Finding My Place | Jasper Hale

Dreams or Nightmares

Kira had jumped through the window. At first she hadn't wanted to, but the sounds of Edward fighting Jasper, and Carlisle trying to coax her out of the bathroom, had pushed her to do it. So, while ignoring her fear of heights, Kira had jumped out of the window.

She knew it would be a long fall, but what nobody knew was at her boarding school, she had spent a lot of time with her friends in the forest behind the school. They had often dared each other to climb the trees, or climb some of the larger rocks and hills. Kira had gotten quite good at scaling trees, when she had the motivation to ignore her fear. Often her and her friends would place bets on who could climb the highest, and Kira was always determined to win.

So when Kira had spotted the tree within jumping distance from the window, she hadn't hesitated. She knew it was risky, and she might not even make the jump, but he had gone for it anyways, preferring it to the other option.

With one last shout to Carlisle, Kira jumped out of the window. She quickly scaled down the tree, trying not to make any noticeable sounds, that would let the Cullens know that she had left. She didn't want them following her. They had originally seemed very nice, but now that she had seen who Jasper truly was, she did not feel that she could trust the family anymore.

Kira had run into the forest with no sense of direction or plan. She knew it was a bad idea, and that she was only repeating her previous mistakes, but she also knew that if she had gone around to the front of the house to take the path back to the road, she would definitely be spotted by at least one of the Cullens. So Kira continued on through the forest.

She walked until she could barely feel her legs anymore, but continued to push herself nonetheless. At one point in her walk, Kira thought she heard something rustling the bushes near her, but brushed it off as probably a small animal running away from her presence. Kira continued on her trip, without incident, until she saw a flash of fur. The rustling from the animal had continued throughout her trek, but only now was Kira seeing this animal. She couldn't get a good look, but from the glimpse that she got, she realized that it was a very large animal. Larger than anything she had ever seen before.

Before Kira could react to the animal though, it had disappeared. Kira let out a sigh of relief, but was still on high alert. She wasn't sure why the animal hadn't attacked her, but knew that she should be grateful, and try to get out of this forest as soon as possible.

Kira walked for at least another twenty minutes. All of her surroundings looked the same, Kira couldn't tell if she was getting any closer to home, or if she was just walking in circles. As Kira was about to give up, the sky already turned dark a long time ago, she heard another noise. This time though, instead of an animal, a guy about her age walked out from behind a tree.

He was extremely tan, with large muscles, that could only come from a lot of weight lifting or steroids. This guy was very tall, at least a foot taller than Kira, and he wasn't wearing any clothes, other than a pair of shorts. Kira looked down, feeling herself blush at the realization that he was almost naked, but he didn't seem nearly as amused.

"What are you doing out here at this time?" He had asked her, sounding annoyed.

Kira had just looked up at him. She didn't want to tell anybody about what had happened with Jasper, and she couldn't think of any other plausible reason for her to be in the middle of the forest, late at night.

She only shrugged, before smirking up at him. "What are you doing out here at this time?" She asked.

This only seemed to make the guy mad, his expression contorting into one of anger, scaring Kira a few steps backwards. But, before this guy could do anything to harm Kira, another guy stepped out from the trees in which Kira had seen the guy come from.