After Elizabeth confirmed her suspicions about Jasper, the pair stayed in the woods for awhile longer. They had already skipped school so there wasn't much point in going back.

They both sat with their backs against separate trees, close enough so Elizabeth could hear Jasper talking but not so close that her scent would bother Jasper (worse than it did normally anyway).

They had asked each other pointless questions for some time until Elizabeth finally asked one that had some significant meaning;

"If you sparkle in the sunlight, what do you plan to do after the summer time arrives? It's gloomy here.. but only in the winter".

"We were actually just stopping by, we own a house up in Alaska that we normally go to for the summer time".

She blinked a few times trying to process "So you guys own two whole houses- that's- wow". Jasper chuckled at her baffled state "Yes, it is indeed 'wow'".

Elizabeth quickly thought of another question " I only saw your hand in the sunlight- briefly- but do you guys really sparkle that much? It must be beautiful to see."

Jaspers head flew up from its resting spot on the tree  base "It's not beautiful it's the sign of a killer, Elizabeth." he practically snapped "O-oh.. ok" she replied.

He chuckled slightly while looking up toward the tree leafs and closing his eyes "I'm sorry- but it's probably better if you don't see me.. 'sparkle'" He spoke while drawing out the word 'sparkle' a little bit to question the word choice.

"It's better if you don't see me sparkle because everything about me draws you in, seeing that would only lock in your dangerous future even more..."

She let out a soft sigh "Jasper- it doesn't matter if you sparkle or not... I don't think there's any going back now" He sighed as well realizing she was, in fact, right.

As Elizabeth went back to her peaceful state she looked up and copied Jaspers previous movements as she looked up at the trees while allowing her pale eyelids to flutter closed.

As they drifted into a comfortable silence Jasper looked up at Elizabeth and noticed her peaceful state, she looked like she was sleeping, but he knew from her breathing patters she wasn't.

As he looked over her beautiful face features he kept a lock on his own emotions, he never thought it was possible to love a person as one would love a color or a smell, nothing specific about the person but when you see them, something in your head just tells you that you love them.

When he looked over Elizabeth he could only describe her as a faded violet color, and although he could only smell her blood (which he hated himself for), he imagined she smelled like deep moon light... if that made any sense at all.

Elizabeth opened her eyes slightly, preparing to ask another question. As she opened her mouth to talk Jasper sped over to her- which looked like a blur from her point of view- and in that moment she expected him to kiss her, and so did he... but he did not, he knew kissing her right now could put her life at risk.

So he just quietly sat down next to her and tried to accumulate himself to her scent, he took deep breaths in and out. Each one burned his throat with venom but it slowly, ever so slowly, started to get slightly less painful.

So the two just sat there for hours 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐.

Although Jasper had been visiting Elizabeth while she slept to try and get accumulated to her scent... he did not mind the extra practice.

After awhile Elizabeth fell asleep and not much longer after that the school bell rang, releasing all the students. Not wanting to wake the sleeping beauty next to him, Jasper slowly scooped her into his arms effortlessly.

He made sure she was secured in his arms before he took off at a run toward her house, so quiet that the only sound to be heard was the pitter patter of his own feet whilst he ran.

After he got to the wooded area outside the back of her home he jumped up to her window, using one arm to hold her and a leg to prop himself in between the tree directly outside the window, he climbed in- careful not to wake Elizabeth.

After he set her down onto her own bed he ran a soft finger over her delicate cheek bone and left through the window again.

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*authors note*

not gonna lie i love this chapter... love u all!!