A/N: Hey guys. Well this is Chapter 3. R&R!
Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns the Twilight Saga.
JPOV:
Bella was tossing and turning on the bed and as she moved, the comforters got even more twisted due to her death grip on them. She had tears streaming down her face and all I heard before I panicked was her crying out in agony, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" over and over again.
I was next to her before I even registered that I was moving. My hands automatically went around her shoulders in a hug and I shook her desperately trying to shake her awake. "Wake up Bella! Please, come on! It's just a dream. I'm here, you're safe; please wake up!" I chanted quietly in her ear over and over again.
She woke with a start and she jerked up, out of my arms leaving me shocked and hurt. She had never bolted when I hugged her and no matter what I couldn't get rid of the image in my head of how disgusted she had been when she woke up and saw me.
She turned around to look at me and her jaw dropped open in shock as she quickly made her way back into my arms. "Shit, I'm so sorry J. I wasn't thinking; I don't why I did that. I'm so sorry."
I wanted to believe her but the look of sheer disgust on her face definitely wasn't accidental. I tried to rearrange my facial expression to make myself look happy so she would think I believed her but she knew me better than that.
She sighed and due to the fact that she was standing and I was sitting she was taller than me. She leant down so her mouth was by my ear. "It wasn't you Jazz, I promise. I'll explain later."
Now I was confused but I did feel a little better so I nodded and let go of her so she could move away from me. After all, everyone was watching us.
"B, what was the screaming about?" I questioned; confused.
"Nothing, it's not important. What do you guys want to do now?" She said nonchalantly.
"Bull shit! That is defi-"The look of complete pain she shot me was enough to make me shut up.
"Never mind." I muttered to myself, never wanting to see her in that much pain again. I would be asking her about it later though, probably when we were alone. At my words, Emmett and Edward turned to look at me; identical, incredulous expressions on their faces.
Finally, Emmett seemed to decide that he had had enough. "What the hell just ha-"he started only to be cut off by the sharp glare I gave him. I motioned silently that I would explain later and he nodded somewhat reluctantly.
"Well, while you guys are here why don't I introduce you guys to Rose and Ali?" Bella suggested. When the three of us nodded in agreement she started talking again.
"Okay so the little pixie is Alice and she loves shopping, shopping and… oh shopping!" This caused all of us to laugh and earned her a playful glare from Alice. "She loves games of all kind, she's extremely energetic, loves mini golf, playing Bella Barbie, her car and she's much stronger than she looks. Don't mess with the pixie." She finished ominously.
Then she moved so she was next to the blonde one; Rosalie I think. Rosalie seemed kind of… protectiveof Bella in a way. Huh. "Goldilocks over here is Rosalie but you can call her Rose. Her most prized possession is her car and she absolutely loves all cars. She's the best mechanic ever. Other than that, she loves shopping, traveling, mini golf, car shows and dancing. Oh and don't call her a dumb blonde unless you have a death wish."
I smiled at both Rose and Alice before moving so I was next to Em and Edward. "Now it's my turn to introduce these two." I said and I saw the three of them smile in response.
"This human garbage disposal is Emmet." I said earning a few laughs and a shrug of acknowledgement from Emmett. "He loves eating, cars, eating, traveling, eating, watching movies, eating, having fun, and most importantly eating. He also loves playing truth or dare, building sand castles, talking, dancing, singing, car shows, football and practical jokes." After I finished I saw Bella's eyes light up. I knew they would get along.
Then I pointed to Edward. "The bronze-haired one is Edward. He likes playing the piano, listening to music, sucking up to parents, helping out at the hospital, his car, movies, having fun and football. Oh, and he can't cook to save his life." At the end of my sentence I saw Edward glare at me.
Everyone else started laughing and I saw Bella's eyes light up before she turned to look at me. I gave her my best questioning look causing her to reply, "Dad said that there was something waiting for us outside and that we should go look at immediately. Do you want to go downstairs to find out what it is?"
I smiled at her before saying, "Well, we have to do what the Chief wants."
The three girls laughed loudly and Emmett and Edward just gave me blank looks before Emmett finally gave up. "Well, come on then! Let's go!" He said with his unending enthusiasm causing all of us to smile and follow him out the door.
When we got the door, Em basically sprinted to the elevator and he jabbed the down button about 10 times smiling proudly when the rest of us got there. I shook my head at him before walking into the elevator once it opened.
"Any idea what it is?" I asked B, hoping for a clue of some sort.
She shook her head vigorously hitting me in the face with her hair causing me to move my head back automatically. When she saw my reaction she grinned widely, "I'm sorry J, did that bother you?" she asked with an unapologetic expression on her face.
I rolled my eyes and mumbled, "No." knowing that if I said yes she'd probably do it again. She smiled proudly at me causing me to narrow my eyes at her.
We finally got the lobby and all 6 of us ran out of the elevator like bats out of hell. Everyone in the lobby stared at us probably wondering why 6 grown people were running out the hotel like their lives depended on it.
When we got outside the hotel the three girls started screaming in joy and the three of us stood frozen in our spots with our jaw hanging open.
There stood, gleaming in the sunlight, a midnight blue Bugatti Veyron, a red Ultimate Aero EV, and a canary yellow Porsche 911 Turbo. I knew immediately which one was Bella's and I was pretty sure that I could guess what car the other two had.
I broke out of my stupor when I heard Bella screaming excitedly again and running at some undistinguishable figure far away. As he walked closer I noticed that it was Seth, B's boyfriend, and probably the closest a guy came to being worthy of her.
She ran at him and hugged him tightly causing him to laugh before he hugged her back, wrapping his arms tightly around his waist. I felt a pang of something unfamiliar in my chest when I saw them kiss and I decided to think about it later when I was by myself.
When Bella and Seth finally let go of the other I walked forwards with a smirk on my face. "Hey Seth."
He looked up with a confused look on his face before his eyes finally landed on me, causing a smile to stretch across his face. "Jasper." He said as he walked up to me so we could do our super secret handshake, which was really just us doing random things we thought of.
"How do you…" Em started before trailing off looking at us expectantly.
Bella, Seth and I grinned at each other before loudly saying, "Phoenix."
"Ahh." He said before looking at Edward and raising his eyebrows questioningly. Those two were up to something, I could tell.
"Anyway, B when were you planning on tell me that you got your dream car?" I asked narrowing my eyes at her.
She smiled cheekily at me. "Guess what Jasper?"
I looked at her warily pretty sure that I already knew what was going on. "What Bella?"
"I got my car." She said, trying to look serious but failing as the corners of her lips turned up and her eyes lit up.
I muttered quietly to myself. "You think she would have gotten less sarcastic over time."
She smirked proudly. "I get it from you J."
I gave her my best glare. "Well, you can repay me by driving me around today." I said hopefully, managing to turn my statement into a question.
She smiled at me. "Well duh, I wasn't going to go by myself Jazz."
"Jazz?" Edward asked confused, echoing Emmett's confused look.
Bella looked at him like he was crazy. "Yea, Jazz."
"Like jazz music?" He asked making me realize that he had no idea what B was talking about.
"No Jazz as in Jasper. That's what I call him."
"Ohhh." Edward and Emmett said at the same time, they could be really annoying sometimes. They seemed to always know what the other was thinking.
"Well Bella, are you going to introduce us?" Seth asked nudging Bella in the shoulder with a small smile on his face.
"Well this one's Emmett and he apparently likes eating and pranks, and that one's Edward who likes to play the piano and play football." She said pointing to both of them as she spoke. "Both of them are Jasper's brothers." She said as her eyes locked with mine, only moving on when I shot her a small smile.
"Bellaaa! Now you have to introduce us!" Emmett said loudly causing Seth to laugh at his excitement.
She rolled her eyes as she shoved Seth to get him to shut up. "Well, the idiot laughing over here is my boyfriend Seth. He still lives in Phoenix so I haven't seen him in a while."
Emmett nodded, seeming satisfied with the response that Bella had given him. "Cool. Well, I'm going to head back to the hotel room and sleep anyone else coming?"
Edward nodded his head and stepped forward so he was standing next to Emmett. Seth kissed Bella on the cheek before pulling away and walking forward. "I'll see you later Bell, I wanna go check out my room."
She nodded in agreement and she looked like she was about to say something but before she could Rosalie and Alice pulled her to the side and I noticed them talking quietly amongst themselves about something that seemed important.
I turned away from them and looked awkwardly at the other four. "So… nice weather." I said trying to break the silence.
"It's beautiful." Seth said as he smirked at me. After that, we just stood there quietly waiting for the three girls to come back.
"Sorry about that." Bella said. "Anyways, I'm not that tired I want to look around a little; you coming Jazz?"
I nodded slightly still a little confused about what was going on. "Let me go change into normal clothes." I said, looking down at my pajama pants in response.
"Alright, I'll wait out here for you." She said easily, like she actually expected me to agree with her.
It looked like Alice was going to say something but I wasn't really paying attention. "You are definitely not waiting outside a hotel in a foreign country, at 9 in the morning all by yourself. You are going to go to your room and then I'll come there when I'm done." I said, bewildered that she actually thought I would let her stand outside.
She looked at me defiantly and I knew she was about to protest so I added quickly, "Please B." I gave her my best 'It would make me feel better' look and she sighed before walking into the hotel with the rest of us.
"Thanks Bella." I said smiling as I threw my arm and her shoulders. She smiled up at me before wrapping her arm around my waist as we walked to the elevators.
We talked and laughed on the walk back to the elevator and when we got there I noticed that they each had a different expression on their face, but they were all extremely confusing. Seth looked sad but accepting, Rose looked happy but worried, Alice was happy and Em and Edward were both smug and all-knowing.
"What?" Bella asked, apparently as confused as I was.
They all shook their heads quickly as they rearranged their facial expressions so it was neutral. I rolled my eyes at them before walking into the elevator that had just opened.
"Are you guys coming with us?" I asked Rosalie and Alice, since they were the only two that hadn't said anything.
I saw them share a look with Bella before Rose responded. "No, we're going to stay here and unpack some of our stuff."
I nodded in understanding as I tried to contain my excitement. I would finally be able to spend time with B. Don't get me wrong I loved Emmett and Edward and the others were fun to hang out with but I hadn't seen Bella in a while and I was excited.
When the elevator opened up to our floor we all got off and walked quietly, all of us lost in our thoughts.
"Hey Seth, what room are you in?" Bella asked.
"Uh, room 320." He said as he stopped in front of his room. "I'll see you guys later."
"Bye Seth." All of us said in unison.
He laughed and waved at us as he disappeared into his room. "What time will you guys be back?" Emmett asked, looking at us expectantly.
"Uhm," I started looking at Bella. "We'll probably be back in a few hours, why?"
He shrugged before looking at Edward once again and if the three girls weren't there I'm pretty sure I would have started yelling at them out of frustration. I would have to remember to ask them what the hell all the secretiveness was about later.
We got to Bella's room and I took my arm off of her shoulders, "I'll be back in about 10 minutes. Don't do anything stupid." I said smiling.
She rolled her eyes before responding sarcastically, "Me? Do something stupid? Don't be ridiculous Jasper."
I laughed at her as I walked away with a smile on my face; it's been a while since I've laughed this much and I've only been here for an hour. Man I'm glad that Bella's here.
We got to the hotel room and I literally ran into the room my suitcase was in and rummaged through my suitcase looking for something suitable to go outside in. I finally found a plain white V-neck and blue jeans and a pair of beat-up converse that I always wore.
I quickly changed into them and went to the mirror trying to find a way to tame my hair, after 1 minute I gave up deciding that it wasn't going to get any better. When I was done, I ran to the door only stopping when I heard Emmett and Edward laughing loudly behind me.
I turned and slowly walked back into the main part of the room. "What?" I asked, confused, when I saw them still laughing.
Edward stopped laughing long enough to give me an answer. "Dude, you ran into your room to go get changed and then ran back out when you were done. You realize that it's only been 3 minutes and you told Bella that it would take you 10?"
"Someone's excited!" Emmett sang excitedly as I stood there embarrassed as I felt a blush creep up my neck and color my cheeks.
"Well I haven't seen her in a while; obviously I'm excited to be able to hang out with her." I said defensively.
Emmett just shook his head, "Sure sure. Now stop wasting your time and go to their room!" He said and that's all it took for me to race out the room again.
I ran down the hallway to their room before slowing down just before it so I wouldn't look like I'd been running. I raised my hand to knock and the second my fist hit the door, the door flung open revealing an impatient Bella.
"Well, someone's happy to see me." I teased as I smiled at her.
She smirked at me. "I'm not the one that came running down the hallway."
My jaw fell open, "Wha…how?"
"Your hair's worse than it was before, you look just as impatient as me and it took you 5 minutes to get here when you said 10." She said looking proud of herself.
I shook my head in shame. "Fine, so I was excited too. Geez, let's go."
She walked out the door into the hallway. "Bye guys, I'll be back later!" She called back to Rose and Alice.
"Bye Bella!" I heard from both of them. As soon as the door shut behind us I pulled Bella close to me as I hugged her softly.
"It's been so long since I've seen you." I said quietly looking straight into her eyes.
"I know Jazz, never again I promise." She said as she leant up on her tiptoes to I kiss me on the cheek.
I let her go and settled for wrapping my arm around her waist as we walked to the elevator. "So J, where do you want to go today?" she asked.
I thought about it and I had no clue until I saw the excited gleam in her eyes. "You pick today, I don't have any ideas." I was rewarded when I saw her eyes light up and she looked at me happily.
"Really? I can pick, are you sure?" she asked, not succeeding in hiding her excitement.
I laughed at her quietly. "Really, I'm positive."
"Thanks Jasper!" she said happily as we got into the elevator. I knew her mind was running wild with ideas when she didn't say anything the whole way to her car. She was so out of it that she almost ran into some random guy in the parking lot.
I pulled her out of his way right in time and she seemed to jerk back into reality. "Oh shit, sorry I didn't see you." She apologized quickly to the guy.
He winked at her, "Why don't you come to dinner with me and you can make it up to me?"
The anger I felt at him was indescribable. I pulled Bella into my side and she wrapped her arm around my waist trying to calm me down. "How about you leave her alone and I'll take her to dinner to make it up to her that she had to talk to you?"
He rolled his eyes, completely ignoring me. "Find me when you get tired of your boyfriend."
"Don't hold your breath; I'll never get tired of Jasper." She called out behind him as she pulled me to the car.
I turned around and smirked at him as we were walking away, feeling sufficiently proud that he wouldn't bother us anymore.
"Jazz, stop smirking." She said without turning around as she got into the driver's seat.
I pouted as I got into the passenger's side, "He was annoying."
She started laughing as she turned to face me. "Why was he so annoying J?"
I looked at her dumbfounded. "Why? Let's see; he winked at you, he asked you to dinner, he ignored me…" I said before she interrupted you.
"Yea, but why did that annoy you? He was talking to me." She asked seriously and I knew I had to fix this problem.
"Isabella Marie Swan; if you think that I'm going to let people talk to you like that you don't know me at all and I know that's not true. You would have never asked me that ridiculous question 2 years ago." I said giving her a pointed look which caused her to turn away from me.
I put my hand under her chin and turned her so she was facing me. The sadness in her eyes almost caused me to fall backwards with their intensity.
"B, what happened?" I asked softly.
She turned away from me and wiped her eyes to keep the tears from falling, "Nothing J, it's not a big deal."
I bit my tongue to keep myself from asking her again; it hurt that she didn't trust me enough to tell me now but I would wait. I turned so I was looking out the window knowing that if I saw her crying I would do something stupid.
She put the car into park and pulled out of the parking lot; the quietness in the car was tainted with sadness, confusion, pain and hurt and it bothered me that this was ruining our time together.
I turned back towards her and I noticed that there will still tears streaming down her face so I decided to take matters into my own hands; literally. I leaned over and took one of her hands off the steering wheel and placed it on my knee with my hand covering it. She looked over and gave me a small smile but that wasn't enough.
"Come on Bella, I know you're jealous of my amazing dance moves but you don't have to cry." I teased.
I heard her laugh resonate throughout the car and I couldn't help the huge smile that stretched across her face. She smiled as her eyes lit up with the familiar happiness and I was so happy that I had been the one to put it back there.
I smiled happily when she turned to look at me and we drove in silence for a while, both of us much happier this time.
"Hey B, where are we going?" I asked, just remembering that she hadn't said anything.
She smiled excitedly and I noticed some nervousness etched onto her face but I decided to let it go. "It's a surprise, you'll see eventually."
"No fair; you know where we're going!" I said, sounding uncannily like a little kid.
She laughed, "Obviously J, I'm the one driving. Oh, there's a blindfold in the side of your door; can you put it on?"
"No way in hell am I going to wear a blindfold while you drive us around a country we've never been in before!" I exclaimed loudly.
I should have known she wouldn't take no for an answer. She pulled over onto the side of the road before turning so she was facing me.
"Please Jasper, for me? I really, really want to surprise you and I won't be able to unless you put the blindfold on. Besides, don't you trust me?" She asked as she gave me The Look, you know the one; big, wide eyes aimed at me, but chin tilted down just a little. Yep, that one. The one I never say no to.
I groaned before rummaging through the box-ish thing on the side of the door. When I finally found it, I pulled it out before giving it to Bella. "You know you could probably stab someone and get away with it with just that pout?"
She laughed as she took the blindfold from my outstretched hand. She tied it around my eyes, plunging me into the darkness. I felt her kiss my cheek, sending an unknown feeling through me. "Thanks J, I love you."
"Yea, yea." I muttered. "Love you too."
I felt the car smoothly move forward and I figured she had pulled back onto the road. This time she placed her hand over mine and I squeezed her hand.
The fact that she wouldn't be able to see my eyes gave me a lot of free time to think about what had happened before. The only thing that I could come up with was that something horrible had happened to my Bella. But what and why won't she tell me? Am I really that unworthy that she wouldn't tell me?
Maybe she doesn't want you to worry. A small part of my brain said.
But I always tell her everything; why won't she tell me?
You tell her everything huh; does she know that you're smoking?
No, but that's different.
Different cause you're the one hiding something from her.
Shit. Ugghhh; I had to tell her about the smoking thing. I could never expect her to tell me what was going on with her if I was hiding something from her. I would tell her; I just had to find the right time.
I was pulled out of my depressing train of thought when I felt the car come to a stop. I turned in the general direction that B was in and heard her take a deep breath before nervously saying, "Are you ready?
I smiled in what I hoped was a reassuring way. "Yea; I'm sure this will be amazing. Thanks B."
I heard a smile in her voice when she replied. "You haven't even seen it yet; don't thank me until you see it. You might hate it."
"I could never hate something that you're showing me."
She shoved me, "Don't make me blush Jasper."
I laughed loudly and I heard her join in. "Okay, stay in the car. I'm going to come around to your side and I'll guide you."
"Bella," I whined. "I open your door; you're not supposed to open mine."
I could almost hear her rolling her eyes. "Jazz, you're blindfolded. If you tried to open my door you'd probably end up hurting me. Is that what you want?"
"No." I pouted as I settled back into my seat, crossing my arms over my chest.
"That's what I thought." She said as I heard her open and close her door. She opened my door, "Come on J; get out of the car."
I just sat there wanting to see what she would do. "Jasper Hale Whitlock. I swear if you do not get out of that car I will personally drag you."
I remained sitting, feeling a smile pull up the corners of my mouth. She sighed before coming closer to me and before she could figure out what I was doing I shot my arms out where I guessed she should be and grabbed her so she was sitting in the car on top of me.
"Jasper! The point is to get out of the car." She said only succeeding in making me laugh.
"I think we should just stay in the car." I whispered into her ear. She giggled quietly before sighing dramatically.
"If you want we can stay in the car and not do what I spent hours planning for us to do. If that's what you really want-"she started before I cut her off.
"Okay okay I get it; let's get out of the car." I pouted making her laugh.
I felt her climb off of me and out of the car. I followed her out before standing there, still pouting. "As cute as you look pouting, we actually do have to get somewhere." She said.
"Lead the way darlin'." I said as I squeezed her hand that I was holding.
She squealed excitedly before abruptly pulling me in her direction. We walked for at least a half an hour; going in circles and twisting and turning which succeeded in making me completely unsure of where we were. Just as I opened my mouth to ask her if we were lost, she stopped walking.
"Okay, we're here!" She said excitedly. "On the count of three, take off your blindfold." She said, some of her nervousness creeping back into her voice.
"One,"
"Two,"
She took a deep sigh before finishing. "Three."
I nearly ripped the blindfold off my face in my haste to see where we were. When I finally got it off and looked around, I felt my jaw drop in shock.
A/N: Hey guys, I know I keep asking for reviews but this is my first time writing and I'd really appreciate if you guys could tell me if it's good or bad. I don't want to end up wasting my time if this story's really bad.
