Hey again! So here's chapter 3 for Sisters...Can't Live Without Them. I got to school really late this morning, so I found it kind of pointless to go to my first class seeing as there was less than half an hour left. So when I got here, I just went to the library and started doing some work. I got this done along with two short essays I had to finish up. Gotta love being able to type like a cheetah runs.

Disclaimer: The usual deal. Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight saga. I own this.


Ch. 3 Meetings

Cindy's POV

As I stood there like a fool staring at my brother, there were two thoughts that were running through my head. One was telling me to rejoice at finding Jasper again, give him the greatest hug I ever had given him and never let go. The other thought was telling me to run, that it was dangerous to be around him. I went with the first.

"Jasper!" I squealed as I flung my arms around his neck in a vice like grip, laughing like a child. He dropped the flowers he had brought and in turn wrapped his arms around me and spun us around like he once did. When he put me down, I looked into his eyes and saw something that I hadn't seen earlier today- pure, unshielded happiness.

"How did- I mean, when-?" I laughed at how he was stumbling over his words, trying to figure out what would be best to ask.

"Maybe we should take this inside," I suggested, opening the door wider so that he could step inside. He nodded politely and walked in. About two hours later, I had explained everything to him- what I had done when I heard of his death, how I had been searching for him for the last hundred and fifty years and so on. He just sat there, perfectly still as he listened to my rambling. How was that possible? He never even moved an inch.

"Alright then mister. What are you hiding from me?" I asked him sternly using the same tone that mother would always use whenever she had wanted him to tell her the truth. Jasper looked at me and I could see turmoil in his eyes, as though he were battling with himself with some deep secret.

"I want to tell you, but I'm afraid that you would fear me afterwards," he admitted.

"Jasper, I have seen some things in my life happen to some people I knew that would have the most heartless human being feeling pity for that person. Whatever it is, I can handle it. I'm not a little girl anymore." The look in his eyes showed a bit of doubt, but none the less, he nodded and turned in his seat to face me properly, taking my hands in his cold ones.

"Cindy, I'm a vampire," he said before cringing slightly, as though he were expecting me to scream and run away in fear.

I just smiled at him. "Now was that so hard?" The reaction I was expecting was the complete opposite of what I received.

Jasper literally jumped out of his seat, fled about halfway across the living room, and looked at me as though I were insane. "Don't you get it Cindy? I'm a vampire! As in one of the undead! I drink blood in order for me to survive! And- and- I've killed people before." He looked away in shame at that last statement.

"What's your point?" I asked him. "You think that because you've killed, that makes you terrible for the rest of your existence. If that would be the case, then I might as well be damned for all eternity as well." Jasper's eyes snapped to look at me stunned at what I had said.

"There had been times where I had no choice but to kill. If I hadn't, they would have done much worse to ones close to me as well as me. I do not regret it though, for it gave me the greatest of joy to see my friends live their lives as happily and wonderfully to their last days. So do not tell me that you were a terrible monster when I know what a true monster is."

"But that's the thing- I didn't kill in means of survival or protection. I killed because I chose to!" Jasper exclaimed. He then began his story of what had happened after the war. How the woman Maria had turned him into what he was and had him create her an army to control most of the country.

"That doesn't mean anything!" I yelled as I stood and began to pace along the length of the couch. "You had known nothing of living the life of a vampire! That vile woman clouded your judgment and filled your head with her lies of how she cared for you! She obviously knew nothing of what love truly was if she used you like that! She had better pray to whatever God would listen that I never lay eyes on her because if I do, I'll-" My ranting would probably have gone on if Jasper hadn't stepped in front of me as I turned around and scared me.

"Do not worry about that Cindy. Alice would know if Maria were to ever come back, and we would be-" "Who is Alice?" I asked him.

"Alice is my wife. You might have seen her earlier today. She was the woman that has the short black hair," he explained.

"And the other two? Are they all vampires?" "They were my 'brother' Edward and his girlfriend Bella. Edward and Alice are. Bella is still human, though she wants to be turned so she can be with Edward forever."

"Do you have any other new siblings?" I asked.

"Yes, I do. There's Rosalie who everyone in town believes to be my sister, her mate Emmett who is very childish, and there is Carlisle and Esme, my 'parents'."

"Oh." I sat back down, finding the carpet suddenly fascinating. A lone, cold finger pushed under my chin lightly and tilted my head to look into gold colored eyes.

"What's wrong Cindy?" Jasper asked me.

"I was just thinking… That with your new family, you must have forgot about us… About me." As soon as those words left my lips, Jasper's arms wrapped around me in a hug that made me remember of the good times when we were both human.

"How could you think that I'd forget about you?" he asked me and I could hear the tone of sadness in his voice. I would have told him my reason until I saw the black cord around his wrist. Pulling his arm from around me so I could properly see the silver charm handing from his wrist.

"I thought you had been dead for a hundred years, and not a day had gone by that I never thought of my little sister." As I looked up to see his face I felt the few tears spill from my eyes and down my cheeks, and Jasper lightly brushed them away with a smile. I returned the smile and proceeded to hug him as though I'd never stop.

"What do you say to meeting the rest of my family?" Jasper asked me after some time. I looked up and nodded enthusiastically. He laughed lightly and stood, offering his hand to me.

"One second," I said and with a quick wave of my hand, my jeans and t-shirt ensemble became black dress pants, a dusty rose colored blouse, and a pair of black ballet flats. "Ready." Jasper held his hand out in a formal gesture for me to go first, causing me to shake my head ever so slightly. You could take the boy out of the country, but you could never take the country out of the boy.

When I finally locked the front door and made sure that everything was in order, I turned to Jasper. "I'm going to have to carry you as I run, alright?" The thought of that reminded me of when we had been little and Jasper would give me piggyback rides in the backyard. I smiled and nodded and Jasper bent down so I could hop onto his back. When I had my arms securely wrapped around his shoulders and he had a grip on my legs, he took off.

Trees and other types of vegetation sped towards us at a speed that should have terrified me, but instead it just thrilled me. I felt as though I were flying along the forest floor. The air whipping at my face stung my eyes a little, but that was the only problem for it. Just as my eyes were adjusting, Jasper stopped.

"We're home."

The house was so large that I thought it would have made a castle seem small in size. Every little thing about it was in amazing detail, all of it looking like something that I'd always thought my brother deserved- high class for someone who actually deserved it. And standing at the doorway was the rest of Jasper's new family.

"Hello everyone," Jasper greeted them politely as he helped me down from his back. My feet hadn't even touched the floor before a small blur of black and white came hurtling towards and stopped less than three feet from me. I looked down to see Alice's face beaming at me.

"Hi Cynthia! I'm Alice, though you probably know that anyway. I just want to say we're going to be great friends and I promise to be the greatest sister-in-law that there's-"

"Hey Alice, don't scare the girl!" the extremely tall boy with short dark hair laughed, receiving a slap upside the head by the blond girl beside him. Alice simply turned around and probably stuck her tongue out at him in response. The other male vampire with blond hair tried to cover his laugh with coughing, but I could still hear it from over here. The woman standing beside him had caramel colored hair and a sweet, heart shaped face. She reminded me of a fairytale princess that mother would read to me about when I had been a little girl. She stepped towards me.

"Hello, I'm Esme. It's Cynthia, right?" she asked me in a kind motherly tone. I nodded my head and was about to curtsy- old habits die hard- but she pulled me from under the arm of my brother and gave me a hug. Though her skin was as ice cold as the rest of them all, the gesture made me feel incredibly warm with happiness.

After a proper greeting with the rest of the group and a few hugs- one of them being a bear hug from Emmett- we all went into the house. The inside was just as wonderful as the outside, the large window that replaced one wall letting in the last few rays of sunlight.

"So Cynthia," Alice started as Esme sat another plate of chocolate chip pancakes in front of me. I mentioned earlier that I had hardly ate and she'd been working in the kitchen ever since. "We're having a graduating party in a couple days. You have to come! Please, please, please?" she begged, giving me this wounded puppy face.

How could you say 'no' to that? "Alright, I guess I can-" I was cut off as Alice squealed with joy, picked me up and began to spin me around.

"This will be so great! I've got the perfect outfit idea for you!" she laughed as she began to lead me upstairs to what I guess was her and Jasper's bedroom.

"Don't go crazy on her Alice, please!" Jasper yelled from downstairs. "I'd like to still have my sister back when you're done with her!"

For those who are wondering when he's going to show, don't worry. Jacob Black is going to show up very soon. Probably the next chapter.

R&R please!

Nancy (aka megamatchmaker)