The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: 11. Forbidden
Main Character: Bella
Rating: T
Word Count: 411
We were hiding in my closet, his breath cool on my neck as his lips left every mark on my body unraveled.
His hands left no spot untouched as I drew him closer to me.
I couldn't get enough of him, I just wanted more of him. More of us.
More than the fact that our families hated each other, and we were forbidden to be together.
It wasn't our fault that we met and fell in love.
We didn't ask for our families to be in a war of vampires versus humans.
He didn't care, and neither did I.
We knew an even bigger war was ahead of us when someone would find out about us.
It was only a matter of time.
We couldn't speak to each other during school hours, or weekends during the day.
He had to stay in during the day, I had to sleep at night.
But on evenings before bed, we'd meet up.
I've never felt closer to anyone before, not even my parents.
His family looked down on us as nothing more than "filthy peasants". They saw us as something to spit on, a food supply, white trash, wretches only useful for money.
But he never saw us that way. He thought we needed guidance, but didn't see humans as pets. He saw them as learners, taking everything in at once and discovering which was good to keep, or bad enough to forget. He thought they had a tendency to throw away our bad memories or hide from them, or trade them in for something they thought they deserved. He remembered having those thoughts when he was human all those years ago. But it seemed like his family had forgotten what that was like. To them, he says, it's all about the next hunt, the next fight for the meal of the day, and he hated that feeling. He didn't want to be a monster stealing innocent lives every night.
He wanted to be good and kind and live in a world where he could be free to be whatever he wanted.
I wanted the same things. I wanted to travel, see the world with him. I wanted a job, a house, a family. But I couldn't when I had to constantly follow the rules of this ridiculous war. I wanted to be free to be whatever I could be. A writer, a teacher, an explorer. But I couldn't here. We couldn't here.