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Chapter 2
Finding A Friend
Bella
I had the sinking feeling that I was being watched and followed everyday. It had been going on for about two weeks and everyday I had been receiving flowers from a secret admirer. It was really starting to get on my nerves and I still didn't have a clue who it was. I thought it might have been him but I know I was just getting my hopes up.
I continued to do my show every night and I kept seeing the same man there day after day. I knew our show wasn't that great but to see the same stranger everyday was kind of relaxing. I knew his eyes from somewhere but I still couldn't place him.
As I headed out once again to work I had that same feeling of being followed. I kept glancing back over my shoulder but didn't see anyone. I started to walk faster and dug in my bag for my pepper spray. Whoever was following me was about to get a rude awakening. I turned around and was stunned by who was standing behind me.
"Hello, Bella." he has this thick southern drawl that I had never heard from him before. "JASPER! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING SNEAKING UP ON ME AT NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS!" I was still in shock to see the only member of the Cullen family that I never really got along with, not to mention the fact that he tried to kill me on my 18th birthday. He looked at me with those golden topaz eyes I had been so accustomed to seeing in my dreams. "I didn't mean to scare you Bells I just wanted to make sure you got to work safely." I glared at him, " What right do you or any members of your "family" have in trying to keep me safe. After what he did to me and after you all left me you gave up all rights to try and protect me. I want you out of my life". Forgetting who I was ranting and raving at I reached up and socked him in the jaw. "OWWWWWW! FUCK!" I heard him chuckle and I just glared at him. "Fuck now I have to go to the hospital and miss my shift at work." I was cradling my hand to my chest as he reached out and took it in his hand. Since when did Jasper have a soft side? There was something different about him. He wasn't the same vampire I knew a few years ago. I looked at him as he cradled my hand in his trying to get the swelling to go down. "Jasper what are you doing in Vegas?" "Bella, I had to make sure you were safe." "Again I ask what right do any of you have to make sure I'm safe? You all left me when he did. I never thought that I would see any of you again." I started to cry and he took me in his arms. "Bella, I hate what my brother did to you. I wanted to rip him to pieces and burn them all." I could feel the anger washing over me. "Jasper, your projecting your gift on to me. Right now I need to go to the ER and have them check my hand and then try to make it to work before my shift is over. Do you want to come with me?"
Jasper
I had been sending her flowers everyday for the entire time I had been here and I knew she had seen me at her show. I had also been following her to and from work everyday. Today she felt fear as I followed her. I had a bad feeling this was not gonna turn out very well and the next thing I knew she was spinning around with pepper spray in her hand.
I couldn't believe I let her catch me following her to work . She was so beautiful as she turned around with pepper spray in her hand. I saw the recognition as soon as she saw me. "Hello Bella." I heard my southern accent come out more than it ever had. I was a little startled when she started yelling at me. When did this woman before me get a temper? The next thing I knew she was howling and gripping her wrist. I hadn't even realized she hit me. I took her hand in my cold on trying to get the swelling to go down. I caught her looking at me with a new perspective of me. She asked what I was doing here in Vegas so I was almost completely honest. When she started talking about Edward and Tanya I could feel the rejection coming off of her and it pissed me off. I didn't realize I was projecting until she said something. She then caught me off guard and ask if I wanted to go to the ER with her.
"Bella, I'll come with you and I would also like to be your friend." This was the only way I could try and bring her out of her shell. "Jazz, where is Alice? You two are almost as inseparable and Rosalie and Emmet." "I'll tell you the whole story after we get your hand checked Bella." I walked with her toward the hospital in a very uncomfortable silence. "Bella are you mad that I'm here?" I could feel the apprehension coming from her. "Bella what's wrong?" She started crying, "Jasper I just don't want to be hurt again." Here was my chance and I took it. "Isabella, I promise never to hurt you again and I will stay with you until you tell me to leave. I hate what my family did to you and I want so badly to make up for it. Will you let me try and prove to you that not all of my family are heartless creatures?" She looked at me with the tears still in her eyes, " I would like that very much Jazz." I felt like dancing a jig right there in front of the hospital. "Go get your hand checked Bells. I'll be right out here waiting." As she walked away I smiled to myself things weren't going as planned they were going so much better. I couldn't wait to make her mine forever.