I had never seen someone so beautiful in my life. She was short even sitting down but her hair was spiky and a dark color. I tried to see her eyes but she wasn't looking at me quite yet.

I don't know why I came here. I just feel so scared and so hopeless. I don't know what to do anymore. I have felt everything for far too long now. There are people around and I can smell their blood. I can smell the the sweet scent of each person, the way that the young children's blood smells sweeter and more pure than the others. There was a drunk in here that I could smell too. His blood would taste bitter. And the sad part is that I would drink it if I was thirsty enough though I wouldn't like it.

I walked forward and I saw her get up.

When she arrived over to me I saw just how small she was but she looked up into my eyes and I couldn't even remember why I was here because it seemed as if this was the reason anything ever happened standing here right in front of me.

Then I felt everything. Love. True love. And desire and passion. But most of all hope.

I look her hand without making sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century I felt hope.

"You kept me waiting a long time." She says. Did I? I hadn't realized.

"My apologizes ma'am." I respond.

She smiles and it makes me almost smile back but I don't really remember what a smile looks like on my face anymore. I don't remember what it feels like either. It doesn't feel like something that I am allowed to feel anymore.

I knew she was a vampire by her scent so she must have smelled that I was one too. But she looked like she knew more about me than I did myself. Her hand was much softer under my rough scarred one. I am ashamed quickly and about to pull my hand away but I see that hope in her eyes when I look up again and I trust her.

That is something I have not done in years but I do now. I trust her.

"I'm Alice Brandon." She tells me.

Alice. Wow. It was simple and yet so detailed inside. It was very pretty and not too loud of a name but not something that can be overlooked. She was too stunning to be overlooked by anyone. I feel as if everyone in here has been looking at her. But she has only ever looked at me.

I am not used to that but I am a little proud. She rests our hands intertwined together down in between us but doesn't drop my gaze.

"I would tell you my name but I believe that you know it already, Miss. Alice."

"Yes Jasper I do. Why don't you come take a walk with me?"

I nod agreeing and I don't know why.

But I held her hand as we took a walk in a park that didn't have many people at all. Then she explained everything. She told me all about everything that happened. She told me about herself and about me and everything she saw.

By the time she is through explaining I understand that I won't have to tell her much about where I have been. I can tell her mood the entire time. She feels hopeful she fells happy and delighted and glad that I finally found her. It seemed that I had been keeping her waiting a long time. I had been far too depressed to see her but I don't feel that way now.

"Jasper I want you to know that you can trust me with everything. My gift only goes so far. I don't know everything about your past. I will only listen when you wish to tell me about it. I won't force you into anything."

That's where it got me. She wasn't going to force me. I could decide for myself. I have been listening to Maria for so long that I wasn't sure what it felt like to be able to make my own decisions without worrying about the consequences or the punishments that could be inflicted with Maria and Nettie around.

"Thank you Alice. I don't think you realize how happy that really makes me." I tell her.

"I don't know the way you do but I can imagine." She says with that smile again.

"Where do you plan on going?" I ask.

She tells me about this family that she calls "vegetarians" I didn't quite understand what that meant until she told me. They only feed off of the blood of animals and they survive that way. There are five of them. She tells me that they are wonderful people and that they aren't expecting us but that they will love us when we do arrive.

Carlisle is the leader of the clan and he is a human doctor. I didn't at all understand how that worked and when she began to explain she realized that it was making me uncomfortable so she stopped and moved on to the next coven member.

He is married to a woman named Esme that sounded like a wonderful mother I would love to have for the last few years when all I felt was hate and a strange kind of dark passion.

Rosalie would be my new sister I learned and that she and I looked quite similar. She was beautiful though but I couldn't imagine anyone looking more gorgeous than Alice Brandon is.

Rosalie is with a man named Emmett Cullen who loves fights and is rather funny. I am excited to meet my new brother. He seems like someone I would like to get along with.

Edward was one of the first Cullen's and he is still a son of Carlisle and Esme. He doesn't have a mate but I learn that he doesn't need one. He has a special gift like Alice and I. But he is able to read minds. That is a strange and very powerful gift I decided.

She told me that we would meet these people and that they would love us. I tried to trust her. I knew that I would. It's just that I don't know if I can meet such a nice family and be a happy part of it.

"Don't worry," she says, "I'll help you."

And the best part is that I didn't have to let go of her hand the entire time.