Note: This story takes place a couple of years after Breaking Dawn and all the events which happened there. Life has only gotten worse for Leah, and this is the result. Hope you like it! XD

Other note: I don't own anything, so all creds go to Stephenie Meyer, and to the artists whose songs I use during the chapters.

Leah

- Escape

"6.30 winter morn

Snow still falling, silent dawn

A rose by any other name,

Eva leaves her Swan-brook home."

-Eva, Nightwish

The bag was heavy on her back, packed with forgotten lies and memories. She walked calmly, as though she knew where she was going, so as not to arouse suspicion. That was the way you did it: blend in with the environment, the environment blends in with you, and no one'll notice you're gone. At least, that was what Leah hoped.

What city was she in now? Good God, still in Washington-was there no faster way to go? Of course, she could have disappeared from the city as a wolf, but she was leaving that Leah behind. Forever. Wasn't much else you could do, really. Life gets too hard for you to deal with, you die or you escape. Life's ABC, the stuff every idiot knows.

And life had gotten too hard to deal with. She'd thought it couldn't get any worse- Sam imprinting on Emily, being a werewolf, Bella, Renesmée, and all the other crap that went with it. But it could get worse, and fate had decided to pull out its little mean card and play it for her. Seemed like she'd just rolled the wrong dice in life. All of them. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Her world had started falling apart, not just on the outside, but right in the middle, right where the core of her life was, the seams had been torn and sent it all gushing out. And the amazing part was, it had all happened in one day. Put your hands together, Ladies and Gents, whoever decided my fate has really outdone himself today, don't that deserve an award? Let's take a glance through that play, shall we?

Scene 1: (Leah appears in doorway, for a change, wearing a smile. Other residents in the room: Edward Cullen.)

(Leah stops up, confused)

Leah: What the hell are you doing in my room?

(Pause.)

Edward: (Quiet, calm) Leah, I, uh, have something to tell you-

(Hesitant)

Leah: (impatient) Yeah?

Edward: I'm truly sorry, Leah, truly sorry, sorry, sorry, but your mother… she passed away today.

(Dramatic sigh)

Leah: What?!

Edward: Car crash-

And so on and so on, you get the general gist of things. Basically, Leah almost kills Edward and then spends the day crying and crying and-here's a surprise, crying, when Jacob and Nessie just have to pop by and tell her their marital plans, goddammit, and ooh, let's put the cherry on the cake-guess who comes next? Sam and Emily, with their new baby. And, can you believe it, the playwright's really outdone himself this time. Seth has imprinted!

Well, kudos and a large Brava to you, Mr. Fate. I take off my hat in honour. You've ruined my life.

Leah sighed. She was going to have to stop thinking about it, or she'd go mad. If she wasn't already. No, what she did need to think about now were her plans for the future.

She had to get away, far, far away. Out of the States? Nah, not today. Maybe to… but wait, nowhere in the States was far enough. So somewhere else then - Europe? England. At least they spoke English there. She had taken heaps of money, so, what were her plans? Take a bus to the airport, catch the nearest plane to London, rent a hotel room… She have to get a job, 'course, but it shouldn't be too hard to find, a waitress or something of the like. Sounded like an okay plan. A bit blurry around the edges, but hey, it'd be fine!

Or, of course, everything would go wrong and she would die. Not much left to lose there, but apparently, you actually did lose a big part of your life if you died. Hm…

No. She'd be fine. She would be fine. Fine-o-rama, in fact. Fine-o-rama with a cherry on top. Can't get finer than that, bet you a trillion bucks. Not that she had that much, of course. But then, who did?

Leah realized she'd stopped in her tracks and people were looking at her all funny-good God, she hadn't talked out loud, had she? Leah sighed and headed for the bus stop.

Yeah, I know the first chapter is short. Oh well, the future one's will be longer. I hope. XD