𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐍 & 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 | ❝You want to eat everyone you see and I don't want to eat at all. Sounds to me like we'd be great friends.❞
In which an anorexic girl believed losing was the only way to win the game. Or, alternatively, Rory Swan's road to re...
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WITH THE WIND'S WHISPERS, Jasper Hale had vanished.
It'd been three days since Bella's birthday. Since Lorelai had her hand broken by a bloodthirsty vampire, who also happened to be her best friend. It was a clean break. No one died. Time kept moving forward. But Lorelai couldn't stop thinking about that day.
It'd also been three days since either of the Swan sisters last saw the Cullens. It was the strangest phenomenon. No one really noticed when the Cullens disappeared, the family being too reserved for real friendships. But now they had Bella and Lorelai, and Bella and Lorelai felt their absence most heavily.
Lorelai hadn't heard from Jasper or any of them. Not even an email from Alice or a call from Esme. Nothing. She had half the mind to drive over to the hospital just to see if Carlisle was at work, but she chose against it. It must've been a sensitive time for them all, nearly attacking humans like that.
It was strange how easily the Cullens slipped out of their lives. Was this how it always went for them—whenever they decided to take their leave of absence? How did Lorelai never think twice about it until now?
All that was left was to keep living. That was what Lorelai kept telling herself as she sat on the couch at home, her eyes glued to the brochures colleges had been sending her sister. She hadn't thought much about college before. Honestly, every day she spent trying to get better, a little voice in her head was amazed. She never thought she would live this long. She never thought she would want to.
She had bad days. God, she had plenty of bad days. Days where she didn't want to get out of bed, drink water, wash her hair, eat more than a crumb. Days where she skipped meals, stood in the pantry to look at snacks before walking away empty-handed, lied about eating earlier while everyone was out of the house. Days where she thought about blowing up her mother's phone with angry texts, demanding how she could abandon her skin and bones so fucking easily.
But Lorelai had good days, too. Days where she saw her baby sister actually smile, and days where she and her dad fell asleep on the couch together. Days where she saw the Cullens. Days spent with Jasper.
So, yeah. Lorelai had bad days. But the good days mattered, too. And yeah, maybe she wasn't completely okay, but she knew she had to keep moving forward. Maybe college was one of those things that she could look forward to. She never thought she'd live long enough to even go to college, but now that Bella had been receiving all this mail from different universities, it didn't sound like such a bad idea.
The TV was quiet in the background as Lorelai skimmed the brochures, glancing up at the screen every now and then. She drummed her fingers along her cast, tracing the signatures from Bella and Charlie.
