Disclaimer: Steph Meyers owns it, I just elaborated on a semi-minor character.
Amaranthine - Eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting.
I guess that is a good description of what I am, what we all are. Back in my human life, I remember hearing a fable about the amaranth
An amaranth planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: "What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favorite alike with Gods and with men. I envy you your beauty and your perfume." The Rose replied, "I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief season! If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom. But thou art immortal and dost never fade, but bloomest for ever in renewed youth."
I had always read that particular fable and felt it didn't quite fit in with the rest of Aesop's work. It was the only one that I did not agree with. The one I could not understand. How could the rose be envious? What could you want with forever? I guess I had just never been open-minded that way. I guess I had always been and always wanted to be that rose in more ways than just the name. And I had been. I wanted to be married and then have babies right away. I had plans of growing old and watching my children, and then grandchildren, play in a big backyard. I wanted to live a natural life cycle.
I guess fate had it in for me.
Royce King was the man I had wanted to marry. So foolish of me. If I had been less concern about wealth, maybe I could have been that rose forever. Who knows? But, I was going to marry Royce King. A wolf in sheep's clothing. I wish I had known he was less human then than I am now. He and his friends took my innocence.
Then Carlisle took the rest of everything I had. He took my mortality. He took my babies and their babies. He took my family. He took my future, replacing it with everlasting youth.
He made me an Amaranth. Still beautiful, more so than before I guess. However, my beauty is not going to get me to that house with that big backyard where I can watch my children laugh, play, and grow anymore.
I guess I am always going to envy the roses of the world.
Like Bella.
She has it all. She could have everything I have ever wanted. She could marry that Newton kid and have babies with his blue eyes and her brown hair. He has the money to give her that nice house with his family's store and all. She could go off to college. She may be a little dense but she is not dumb. She has the grades to get into a nice school. Meet someone there and fall in love.
And she doesn't want it.
She wants my idiot brother, who was too stupid to avoid getting too close to her. I guess they're both dense.
And they're getting married soon.
Then he is going to change her.
Make her into an amaranth too.
And as much as I disagree, that is her happily ever after.