― All it takes is the warm caress of serenity for an irreparable hate to tear and break. His tragedy was set in play. Her soul threatened to burn.
❛❛ NEW MOON ― BREAKING DAWN ❞
note: long chapters, some canon divergence, aged-up characters! (not slo...
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Days passed by like a blur.
I spent my days waking up in the dawn of the morning, preparing to go to work and trying, still, not to fuck up the job that pays all my bills. The store was quiet, and the task of checking little boxes on the clipboard was enough to keep me busy and awake. After clocking out, I drove to the lodge, where I'll spend the remaining half of the day bustling through the bar, hovering around the kitchen for more distraction, and cleaning my way out from top to bottom. Cora almost handed me her apron when I left the diner so tidy like she hadn't seen before.
Most of my free hours were spent by the beach, hanging out with Jackson while I teased him relentlessly about poking him with a stick in hopes of seeing him shift into his werewolf form. I tried to spend more time with Leah and Seth, and Harry always told me stories, which he can now speak freely about. It was funny to realize that the one thing we could bond over the most was the only thing I was not supposed to know about.
As soon as the clock struck midnight, I drive off—and trekked through the woods that had begun to form a path, up towards the tree line, where it opened to a low view of the forest and to a man waiting for me there, like clockwork. It felt normal. Coming here in the dead of the night, talking about nothing or everything, or how Italy is beautiful at night. I let myself listen, let myself do it every day so my chest doesn't ache as soon as it's time to come home.
Caius assured me I'd always find him there.
"I'm closing up early, Luce." Cora said as she flipped the sign on the door. It was two hours early and I immediately thought of sleep, Caius, and more sleep. She didn't want me to help clean up since we hadn't really reached the dinner rush mess, there were only a few things to tidy and it was all done for the day.
As I was carrying my things up to exit the front door, I stopped midway when I saw a figure standing on the other side of the road. A mix of shock and fear swirled around my stomach as I hurried to cross the road and stood in front of him. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Hello to you, too, Lucy." He must've found my reaction funny when he chuckled lowly. "You look like you've seen a ghost." It was dark, but not enough to hide the shade in his eyes that rendered me speechless.
"It's not funny! They're gonna see you!" I started walking away, turning to see if he followed, relief washing over me when he did.
"I wasn't hiding." He mumbled casually behind me.
"I can clearly see that." In his formal suit and bright blond hair, he definitely didn't seem normal walking on the sidewalk, and I was close to losing my shit. One doesn't wake up at Forks and see a man walking gracefully like he just walked out of a painting and strut this quiet town on his own free will. He either had to be crazy or a vampire.
