A/N: Another drabble. This one is for Sarita. She challenged me to write something happy. Hopefully this suffices. My birthday was this past weekend so it seemed appropriate. I took some liberties with the canon as you'll see and have done a little AU scene. I'm still accepting prompts so if there's something you'd like to see throw it my way.
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing. Hope you're all well.
"I didn't spend a dime," Edward assured me. He brushed a strand of hair from my face, leaving my skin tingling from his touch. New Moon
I opened the tiny box carefully. Inside, wrapped in delicate tissue paper, was a bottle cap, lemonade to be exact. I looked at Edward questioningly.
"Take it out," he said softly.
I did as he said. The bottle cap had been transformed into a necklace. The lip of the cap was flattened out and encircled in silver so that it looked like a picture frame and the chain was rugged looking. It was perfect, not too girly but not ugly either. I felt a faint itching in the back of my mind but I couldn't quite place why.
Edward took the pendant and ran his fingers over it gently. He smiled his knee weakening crooked smile and had a faraway look in his eyes.
"The first time we sat together at lunch I snagged this from you." He said.
Suddenly it came back to me. Jessica's disbelieving stare; Edward's disarming smile; our agreement to try to be friends. And him spinning my bottle cap, this bottle cap.
"Y-you kept this?" I stammered. I was beginning to feel overwhelmed. I could feel the tears coming.
"Yes," he replied. He took the necklace and placed it over my head and around my neck. It was just long enough to rest above my heart.
"I wanted to take a piece of you with me. I didn't know how things would turn out. All of this was so new to me. You could have decided to heed my warnings and never speak to me again."
"Are you glad I didn't?" I asked warily.
"Ecstatic," he said, grinning hugely. He pulled me into a hug and whispered into my hair. "I love you Isabella. I'll always love you."
I felt my heart beat faster. No matter how many times he said it I could never believe it. I was always waiting for the catch, for the bad news that was sure to come. Apparently it wasn't coming tonight though. Maybe this would be a happy birthday after all.