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Chapter 9
(Jasper's POV)

I let out a contented sigh and pulled Lilly tighter to my body as she lay asleep as we cuddled in her bed. Tonight was Lilly's night where she had to catch a few hours of sleep to keep up her energy for the week. Dinner with her family had gone wonderfully, aside from me actually having to take a few bites while I sneakily hid pieces of my food little by little into the napkin I had in my lap. Lilly actually ate and enjoyed her dinner. She is so lucky that she gets to eat and sleep on occasion.

John and Anne were nice enough people and obviously loved Lilly with all their hearts. They were impressed with my knowledge and grades and were genuinely happy that Lilly and I found each other and they were surprisingly okay with me and Lilly staying the night at each other's houses, saying that Lilly and I were both responsible and trustworthy adults. According to them, all of the other guys that Lilly briefly dated were not up to par with her knowledge or talent and didn't have anything in common with her, whereas we had almost everything in common. We truly were the other halves to each other's souls.

"Mmm…Jasper." Lilly sighed in her sleep. "Love you." I chuckled quietly to myself. So she talked in her sleep! It warmed my heart that even in her subconscious state; she was aware of my presence and was dreaming of me. I smiled to down at her and kissed her temple before closing my eyes and feeding on her lethargic emotions, pushing myself to get as close to sleep as I could.

The next morning, Lilly and I both took turns in the shower as we got ready for school. She had already called Bella and said that she was going to ride with me, but she would see her at school. I could tell that she was happy for Lilly and they cared a great deal about each other. I made me happy that Lilly had a friend, human or not, that was as close as they were. She needed friends outside of my family.

The ride to school was pretty quiet, but to make up for it, we would constantly touch each other, draw patterns on each other, place light kisses on the other's skin, or make noises of content. It was nice that we didn't need to fill the silence with needless chatter and we could just be.

When we pulled into the parking lot, we saw that my siblings were already there and hanging around by their cars chatting. I picked a spot next to Edward's Volvo and hurried around the car and opened the door for Lilly, who was gathering her thing. I held out my hand for her to take, and as per usual, she took my hand and looked up at me and gave me a small smile of thanks.

"So how was your night, lovebirds?" Emmett smirked. Rosalie wacked him on the back of his head, giving him an annoyed glare. "Ouch, babe! What did I do this time?"

"Prying into their business and being a pervert in the process." She snapped.

Shaking my head at the two of them, I wrapped my arms around Lilly's waist and pulled her against me, tucking my face into her neck and taking in her sweet scent of peaches and lilacs. It calmed me and did things to my body that I didn't know was possible.

Looking up as I heard Bella's truck pulling into the parking lot, I sighed. Lilly looked up at me and by the look in her eyes, I could tell she wanted to go and talk to Bella. It was amazing how we could read each other without having to actually speak. I nodded at her to go and she leaned up, placing a kiss on my cheek, then dashed off almost dancing across the parking lot to where Bella was inspecting the new chains Chief Swan must have put on her tires this morning to help the truck handle better in this weather.

I noticed Edward was watching the girls talk as well. I walked over next to him and leaned on his car with my arms folded over my chest.

"You like her." I observed.

He looked at me with a puzzled expression. "What? Who? Lilly? Yeah, I like her a lot. We have a lot in common and I feel like I can really talk to her about anything and everything. I'm glad you found her. She's good for you and the rest of us."

"Yeah," I nodded with a small smile as I watched her smile as she chatted away with Bella. "I really love her. I don't know what it is about her, but she seems to draw people to her and you can't help but adore her. Then if she decides to let you in, it's like the greatest gift." I paused, then looked over at him. "But I wasn't talking about Lilly."

"Then who?"

"Bella." I nodded in her direction.

"Well, yeah…I guess. She's a nice girl, but not being able to read her frustrates me to no end." He sighed.

"I wasn't talking about as a friend." I chuckled. "You have feelings for her."

"What?" He looked at me in surprise. "No, she's human!"

"You can't lie to an empath, Edward." I arched an eyebrow, challenging him.

"I barely know then girl." He shook his head. "She's-" He stopped and his eyes grew wide. I heard Alice gasp over to the left of us. Edward looked back over to Lilly and Bella with a panicked expression and my senses were on full alert looking for possible danger.

Alice came out of her vision and looked at Edward in shock just as Tyler Crowley's van began to skid across a patch of ice directly towards where Lilly and Bella were standing. I knew with Lilly's tough vampire skin, speed and strength, not to mention her gift to stop the truck, she would be fine. Though, if she didn't see the van coming at them and think to use her gift, she would expose us all by not having a scratch.

Sending everyone around us a cocktail of distracting emotions, I ran at vampire speed across the parking lot and grabbed Lilly and lightly jumped backwards, sending us both falling into the bed of Bella's truck. I tried to grab Bella, but as I did, I grabbed nothing but air. I looked to see where she was and saw that Edward had her on the ground, jutting out his hand and stopping the van before it could reach Bella, then lifting it up slightly off her feet. Fuck!

(Lilly's POV)

What the fuck just happened? I remember talking to Bella about asking anyone to the Girl's Choice Dance, when I noticed Tyler's van coming straight towards us. Before I had time to react or attempt to use my gift, I felt Jasper's arms around my waist and then flying backwards into the bed of Bella's truck. SHIT! Bella!

I scrambled to look over the side of the bed, and then breathed a sigh of relief. That is, until I saw Edward's handprint denting the van and him lifting the truck off Bella's legs, making sure that they didn't crush them before setting it back down. Oh, no.

"H-How? How did you do that?" Bella stuttered out as she stared at the side of the van with wide eyes.

Jasper and I looked at each other in panic as all of the students began to swarm around the two cars, screaming, and some crying. I could see the rest of the Cullen's still across the parking lot, looking on in shock while Rose looked on in anger.

"Do what?" Edward asked her, feigning confusion.

"How did…how did you and Jasper get over to us so fast?" She pressed.

"Bella, you hit your head. I think you're confused." He began looking around at the other students, most likely reading their mind to make sure that they didn't see anything. By the relief on his face, I guess no one saw anything, though I wonder how they missed it. He then looked back at Bella who was studying him with a perplexed expression of confusion and concentration. "Let's not talk about this right now."

She didn't say anything at first, just continued to stare at him and the van. "Ok fine. But we will be talking about this."

Edward sighed in exasperation and nodded.

Jasper and I stayed in the bed of the truck and I brought my attention back to him when I felt him running his hands all over my body checking for injuries. He told me that this would happen if he felt I was ever in any type of danger, so I wasn't surprised to find him doing it.

After he was finished with his inspection of my body, he looked up at me with concern evident in his eyes.

"Are you okay, Lil?" He asked.

I nodded. "Just a little shook up, I guess." I shrugged. "I know I wouldn't have gotten hurt, but Bella would have died. It all happened so fast." I paused. "How did no one see you and Edward?" I asked at vampire speed.

"I sent them a cocktail of emotions to distract them." He explained.

"Oh." I gave him a small smile.

Just then, two ambulances pulled up along with a few police cruisers pulled up next to the accident. Jasper and I jumped out of the bed and I felt him pull me into his arms and calm himself with my scent. Some EMT's began to tend to Edward, Bella and Tyler, while another came up to Jasper and I and began to ask us some questions.

"No, we didn't get hit or jostled by anything. We're fine." I smiled at the EMT reassuringly and momentarily dazzled him. Jasper looked at me with narrowed eyes, but the smirk on his face showed that he wasn't mad, just on to me.

"O-Ok, well why don't you two at least come to the hospital and have the doctor's sign you with a clean bill of health. Just in case after the shock and adrenalin wears off, you might feel some pain if you twisted anything falling into the bed of that truck?" He proposed.

"Sure, that will be fine." Jasper answered before I could tell him no.

I shot him a glare, but he just laughed and leaned in to whisper in my ear at vampire speed. "It will give us a chance to find out just how much Bella found out, not to mention we need to at least appear like getting hurt is a possibility."

I sighed in exasperation then nodded, agreeing with his logic.

Jasper and I piled into the ambulance that Bella was in, strapped to a gurney with a neck brace on. We sat on the side, strapped into a pair of seats that the EMT's sometimes use. Edward sat up front with the driver, while Tyler had his own ambulance. I briefly saw Chief Swan talking to Bella as they were wheeling her towards the ambulance and he looked worried. Bella assured him that she was fine that they were just going to take her to get checked out, even though it was pointless.

The ride was quiet aside from the EMT's asking the occasional question while Bella glared at us, obviously aggravated that she had to be strapped in with a neck brace, while Jasper and I just hung out in the seats.

When we got to the hospital, Jasper and I met up with Edward and walked down to Carlisle's office, assuring the EMT's that brought us that we were going to see Dr. Cullen. They recognized Jasper and Edward as Carlisle's kids, so they let us go without a problem.

Edward knocked on the door to his office as Jasper and I stood hand in hand behind him and waited for Carlisle to tell us to come in. We entered at his call as Carlisle looked up at us stunned.

"What are you guys doing here? Is everything okay?" He asked in a worried tone.

"There was an accident at school." Edward went on to explain the situation with Tyler's van and Bella and I, then how him and Jasper were able to get to us, but he is afraid that Bella saw everything.

"What about everyone else?" He questioned.

"No. No one saw us speed across the parking lot." Edward answered. "I listened to everyone's thought's right after it happened and they weren't suspicious of anything; only worried for our safety."

"Yeah, I sent them some distracting emotions to have them not paying attention to what was happening in front of them." Jasper added. "Then afterwards, I felt no suspicious emotions or anything of the sort."

"Good thinking, son." Carlisle praised Jasper. He then looked to me. "And you're okay? The only reason I'm asking is because I haven't found out too much about you and how much your vampire side effects any injuries you could have."

"I'm fine." I assured him. "I was actually hit by a car once in Vancouver after a hunt and I didn't have a scratch on me. Ran me over and everything! It almost seems like there is more vampire than human in me."

He nodded. "I thought as much, but I just had to ask."

I smiled at him in gratitude before he began to exit his office, the three of us following him towards where Bella and Tyler were being held.

"I'll be right there. I just need to get their charts." Carlisle told us.

We entered through the curtain where the two of them were both sitting on separate beds. Bella was lying back with her eyes closed and Tyler was staring into space. He was bleeding and looking much worse than Bella was. I looked to Jasper and saw that his eyes had darkened, but he seemed to be holding his own. He gave me a smile in reassurance, which I returned before he pulled me into his arms and buried his face in my hair, distracting himself from the fresh blood with my scent.

(Bella's POV)

"Is she sleeping?" I heard a voice ask. Edward.

My eyes snapped open and I sat straight up to see Edward leaning against Tyler's gurney and Jasper holding Lilly in his arms with his head tucked into her neck. He must have really been scared for her for him to be holding her the way he is. It melted my heart that he loved her as much as he did.

"Edward, Lilly, Jasper…" Tyler began. Here we go again. I had pretended to sleep because I was getting sick and tired of hearing him constantly try to apologize, no matter how many times I told him it was okay and that it wasn't his fault. "I just want to apologize for what happened back there. I was going too fast around that corner and I began to slide on the ice and I lost control of my car."

"It's okay Tyler." Edward reassured him, just as I had not ten minutes earlier. "It was icy out. There was nothing you could do. I'm just glad you're okay."

"Yeah, me too." Lilly added as Jasper looked up and nodded his agreement with his brother and girlfriend.

"I heard the chief's daughter was here." An amazingly gorgeous doctor came in with my chart.

This must be Dr. Cullen. He looked like a movie star. He had blonde hair that was styled nicely on his head with the same pail skin and golden eyes the rest of the Cullen's had.

"How are you doing, Isabella?" He asked with a smile gracing his features, making my heart stutter.

"I-I'm fine." I swallowed.

"That's good. Now, if you can follow the light with your eyes please?" He asked as he shined a small light into my eyes and began to move it back and forth, making me follow it.

"You know, if it wasn't for Edward and Jasper, Lilly and I would have been crushed. I mean, they got to us so fast." I waited for his reaction after I spoke.

He just gave me a small smile and said, "Well, it sounds like you girls were very lucky, then."

So, he's in on it too. I know I'm not crazy, because Tyler even said that he didn't see either of them anywhere near Lilly and I.

(Jasper's POV)

After Chief Swan entered the room, Carlisle, Lilly, Edward and I went back to Carlisle's office. When we started down the hall that his office was on, we saw that Rose, Alice and Emmett were waiting in front of it. Alice was standing there looking through her visions, or at least that's what it looked like, Rosalie was pacing angrily and Emmett was watching her with baited breath, not daring to say a word.

"There you are!" Rose growled as soon as she saw the four of us. "How stupid are you, Edward? You're going to get us exposed and I don't want to move yet! I like it here!"

"What did you expect me to do? Just stand there and let her die?" Edward snarled back.

"This isn't about just you! It's about all of us!" She argued.

"Well why aren't you yelling at Jasper? He did the same thing!" He asked.

"Because Jasper made sure to send out a distraction so that no one saw either of you race across the parking lot. Because Jasper made sure he wasn't seen! Because Jasper didn't stop a moving truck with his hand or lift a van with his bare hands!" She said balling up her fists in fury

"What do you want from me Rose? If her blood was spilt in front of me, I would have exposed us anyway, So at least this way I saved her life!" Edward retorted.

"And what if she tells someone what she saw?"

"She won't!" He insisted.

"I think we should take this in my office." Carlisle interrupted clearing his throatand nodding behind us.

We turned and saw Bella pearing at us around the corner.

"Um, can I talk to you?" She asked Edward.

He nodded and walked towards her, but not before recieving a warning glare from Rose first. We all entered Carlisle's office in silence before I broke it.

"We are going to head back home. Everyone else is going back to the school right?" I asked the room.

"Yeah, they won't expect either of you to return, so you will be fine." Alice chirped. "But there will be a family meeting when Carlisle gets you too, Lilly. You're family now."

Lilly gave everyone a shy, but joyful smile as I pulled her from the office.

(Bella's POV)

"I think you know what I'm about to talk to you about." I said giving him a pointed look. "How did you get over to me so fast?"

"I was standing right next to you, Bella." He gave me as confused look.

"No." I shook my head. "You were by your car across the lot talking to Jasper."

"I think you're confused. You hit your head." He insisted with a nervous laugh.

"I know what I saw! You stopped the van! You pushed it away with your hand." I shook my head slightly as I searched his eyes for the truth.

"Well nobody's going to believe you." He said suddenly getting angry.

"I wasn't going to tell anybody. I just need to know." I pleaded.

"Can't you just thank me and get over it?" He was obviously not going to tell me the truth right now.

"Thank you." I said. I at least owed him that. He did save my life after all.

He studied me for as moment before speaking. "You're not going to let this go, are you?"

"No."

"Well then, I hope you enjoy disappointments." He said before stalking off in the other direction.

I saw Lilly and Jasper just then leaving Carlisle's office hand in hand,heading for the double dfoors the lead you out of the hospital. I wonder if she knows anything. I'm sure she saw everything and as asked Jasper. Maybe she had better luck than I did finding out wehat the heck is going on with the mysterious Cullen family.

A/N: So Bella is finally starting to catch on to the Cullen's. But wehat do you think she is going to say when she finds out about Lilly?

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