CRESCENT (Alex X Jacob #2)

Chapter 13

           Alex I know that you do not trust my family and I". Edward said breaking the silence as we drove down the road towards the open training field. I glanced up from my knees to meet his eyes. I let out a sigh. It was true that I did not trust any of them. Especially after what went down with Jasper and how they left my sister to just slowly fade away for several. But I could feel the rock-hard texture breaking inside of me.
After how much Edward and his family wanted to keep us safe something in me was warming up to them. However I still did not like them. I could forgive them for leaving my sister to protect her, but I would never forget what they had done. And maybe I could never get over it, but I knew that anger made a person ugly and I didn't want that anger to eat away at me.
"Your right. I don't trust you or your family-"
"However, that does not change the fact that we will protect you and Bella. You have my word". Edward replied as we pulled up to the spot where everyone was to meet. Before I got out of the jeep I grabbed onto Ed's arm. He looked over at me.
"I don't trust you, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm..." I let out a sigh. "That I'm grateful for you and your family for looking out for me and Bella". Edward smiled and nodded his head to me as I let go of his arm and got out of the car. Then I looked at all the eyes on us as several large figures approached the top cliff of rocks. Several large wolves glared back at us and I nearly fell flat on my ass. Eyes widened my breathing quickened.
It had been a year since I had first and last seen the wolves and first discovered that Jake was a werewolf and seeing these things again had caught me off guard. I pulled my hood of my jacket over my head as the second largest of the wolves stared at me with its brown eyes. I smiled wide as the wolf moved his way towards. The thing was almost as tall as me just standing on its four legs. The wolf nudged its nose on my chest and I ran both my hands through his thick rusty colored coat.
"Good morning to you too, Jake". Smiling I placed my hand on the back of his left ear and leaned in closer to him. Nearly bracing myself up against his strong stature. He winced and rubbed his head against my side. I bent down and kissed the top of his nose.
"All of this seems so crazy". I replied watching as Edward spoke and translated for both his family and the wolves. Everything seemed to be happening so fast. It had only been a few days since we had learned of the attack and now here we were training for it. And in a week that newborn army would be here, in Forks. Hunting me and my sister down. It didn't seem real to me. Part of me didn't want to believe it.
"A month ago we were just hanging out, just the two of us and now were doing this". I said gesturing to the fighting vampires. "It feels so unreal". I stroked the fur on Jake's back as I happened to catch Alice flipping Jasper flat on his ass. A laugh escaped me making Jasper turn his eyes to me as he stood back up on his feet.
"Happy to be of service, ma'am". Jasper grinned making his way over to my sister. I smiled at Jake then nodded at him to join the training. He growled, but obeyed and found his way to the rest of the group as I made my way over to my sister and Jasper.
"How do you know so much about newborns, Jasper?" My sister questioned him as I sat on the top of jeep. He smiled and proceed to roll up the shelves of his shirt. Lining both of his lower arms were rows and rows of bite marks. My eyes widened as I looked up at him.
"What the hell happened?
He sighed and began his long tale.
Appreantly Jasper was a major in the confedierate war when he came across a woman named Maria. She begged him for help and the next thing he knew he wake up in ruthless pain. A pain so traumatic that he wanted to die. Jasper said he had tried to kill. He used whatever he could in that barn to do it, but nothing worked. His body was too powerful. Too strong. Soon he gave into the pain and hunger and killed. Before he could realize what a monster he was Maria created more like him. She only made her coven larger. And as we had learned every newborn was ruthless, unpredictable.
Everything Jasper had went through had made him stronger, more aware of what and who he was and hearing how he had been treated when he had been changed part of me didn't hate him anymore. All of us at some point in our lives go through unimagainable struggles that put us in dark places and awaken our deepest fears, but it takes a true good person to rise above those demons and strive towards the good again.
And Jasper had done that. He had gotten away from Maria. He had gotten help. Thanks to Alice and Carlisle. They showed him a better way. A better path to this life. And I couldn't hate him for that. Even after what happened with Bella, it really wasn't his fault. He wasn't used to this lifestyle. To his adoptive brother dating a human. I let out a sigh.
"Alex, I want you to know that what happened at Bella's party—I had no intentions of hurting her, I was just so overcome by the thirst that I-"
"You don't need to apologize anymore, Jasper". I stopped him as I let out a breath I was holding back. My entire mind was racing with feelings and thought about how I should or shouldn't feel about the Cullen's and I needed time to figure it out, but the one thing that I knew for certain was that at one point all the Cullen's were human and none of them had asked for this life.
"Alex-"
"Please just stop". I said trying to fake a smile. He nodded as I jumped off the top of the jeep and decided to take a walk. I could hear footsteps behind me.
"Alex wait". Bella said coming after me.
"Look, Bells I need some alone time to think and sort through my thoughts". And with that I took off into the woods. Leaving both my sister and the rest of the company in the back of my field of vision.
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