Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Perfect For Me

By Mama4Dukes

Chapter 07:

Later…

Jasper sat across from Bella at Wing Nuts and watched her as she excitedly poured hot sauce onto a wing and ate it. Suddenly, her eyes widened. She opened her mouth and started fanning it with her hand.

“Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Hot! Hot!” Jasper was bewildered and had no idea how to react. He handed his beer to her. She grabbed it and gulped it all down. “Ooh! That was hot. Wow! You should try this?”

“No, I’ll take your word for it,” he replied.

“Are you sure?” She popped her chin on her hand and winked at him.

“Yeah, I’m sure.”

“Okay, which one are you going to try?”

“Uh…”

“You should really lighten up, you know?”

“I should?”

“Yeah, you’re really uptight.”

Uptight? Jasper had never been called uptight by anyone. He was actually a very, relaxed guy. It was just… Bella was so… she made him tongue-tied. He simply enjoyed watching her. Oh, God! He was like a stalker! He might as well be climbing into her room at night to simply watch her sleep! What kind of a sick pup was he?

“Hey, are you okay?” Bella asked. “You look like you were just kicked in the balls.”

Jasper shook his head to snap out of his thoughts. He really had to relax in front of her. He glanced at the table. There were about ten different hot sauces on a tray, which they could try, and a basket of wings in front of them.

“I’m fine. I just had a disturbing thought, but all is well now.” He smiled at her and reached for a chicken wing. “Let me try this sauce.”

He liberally sprinkled some hot sauce onto his wing and popped it into his mouth. He quickly discarded the bone, chewed, and swallowed. And then it happened. The heat was hotter than anything he had ever felt before. He started hyperventilating. Then he felt the sweat drip down his forehead.

“Holy Fuck!” He cried as he reached for his beer, but it was empty.

“Oh, my God!” Bella took his glass, ran behind the bar, drew a beer from the tap, and ran back to him. “Here! Drink this!”

“Hey! You can’t do that!” The bartender yelled.

She turned to him. “This is clearly an emergency! Bill us for it for God’s sake! He just swallowed like ten drops of the ‘Feel the Reaper’ ghost pepper hot sauce!”

“Oh shit!” The bartender cried. “But… but… you just gave him…”

Jasper guzzled down the ice cold beer gratefully. He waited for the heat to dissipate, but it still wouldn’t go away, and then he felt it. It was the burn again. “What? What was in the beer.”

“I tried to tell ya’, she gave you the Exploding Dynamite IPA. It has hints of Mango and Habanero Peppers in it.”

Bella worriedly held a pitcher of water in front of him. Jasper chugged the whole thing down before slumping in his chair.

“Uh, maybe we should go,” she suggested. And before he knew it, she had the waitress box up the wings and paid the check.

He found himself being led to his truck and buckled up into the passenger seat. She took the wheel. And in no time, he was back at Sam’s house.

Bella flew out of the truck and into the front door. “I think I killed Jasper!” she exclaimed.

Everyone came flying out of the house. All of his friends were still there. It looked like Angela, Charlotte, and some other girl was there as well. “Jasper, buddy, are you okay?” Paul asked, helping him out of the truck and leading him into the house. He settled him on the sofa.

“Let me check him out.” Leah insisted, arriving with her nursing bag. She was a nurse practitioner at Houston Medical. “What happened, Bells?”

“Well, he had a chicken wing with like ten drops of ghost pepper hot sauce and then some beer to wash it down with, only…” She paused a moment to sigh. “Only to wash it down with Exploding Dynamite IPA, it apparently has hints of mango for fruitiness and habanero peppers for spice. He had water after that though.”

“Oh, my God!” Leah exclaimed as she went to check his stomach. She pressed on various areas and asked if he felt pain or pressure in any areas.

“I’m fine. Just a bit shocked.” He gratefully accepted a glass of milk from Bella.

“Well, I’m going to give you some antacid. You should probably stick around here today. We decided to have a cookout since everyone was here anyway.”

“Thanks, Leah.”

Everyone disappeared to the back patio where the pool was located. Jasper glanced up to see Bella worriedly observing him from a chair across from the sofa.

“Sorry,” she whispered.

“What are you sorry about? You didn’t tell me to grab that particular hot sauce.”

“I know, but I got you that beer, which made it worse.”

“You were just trying to help. It was an accident.”

“I’m sorry.”

“No, I’m the one who is sorry. I ruined our date. I really wanted it to be perfect, too. It’s just that…” He paused to bite his lip, frustrated because there was so much he wanted to say. He got up and abruptly grabbed her hand. “Damn it! I can’t talk with everyone here. Do you want to go for a walk?”

“Can you? I mean, you just got sick from that hot sauce.”

This was true. Jasper’s stomach felt like it had been hit by a lead bullet, but he really wanted to talk to Bella. And he was going to make it happen.

“Do you still have the keys to my truck?”

“Sure, I put them on the counter.”

“Well, grab the keys and let’s go. You drive.”

A few minutes later, Bella was driving, while Jasper directed. She drove for about an hour, mostly in silence, until he asked her to park the truck in a pretty, little wilderness by a lake.

“This is beautiful and so serene,” she commented, taking in the scene in front of her.

“It is. It’s a great place to just come and relax.” He used come to this spot with his Grandpa Carlisle. He’d bring him here to play catch, or sometimes to splash around in the swimming hole.

“I like it.”

“So do I.”

They decided to go for a walk. After resting up a bit, he was feeling much better now. He hoped a walk would invigorate him.

Bella stopped in front of a tree and leaned against it. She picked a wildflower and twirled it between her fingers. “So… how come you wanted our date to be perfect?”

She got right to the point. Clearly, she didn’t mess around. “Hmm… how can I explain this to you without you thinking I’m a raving lunatic?”

“I highly doubt you’re a raving lunatic. You’re a gentleman. I like that about you.”

Jasper nodded his head and turned to her. “You actually don’t know me at all, so how do you know I’m a gentleman?”

Bella chuckled. “You came to my rescue when the drunk harassed me at Red’s.”

“Anyone could have done that. And I didn’t exactly defend you. It’s more like you rescued me.”

“Okay, then, we rescued each other. Besides, did you notice Paul and Sam just sat there and watched the show? It’s always been like that. They act like big, overprotective bears, but when push comes to shove, they leave it to me to defend myself.”

“I’ve never met anyone like you.” When she tilted her head quizzically, he continued. “You’re strong, friendly, honest, and have the prettiest eyes. The reason why I wanted our date to be perfect is because I’m really attracted to you – more so than I’ve ever been attracted to anyone before.”

“Wow! That has to be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. Usually, guys just see me and run the other way. At least it was like that back home.”

“Well, you’re not at home. And I really, really want to get to know you.”

Bella held her hand out for Jasper to hold. “Well, come on then. Let’s get to know each other.”

“Sounds good to me.”