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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"DO YOU THINK I'm crazy for not wanting to leave immediately after graduation?"
Embry and Dawn have been sharing the sofa in his living room, Dawn in-between his legs and leaning back against him. He is running his fingers through her ever-growing blonde hair, the strands reaching just underneath her shoulder blades now, and he can tell that she had gone somewhere far in her head. When her question flies through the air, he isn't surprised in the slightest.
"If I were you," he starts, his left arm continuing to twirl her hair around his finger while his right arm tightened around her waist, "I would jump at the opportunity to get as far away from here as possible."
Dawn hums, letting him know she is listening to him but unsatisfied with his answer. She lets both of her hands fall over his large one that was splayed against her stomach, keeping the back of her body pressed up against the front of his as they lie together and let a random show play on the TV.
"Even if it means leaving you behind?"
Her next question tumbles from her lips before she can take it back and hide it away with the rest of the information she never wants to tell him about. She hears him let out a long sigh and she closes her eyes regretfully. They had many conversations in the past couple of weeks about what was going on between them. Dawn and Embry know that they felt something for the other, but neither could quite place what those emotions are.
Embry had somewhat admitted that he loved Dawn that day on the beach when Quil shifted, but Dawn doesn't know if it was a slip of the tongue or truth. Evidently, Embry doesn't seem to know, either. After all, Dawn is not Embry's imprint. That information alone should be their wake-up call, their sign to let each other go and move on. However, one swift conversation later, their shared stubbornness won over everything reasonable in the world and now here they are, tip-toing around each other and not knowing what they want.
"We both know that this isn't going to last forever, Dawn," Embry repeats, the phrase already a familiar one to her ears but still causing her heart to ache. "Sooner or later, you're going to have to start your life and forget all about me."
Embry feels saddened by his words, too as a painful smile pulls at his mouth. The darkest parts of his heart hope that there was no truth in his confession to her and that even when she was old and grey-haired, she would never forget the simple moments like this one. He knows that he won't ever be able to.
"I don't think it's possible," she whispers, sitting up and turning to look at him.
It has been a couple of months since she'd been given her sentence. Immortality is a life she is now going to be forced to live because she decided to become involved in a world she had no business being in. Dawn is doomed to roam the Earth and live to watch everyone she'd come to love perish.
"Listen to me," he tells her, both of his hands reaching up and cupping her plump cheeks in his hands and forcing her to look at him. "You are going to leave Forks because you are destined for something greater than it could ever give you."
