Looking through the photo album that lay on her lap, Adelia Northington couldn't help but let those tears slip down her pink cheeks. Her parents had just died recently in a tragic car accident.
She was alone. Never in her sixteen year had she felt this lonely, everyone she love was slowly leaving her one by one. First her best friend and now her parents.
She scoffed at herself for even thinking about that boy she had called 'best friend'. Adelia never hated someone so much like him.
Adelia Northington hated Jacob Black.
The doorbell rang downstairs in her small double storey house. Adelia didn't have the energy to talk to anyone, she was sick of hearing the sympathy and pity in their voices as they spoke to her about her parents. She didn't want their pity, she didn't want anything from them except to leave her alone and let her wallow in her own pain.
The bell continued to ring not stopping once since it started and it began to bug at her nerves. Her parents death had changed Adelia from the quiet spoken girl to the cold girl who wasn't afraid to speak her mind. With a sigh, Adelia slammed the album shut and marched down those stairs into the dark lower level of her house.
Unchaining the chain lock and twisting the door lock, Adelia turned the handle of her front door and came to stare into those eyes of Jacob Black. Her former best friend.
It's been a while since the two of us talked
About a week since the day that you walked
"Hey Lia," he greeted her with her nickname and a small smile upon those perfect lips but in contrast, Adelia had no smile on her pale plump lips, she wore a scowl seeing his face on her front porch. "Gonna let me in?" he asked almost pleadingly and somewhere deep within her cold heart, she felt it pump harder.
Stepping back and pulling the door wider, Jacob Black stepped into the house, seeing it lightened by the open doorway.
Knowing things would never be the same
With your empty heart and mine full of pain
"What is it that you want? I have to pack," Adelia asked coldly with all the intention that she wanted to rid of Jacob as soon as possible.
Jacob swallowed the lump in his throat as he felt his heart break slowly, seeing how she felt towards him.
He admit. He admits that he was being a selfless jerk that thought about himself. When Isabella Swan came into his life, he forgot about his best friend. He forgot about Adelia Northington. He didn't once visit, call or messaged her when he had found out that her parents were dead.
He was avoiding her.
So explain to me, How it came to this
Let's take it back to the night that we kissed
It was Dublin city on a Friday night
With vodkas and coke, I was Guinness all night
Adelia fidgeted under his heated stare. She didn't like how he was watching her, reading her so easily but that was the Adelia before. She's changed now, changed into someone that Jacob Black wouldn't have recognised but for the appearance.
"You're leaving?" he asked softly and she nodded. Her own voice would have betrayed her.
We were sitting with our backs against the world
Saying things that we thought but never heard
Who would have thought it would end up like this?
"Why?" his voice starting to show his true feelings. He didn't want to tell her things that would change her life forever. He wanted to be her best friend. He wanted things to be like before.
He wanted it to be when he hadn't met Isabella Swan. When Isabella Swan hadn't met Edward Cullen. When Isabella Swan hadn't given birth to Renesmee. When Isabella Swan hadn't become the thing he hated most, a bloddsucker.
Adelia shrugged as she walked into the empty kitchen, the cupboards were empty as were the fridge that had once been filled with food and drinks. "There's nothing keeping me back here,"
Her answer had been short and it stung Jacob's heart.
Where everything we talked about is gone
And the only chance we have of moving on
Is trying to take it back before it all went wrong
With her back towards Jacob, he couldn't help but feel as though this was goodbye. He wouldn't ever see her angelic face. He wouldn't be able to look at those plump lips and those twinkling brown eyes that he grew to love.
"What about me?" he asked. Please stay. He wanted to scream at her. I can't live without you. Were really the words he wanted to shout at the top of his lungs to her.
Adelia scoffed at that question. She twisted her neck to stare at him. Her face unreadable except for the scowl on her lips that was there from the beginning.
Before the worst
Before we mend
Before our hearts decided it's time to love again
Before too late
Before too long
Let's try and take it back before it all went wrong
"What about you?" she asked him back as though expecting him to answer her. Jacob went silent. "You were out of my life the moment you became infatuated with Isabella Swan, Jacob."
He winced at her words. His heart clenched. His eyes slowly watered. He wanted to grovel at her feet to take him back, he wanted to apologise to her but he didn't.
"Don't you remember the times we used to sleep over? The times I held you when you were upset at Paul or Embry? Or when Quil broke your mother's necklace?"
There was a time that we'd stay up all night
Best friends, yeah, talking til the daylight
Took the joys alongside the pain
With not much to lose but so much to gain
Adelia sighed turning away from Jacob again. She clenched her fists tightly to prevent the tears from falling and keeping her voice cold and not wavering.
She didn't want to show him any weakness.
"We can't go back to that time Jacob, because deep down there's still the fact that you love Isabella Swan and one call from her would get you running from here again," she said to him not turning to face him.
Jacob didn't move from his spot in the kitchen doorway. He didn't dare move a muscle, afraid he would burst into a wolf and scare her away.
Are hearing me? Cause I don't wanna miss,
Set you a drift on memory bliss
It was Grafton Street on a rainy night
I was down on one knee and you where mine for life
At first coming here, he didn't think Adelia hated him. Sure he thought she would be mad at him but he didn't imagine she would have changed so much.
And at that thought, he didn't know how much he had hurt her. He didn't know the meaning of Jacob Black in her life.
We we're thinking we would never be apart
With your name tattooed across my heart
Who would have thought it would end up like this?
"I'm sorry Lia, I'm sorry I caused you so much pain. Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me how you felt?" he pleaded with her, tears threatening to spill from his eyes.
"You didn't listen. You ignored me, brushed me to the side like some cheap whore Jacob. You left me to fend for myself." She spat at him with no emotion in her voice but disgust at him.
Jacob flinched at her. He flinched at her words. It hurt him. It hurt him just like he had hurt her.
Where everything we talked about is gone
And the only chance we have of moving on
Is trying to take it back before it all went wrong
"I..I didn't think of it like that Lia, honestly, I'm-," but his words were cut off by the sharp look on her face as she turned to face him. "I'm sorry and I wanna make it up to you,"
Adelia laughed. Jacob winced at the empty laugh she let out.
"There's no way you can make it up to me Jacob. I realised how much I mean to you. Nothing."
Before the worst, before we mend
Before our hearts decide
It's time to love again
Before too late, before too long
Let's try to take it back before it all went wrong
Jacob wanted to protest but there actually was no way he could make it up to her now. He had hurt her too deeply. Played with her heart and torn in out.
"You can't just waltz in and out of my life like you want to Jacob. It doesn't work like that. Even if we were friends, things just will never be the same. You'll forever be madly in love with Isabella Swan," she whispered as the tears spilled down her cheeks.
If the clouds don't clear
Then well rise above it, well rise above it
Heaven's gate is so near
Come walk with me through
Just like we use to, just like we use to
"That's where you're wrong Lia. I don't love her like I used to anymore." Adelia snorted with laughter as he tried to plead with her. "No, listen to me Lia. I don't love her anymore because I've come to face my problems. I've accepted and understood that, I've imprinted,"
Adelia gave a short breath intake. He imprinted. She didn't know if she was to be happy or sad. He had imprinted on another girl and fell out of love with Isabella Swan. She should be happy but she wasn't. There was no chance that the girl was her.
There was no chance that Adelia would be Jacob Black's imprintee.
Let's take it back before it all went wrong
"Oh. Then why are you here?" Adelia asked desperate to have Jacob out of her sight. His presence was starting to break her already broken heart.
Before the worst, before we mend
Before our hearts decide
It's time to love again
Before too late, before too long
Lets try to take it back
Before it all went wrong
"Because I imprinted on you," Jacob finally confessed.
