AN: I am terribly sorry that I have not been good with my promise of keeping a good schedule of posting a new chapter or story within the last few months and I have sort of been just posting out of the blue, but to try and make up for it, I come to you with a new story that was fairly inspired by Fast and Furious 7 tribute song to the late Paul Walker *May you rest in peace my love* "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth.
Leah's POV:
We laid cuddled together in silence, just listening to the sounds that nature had presented us in my backyard on a rather unusaually sunny and warm day. Normally in La Push, even the the mist of summer, it was cloudy and rainy but for about five days it haven't rained and it was slowly warming up, temperatures reaching almost 85 degrees. It was a perfect day to lay and relax in my white sun dress down and flowing naturally in the gentle breeze with my boyfriend of 6 years. This had been the only time we were able to find to lay together and relax without any stress from school or our parents about prom or graduation which was coming up more rapidly than I would have liked it to in the last two months, since I will be seperating from my friends and family and moving to New York for school and Black Cloud was staying here in Washington. Being that he is a year older than me, he had graduated from school last year and didn't have to worry about anything other than work and how our relationship was going to work while I was going to be going to school on the other side of the country. I lifted my head slightly from my boyfriend's, Black Cloud, chest to look at his face. His eyes were closed and he looked relaxed and calm compared to normally rigded and harden face. I laid my head back down on his chest and wrapped my right arm under his arm, and presumed to stare in amazement at the ring that has been held there for the last 7 months. I remember the day Black Cloud asked me to marry him.
*Flash Back to December 4th*
"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Leah! Happy birthday to you!" My mother, father and younger brother Seth yelled waking me up on my 18th birthday.
"Now blow out the candles, wish for something nice and hurry up and get dressed. We have a lot to do today." My mom said as she sat on the egde of my bed and placed the cupcake in my hand once I sat fully up. I rolled my eyes and shook my head gentle. Doing as I was told I closed my eyes and maked a quick wish before blowing out the candle.
"But it is my birthday. Why should I have to do anything? I just want to lay in bed and loundge around doing nothing one last time before I have to act like an adult everyday for the rest of my life." I whined laying back down, pulling the covers over my head in the process.
"Exactly why you have to get up and ready. It's time to start acting like an adult. Today. So get up and be dressed, down stairs. You have an hour." She said getting up to leave taking the cupcake with her. I whined again and stared up at the ceiling and waited until my door was closed again. I'm 18. I smiled to myself before finally getting out of bed and made my way to the bathroom.
Just a little under an hour later I was ready, I sat on my bed lacing up my dark brown Doc Martin lace up combat boots that Black Cloud had given my a few days ago. When he told me he had to work and wasn't going to be able to see me until after 11. I sighed to myself putting my necklace that Black Cloud had also gotten me as an apology for missing my birthday. Before heading heading down stairs to join my family I checked my self in the mirror. I had left my waist length chesnut hair down in its natural curly waves but concelded some it with a black baggy beanie. I wore a light grey loose sweater which I had tucked into my black high waisted shorts with black sheer tights and black thigh high socks and my combat boots. I didn't bother with makeup this morning. I'd save the trouble until later tonight for dinner. But I did curl my lashes and put on some tinted lip balm and throw on a pair of gold midi rings on both hands. Quickly I gathered my phone, keys and purse before finally heading down the stairs.
"Finally Leah! Jeez, what took so long to get ready? I get that it's your birthday and all but you look like you do everyday. I thought you would have done something different for at least your birthday." Seth complained while watching TV once I reached the bottom step. I rolled my eyes and ignored him. I went into the kitchen and stole a banana and a watter bottle from the fridge before trying to sneak out the house to try and catch Black Cloud before he left for work. But I was caught by both my parents.
"Leah! Wait meha! Let me get a look at you!" My mom yelled stopping me. I turned away from the door to face them and smiled.
"Mom. I really have to go. I want to see Black Cloud before he leaves to work. Can't this wait until I get back?" I begged checking the time on my phone. It was 9:04 and he normally left his house at 9:30 so I needed to leave now to try if I wanted to make it to Forks and see him for more than a minute.
"It will only take a couple of minutes. Seth come here! Harry take pictures!" Mom said throwing her camera at him. He sighed and smiled at her before giving me a smirk and winked. I understood that wink and smiled back at him.
"Yes love. Ok now stand close together and smile. Oh wait Sue, the batteries are dead can you grab some more?" Dad said twisting and turning the camera around to pretend to examine it. Mom huffed and quickly shuffled intot the kitchen. Dad throw me his car key and rushed me out the door.
"Hurry up. She's going to throw a fit that you're leaving before she's taken any pictures. Happy birthday baby." He said kissing my head gently before shutting the door.
"Thank you daddy." I whispered quietly to myself smiling as I walked to his car, started it and drove off.
10 minutes later I pulled into Black Cloud's driveway beside his truck. I quickly got out the car and jogged to their front door and knocked. A few seconds later Cammie, Black Cloud's younger sister and my best friend, answered the door.
"Happy birthday! You're finally 18!" She screamed picking me up and spinning me around. We both giggled and laughed when she put me down. Cammie, although a month and some days older than me, she was only slightly bigger than me. in the case that she had more muscle to her body compared to my more toned and lean body frame. We both went inside to the kitchen and sat down at the table beside the rest of her family, excluding Black Cloud. Everyone else greeted me the same.
"Thank you all." I said smiling while reaching over to steal a piece of bacon. My eyes wondered to everyone eating happily, chatting about their night and plans for the day.
"He woke up late. He had just got in the shower when you got here. He'll be up in a few minutes." Their mom told me placing a plate of food in front of me. I smiled up at her and began eating like everyone else.
"So what's the plan for today Leah?" Their dad asked me after a few minutes of eating in a peaceful amount of silence, other than the sounds of silverware on plates. I shurgged.
"I'm not sure yet. Probably just dinner and movie." I said eatting some more eggs. I gave Cammie a a small smirking glance. Informing her that we defintely will be doing our bonfire party without letting our parents know.
"What about the bonfire?" Josh, Cammie's boyfriend, said causing everyone to stop eating. Cammie and I both shot him a glare. He realized his mistake.
"What bonfire?" Lucy asked before sipping her coffee. Black Cloud finally walking into the room smacking the back of Josh's head in the process of walking over to me. Josh winced at the hit while Cammie reached over and rub the spot where Black Cloud had hit him, whispering something in his ear.
"Happy birthday baby." He whispered quietly to me before kissing me on the lips. I smiled into the kiss. We both pulled away at the same time and smiled at each other.
"Aren't you late for work?" I questioned him looking at the time. It was 9:53. He was defintely going to be late for work which meant he was going to have to work overtime to make up for it.
"I am but since I'm already late... might as well eat breakfast and enjoy some time with my girlfriend." He said pulling me up out of the chair before sitting back down and pulling me into his lap and drapped his arm over my lap and began picking food off my plate along side me. We finished breakfast within 10 minutes and everyone started to get up to leave to do whatever it was they had to do for the day.
"Leah, give me 5 minutes to get dressed and then we can go." Cammie said while running upstairs to her room. That left me and Black Cloud alone at last.
"You look beautiful baby." He whispered into my ear. Gently, he stood the both of us up. Hand in hand we slowly made our way to his car. I knew he had to go but I didn't want him to. It was just work.
Once we made it to his car, Black Cloud hoisted me onto the hood of his car and stood inbetween my legs while clasping his hands on my lower back. This seemed to be our normal position because of the difference in our heights. Black Cloud stood at a outrageous height for any known Navajo or Quileute native at 6'6, while I stood at a very short 5'4. Having over a foot difference in heights we often are forced to strain ourselves to kiss or hug. Even in heels I still don't reach a comfortable height for us, so Black Cloud often picked me up or carry me on his back, when we're out and want to just hold each other. The tips of his fingers were trancing patterns on my back lightly. We stared into each others eyes.
"I'll see you tonight, right?" I asked looking up at him.
"Of course. Nothing in the world will be able to stop me from seeing you tonight. I promised you I would be there for dinner and I will. But don't expect me to be on time. Because you know I love to show up fashionably late. Tonight is no different." He said kissing me on my lips and rubbing my cheek with one of his hands.
"Ok." Was all I could muster out. Something about his kisses drove me crazy and left me more than often speechless.
"I'll see you tonight. Have a good day." He said pushing himself off of me and helped me off the hood before he climbed into his truck. He rolled down the window so we could kiss one last time before he left. I watched him back out of the driveway and drive away out of my sight.
"Come on Leah! Birthday shopping." Cammie yelled to me walking out of the house with Josh by her side. They quickly kissed and seperated to their own cars. By the time I had got into Cammie's car, Josh had already left like he had been in a hurry.
*Fast forward to later that night*
I stood infront of my mirror examining myself, twirling my necklace around my fingers. I had finished straightening my hair nice and sleek, changing into my black long sleeved bodycon dress that fell just above my mid-thigh along with my black sheer tights and a pair of black heels. I had allowed Cammie to put makeup on my earlier when we had got back here from shopping, before she had to leave to go get ready herself. My makeup was simple and very natural. Soft brown shadows on my lids with some matte brown eyeliner, a light pink blush on the apples of my cheeks and a natural pink lipstick.
I was excited to go to dinner with my friends and family and to celebrate my 18th birthday but at the same time I felt off and the feeling was making me feel sick to my stomach. Probably because Black Cloud wasn't going to be there to celebrate it with me. But we could celebrate together tomorrow, maybe over breakfast. I couldn't wait to share my excitement with everyone.
"Meha, are you ready to go?" My mom asked gently knocking twice before opening my bedroom door. I turned to her and gave her a slight smile. She returned the smile and walked up behind me.
"You look beautiful meha. Like always. If you're worried about tonight, don't. Tonight is going to be perfect. I promise. And that boyfriend of yours will make it in time for dinner." She said with a slight tone, that I've never hear her use before when refurring to Black Cloud. It made me frown.
"I'm not worried. I'm just thinking. Only a few more months of this. I'm not sure I can leave all of this behind just for school. And I thought you liked Black Cloud?" I questioned her, pulling on my thick military jacket and placing my wallet and keys into my purse.
"Leah! Sue! Are two ready to go? I know it's your birthday Leah but we still have to go to dinner." Dad yelled up the stairs at us. Both me and mom rolled our eyes and walked out my bedroom door.
*Fast forward to the resurant*
"Everyone enjoying their food? Any problems?" The waitress asked us as we ate our food happily. 'No's' and 'thank you's' went around the table. I smiled at everyone who was at the table. My grandparents from both side were here, Cammie and her family of 7, including Josh but not Black Cloud, Danny, my other male best friend of both our lives, and his boyfriend Ethan. His birthday was a few weeks ago. Jessica, her daughter, Kylie, and her boyfriend Eric. Nick ,Jessica's older twin brother and his girlfriend Ashley all sat gathered together eating at the table.
Everything will finally be perfect when Black Cloud shows up. Getting nervous and jittery, I kept checking my phone every few minutes checking the time and to see if Black Cloud had texted or called me. He had done neither and we were almost done eating. Desert wasn't going to take us too long to eat.
"Leah?" Cammie said putting a hand on my shoulder. I jumped startled by her.
"Yeah?" I said looking at her trying to ignore, everyone else looking at me. I was trying to stop my face from turning red.
"Do you want their birthday desert or something else?" She asked smiling at me.
"Birthday desert." I said almost too quickly. The waitress took everyone desert orders and left. Leaving everyone to hang out and wait for their deserts. I continued having a conversation with everyone at the table, laughing occausionly.
About 10 minutes later the waitress was began placing deserts infront of everyone. Mine came last, but everyone was nice enough to wait for me to get mine and sing before eating. From behind me, someone different from the waitress placed a small plate with a velvet box centered in front of me. I looked at it cautiously, then up at everyone else. They just smiled at me with huge grins and had their cameras out and probably recording me right now. I felt my chair being pulled back, cautiously I looked behind me. To my surprise it was Black Cloud. A very well groomed Black Cloud at that. Complete with a crisp dark gray button down shirt, tucked into his black slacks and hair neatly combed back into a low ponytail. Once my chair was pulled back enough for me to get out, I was beginning to question his actions. The resurant was slowly going silent, I felt more and more eyes turn towards me.
Black Cloud dropped down to one knee and quickly everything switched as if everything was happening in slow-motion.
"Black Cloud? I said cautiously watching him.
"Leah, after 15 years of friendship and 6 years dating I can truly say that when I look into my heart I can only see you. And I'm ok with that. While I'm not a man of many emotions, and I don't often show them, you make me happy. Although I can't offer you much, I can offer you my heart, my love, my honesty and my loyalty. Everyone knows you can do better than me, I'm glad you decided to stay with me. Your smile makes me smile. When I asked you to be my girlfriend I promised you, that no one will work harder to make you happy or cherish you more than me. I will continue with this promise as our relationship transformers over the rest of our lives. And hopefully you'll allow me to continue loving and cherishing for you. I know you deserve the very best in life, someone who will back you up without limits, let you grow without borders, and love you without end. Will you let me be the one and agree to be my wife?" By the time he had ended his speech my face was full flooded with tears and I could not stop them from falling even if I wanted to.
"Yes." I said barely louder than a whisper. I felt someone nudge my back.
"Yeah?" Black Cloud questioned still down on one knee. He looked insanely nervous and like he was on the verge of a heart attack.
"Yes, Black Cloud I will marry you." I said louder standing up, pulling him with me. We both wrapped our arms around each other and gave the sweetest and yet the most intensive kiss we've ever shared. It felt like fireworks were going off and electrical shocks were going through out bodies.
Everyones cheers and claps broke us out of our blessful kiss. I blushed and tried to wipe away some of my tears away.
"Why did it take you so long to get here? We had to eat extra slow and order dessert. Next time text someone and let them know." Seth said shoving a spoon full of his dessert into his mouth.
"You guys knew about it?" I said almost whinning, still wiping my tears from my red face.
"Yes we did. We also know that you two are running late for your next surprise, so get going. Now." My dad said shaking Black Clouds hand and giving him a manly hug before kissing me on my forehead and handing Black Cloud the velvet box. He allowed Black Cloud to slip the ring on my finger before he gave us a gentle shove towards the door. I smiled and quickly thanked everyone before we left out the resurant hand in hand.
"Thank you baby." I said once we were both strapped into his old rusted blue truck.
"For what?" He said with one hand one the steering wheel and the other holding my hand twirling the ring around my finger. I smiled and felt warm inside. I knew the warmth feeling wasn't from his proposal, but from the life that had been forming in my stomach.
"For giving me the best birthday. And let us know that you want to be with us." I said stroking my still flat stomach. 3 months a life has been forming inside me. While we were both excited, we were also nervous and concerned about the problems that we will have to face. How our parents will react? Our friends? And our biggest concern was what am I going to do after graduation. Go off to school and allow Black Cloud and our baby to come with me, or stay and not even bother going to school.
"Hey? Don't worry. I love you, you love me. And I definetly love peanut. I will support us and you will go to school." He said turning his head to me and took both my hands in his as we stopped at a red light and waited.
"I believe. Where are we going?" I asked as I looked around the empty street.
"It's a surprise. But you're going to love it." He said flashing me a smile but it quickly disappeared when another car hit the back of us with enough force to knock us into the middle of the intersection.
The glass shattered around us startling the both of us. I could feel blood trickle down the side of my face but my main concern was peanut and I'm guessing that Black Cloud just as concern as I am because he quickly took off his seatbelt and put one hand on my stomach and the other on my head.
"We're ok. I think we're ok." I said shakely. I took off my seatbelt and was about to get the truck but Black Cloud's hands stopped me. He quickly pulled me into his body and held me tightly as another truck speed through the intersection and completely through Black Cloud's truck knocking the both of us unconscious.
*Back to current time*
"Leah, it's time to wake up. You have to go." Black Cloud said interrupting my thoughts. Wake up? I'm not sleep. I laid my head up.
"What do you mean? I don't have anything to do." I said confused. Today was the only day in a long time that we had found to be able to just lay and relaxe together.
"You do. You have to wake up. You can't stay here anymore." He said sitting up holding my hands.
"What the hell are you talking about? I am awake. I'm looking right at you. Why are you talking like that?" I asked pulling away from him.
"Leah, you have to wake up. You're alseep right now." He said as the winds picked up causing my hair to whip around in the wind and in my face. The sky went from clear to dark.
"Black Cloud you're scaring me. Whatever you're doing stop, I don't like it." I said as I watched the sky got darker and the wind got even stronger. I stood up and watch as the world around me began to fall apart.
"Leah. You're in a coma. That accident the night of your birthday. The second car. It killed me. I died on impacted protecting you. You have to wake up now. Me and Jamie will watch over you. But you have to wake up now." He said standing holding a little boy that was a few months old. The little boy, Jamie as Black Cloud had called him, looked of a perfect cross between me and Black Cloud.
Petrified I looked down at my flat stomach. I quickly put both my hands on my stomach and felt around. I didn't feel any movement or fluttering or anything. I should eight months by now. My stomach shouldn't be flat. I looked back at them. Tears ran down my face.
"I don't understand. Why is this happening? The accident, it didn't kill us baby. We're ok. We're all ok. We're all supposed to be ok. You told me you wouldn't leave me!" I yelled with tears streaming down my face. Slowly they began to fade to dust and blow away in the wind.
"Leah. Wake up baby. We'll wait for you. Whenever you're ready. We'll be right here for you." Black Cloud said as they finally fade completely away. I tried to run and grasp him but I only managed to grasp air.
"Black Cloud! Jamie! Come back!" I screamed over and over. The wind became strong and blinding. Everything was shaking and tearing down into pieces before dissolving away in the winds. I dropped to my knees and held my head.
"Please come back." I whispered to myself. Everything froze. There was no more sound. Just silence. There was no color. Just white.
"Leah?" I heard someone say. I knew that voice. Slowly I opened my eyes to be blinded by a bright light in my face.
"Leah you're up." Seth said squeezing my hand. He had tears running down his face. I took in my surrounding. A hospital.
"Where's Black Cloud?" I asked with a horse voice when both my parents and a doctor walked in. Everyone looked sympathic towards me. This can't be happening. I looked down at my stomach. It was flat. No movements or fluttering. No warm feeling. No, Black Cloud was lying. Both of them couldn't have died. This is a joke.
"Leah, died from the impact of the second car hitting you." My mom said moving closer to me holding both my hands.
Hearing those words shattered the remaining bits of my world. I felt everything fall to black again.
AN: So that concludes 'See You Again' and I am terribly sorry that it took my so long to update SWID or another story but I am in the works of a couple new sotries and new chapters for SWID. So check it out if you haven't and remember to review this leaving your comments and thoughts.
-Baddest_Shewolf