Jasper's Point of View.

Before I knew it, the sun had risen. I looked out the window to be blinded by the bright orange and pink coloured sky. It was beautiful.

I thought about what Bella and I had talked about the previous night. I kept thinking about it and the more, and more I thought about it the more memories of my past, memories with Tayler kept flooding my mind.

It was hundreds of years ago when I first met her. Me and my best friend at the time, Ryan, who was working with the same military as I was were finishing up training one evening.

"Wanna go grab something to eat or something?" Ryan asked punching me playfully in the shoulder.

"Yeah, for sure. All that running around made me pretty hungry."

Ryan and I went to the place we were staying at while training, and changed into some clean clothes that weren't covered with dirt and sand.

"Where do you wanna eat?" Ryan asked lighting up a cigarette.

"How about that little place that's right in the middle of town?" I could never remember the name of the place, but they had delicious food, and at a reasonable place.

"Sounds like a plan to me."

We walked for a good half an hour until be got into town and to the small restaurant. I was pretty exciting, considering I hadn't had a good meal in a long while.

We sat down at our seats and waited about ten minutes until a pretty red headed waitress with cute freckles walked up to our table.

"Well hello there gentlemen, what can I get for you this fine afternoon?"

Ryan leaned over the table trying to look as good as he could possibly get.

"How 'bout your number honey?"

I rolled my eyes. Everywhere we went, he pulled stuff like this.

"How about some food first?" The waitress laughed. I could tell she felt awkward and wanted him to finish whatever it was he was going to order quickly so that he would leave.

"Or how about your nu-" I nudged him in the ribs before he could finish his sentence.

"A burger and fries?" He corrected himself.

"That I can do." The waitress said, turning to me now.

"And for you sir?"

"Hmm, can I get a burger too? Except with a salad not fries."

"Absolutely, your food will be ready in a few minutes." She said smiling and walking away.

"Must you always embarrass us when we go out together? You make me look like a pig too."

"Oh Jasper, come on' all guys are pigs sometimes. Live a little, your never gonna get anything acting like your into men."

I raised an eyebrow at him.

"I do not act as though I'm into men you idiot."

"Well you certainly don't act like your into the ladies, in fact I don't think I've ever even heard you mention a girl's name before."

I was silent for a moment.

"I haven't really met any, with the training, and all the military crap going on. It's hard to meet women."

"I manage." Ryan snorted.

He started going on and on about something else that he found to be odd about me when something caught my attention from the corner of my eye.

It was a girl. She was beautiful. Probably the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.

"Jasper? Don't ya think?" Ryan said trying to get my attention back.

"Hu?" I asked not knowing what he was talking about.

"Weren't you listening?" He asked trying to see what my attention was attracted too.

"Ohhh, I get it!" He said nudging me and smiling.

"Them?" He asked pointing at the girl I had been looking at and her friend.

"Don't point!" I said grabbing his hand and pushing it down to his side.

The waitress came with our food just in time so I could pretend I was more interested in my food then anything else so that Ryan wouldn't embarrass me anymore.

"You can hide in that burger all you want, but I know you were checkin' them ladies out."

"Actually, I was only checking out the one. The brunette one, with the long hair."

"HA! Like she'd ever give a guy like you a chance, no offence buddy, but come on. Girls like them wont give guys like us the time of day. Well maybe me on the odd occasion, but you, that's kind iffy." He said laughing.

I rolled my eyes again and took a bite out of my burger. Ryan always thought he was the most amazing thing ever. He wasn't ugly or anything, but he certainly wasn't as good looking as he thought he was. And he was a womanizer, and pig at that.

"Oh shut up." I said taking another bite, I was starving.

I couldn't keep my eyes off her, it was almost annoying how pretty she was.

After lunch, we went outside for a cigarette and joked around a bit, then deciding to go to the small store that was across from the restaurant to grab some drinks, and some more cigarettes.

The store was a small place, and always smelt like damp wood.

"How many waters should we get?" Ryan called over to me.

I turned around from where I was standing to yell back at him when I turned straight into someone small and knocked whoever it was to the ground.

Just my luck, it was the pretty girl from the restaurant.

"Oh god, I'm so sorry." I said putting my hand out to help her.

She laughed a small nervous laugh, and smiled a little.

"It's ok, I should have probably been watching where I was going."

"No, no, it was my fault." I felt so silly knocking her over, that I couldn't figure out what to say to her next.

"I'm Tayler." She said putting out her hand to shake mine.

I grabbed hold of her hand to shake it, it was so tiny, and warm. I stared at our locked hands for a minute when I realized she was trying to take her hand back.

"Oh! Sorry, I'm uh, I'm Jasper."

She giggled a little.

"Nice to meet you Jasper. Are you from around here?"

"Um…sort of. I work for the military, and we're doing training for a few months just a few miles from here."

"Really? That sounds interesting."

"It has it's moments."

We smiled at each other again for a while.

"Jasper! You deaf? I'm getting a bunch since you apparently don't have your hearing aid turned up high enough."

Ryan always knew how to ruin a moment, even if he didn't realize he was.

"Ohhh what do we have here?"

He asked in a stupid voice looking at Tayler and I.

"This, is Tayler." I said motioning towards her.

"Hello." She said smiling.

"Hey, I'm Ryan." He said shaking her hand.

"Got any cute friends?" He didn't let a minute pass.

"You sure get straight to the point." Tayler laughed.

"Sure do!"

Tayler looked back at me.

"Listen Jasper, my friend Megan is having a party tonight. A lot of people are going to be there, and I was wondering if you and your friend over there might want to come?"

"What does Megan look like?" Ryan asked, I nudged him harder this time.

"Excuse him. We'd love too. What are the directions and the time?" I asked politely.

She pulled out a small piece of paper from her purse, and a pencil and scribbled something down on it quickly.

"Here, it's not far from the town. It's like a ten minute walk."

I grabbed the paper and shoved it into my pocket.

"Thanks…well I'll see you there." I said smiling nervously.

She smiled back and turned toward her small group of friends that was waiting for her near the door. I couldn't believe how lucky I was. Things like this never happened to me.

"Haha oh man, this is going to be so fun." Ryan said making a perverted face. One track mind that guy had.

"We're not going to go do what you think your going to end up doing." I said raising an eyebrow at him.

"Your such a prude man."

I wasn't even going to argue with him. I was to excited to get to talk to her again later tonight.

A few hours after we ate, we showered and decided to get a move on. I had this weird knotted feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was so nervous to see this Tayler girl again.

"Want some?" Ryan asked pulling out a small gold flask from the pocket of his coat.

"What is it?"

"What are you eight? It's rye." He said taking a rather large swig.

"I guess so…" I didn't want to show up hammered or anything and make a bad second impression. But hey, maybe it would loosen up my nerves.

I swallowed a huge mouth full of the disgusting tasting liquor, and felt it instantly warm the insides of my throat and stomach.

"Good ehhh?" Ryan said nudging me, once again.

I coughed a little.

"It's disgusting."

"Once you drink enough you wont even taste it!"

We finally got to the house after a few more shots, and a cigarette or two and I was feeling pretty confident with myself.

We got to the door and Ryan rang the door bell. We waited about ten minutes until a tall blonde guy answered the door. Very clean cut, almost too pretty looking to be a guy.

"And you two are…?" He asked looking confused.

"Jasper, and Ryan." Ryan said mater-o-fact.

"Hmm. I don't think you guys are at the right house."

Just as soon as he was about to close the door, I heard a high pitched voice yell "Wait!"

I looked up to see a tall, thin girl with a short burgundy color hair cut waving at the blonde guy about to shut the door on our face.

"You guys must be Jasper and Ryan! The guys Tayler was telling me about. I'm Megan." She said putting out a drunken hand to us.

"Well hello," Ryan said smirking. Already it was starting.

She giggled a high pitched giggle.

"Come on in! This is my party. And that's Everit." She said putting her hand on the tall blonde guys shoulder.

"Hi…" Ryan and I both said awkwardly.

Before I could even say anything else, Megan had dragged Ryan and I into the kitchen that was crowed with people, and handed us two large red cups that were filled to the top with beer.

"You have some catch' up to do I believe."

She said shoving the glasses in our faces.

"I like the way you think." Ryan said putting an arm around her.

She let out another annoying giggle.

"Um…where's Tayler?" I managed to ask.

"Tayler? I think she's down stairs with a few of our friends. She's been talking about you coming you know."

I blushed instantly, not knowing what to say. So I just smiled and made Ryan follow me to the basement.

I drank the cup of beer quickly so that I could get the courage to go down there, and it worked a bit. That on top of the rye.

"See her yet?" Ryan asked.

I glanced around the room, and stopped dead in my tracks when I saw her. She was wearing a nice white dress, and a very thin silver necklace around her neck. Her hair lay perfectly straight flowing over her shoulders, and she had the biggest smile on ever.

She looked so amazing, so fun, so beautiful, so everything I wanted in a girl.

I snapped out of it when her stare met mine, and I had to look away awkwardly pretending that I wasn't staring in the first place."

She came walking up to where I was standing and grabbed my hand, smiling. I felt a rush of blood to my head, I knew I was blushing like crazy.

"Jasper, I'm so glad you came." She said smiling.

And that's where everything started between us.