Chapter 5

Bella's point of view

"This is gonna be great!" Emmett laughed rolling down the window to the car as we sped down the street towards our destination. "Couldn't agree more." Rosalie smiled and grabbed hold of Emmett's hand. I looked behind me at the two of them in the back seat looking excited.

I couldn't help but to think that maybe they weren't doing this as much for Jasper as they led on.

I looked in the rear view window to see Jasper sitting in silence looking out the window onto the crowded streets. "Are you ok?" I asked him hoping maybe to get him talking a bit.

"Hm?" He asked distracted. This was odd, vampires always had very precise instinct to everything that was going on around them, so when Jasper questioned that I was talking to him I knew something was off. "Are you ok?" I repeated.

"Oh, yes I'm fine. Thank you for asking." He replied shyly looking at the ground.

"Cheer up man! We're gonna party tonight." Emmett said punching him in the arm. Only a faint smile grew to Jaspers pale lips.

"Finally." Edward said smiling and putting the car into park. "We're here."

We arrived at a nice club, it wasn't horribly huge or anything which was nice. A decent size. "Now, lets all have fun and forget about our troubles. Just for tonight." Edward said getting out of the car and opening Jasper's door. Jasper nodded to Edward and came to stand next to me.

"Thank you Bella, really. I have faith into tonight that it will be fun." He said putting a hand on my shoulder.

I smiled at him and put a hand on his shoulder briefly when I looked over to see Rosalie and Emmett already seconds away from being at the door.

Walking into the club was weird, the bouncers didn't ID any of us even though they had ID'd many people ahead of us that looked noticeably older then we did. I still wasn't used to having humans treat me with so much respect and almost worship like attitudes. I wasn't sure if it was because I was impossibly beautiful now, or the fact that something in the back of their minds were telling them to treat us over the top, or something they didn't want to happen might.

Instantly when we got into the lights and black lights you could tell there was something off about us. All of our skin almost glowed a white color, and our eyes were noticeably brighter. But no one looked particularly scared, they looked at us in aw. I snuck Jasper a peak every once and a while to see if he was having fun, even though he had those scars, he still looked amazingly gorgeous in the black lights. He was calmly smiling and talking with a few girls that came up to him instantly as he walked in the club. Every time one of them got to close he'd back away and put his hand to his face and claim that he had a cold and didn't want to get the girls sick. Edward was on edge every time anyone came close to contact with Jasper, getting ready to jump and tackle him down, staging a fake bar fight if the temptations got to hard for Jasper. That would be quite the bar fight.

I looked around the club after about two hours of being there, to notice Rosalie, and Emmett were no where in sight. The place had suddenly got ridiculously packed and I was alone, not being able to find anyone. It was very confusing, the smell of sweat and other perfumes from all the tons of crowds of dancing people was messing with my head. I couldn't pick out any of the Cullen's, until I heard a ripping sound. I looked around but it looked like no one else had noticed it.

I followed the sound to find Edward and Emmett pushing Jasper up against a wall, a low ripping growl coming from all of them, Jaspers bright white teeth showing. "Get him out of here, its too much for him." Rosalie said walking over and grabbing my arm, signalling me to follow her.

"What happened?" I asked in panic.

"Jasper was talking to someone near the speakers, when a group of girls came rushing over when a song they liked I'm assuming came on. They practically bombarded him, and he had numerous hot, sweating bodies pressed up against him. The smell, and the hot temperatures from dancing was too much for him, he almost lost it. Emmett grabbed him by the arm and pushed him to the wall too quickly for anyone to notice, then Edward came to the rescue as well."

I was looking at Rosalie in shock, if Emmett hadn't noticed him as quick as he did, many innocent people could have been hurt. I guess this was probably not the brightest idea we've had.

After what had seemed like forever Emmett, Edward and Jasper came out to the street behind the club where Rosalie and I were waiting.

"Close call." Emmett said laughing slightly.

"It's not at all funny." Jasper said putting his hands to his face.

"Don't beat yourself up too bad, you didn't hurt anyone." Rosalie put a hand on his shoulder just as quickly as he shrugged it off.

"But I could have! I don't know how I let this happen, so stupid of me." Jasper just shook his head and looked at the ground.

No one really knew what to say to try and make him feel any better, and I knew he could feel the tension between all of us towards him.

I was distracted when I could see Edwards head snap around from my peripheral vision. His eyes looked intense, like he was trying to find someone. "Edward?" I asked walking over to him. He looked so on edge he didn't even notice when I called to him. Everyone had his attention now.

"What is it?" Rosalie asked taking a step forward.

"There's another one of us. I can smell it." He said getting into a crouching position. "It's a very unfamiliar sent, but a vampires at that."

We all stood closer to Edward trying to pinpoint the unknown vampire when I saw from the corner of my eye Jasper.

His face looked even more white then it already was, like it was a statue. He was completely limp looking, frozen in that same statue like position. His face like ice, or like he had just seen a ghost.

"Jasper?" Rosalie asked.

No response.

"Jasper!" She shouted this time shaking his shoulders, but his gaze never broke. His eyes were locked at one of the cross walks a few streets ahead. At first I couldn't tell who or what he was so intently stuck staring at but then I saw her.

She must have been who Edward smelt.

She was painfully beautiful, it made me even feel self conscious, and it was an odd feeling, I had never felt self conscious since I had been transformed.

She was staring at the moonlight, her beautiful white, porcelain skin glowed in the light. She had long dark brown hair just past the middle of her back. It was slightly messy looking, but in a beautiful way, like every little piece that was loosely curled, or a tad bit wavy was put there on purpose, so I guess technically it wouldn't be out of place.

Her eyes were golden yellow that must have made any human that looked into them feel like they were melting. She had a very tiny frame, and was short…just like Alice. The mystery vampire had on a pair of grey skinny jeans, and a black tank top that fit nicely to her small frame, showing off her pretty white skinned arms.

I was snapped out of my trance when I heard Emmett's voice calling Jaspers name. I looked over to see Jasper still staring at the girl. It was like he couldn't hear or feel us.

"I…impossible…" Was all that could quietly slip out of his lips before his knees gave in, and he was on the sidewalk, the impact of his body hitting the cement sending shards of it in every direction.

"Jasper!" Everyone yelled in unison, rushing over to him.

I grabbed one of his arms, then looked up to see the girl out of sight.

Like she hadn't been there in the first place.