Drag Me Down

Chapter 12 |

Chapter 12 | Elizabelle Swan

I walked across the field, looking at Ryder who turned and glared at me. "What happened?" I turned seeing Nic looking at me curiously, but I knew to avoid the question.

So instead I smiled, running my hand through my hair. "Nothing, nothing of your concern. Don't worry -- Ryder and I, guess we have our downfall," I shrug kissing his cheek before continuing my walk and heading to Jasper who leaned against his Ducati motorcycle. I got on and he followed suit, as I wrapped my arms around him. My phone buzzed in my pocket, first with a call then with a message, but I ignored them as I focused my attention on Jasper. He stopped at a store, getting a chocolate and vanilla shake. I held them as he drove, carefully, before we walked to a park. I showed him a private place, and he sat down, sipping on his vanilla shake, disgust in his features. I giggled, but sat down near him as he looked up. The place was a beautiful nature filled place, a tree fallen nearby, a rock in another -- I love this place, but though I said it was private it was no where near as private as another of my places. "Giggles," he whispered, looking distant, as if he was going through something and wanted to ask me something.

So I asked, "Jasper?"  His gaze turned to me and he set his shake down, relief in his features.

"Long ago, literally before who I am now. I fell in love. We even got married. She was perfect. When I became who I am now, I remembered her, but slowly and surely I began to forget about her as after she died. I never remembered much of her -- only that I married her, was deeply in love, but wanted her to live on. Without my monster.  I lived years, years with that, then I met someone who brought my wedding day and even her death back. Not all, but she brought that and more." He suddenly stood up, running to me with a great speed. I set down my shake standing up, as my body shivered in a way I could explain as Fight or Flight?

"Jasper, you. . ." I rose a hand, and he hooked his fingers into  mine, interlocking them.

"When you cried, I got some more back. I remembered times she did the same. Elizabelle, I remembered what she looked like -- darlin' she looked like you. Black wavy hair, that waved to her waist, eyes that sparkle with so much emotion and everything else, perfect skin. Southern Belle, I called her. You are her." He walked closer to me, his face close to mine, he picked me up and held me against a tree with incredible  strength. "Then I realized," he whispered, "she once told me, a kiss can reveal a lot. Elizabelle, if I kiss you I think I can see everything else. Please, please give me permission too."

Still a gentleman, a voice said. I looked down, wanting to kiss him. "Jasper. . .I-I want too; but you have Alice. Without knowing she will be fine with my doing so, then I don't think I will give you my permission."

The thing was, even that didn't make me stop leaning forward. I wanted to kiss him. "I don't think that can stop me," he whispered, and I felt my legs unconsciously wrap around his waist.

Something told me that I was being watched, that I needed to pull away. So I did, I pulled away leaning back into the tree while Jasper stared into my eyes. "I need to know, I need to know if you're Shadow's reincarnation or something more," he mumbled then he pulled me to him as I gasped and he kissed me.

Before I could react to his lips on mine, Jasper was pulled back and I flew forward falling to the floor as Jasper slammed into a tree. "Don't touch my Minnie," Nic growled and I looked up realizing the Cullen's, Jax, Blake, Ryder, and Nic were here. Jasper stood up and he seemed to come back, looking at me with shock and Alice with slight q

I ran a hand through my hair, feeling something being held back.  Then I realized Nic had pulled him away. "I can handle myself, Nic," I say standing up.

Nic turned his glare from Jasper to me. "Minnie, you were about to kiss him because of his words! He was like an--an incubus or whatever the demon is called!"

I glared back at him shaking my head. "So what? If you said some words, that made me want to kiss you, am I to believe that you are an Incubus?"

"Yes! Because that has never happened!" I walked up, grabbing my bag that was near as everyone stared at me.

"You're wrong, Nic. I have had times where I nearly kissed you, too. So I guess Jasper can throw you into a tree too!" I turned and jumped into a tree leaving them all shocked. "I had it. I wouldn't have missed up Alice and Jasper's relationship," I whisper, "And I'm hurt you wouldn't trust me. But I guess I shouldn't, huh? You did just establish you're a demon," I say be for disappearing into the tree's.

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I took off my clothes, before going into the water. I laid down, sinking to the bottom as I did. I felt myself relax, opening my eyes seeing people look down. I felt worried, stressed, and a bit anxious, feelings I knew were the people's. I sighed, pushing to the surface breathing in deeply. "Liz?" I looked at Blake, before grinning at my other boys that were there.

"Blake, c'mon, it's the day we skinny dip," I say with a wink. Blake laughed, before jumping in making me laugh. Blake, discarded his clothes, throwing them where mine were before looking at me with a smirk. I laughed as he rushed forward wrapping his arms around my waist.

"Just don't make things awkward," I say as I heard Mason jump in.

"Like it'll be us," Blake says as Mason swam up.

"Dude," we turned to Jackson who smirked. "You will be!" I laughed at that, before pushing away and diving down, swimming into the dark waters. It felt safe, but knew, not every situatiom that has me sinking to the bottom waters will be safe.

For now, I got dressed in my bra and underwear, after ten minutes, as everyone jumped in. Striped bare for at least ten minutes, before getting dressed in their undergarments. We pretended that nothing had happened, not the earlier scene, not the past few weeks, not even the past year.

We put our differences aside, and just relaxed in the moment. It was perfect, but I knew too that not all this perfection will last. Heck, we all knew this could even be one of our last perfect and calm moments all together for a while.

I looked around at all the boys, allies, Cullen's, and laughed and played along for the longest of time's. Life was perfectly imperfect, just as the case be with me.