Alone Together (Jasper Hale)

02: Welcomed.

Alone Together 2

2000

Since the last time I had met Emmett, I took his words into mind and tried to feed on animals. At first I had an extreme distaste for it and often went back to humans within the first year. After that, it got easier and easier to swallow. Soon I developed my own taste for animal and humans. But I had my exceptions. The only humans I would be eating were the terrible kind, the serial killers and rapists I would stumble upon time to time from each town. If there weren't any criminals to nab, I fed off animals. It seemed to work. I thought that I was helping the world just a little bit at the time. My eyes became rose gold because of this. Obviously if I had eaten more animals that humans it's be a brighter shade of gold, and a deeper shade of red the other way around. Lately though, I've fed off animals. There were no horrible human beings I've come across who committed crimes punishable by death. My death.

Emmett had given me an open invitation to visit him whenever. He had given me a number to reach him by. And though he had given it me over twenty years ago, I didn't know why I hadn't tossed it. I felt as if I was ready to go and meet his coven. After the decades of feeding mainly off animals, I felt like I was worthy enough to have gone to them. I heard more about the family he was with. They were the Olympian Coven, the Cullens. They were the ones who began to eat animals instead of humans. Which then influenced another coven to have done so as well. I thought it was a great way to impact other creatures like us.  It made me curious of their existence and I hope that if I were to visit I could permanently keep at the animal diet. And maybe even possibly find a home. Though I wasn't a century old, I began to grow wary of the nomadic life. A huge part of me was tired of being alone. As each year had passed, I kept Emmett's invitation at mind and the idea grew more plausible as each day passed.

I didn't know how they would react to a stranger at their door. When I were to visit them, I hoped that Emmett would open the door. My mind had filled with doubts. There was a huge chance they wouldn't be as accepting of me as he made it seem all those years ago. They could hate me for who I was. They might not tolerate what I had done. After all, I still had a partial human diet. What if I couldn't be part of the coven because of that? I frowned at the thought. I trusted Emmett's judgement though. I knew how selective covens were and he wouldn't just invite anyone to his family if he didn't think they would be accepted. He was after all an old lover and friend. I groaned internally. What if the fact I had a very old relationship with him cause a strife between me and his mate? They would obviously choose her side over mine. I groaned again and decided against not going. But the fact my bags were all packed and stared me right in the face told me to suck it up. I owed it to Emmett after all these years after all.

There was a knock on my door right before I tried to call Emmett on my own phone. I opened the door to reveal a girl a tad shorter than me, and a short cropped hair. She was a vampire but who was she and how did she know me? She greeted me with a smile and behind her I saw a range rover.

"You're even more beautiful than I visioned." The mysterious girl gawked at me for a moment before she snapped out of it. "Hi! I'm Alice Cullen." She smiled brightly at me and even hugged me. Once she said Cullen I eased up. She must've been the precognitive one Emmett mentioned. "I've been watching you for Emmett's sake since like 1990." She chuckled like it was nothing. "I saw you made the decision to finally visit us so I figured I'd beat you to calling Emmett and surprise him!" She giggled. I was a bit shocked, how could this girl accept me so easily?

"I'm S-"

"Sage Bradshaw, we all know." In a split second all my bags had been in her car. And I saw her shut the back door of it. "Emmett raved about you for the first year and he asks about you yearly. And he even asked me to check up every now and again." That was sweet of Emmett. "He's so overprotective, like you're his sister or something." I bit my lip to prevent from saying old lovers. Three years in my human life with him meant a lot. "But gosh you really are gorgeous! You're going to make Rose have a run for her money." I don't think it's such a good idea to be going anymore if Rosalie had been his mate. I wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes. Alice had to practically strap me into the seat. "Tell me about yourself Sage!" Alice was perky and outgoing, it wasn't something I had been used to. "How old are you really? Oh no. Maybe I should wait until we get home. Because they're going to asking you the same questions. That'll be annoying if you ask me." Her attitude and personality was infectious. It put me at ease.