I am so sorry this chapter is short. I was having a really hard time writing it and I don't know why. I think currently I need to work on a Bella chapter. So, rather than make you wait, I'll post this little one now... Thanks so much for your patience!

JPOV

If I would have been truly paying attention to her eyes, I might have had a different reaction. I was distracted though by feeling nothing from her. Instinct kicked in; I went into a defensive crouch and growled lowly at her in warning. I noticed Charolette come to a stop slightly in front of the other woman. She looked confused. I also saw Peter. He had a resigned look on his face, as if he felt something like this might happen. The woman looked shocked for a moment, then she too lowered into a crouch.I should have realized this was the new family member Peter mentioned, and he would never to anything that would threaten me, but it was like my mind was on auto pilot. This other vampire had some sort of power, and she could hide how she was feeling from me. Instinct told me I didn't know her, so I couldn't trust her. I could tell she was calculating things as of a sudden, I was airborne and being thrown against the side of the house. I landed hard, making a dent in the wall and the earth where my body settled. I had no idea what had just happened, but it was enough to knock me out of my defensive mode for just a minute. I looked at the other vampire just as she was turning and noticed it. Her golden eyes. I saw her mouth move so she must have been saying something to Charolette, but I wasn't paying attention to anything but her face. She raced off into the woods.

Peter can over then and offered me a hand up. "Nice going. You are real smooth."I just looked at him. I watched as Charolette went after her. After a couple of minutes I accepted his hand up. He was smirking.

"Come on, help me replace these boards." He started to walk over to a large storage shed. I followed quietly behind him, ashamed.

"I'm sorry about that. I assume that is the new member of the family?" I asked while picking up a pile of boards out of the shed.

Peter started pulling the ruined board off the house. "You assume right. She will be ok. We try to keep her away from others of our kind so she is always a little nervous meeting new people. Of course, that might be even worse now since you looked like you were going to attack her."

"I couldn't feel anything coming from her! Instinct told me to be careful. It just caught me off guard." I grabbed some nails and pushed them through the new boards.

"She has a tendency to do that, catch you off guard. She is very special. Part of the reason Char and I are so protective of her. Like I said, she will come around." He stood back and looked at the replaced boards. "Good as new. You know, it's a good thing I keep extras on hand with building supplies. It might look odd buying so many so often." He grinned. "Come on, lets go in and wait for the girls to get back."

We went back inside and I grabbed a history book off one of the shelves. Peter loved history almost as much as I did. I sat down in an arm chair. Normally I would have dove right into the book. This time, however, all I could think about was her. Without the threat of an unknown vampire, I had time to really study her with my perfect memory. She was beautiful. She looked sweet and kind. How could I have thought she was going to attack me?

I must have sat there thinking a long time, because it was nighttime when I looked up from my book. What caught my attention, however, was the sound of two people approaching the house, one closer than the other. Charolette came through the door first. She came right up to me and smacked me on the side of the head. "You better not even ask what that was for otherwise I will have to do it again." Sometimes, she reminded me a lot of Rosalie.

The other woman walked up to me. I noticed the way she moved, it was beautiful. Everything about her screamed graceful. I reached out to feel her emotions, and found I was still cut off from them. I felt so lost without the use of my powers. I guess I never realized how much I relied on them. She stopped a few feet in front of me and stuck out her hand.

"Hi, I'm Isabella, but everyone called me Bella." I looked at her hand in mild shock. The last time she saw me I ended up thrown into a wall, and I was pretty sure it had been her to throw me. Now here she was, as if nothing had happened, holding her hand out in a humanly gesture.

"I'm Jasper. It's nice to meet you. I didn't realize another vampire had joined Peter and Char." I shook her hand. I felt this charge, like a surge of energy go up my arm. It felt like my hand belonged here. Bella must have felt it as well, her eyes grew slightly larger, but she made no mention of it.

"I asked them not to mention me to anyone. I like to keep a low profile." She smiled slightly. "I am excited to get to know you though. I've never met another vampire with my diet, although Peter says he found that I could live this way because of you and your family."

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