I'm new to the realm of Twilight writing, so please review and let me know what you think!
I do not Twilight or any characters or places found therein.
The title of the story comes from the song "Someday You Will Be Loved" by Death Cab for Cutie.
Also, I'm kind of making some things up as I go along, because, to be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the Twilight books... so I've only read them once. So in my realm, Collin and Brady are the two youngest wolves and everyone else is the same age apart from Sam. I'm making all the other wolves seniors in high school, so they're all either 17 or 18. And Quil, Jared, Jacob, and Paul have already imprinted. Oh, and this is not beta'd so any mistakes are mine.
Beth is sitting on the beach reading Paradise Lost when she sees them for the first time.
It's late afternoon and the sun has been playing hide and seek all day, but it finally looks as if the clouds are going to win as a raindrop falls on Beth's hand. She sighs and gives a glare to the heavens above her, shutting her book with a snap. The one day all week that had enough sun to justify coming to the beach, and it's already over.
Just as she's gathering up her things to head back home, a group of guys comes barreling onto the beach through the tree line.
They are the biggest guys Beth has ever seen in her life, and she takes a moment to gawk as they begin tossing a football around. There are five of them, and the shortest of the group is still at least six feet tall, Beth thinks. They all have dark skin and close-cropped midnight hair and enough muscles to do some heavy lifting. And just as the sky opens up and pours rain on her in a torrent, Beth notices that none of the guys are wearing shirts or shoes.
Angry at herself for staring long enough to get caught in the downpour, Beth yanks up her blanket and shakes it out quickly, stuffing it into her bag with her book. She grabs her flip flops and starts power walking as well as she can in the sand toward the road. She hasn't made it ten feet when a football comes whizzing past, millimeters from her nose.
It shocks her enough to make her stop, and she hears a loud "Oh shit!" coming from the group of giants to her left. She glances to her right and sees the football land with a loud thunk on the beach, a huge crater forming in the sand. Beth puts a hand to her chest to will her heart to slow as five faces come into view.
"Dude, shit! We're sorry! We didn't see you down here!"
The guy in front of her looks at her worriedly, and Beth shakes her head to clear it and move her hair from her face. When she looks up she meets a chocolate brown gaze that's so beautiful and full of concern that it makes Beth's heart speed up again.
Realizing that she's staring, Beth looks around to get close up glimpse of the giant men before her. They're all insanely attractive. Every single one of them, and it makes Beth a little uncomfortable for her mousy, unnoticeable self to be standing in front of such gorgeous guys.
She smiles at the guy in front of her reassuringly. "It's okay. I'm fine, it didn't hit me." As if to prove her point, Beth walks over to the football and tosses it back to him. "No harm, no foul."
He catches it easily and, without looking, throws it over his shoulder for the guy behind him to grab.
"Okay, well, good." The guy looks her up and down obviously, making Beth extremely self-conscious in her soaked jeans and long sleeved t-shirt. "We can get pretty rough sometimes. One time Paul dented some guy's Hummer in the middle of a game, he threw the ball so hard. You'd probably shatter into a million pieces if we hit you."
The whole group chuckled good naturedly at the jibe, and Beth smiled back. She knew she was small, standing only five foot two, and probably weighed as much as this guy's right arm soaking wet.
"Probably," she laughed. "And I'd hate to be the next Humpty Dumpty this early in my life."
That drew another laugh from the group, and Beth couldn't help but join them. They all had nice laughs, Beth decided. Deep and throaty, more like men than boys.
"I'm Seth." The man with the amazing chocolate eyes stuck out his hand.
"I'm Beth." Beth took his hand to shake, and audibly gasped when she came in contact with his burning skin. She raised her eyes to him furrowing her brow, but he just shrugged and dropped her hand as if it was nothing.
"Nice to meet you, Beth. This is Collin, Brady, Paul, and Jared."
Beth nodded at the group amid their varied greetings with a smile. There must be something in the water in La Push, she thought, for all the guys to be this built and attractive. Maybe they're all related.
"Well, it was nice to meet you guys, but I better get back home before I melt." She laughed and gestured to the rain that continued to pelt down on her. She was starting to get chilly too, and wondered how these guys could stand there without being cold.
Seth looked up at the sky with a smirk. "Ha ha, yeah. Sometimes it rains so much I don't even notice it anymore."He looked back down at her with a quirked eyebrow. She found it insanely adorable. "So… maybe we'll see you around some time?" He sounded hopeful, and Beth knew she'd be back to the beach before school started again, so she nodded.
"Yeah, sure. Only beach around, right?"
"Right."
Beth readjusted the strap of her bag on her shoulder and turned to go. "Okay, well, bye!"
She didn't turn around as she heard the guys' various farewells, but kept on toward home.
She couldn't help smiling to herself as she walked, nor the nagging feeling in the back of her mind that her life was about to get a little bit more complicated.
Short first chapter, but chapters will NOT be this short from now on!