So this started as something that thought I would be able to finish in just a couple chapters but after writing just this much I think it could go one for quite a few. Now that school is back in session, no promises of how often updates will be, but hopefully I'll get the next chapter out before profs pile the work too high.
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God she was beautiful. I was staring, but she was used to it now. She looked up at me and I froze. The way she held my gazed was unbreakable. She had been in the middle of a conversation with a new friend from school. It was great that she had made friends so easily.
We had worried that this would not come simply as she had never truly had to the opportunity to socialize with others her own age (or at least physically appearing the same age) due to the fact that they outgrew them too quickly. Now that her appearance had started to plateau we were hopeful she would develop at a normal rate for the next few years.
Since we had reached the point in her development we had been waiting for, we all enrolled in Black Canyon High School in Emmett, Idaho. She was enrolled as a freshman. The rest of us were fairly equally distributed among the upper class grades. Oddly enough, she had a much easier time than the rest of us. Alice liked to throw theories around trying to rationalize her effortless popularity, but we all knew there was no explanation other than her personality. She lit up the room. Others couldn't help to be drawn to her the way they were drawn to her parents without the obstacle of their desire to kill any who came near. That usually put a damper on human friendship.
She smiled at me and I knew she wanted me to join her. I moved silently through the group, trying to actual casual though I towered over everyone. She took my hand and a wave of happiness shot through me as I saw my staring face echoed back through the lens of her thoughts. She really did love me.
It had worried me for a long time that she would not return my affections (imprinting was binding on my end but not on hers), and who could blame her? She was ridiculously beautiful and unbelievably smart. She had an endless supply of money available to her should she want it (which she rarely did) and was the most kindhearted person I had ever known. It would have made sense if she wanted someone else, or even the option to look for someone else. But she had made up her mind quite awhile ago that she would stay with me and I could not have been happier.
"This is my Jacob," she said to the girl she had been talking to, her melodic tone saturated with contentment. "You've probably seen him around school, he's a junior." She turned to me. "This is Jill, we have Spanish together."
Jill looked slightly stunned. I'd seen this look on the faces of several people recently so I was fairly certain she was reacting to the fact that I was supposed to be 16 years old. I may not have aged at all in the last 10 years, but I certainly didn't look much younger than 20. I tried to make my back-story involve getting held back a couple of times but I was refused and reminded that when it comes to details, less is more. So here I was, 27 years old, pretending to be 16, while being in a relationship with a girl who looked 15 but was really only 10. If my life wasn't the perfect formula for a soap opera I don't know what would be. Unless you added in that her parents were vampires who would be 17 & 18 years old forever, and they were now pretending to her sister and my stepbrother. And for some reason they thought my desired back-story was too complicated. Vampires.