Disclaimer- All characters' belong to Stephenie Meyer.
Drifting
The year that followed that phone conversation was long and boring for Emily, with Leah wrapped up in her new wonderful relationship with Sam, the two friends barely spoke anymore. Emily would be lying if she said she didn't feel a little forgotten, she tried to tell Leah as much during one of the rare times her cousin actually picked up the phone.
"Hey Aunt Sue, is Leah around?" Emily asked in a hopeful tone.
"As a matter of fact she is, that boyfriend of hers had to work, so she's hanging around the house with Seth and I."
Emily heard Aunt Sue call for Leah, and then the tell tale sound of the phone being handed off. She smiled when Leah's voice came from the other end.
"Emily, hey! how are you?"
"I'm doing fine, Anna is engaged." Emily answered referring to her sister who was four years older than the two almost 16 year olds.
" That's great!" Leah broke in happily.
" Yeah, everyone is really excited, the wedding is set for summer your invitations should be there soon. Anna said you could bring Sam, we're looking forward to meeting him finally. How are things with you two by the way?" Emily finished with the question.
Leah sighed happily, "Great, better than great I love him so much Em."
" Happy to hear it." Emily smiled a little. "You know, Leah-"
" Em, hold that thought." Leah interrupted. "Someone's at the door."
Emily waited patiently, the next time Leah spoke it wasn't to her.
"Sam, babe what are you doing here? I thought you had to work all night." she said happily, there was a sound then, which Emily knew to be the sound of kissing.
A new voice sounded, though it was muffled, Emily could hear the deep tone as Sam answered Leah's question. though she caught few words of the reply.
".. Early...came by...plans for dinner...phone?"
"Oh!" Leah's voice sounded sheepish. "Emily i'm sorry, Sam got off early and came by to take me out. I'll call you back later, okay?"
A click sounded, and Emily sighed in sad annoyance. Leah didn't even give her a chance to reply. Setting the phone down, Emily decided to head upstairs to finish homework.
Leah didn't call her back.
The summer came, as did the day for Anna's wedding
Emily was putting the finishing touches on her hair, when her mother called for her.
"Emmy, Aunt Sue is here!"
Excited, Emily raced down the stairs, she greeted her mom's sister with a hug, and smiled at Seth who waved back. As she turned to greet Leah,she was almost knocked over by the girl in question.
"Emily!" Leah said happily hugging her tightly, which was returned with equal enthusiasm.
"Leah I missed you." Emily said pulling back a little to look at her best friend's face, "You look happy." And she did, Leah was practically glowing with happiness.
" Well if you had a boyfriend as wonderful as mine, you would be happy too."
Emily grimaced, Leah had been telling her for the past couple weeks during their increasingly few phone calls, that she needed to get out into the dating world too. But Emily wasn't stupid she knew that one of the main reasons Leah wanted her to date so bad was so that the blame for their deteriorating friendship wouldn't rest solely on her relationship with Sam.
" Yeah well, the guys here aren't really interested."
"Bull." Leah stated, crossing her arms, "They are interested, you're beautiful Em. I think it's you who's not interested, you'll never find your prince charming if you don't put down the text books and get out there."
"Speaking of prince charming." a new voice broke in, Leah and Emily turned to see Anna looking beautiful in her simple white dress.
"Where's yours?" she asked after hugging the new arrivals.
Leah's face fell a bit
" Sam couldn't make it, he had to work he asked me to congratulate you and David for him."
" Oh, that's to bad about him not being able to make it, we were all excited to meet him."
Emily wished she could say she was disappointed that Sam couldn't be there, but she couldn't bring herself to lie. Sure she believed he was a good person, but she missed the Leah without Sam, her best friend, her sister.
They had drifted apart over the past year and a half.
And it was Sam Uley's fault.
Author's Note: Thanks for reading : ) no Sam/Emily interaction as of yet but he'll be in the picture soon. hope you enjoyed, feedback is always welcome!
