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Chapter 4

The rest of the daylight hours were sometimes filled with small talk. It got too lonely when we went any length of time not talking. We didn't have anything else to do. There was no books, no television, nothing besides the company of each other. When the sun started setting I put my heat trapping clothes back on. It was colder than I remembered from last night.

I took the two blankets out of the first kit and bunched one up to resemble a pillow. The other I wrapped around my body. The sunset was beautiful with pink, orange, and yellow colors. Jasper told me that there were more colors that my human eyes couldn't see. He took it upon himself to describe them. His words like poetry in their perfect delivery.

I knew I could spend hours listening to his voice and not tire of it. After all that was pretty much what I had spent the day doing. Ten minutes later I was laughing. Jasper was singing row, row, row your boat while exaggerating his own rowing movements. He grin was large and completely goofy. Jasper's natural charisma was out in full swing without even a touch of his vampiric gift.

There was no better vampire to get trapped with at this moment. With the exception of Rosalie and Jasper I was closer to the rest of the Cullen's. Now it seemed like he was closer to me than even Edward had been. Edward had never truly understood me. His personal skills had suffered because of his mind reading gift. Along with his ability to read a person by their actions and facial expressions.

Jasper had stopped singing. At once I missed his amazing voice. I wondered if all vampires had natural musical talent. After all their voice had that musical sound to it even though the tones ranged so much. Alice's voice could probably shatter glass.

I laid down whilst shifting the blanket to cover me like I was on a bed. "I like how you feel your emotions so strongly." Jasper said suddenly. He continued. "I remember in Phoenix that you were able to partially through off my projections." Thinking about his compliment and how I did divert his gift a little. It made me wonder.

"Why do you think that I can do that with vampire gifts?" I wanted his opinion. "To me it sounds like a shield of some type and the fact that you can do all that while human is amazing." Jasper sounded like he was awed. It made me proud that I was able to do that.

Our conversation reminded me of the Volturi. As long as we stayed lost I wouldn't have to worry that they would hurt my family. After all Aro with his ability to see your every thought with a touch could not punish them. For all the Cullen's knew, I could have drowned with the rest of the humans aboard the cruise. The ship had went down so fast that all I remembered was the horrible screams and the shrieking sound of metal twisting violently. I had seen no other lifeboats escape.

I didn't want to think about last night. All I could feel was grateful and relieved. Grateful because Jasper had saved me from the icy depths of the ocean. Yet relieved that my vampire family could survive almost anything. They couldn't be drowned because breathing was unnecessary to them. This made me feel guilty. Everyone had died and I was relieved it wasn't me.

"Oh, Bella." Jasper sighed out. "It's okay to feel that way." His eyes were sympathetic. I was paranoid at his attempt to make me feel better. If I didn't know better I would say he could read my mind. Of course with his empathy and his close scrutiny of me it only seemed that way. My eyes had been staring at the black water while I was thinking about the sunken cruise ship.

I redirected my eyes upward and was caught up in the beauty of the sky. The sun was no longer in view but the moon hung in it's place. This big, white, and glowing ball was so close I thought I could reach out and grasp it in my fist. Stars were getting brighter the darker the sky turned. I didn't know how long I was captivated by the sight but the next thing I knew I was warm.

I had fallen asleep at some point in the night. My eyes opened a crack and the sight that greeted me was the barely risen sun. Jasper's loud exclamations were the thing that woke me at this ungodly hour.