A/N: Okay so this is my first journey. I'm hoping that at least a few people would like to come with me and try and enjoy themselves. I'm hoping that the people who may start with me now, will stay with me throughout the ups and downs. Even though there may be times when you hate my guts, I'm hoping that by the end you may actually give me a round of applause and maybe even recommend me. Lofty goals but just what I'm hoping : )
This is based off what I hear in this song (the italics)…probably a lot different than what some people hear but hey, I'm not perfect. Review!
Elevator buttons and morning air
Strangers' silence makes me wanna take the stairs
If you were here we'd laugh about their vacant stares
But right now, my tongue is theirs
Seems like there's always someone who disapproves
They'll judge it like they know about me and you
And the verdict comes from those with nothing else to do
The jury's out, but my choice is you
So don't you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard
The stakes are high
The waters rough
But this love is ours
You never know what people have up their sleeves
Ghosts from your past gonna jump out at me
Lurking in the shadows with their lip gloss smiles
But I don't care, cause right now you're mine
And you'll say don't you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard
The stakes are high
The waters rough
But this love is ours
And it's not theirs to speculate
If it's wrong and your hands are tough but they are where mine belong and
I'll fight their doubt and give you faith with this song for you
Cause I love the gap between your teeth
And I love the riddles that you speak
And any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored
Cause my heart is yours
So don't you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
And life makes love look hard
So don't you worry your pretty little mind
People throw rocks at things that shine
But they can't take what's ours
They can't take what's ours
The stakes are high
The waters rough
But this love is ours
Prologue
I went through life "playing it safe". I never went to parties, I never dated boys my parents didn't approve of, I never stayed out past 10:30, and I never traveled outside of Washington.
For the first sixteen years of my life I was perfectly content in living that way. After all, better than safe then sorry, right? But then, something changed in me one day that was completely unexpected. I didn't want to always wear cardigans and always read my books. I wanted to live, I wanted to experience new things and be completely insane. I wanted to feel something other than contentedness. I wanted to have something so exciting and miraculous happen in my life that I could tell my children about one day; I wanted their eyes to light up in disbelief from my stories.
I didn't know how to change though, I had lived for so long in complete monotony that I had no clue what anything different felt like.
Just as I started to feel like there was no hope in a different life, he moved in right next door to me. He had an obvious tattoo displayed down his arm; he had a sleek motorcycle parked in the driveway right next to a shiny red sports car. When I first saw him my breath literally got caught inside my throat and I felt and I felt a spark inside of me that I had never experienced before. I wanted to know everything about him and I wanted to know what he had lived through; I wanted his lifestyle.
Charlie, my dad, had scoffed when he saw what I would describe as the epitome of perfection. He told me to stay away from him but I knew I wouldn't be able to. I needed to know Edward Cullen like I needed air to breathe. I had to know him.
