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Pairing: Jasper/Bella

Chapter 12: Real Food

As soon as Bella arrived home, she started to cook. Something inside her would not let her stop. All she wanted to do was cook.

Every single fan was blowing. Every window was cracked open. There was even little spots of cooking oil on the floor.

She had placed a dishtowel on the floor in attempts to wipe up the small mess. Her foot was still on the edge on the towel just encase she forgot then slipped on it. Bella had not wanted to look like a slop but she felt so horrible about leaving Jasper.

Baking made her feel better in the past. The humans seemed to appreciate her cooking in one of her past missions. She had worked at night as a fry-cook in a restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida years ago.

Her target saw her as trying to integrate into society but in truth she missed the smell of food. Real food. Some days, she would go to her job just to smell the food.

Blood was on her diet menu but she wanted the time to slow down to remember her past. There was no harm in smelling something other than her normal diet.

Every time, she drank from an animal it reminded her of the past. Real food. Once upon a time, she loved the taste of it. More importantly, she wanted others to love the taste of her food.

There were so many foods that she had yet to try. She would never try them.

"Bella. Why did you make all this food?"

Bella knew that Charlie entered his home but she paid no mind to him. There was cooking to do. "I don't think I can stop."

Charlie took a hold of one of her hands. "Talk to me. I know we do not talk enough. It is my fault. Something is wrong. Talk to me. I want to help. Just. Bella talk to me."

"I met someone." Jasper. She met him. He was not just someone but a possible mate.

He wondered when she could meet someone. When? There was so many dishes of food that he wondered if she was there all day. Did she fall in love with a delivery-boy? "A boy?"

"I met him in the forest. I can't stop thinking about him."

The forest. There was so many animals that could drag her away in the forest but she met a boy. "Did you? Did you do anything s-sexual with him?"

Bella turned to Charlie. "Dad."

A random scary jungle boy took my daughters heart away, Charlie thought to himself. "Did you use protection? Will I be a grandfather? Tell me. What happened?"

Sex? No. She was interrupted. "There was no sex. I think he is the one for me. He has captured my heart and will not let it go. All this is too much. I don't normally feel this way. Dad, I can't think without him."

Charlie kept thinking about a dark wavy haired male in the forest coming to attack women but instead Bella thinks he is cute. He would of course be someone rugged bearded-unwashed mass that carried a shot gun to get the girls. He even saw the dirty male drizzling his shoes in deer urine to attract deer. "I will not be able to keep you as my little girl for much longer. I know you have to grow. I hoped I would have a year or more to be with you. Don't forget about me. Make time for me too Bella."

Bella hugged her new father. "I didn't think you would understand."

"I do. I just do not want you to stay away from me in this time of your life. I want to be part of it." Charlie thought about the crazy person that he imagined. No doubt, he was something out of a romance novel.

"Thanks for understanding." Bella gave her dad a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Does this boy have a name?" In other words, was there a name to put on the restraining order?

"Jasper Cullen." Bella blushed actually blushed for the first time in a very long time. She doubted that he would use the name Hale as his last name.

Cullen. None of Carlisle's kids were crazy. How would she meet one of them in the forest? "Would he be one of Carlisle's kids?"

"Yes. You know him?" It would be better if he knew the guy before she introduced them. Jasper would not have to work so hard for her affections.

Wait. Charlie was not really her dad. What was she thinking?

"I have seen him many times at the hospital."

"He was in the forest, too. Carlisle is a very nice man."

Charlie wondered what they were doing in the forest. "I agree."

That was it. Bella would have to take him with her when she left that town. She knew that she would not be the same without Charlie. Bella didn't want to go back to her life without him.

Her plans might be changed but there was no way she was leaving without both Jasper and Charlie. There was no way in hell she was going to change those plans.

Yes, someone would have to pay for attacking her new family. They were still out there. Not for long.

Charlie would have to be protected.

Jasper would have to wait for a little longer.

Her so-called minions would need to be dealt with as soon as possible.

Charlie was helping her clean up when she said, "I don't know what someone one like him would see in someone like me. Look at me. Look at me."

"I see you. I see the prettiest girl in the world."

"Dad."

"No. He is so much better then me. I am so fucked up. Look at me."

Charlie pulls her to him. "Bella. You are not fucked up. You may have made one mistake but you are a good person. If he cannot see it. Bella look at me. If he cannot see it, it is his lose. Don't do this to yourself."

"Do you think someone like him will want to date someone like me: a skinny emotionally challenged person."

"Yes. He is lucky to have you."

"You don't know what this means to me dad."

That did it. There was no way that she was leaving Forks without her new dad. He was perfect. The Volturi would know it was true. Everyone there would agree.

Aro himself would kill to have someone like him on the team. However, he would not get a chance. No one would get to him first.

"I think I do."

No. He really would never know what he was doing for her. Everything was falling into place.

Everything always came so easy for her. Everything was so carefully planned out. Every step was fallowed.

The unknown was to be feared not to be embraced. How could she live without being a member of the Volturi? How could she think about leaving her family?

Charlie did not belong with that family. He belonged with a family that would appreciate his talents.

What would Jasper think about turning Charlie? Would he think that it would be a good idea?

Everything was too morbid for her. Turn him. Don't turn him. In the end, it would for her to decide.