SERENDIPITY
- (n.) finding something good
without looking for it
Dawn Alexandria Swan is well acquainted with the feeling of not fitting in. Ever since she was the victim of a wolf attack that left the right side of her body littered in...
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IT HAD BEEN two weeks since Dawn had seen the Cullens. Two weeks have passed by at school with Dawn waiting for Edward's Volvo or Emmett's Jeep to pull into the parking lot only to be left with disappointment. She had wasted so much of her time hoping they'd turn up by lunch and being saddened by the sight of their once full table now empty and lifeless because it didn't have her favorite vampires occupying the seats surrounding it. The longer that the Swan sisters went without seeing their favorite pale faced students roaming the halls of their high school, the worse their moods seemed to get.
Dawn, however, was doing exponentially better than Bella with the absence of the Cullens. Her brunette twin had starting to become introverted, a quieter and more lifeless version of herself. Bella was going through the motions in every aspect of life, her body so used to the routine she'd built up that it didn't know how to continue putting effort into anything else without Edward there to make her heart race. Dawn could see the once beautiful brown eyes of her sister turn into dark pools of nothingness, the color slowly draining from her skin with each passing day that the Cullens didn't make an appearance.
Dawn could at least function with the ache in her heart. She could focus on her homework and on her small group of friends at the lunch table when they were all together.
Dawn could go and go and go, but when the night came and she was left with nothing to do, the guilt that had nestled into her heart reared its ugly head and she couldn't stop herself from drowning in its tidal waves. Guilt, the ugly and rotten emotion, would take over every limb in her body and invade every thought. Dawn could pretend during the day when the sun was shining, but the darkness of night held no escape for her.
Some nights she wondered if they had just packed up and left the twins behind, but in the back of her mind she knew that there wasn't any way that they would just leave. How could they even think to leave after everything that had happened with Bella? If that wasn't enough, they definitely wouldn't leave after telling Dawn everything there was to know about the vampire world.
Even with that in mind, Dawn couldn't help but feel herself begin to withdraw from the Cullens. Dawn swore that she wouldn't ever be caught in a situation where the outcome of her life would be left in the hands of anyone but herself, yet there she was in their living room praying to any god that would listen. Dawn wanted to remember and focus on all the good memories she had with them, but all she could think of was the sickening way they looked at her as no more than a blood bag. It was enough to keep her mind focused on anything else but their absence.
The bell had rung, signaling the end of the school day and sending everyone out of the swinging doors to their cars or to walk the trek home. By the time Dawn had packed all her materials up and pushed through the door into the crisp autumn air, Bella had already climbed into the truck and started it up so it would be warm by the time the blonde joined her. Dawn felt the corners of her mouth turn up slightly, her usual warm smile not making an appearance since the last time she'd seen Rose. Dawn's eyes swept across the parking lot, finding the same empty parking spaces void of any signs of the family. The smile quickly dropped from Dawn's face.
