Blood Lust || Jasper Hale

Bonus Chapter

JASPER

He had to restrain himself from going outside Sabrina's house and listen to what his adoptive parents said to her. Carlise had made him promise to stay at home and let them have a normal dinner with his new coworker, and when Jasper had looked at Esme seeking for help, he had only found two unmoving eyes looking back at him.

«Be careful, » Edward had advised them. «Sabrina will study everything you'll do, say or not say. If you lie, she'll know. »

It had surprised all of them at first, how easily she could recognize a lie. Edward had found it by reading her mind during school; she had immediately caught him lying when he and Jasper went back to school after a week of hunting everything they could find.

«Am I the only one who think this is a bad idea? » said Rosalie behind Carlise. «Why are you trying to get close to that girl? It would be better if we stay as far away from her as we can. »

«Because Sabrina had been right, » Esme said pointing her daughter with just her look. «She had noticed that we always keep for ourselves, and that attracts attention to us. It's time we start to act as humans do, making friends. »

«Besides, her father wants to thank us for Jasper saving her life. It would only be stranger if we didn't show up. » Carlise said to all his children.

Jasper could feel everything his family felt. His parents were calm; Rosalie was a boiling pond of anger; Alice was happy beside him; Emmett was trying to calm Rosalie with his lightness and Edward was too focused to read everyone mind to formulate an emotion of his own. Which, this particular thought gained a raised eyebrow from the brother in question.

«It will go all right. » said Alice trying to reassure everyone. «They had made pizza, it seems delicious. »

Once their parents went away, the three brothers sat on the couch and turned the tv on a baseball's game. But all Jasper could think about was Sabrina.

He had lost count about how many times he had been close to kill her, and every time she had faced him as if she could beat him. As if he wasn't the most dangerous predator that existed. She had looked him straight in the eyes, and he had seen the fire inside her. He had seen the determination to hold her ground, forcing him to be the one who stepped back.

Edward had told them that she was unnaturally good at reading people, but Jasper was too, and he hadn't needed much time before understanding that something had happened. If her reactions to others' aggressiveness weren't enough, it had been what she had said to him that day.

«Nothing you could do will be worse than what others already did. »

Jasper didn't know if she meant figuratively or literally; but something inside him made him want to find out who they were and hunt them down to make them pay. Edward had seen something, a brief memory that had flashed in front of her eyes of a knife slicing through her skin. She had closed off that memory as fast as it had come.

He couldn't place that memory on her. Sabrina looked like someone who had the perfect life that everyone dreamed about. She was always smiling, always calm and always with a kind word ready for those who needed it.

It drove him crazy. He knew that it was a façade. He knew that she wasn't always calm, but somehow, she managed to keep her emotions closed somewhere. When he had tried to look deeper inside her, the only things he had found were tiny little boxes from which he had felt all the anger, sadness, excitement and all the other strong emotions she never showed.

He was the reason she had snapped at him the first day of school. He was just so angry at her to have put her life in danger by coming to Forks, and angry at himself to needing to drink her blood, that he hadn't noticed he had projected that angriness toward the girl in question, making her just as angry at him as he was at himself.