Another entry for the Twilight Twenty-Five one-shot and drabble (100 word) challenge. For more information go to: http:// community. livejournal. com/ thetwilight25/ (without the spaces)
Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight. The rest is mine.
The Twilight Twenty-Five
Prompt #17: Soft
Pen name: Juliejuliejulie
Pairing: Edward/Bella (seven months after "Raindrops" and "Erosion")
Rating: T
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"We are two traumatized people."
"We really are," Edward whispers, lifting his cheek from my tear-soaked shoulder.
My throat clenches, as if the car has diminished by half and I've doubled in size.
Is this what love is? We damage each other and make unsatisfying compromises until we find ourselves so far from our destination that we become foreigners in our own lives?
I am an oyster shell, pried apart and vulnerable, splayed wide like an open palm. I am an eggshell, chipped and leaking. I feel raw, on the verge of breaking.
I crack the window, gasping for air.