A/N: This is my first story, and I wasn't really sure how it would turn out. PLEASE REVIEW, and all suggestions are welcomed. May be changed later. Might not be updated soon due to all my AP homework.
I own none of the characters, well except Leah Hine, her I do own.
Chapter 1-Graduation
I sat there in my bed, looking out my window to the dripping forest beyond. The rain had finally stopped for the first time in days, just in time for graduation. I had waited for this day since what felt like forever, knowing that soon I would be able to start my life with the only person that really existed in it, Edward.
It was just beyond 4 o'clock when I made it to the clearing of the gym. As I stood in line, waiting to receive the cap and gown that I had ordered, I screamed in surprise as a cold hand entwined their fingers in mine. Turning around, even though I already knew who it was, I saw Edward there behind me and I turned a deep shade of red. He stood there in his cap and gown, looking like an angel that didn't seem real, and gave me that crooked grin of his at the sight of my blush that seemed to get even a few more shades darker. As I stood there taking in the picture of what stood before me, committing it to memory, I thought about what I had done to deserve this, to deserve him. All I am is a normal, yet extremely clumsy girl, yet I had him and knew that I really didn't deserve him or any of this. I was just ordinary, but I was happy to know that to him I did deserve him, and that really he didn't deserve me.
I was finally ready. I was dressed in my all white cap and gown, and stood there ready to be called on, ready to take my turn to walk the stage and get my diploma for the first time, even though I knew it wasn't going to be the last.
Having already been called, I peered to the second row of chairs looking for his face, for my crooked grin to calm me, to make the nerves disappear as fast as they had come. I finally saw him, right in the middle of the second row, the last place I checked. He sat there, his topaz eyes staring into my deep chocolate brown ones, trying to read my mind. As I stood there, mesmerized in his eyes an in his smile, I hadn't really been paying any attention. At first I thought I could hear my name being called, but it sounded so distant that I didn't really look up. I then realized, as his eyes changed to show confusion, that they had been calling my name a few times. I walked up the stairs as quickly as possible, knowing that my face was a deep, deep shade of scarlet. In all of my hurry I hadn't noticed the cord to the stereo system right in the path of my clumsy feet, that were afixed in white high heels, and went sprawling across the rest of the stage as my feet somehow managed to get tangled in the cord. I stood up, turning an even darker shade of scarlet as I heard the rest of my class laugh. I turned all my attention to where Edward was located; to see that he had stood up, worry enveloping his face.
I had finally made it down the stairs and into my seat. I sat there head in my hands, trying to hide from all the humiliation I had just caused myself, and all in less that 10 minutes. I have to admit that it was a new record to say the least. Has I slowly lifted my head from my hands, I noticed that Edward was staring at me; his eyes which were once embedded in the back of my neck were now once again starting into my eyes. He slowly allowed his mouth to turn up into his crooked grin, my crooked grin, as my heart began to pick up to a rapid pace.
As I sat there, absorbed by his eyes, I hadn't realized the time. As I finally looked up, I realized that all the people who were left after me, we were down to our final person, our valedictorian, Leah Hine. I tried hard to concentrate on the speech she was giving, to grasp what she was trying to say. This though, I found nearly as impossible as not loving Edward. Yes he had left me, and yes while he was gone I was a terrible wreck, but he did come back and that proves how much he does love me, which made me love him even more, though I would never admit it. The rest of the ceremony went by with little mistakes, and before I could really grasp it, come to reality with it, it was over, and I was finally done. I had finally graduated and was now able to do what I knew I wanted since the very start, to become a vampire. To live the rest of my life with, but I refused to wait until my 19th birthday, all I had to do now was find the perfect date.