The Twilight 25: Round 8

by k8ln713

Round 8! Flash fiction round using 25 prompts. 300-500 words (though mostly in the high 400s to 500 words). Mixed ratings of T & M (mostly rated M 'cause that's what we like!) Mostly Edward/Bella with a few of the other characters. Check out the prompts used at the twilight25 dot com/round-eight/prompts.

10. Prompt 10 - Wishing well

The Twilight Twenty-Five
thetwilight25 dot com

Prompt: #10 – Wishing well
Pen Name: k8ln713
Pairing/Character(s): Bella/Edward
Rating: T
Word Count: 496

Photo prompts can be found here:
thetwilight25 dot com/round-eight/prompts

I remember the first time I ever came across a wishing well.

I was with my mother, and she and I were just walking around town, eventually venturing off into a more wooded area. When we saw it, I had asked what it was and she told me its powers, how if I just speak my wish and toss a penny in, my wish would eventually come true.

I think I had wished for a Barbie that I wanted because, come on… I was six or something and I liked playing with Barbies. Wishing to win the lottery or for true love wasn't on my mind at the time.

As time passed, I'd make a trip to that wishing well every few months or so and always wished for something, it eventually becoming just one wish wished multiple times. I eventually wished for this wish when I was sixteen.

I wanted to fall in love. See, now it's on my mind.

I saw it all around me… all the girls had boyfriends and I didn't. I wanted someone to look at me and tell me they loved me. I wanted my own happily ever after those Disney movies poisoned into my brain.

And every time I went to the wishing well, with my eyes closed I'd say, "I wish to meet a man and fall in love with him, for him to be the one for me," before tossing in a penny.

But it hasn't come true. I'm twenty-five and have yet to fall in love.

Sure, I've had a few boyfriends and we've done our fair share of things, but I've yet to feel that feeling of being head over heels in love. I haven't looked into any of my past boyfriends' eyes and know that I was meant to be with them.

At this point, I've started giving up on wishing wells actually granting wishes. Almost ten years I've wished to fall in love… and nothing! But I knew I had to give it one more shot before completely throwing in the towel and realizing I was meant to be alone. It definitely wasn't like Snow White with that scene she sings into the well and the Prince shows up.

So I trek into the wooded area in town to where the wishing well is. With the penny in hand and my eyes closed, I make my wish and toss it in.

I then head back home, making a pit stop at the supermarket.

I'm not really paying attention to my surroundings when I crash into a hard body, losing my footing and my basket, food falling out.

"Crap! Sorry! I should look where I'm going," I apologize.

"It's alright. As long as you're not hurt," the man's voice says, kneeling down to help me.

Our hands touch. Shockwaves run through me.

I then look straight into his emerald green eyes. And I know right then and there that he's the one for me.