A.N. Inspired by my friend Haley for giving me this fantastical idea!!!! Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie.
I couldn't stand it anymore! I felt sooo alone without being with Nahuel. Not only that but I also felt pathetic, pathetic for needing him so much. It has only been one day and my own longing hurt me.
I stayed with my mom and Seth stayed too. We watch more home movies. I loved them. I was so innocent. Everything back then was so uncomplicated, so simple. Just eat, sleep, school, be mean to Seth, eat again, sleep, so on, and so on. My daddy was alive. Vampires and werewolves were just freaky nightmare stories, Seth was terrified of, and old people believed in. I was a normal happy girl. Three days ago if someone asked me if I could go back to that time would I go back I would have said yes, maybe with a slight hesitation, but still yes. Now? I wouldn't hesitate to say no, because my future looked brighter that it did three days ago.
The next day Nahuel came to my house and hung out. Seth being the friendliest boy you can ever meet, became friend with Nahuel. Not that it was unexpected. I think I would have been even stranger if Seth hated Nahuel. My mom, being my mom, cooked a lot, and told Nahuel my embarrassing childhood stories. And worst of all that isn't even the worst part. Yep! Guess who was there? I bet you'll guess…EVERYONE!!! Absolutely EVERYONE! Huilen, Jacob, Embry, Sam, Quil, Emily, Claire, Kim, Jared, Paul, Rachel, Charlie, Brady, Collin, Billy, all the new wolfs, and, even freakin' stranger, the Cullen's. Not that I have any problem with them anymore (Well I kind of do and I kind of don't) but still it's weird. It got too tight in the house so we went outside, and talked. I tried to keep my expression happy and light hearted, not showing that I was freaked. The only thing that made me calm was that Huilen seemed to like me. She smiled at me genuinely, and she seemed to actually like me!!! I was beaming with that.
At about seven p.m. Nahuel sat next to me.
"Hello." He said.
"Hey."
"Let's go."
"Why?" I asked. He seemed to be having a really good time here.
"I have a surprise for you." He said.
"What surprise?" I asked
"If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise."
"What kind of surprise?"
He smiled mischievously. "The kind of surprise you'll like."
"Well…fine. You just love surprises don't you?"
"Only when I give them."
I laughed. "Nice."
He smiled at me. "Come on." He grabbed my hand in his. I smiled loving the feeling.
"What about the others?"
"They know we're leaving."
I looked back and saw them all wave good-bye. I waved back, a huge smile on my face.
He opened his new car door for me. It wasn't new, just new to him. 2005 Nissan Altima, it's a good car, I like it. Black with leather seats, sunroof. (Not that we'll ever use it here.)
We ended up walking in the woods though. It was beautiful and for a second I thought this was the surprise. Every thing was frozen to perfection, with a couple of flowers and leaves. Icicles made little dripping sounds, plup, plup, plup. Like music. Natural music. The gentle wind added to the song.
Nahuel and I held hands as we walked. We talked of course.
But then he stopped, and smiled at me. "Leah, you are the best thing that has happen to me."
"I know, and you are the best thing to happen to me."
"I want to give you everything."
I smiled. "You're my everything. You're all I want."
He smiled sweetly. "Well, I'll give you everything any ways. Close your eyes."
I stared at his smile for a long time and wondering, hoping, that he would finally kiss me. I haven't even noticed how much I wished our lips would meet but now it was it was like "why won't he kiss me? I want him to kiss me!" It was a physical ping of longing that went through me. I bit my lip and closed my eyes.
He put his arm around me, still holding my hand and, he led me through the woods gently taking me into the unknown to me but I wasn't afraid. I followed him into the dark. He was quite and his hands were warm. I could feel his breath on me. My eyes wanted to open but they only fluttered. Soon I could feel the trees leave my side and we were in an open field. We walked a little more than we stopped. His hand around my waist let go and I could feel him about a foot in front of me.
"Open your eyes." He whispered.
I opened my eyes to a clearing surrounded by frozen Cherry Blossom trees. The flowers bloomed frozen to perfection.
"Oh my God. It's--it's beautiful. " I said amazed.
"I know, but still cannot compare to thee."
I blushed.
He cupped my cheek in his hand and smiled at me. Making more red. "Come on. Let's eat."
"Oh." This place was so beautiful I didn't even notice the little picnic right in front of me. I smiled,"This is perfect."
Then Nahuel actually blushed. "I spent half of yesterday preparing this. At the time I didn't thing it was worth it. Being away from you it was painful, but seeing you so happy now, it was worth it."
I couldn't take away my goofy smile. "It was painful."
"Is it apart of the imprint?" he asked.
"I don't know." I admitted.
"Well, anyways, let's eat."
There were chicken drumsticks, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, apple sauce, barbecue chips, and cup cakes.
I got icing on Nahuel's nose and cheek.
"Come on!"I said chasing him around the clearing. I giggling so hard it was painfully. "A little icing on that nose wont hurt."
"I all ready have a lot of icing on my nose, Leah." he said playfully.
I laughed hard. Then he got a cup cake, full of icing. "No." I warned.
He nodded. "Oh, yeah."
I ran away from him. Our laughs could be heard to heaven. Some how he gently tackled me carful not to hurt me and put icing all over my face. We were laughing so hard now. It was amazing we could breath. I wrapped my arms around his neck. He kissed my nose. Then He kissed my lips.