The One that Got Away.

The Return

They say love is blind.

It has been nearly five years and here I am back on this familiar stretch of road that leads to my father's home. I was chugging the last remnants of my red bull, when my mind was bombarded with the thoughts of him. My life could have been easy as breathing with him. I have always believed that things happen for a reason. A lot has happen since I left five years ago. I've been engaged, lost my best friend, and graduated from culinary school. Over the last few years the hardest part was realizing how I let the love of my life and best friend get way.

Jacob and I had been best friends since we were babies. I was a year older than Jake. After my mom left and his mother died and us being only kids with single fathers. We shared that bond that none of the other kids our age had. Our dad's joked about we were like each other's shadows. I enjoyed him playing his guitar, working on cars as well as our yearly routine of cliff diving. It wasn't till after graduations that we decided that no matter what happen we would always be best friends. We stole our father's liquor the fourth of July before I left for school. We had Embry drive us to Forks tattoo shop called INKED. Jake and I both got matching tattoos; the Chinese symbol for friendship. I had mine proudly displayed on the back of my neck whereas Jake had gotten his on his lower abdomen right above where the waist of his jeans sat on the left side. That night we decided that we wanted to give each other something that we didn't want anyone else to have. It was a night of pure passion and love that we shared as we were one another's first.

Things between Jake and I seem to grow apart once I started school and Jake started his senior year. I started to date Edward after I found out he was dating a girl name Lizzie that he met hanging out with Embry and Quil. Edward and I dated about a year before asking me to marry him. I was stupid and I said yes. Who would have thought Bella Swan getting married? Jake hated the idea that I was actually going to marry him. Jake hated Edward. I hated Lizzie. It was long after that we just went our separates ways. Edward and I along with his sister Alice planned this beautiful wedding. We sent out invitations about three months before the wedding. I sent one to Jake and Lizzie to be polite but, all I got was a cold phone call from Jake with his exact words were your marrying him? After that Jake hardly called the closer it got to the wedding we were not even speaking. It was two days before the wedding and my dad had come into town we had a long talk about how it was to get married at such a young age and how Renee left us after just a few short years. He told me that he was proud of me and he just wanted me to be happy and if Edward made me happy to go for it. But I was the only one that knew that he didn't make me happy. So after that and I called Edward and told him that I no longer wanted to get married. It wasn't to long after that we no longer worked as a couple either. We were totally different and I guess that I kept comparing him to Jake, My dad was telling me how Jake thought I was married I told him to tell him no different because he was being an ass.

I visited over the last year and half but only a few months ago did I see Jake. Angela and I went to a little bar called the Wolf's Call outside of Forks one night while visiting. Angela and I had been there for about an hour talking about school and how much our lives had changed since we graduated. I had a pretty good buzz going when I thought I was totally hallucinating when I saw Jake come up on the stage with his guitar. I knew the music it was one of my favorite songs I couldn't believe he had learned it in that short period of time. The song was perfect for that was exactly how I felt with him out of my life. While on the other hand Liz was right there in the front of him swaying to the music looking like a hooker groupie. Jake's deep, husky voice cut deep inside me as he continued to sing.

I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding

If that'll make you mine

Cause there'll be no sunlight