

"Hey Al, how was your day?" he asked.

I sighed, "Fine, I guess,"

"Your not yourself today Alice, you know that?"

"Yeah, I know,"

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"Not now," I said, and I went up to my room.

When I got their, I went on my ancient computer and decided to play a game. They gave us no homework today, so that was good. I played this game called ninja, where you had to make this odd guy jump over the place and collect gold. You had to portals and go through them for the next level. I was really good at this. I was so close to finishing, but it was getting too frustrating. So I decided to stop.

I lay on my bed, trying to forget about Jasper for the moment. Why did I like him so much? We only met yesterday.

1 hour later, I remembered about dinner.

"Oh crap," I said, knowing that Charlie couldn't cook to save himself. I ran down the stairs, seeing a box of pizza on the table.

"But, wasn't cooking?" I asked surprised.

"Well, I could see you had had a hard day, and that dinner last night was so good. So I decided to take the work off of your hands today," Charlie said.

"Oh, Thanks Char… Dad," I said.

So we ate in silence, and I was glad he didn't ask any questions about what had happened today.

I went to sleep early that night, and again, I dreamt of Jasper. Yet again, I awoke at 2:34, only to see that Jasper wasn't there like last night. I sighed, and went back to sleep.

I woke up earlier today, which was good. I had a bowl of Lucky Charms for breakfast. When I finished, I washed my bowl up and left while Charlie was still sleeping.

I got to school, seeing the Cullen's and the Hale's car parked in the middle of the car park. I literally ran out of my truck.

As I walked into English, I sighed in relief. Jasper was sitting in his usual place.

"Alice," he said, welcoming me, but saying it seriously.

"Hi. Um… what happened yesterday? You were like, needing something," I said.

He bowed his head. Of course he was hiding for something. I could feel it.

"I was sick. Just momentarily. I don't get it often. The sight of blood makes me queasy," he said.

"But you were holding your breath. It was like you could… smell it," I said.

"No, of course not," he said.

"Jasper, you weren't breathing and you looked… angry," I said, worryingly.
"I was… I can't explain,"
"Try,"

"Later, listen," and he gestured to the teacher who asked someone in the front row a question about Shakespeare. Lucky it wasn't me. I never listen in English any more. Not since I met Jasper. We didn't talk the rest of the lesson.

"Do you want me to sit with you again?"

"If you want to, I don't mind," he said

So that lunch time, I did. They were awfully quiet today, again not eating a thing. So I broke the silence.

"Why waste the food?" I asked

They all stared at me.

"What?"

"We aren't usually hungry. We eat when we get home," said Bella.

I nodded, "But why waste the food," I asked.

They didn't answer, so I didn't press on any further. Jasper held his head in his hands.

"Jazz, are you alright?" I asked

He looked up at me and smiled, "I'm fine, just thinking about yesterday," and I couldn't blame him. He must feel terrible.

"It's alright Jasper," and I placed my arm on his cool shoulder.

"No, it's not OK! I was so close to…" but he stopped.

"To what?" I asked.

"Nothing,"

"Jasper, something's going on," I said.

"Nothings going on," Bella interceded with her perfect voice, "It was like this when you weren't here,"

I decided to stop. I ate my lunch and kept quiet. It looked like Jasper was telling Edward something. Edward nodded towards him. I looked at Bella, and she smiled at me. Something wasn't right. I could tell. I could tell that this family had some secret behind them. Whether it lay in there past, present or future. All I knew was this, Jasper wanted me to join them. Since the vision, he had been acting all funny.

After school past I went home to see Charlie dressed up for a casual occasion.

"Hey Bella, we're going to La Push,"

"But Why? To see this Billy person?"

"I already told you, you know him. He's invited us to dinner with a few more friends."

"OK, I'll go get ready," So went up stairs and put on black pants with a blue top. Casual enough I thought. So when I got downstairs, we hoped into Charlie's cruiser and head off to La Push.

On our way to La Push, there was a big green forest. It was so green. Must different to Phoenix. As we arrived there, I saw a small house with about 5 different cars lined up on the road. Geese, in such a small town, why don't the people just walk?

Outside it was drizzling slightly. As we stepped into the house, it was much warmer than outside. Too hot maybe. An old man in a wheelchair, who must have been Billy, greeted us.

"Hey Charlie!," he said, and patted him on the elbow. "Oh and this must be young Alice! My you've grown!"

"Hello Billy, how are you?"

Then this boy walked up to us. He had long hair and a big grin.

"Good thanks Alice. Hey, do you remember Jacob here? He's my son," said Billy

"No, I don't think so,"

"Hey Alice," Jacob greeted.

"Hi," I said.

"How about you two run along. Jacob, show her your friends,"

So we walked through the small house and outside where someone was cooking on the Barbeque. We walked up to two boys.

"Hey, this is Alice. Alice, this is Quil and Embry,"

"Hello," I said.

"Hey," they both said in unison.

So we talked for a while. Quil was quite funny. Then it was dinner. So we just ate sausages and potatoes. Afterwards, I was alone with Jacob.

"So, what do you want to do?" I asked.

"We can go for a walk," said Jacob.

"Sure, sounds like fun,"

So Jacob told Billy where we were going and we head off to his street.

"Where are we going?" I asked

"No where in particular," he said.

So we continued walking in silence in a while, until the thing on the top of my head, slipped out through my mouth.

"Do you know anything about the Cullen's? I asked. My voice had taken him by surprise, or maybe it was just the question itself. Or both.

"Um…" he started, "They are known enemies of this town," he said.

"But why? What have they done?" I asked, hopefully getting to the bottom of this mystery.

"Let's go back to the very beginning shall we. Well, in my tribe, we have our legends. One is that long ago, our ancestors had the ability to turn into wolfs. Another one, out of the many, is about the cold ones," he said, his voice sounding mysterious.

"So?" I asked.

"A group of the cold ones, also known as the blood drinkers, or as you call them, Vampires, came and visited my ancestors many, many years back. But these were different Vampires, they did not suck the blood of any humans, but they feasted on animals. Before my ancestors tried killing them, they made a truce together, one that still remains. Those Vampires were never to cross our land, or kill a human, nor change one," He was sounding mysterious again. I shuddered.

"So what does this have to do with the Cullen's?"

He didn't say anything. I let that thought sink into my brain.

The Cullen's, Vampires? No, surely not.

But it all made sense.

When I got a paper cut, Jasper turned wild. He could smell the blood. And he wanted it.

He entered my room through the window, just to check on me in the middle of the night.

They never ate.

Their skin was so pale.

That's why my vision scared Jasper. He saw me becoming a Vampire.

And their eyes changed colour.

I gasped, and Jacob then laughed.

"Sorry, did I scare you?"

"No, no… it wasn't you," I said, sounding like a little child.

"Why did you ask me then? About the Cullen's?"

"Um... because I found them… interesting," I said.

And then the world went black.