****The characters and the background story line all belong to the amazing author Stephanie Meyers however the original character/s and the main storyline for Broken Promises belongs to me****
A camp fire burned brightly on the ground.
Circling it was four sleeping bags each with a child inside, three boys and one girl. The only sound that could be heard was the crackle of the fire, the chirping of the crickets and sounds of snoring from two of the sleeping bags.
A shooting star shot across the sky.
the girl, sat up and smiled as she watched it cross the sky.
The girl's skin showed her Native American ancestry like her father and grandparents however her blond hair and blue eyes showed her mixed race that came from her mother.
The girl turned to look at the boy lying on the sleeping bag beside her.
"Look a shooting star. Make a wish!"
She turned, closed her eyes with her face turned upward toward the sky.
Her friend laughed as he sat up and stared at it.
He didn't believe in shooting stars or wishes.
He saw them as myths like the stories the elders told at the tribal meetings about the cold ones and the spirit warriors.
He turned to face her and started poking her in the side laughing as she squirmed to get away from him.
"Stop. That tickles" she exclaimed
He laughed again "I know. Why do you think I do it? So what did you wish for?"
She smiled "if I told you it might not come true!"
He stuck out his lip and gave her a puppy dog face "please tell me. Pretty please"
She turned her head up smiling trying not to look at him.
He reached out and pulled her over to him. He started to poke her sides continuing to beg her to tell him.
She laughed and squirmed away from him.
"I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Just stop."
He quit tickling her and held his hands up to show he was done.
The girl pushed her hair out of her face staring at her friend. "I wished the four of us would be friends…forever"
She looked down as she blushed "I know it's a stupid wish right?"
He smiled
"no. I don't think it's stupid at all. We will always be friends…forever"
She raised her eyes to his brown ones with worry in them "do you really believe so?"
He reached out and grabbed her hand "of course I do. Friends forever"
He held out his pinky.
She smiled and hooked her pinky around his "forever and ever"
They both slowly crawled back into their sleeping bags and curled up to go to sleep.
The boy moved his head so he could look at the girl "Good night Maya sweet dreams"
The girl smiled at her friends comment and, as she slowly started drifting to sleep, muttered "Good night Embry"
The chirping of the crickets slowly lured the two children to sleep never knowing that the promise they shared would soon shatter into a million pieces.
