The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: #18
Pen Name: Melendine
Pairing/Character(s): Edward/ Seth
Rating: T
Word Count: 498

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Warning; slash.

Seth POV

Edward had always been my best friend, despite being a year older than me and it was because of him that I tried so hard academically, even graduating a year early. So it hurt that he couldn't trust me with his new girlfriend in Port Angeles. I had kept my real reason for being jealous under wraps, even from him. I may have only been 17 but since I was 15 I knew I had liked Edward more than platonically.

As far as I was aware he had no idea. My mum was the only person I had outed myself to and that was only because the stupid "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" popup on my favourite gay site alerted her when she was closing my browser.

In the end the perfect opportunity didn't come up. When does it ever? Edward had stopped visiting Port Angeles so much and whilst he was still in contact with his 'friend' she no longer hogged all of him time.

We were having a leaf fight in his garden after we had finished raking the leaves from around the trees. He started it and I finished it by dumping a whole pile on his head whilst he was leaning down to grab more. The shock caused him to be off balance and as I was spinning around I slipped on a piece of now exposed ground and fell in to him. This caused us to both be on the floor, with me on top of him chest to chest. Our mouths were so close I only had to lean in slightly more until I could kiss him. But it wasn't me that kissed him, during our fall something sparked in Edward's eyes and before I could move his mouth was on mine. It was heaven.

We spent the next few minutes kissing, knowing that as soon as we stopped we would have to start talking. I pulled away first, needing to get some air, although I left my hand on his hand. We spent the next hour talking. Apparently he had non-platonic feelings towards me since he was 15 but due to being year older he didn't want to act on it, especially as he wasn't sure that I reciprocated. It also turned out that his 'girlfriend' was a 19 year old guy who he met at a bar although their relationship was in Edward's words 'casual'.

Our relationship progressed as the year went on and we went off to U-Dub together as a committed couple. We even kissed each other at graduation in full view of the entire town. Our relationship may have started because of a leaf fight but our relationship was more like a conifer tree, able to withstand any thing time could throw at us.

At least that's was Edward said in his wedding vow. He's still the most eloquent man I know and I'm lucky to be his legally recognised husband.