Follow Where The Music Takes You

Lady

Bella

The journey to Montana was okay, a couple of scary moments and Jasper laughing at me as I hid under a pile of his clothes. His scent blocked out the humans better than anything, granted at one point I had a tee on my head. I had it covering my ears, eyes, nose and mouth, basically wrapped around my whole head and then I stuck my head inside his jacket.

The only problem with that was he had it on, I could feel his chest vibrating with his suppressed laughter. But the concentrated smell of him and the purring he started to do after he heard me whimper was calming and helped me cope more than anything else. Once we were well away from any intense, high population pockets of humans he had me hanging out the truck window trying to recognise scents.

Some were easy, like cattle and sheep, others like horses were harder, the wilder ones didn't smell like the domesticated ones at all. Then there were all the small mammal's humans ignored or thought of as pests, jeez there were so many subspecies of everything. Every tree was different, the grass, healthy, diseased, dying and burnt each smelt different.

Next were the crops it was endless, but my vampire brain catalogued it all and stored the memory for the next time. Jasper let me talk to my dad on speaker phone and I was telling him all about it,

"Well be thankful you're in Montana kiddo, there are only five main types of moss to remember, here in Washington it's way, way, way more!" he said laughing at me and I huffed.

Damn, I was a vampire and still, my dad made fun of me,

"Yeah, yeah! Thank you, David Attenborough" I snarked back at him half-heartedly.

But it was so nice to hear his voice; it gave this crazy ride I was on, some stability. Every so often I got antsy for no apparent reason and Jasper just started to sing to me. I melted into a little puddle of goo on the seat, soaking up his happy vibes and enjoying the sexy rough timber of his voice. I had thought it spectacular before, but damn it was so much better to my vampire ears.

'Lady, I'm your knight in shining armour and I love you.

You have made me what I am and I am yours'

He could sing any county song from any era, at present, it was Kenny Rodger's Lady,

'Lady, For so many years I thought I'd never find you.

You have come into my life and made me whole'

The one thing above all else I've learned about Jasper Whitlock, he's a romantic. He can find just the right things to say, to express our love in a song. Unlike Edward, this was not to show off his brilliance, but to bring us closer together and that to me means so much more. He's happy to use someone else's words to tell me how he feels about me.

But it's not just that, he's calm - so I'm calm. He's happy - so I'm happy. He believes in me and I believe in his ability to keep me safe. In short, he loves me, the me I am, the me I've always been, as much as I love him. We complement each other, no jockeying for position. He trusts me and that is the crux of the matter, Edward never did. Because he never actually loved me or Esme, more than he loved himself.

Jasper

Our journey was goin' a lot better than I'd hoped. Bella was way more controlled than she gave herself credit for. But damn, I loved how much she thought she needed me. Nobody ever deferred to me as much as she does, not in a submissive way, cause she ain't. But as a guide, a mentor and it was beyond gratifyin'. In fact, she gained as much from it as I did, we needed each other.