Chapter 14

Kyle's POV

I knew that I had to break it off with Zelda. I love her sure, but Alice had told me that she wasn't the one for me; well not my destined true love anyway. I wanted to break it off with her because I didn't want things to turn out like they had for Sam—the Quileute pack leader—and Leah. I didn't want to one day meet my true love while I'm still with Zelda and have her hating me.

I began to run to Albuquerque. I dashed through the hot sandy deserts of Nevada with blinding speed. When I got to her block, I slowed down to human speed. I knocked on her door. She answered, she seemed pretty happy to see me. "Hi Kyle," she said, "What are you doing here?"

"Could you come out for a walk with me?"

"Sure. Dad, I'm going out. Oh, wait, my dad's not home."

I laughed, human faults always made me chuckle; I was like my foster dad in that sense. We walked through the park. We sat down at a spot in a little meadow in the park. It was pretty well deserted until about sunset time. That was the usual time that couples started to come down. "So what's on your mind," she asked.

"Well," I started, "I have something kinda important to tell you."

"What is it?"

"Well, I'd like to stay friends with you even after what I'm about to tell you."

"The way you're talking, it sounds like some movie star trying to find the least painful way to break up."

"I'm sorry to say this, but I can't be with you anymore, Zel."

"But, why is that? We've been together for four years!"

"I know that, and it's great, but Alice has seen my future married life with my soul-mate, and I wasn't with you. And the sad part is she couldn't see how or when I meet her. Alice says it must have something to do with the Quileute wolves or Bella's daughter Renesmee."

She started to cry a little bit. "Please don't make this so hard," I practically begged, "I don't want there to be any tears."

"I'm sorry," she began, "It's just, I want to be with you. And if I can't, then it's enough for me just to know that you still exist."

Her crying stopped. "Even after you get with your soul-mate," she said, "Please keep in touch, just so I know that you're still alive."

"Alright," I said, "I promise."

***

It's been two years since I broke up with Zelda. I still haven't met the girl I'm destined to be with. Mom assured me that I'd meet my soul-mate in due time. I'm going to go cliff-diving with Amber and her friends today. Amber is my second-cousin, cousin Renesmee's daughter. She said that she was going to introduce me to her group's—which is aptly named, "The Daredevil Group"—newest member. I'm not sure if it was a boy or a girl.

Amber is a half-vampire, half-werewolf. When I got to the cliff—which was on the Quileute res' lake—Amber and her friends greeted me. "Hey Kyle," Amber said. Her other friends greeted me with happy, "hi's," and, "hello's."

"This is our newest member, Kendra." She brought someone out of her car; which I'm pretty sure she made with her dad's help. Out from the car, came the most beautiful person I've ever seen. I had a totally blank, dumbstruck look on my face. "Is he alright," she asked. Her voice was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard in my entire existence. "Hello," she asked in her lovely voice, "Are you okay?" I had just noticed, but while in the trance I had entered upon seeing her, I had toppled over. She waved her hand in front of my face. "Uh," I started, "Yeah I'm fine."

I got up and said, "Alright let's get to cliff-diving!" My voice was still weak; my guess was because seeing her had temporarily disconnected my vocal cords. We all took off our other clothes; we were wearing our bathing suits underneath our regular clothes. The first one to jump off the cliff was Amber's brother Andrew. He's a full werewolf, nothin' vampire about the guy. He screamed a hearty, "Yahoo!" as he jumped. Next went Amber, then May-bell and the rest of them. When Kendra's turn came around, she said, "Do I have to do this alone?" Amber and the rest of them were all back up here, waiting for Kendra to take her turn.

"You don't have to," Amber said, "Does anyone want to volunteer to go with her?"

No one was volunteering. That was when I swallowed my nerves of being around her and said, "I'll jump with her."

"Alright," she said. She smiled as she said it. We both prepared ourselves to jump. She grabbed my hand tightly. Somehow, it felt even better than when Zelda kissed me. We jumped off together. We screamed in delight as we plummeted towards the deep waters of the lake. "When we got back at the bottom of the cliff, and I got a good look at how beautiful she truly was, I was positive that she was my soul-mate. "What are you staring at," she asked, that same beautiful smile spreading upon her face.

"Only you," I said.

"What are you talking about?"

"I love you."

"But you just met me."

"Oh, yeah you're right. Sorry if I'm making you feel weird."

"It's okay." She smiled at me sort-of adoringly. "I don't mind."

We walked up the path to the top of the cliff, my arm around her protectively. I didn't want her to even possibly get hurt. "Ooooooh," Andrew said mockingly, "Ow that hurt!" Amber whacked him on the head; even half-vampires are pretty strong. "Don't mock people Andrew, it's not nice," she said, "Sorry about my bonehead of a brother."

"S'okay," I answered, "With my friend Kevin, I'm used to stuff like that."

***

After a few hours of jumping, we were finally going to go home. I could tell that Kendra was no longer nervous about jumping, but she still wanted me to jump with her anyway. She asked me if I could give her a ride home. I obliged quite willingly. I had taken my mom's convertible to La Push for the cliff-diving trip. I got her home in almost record time. I could have gone slower, but we vampires love going fast. I walked her to the front door. It was the wrong house though. I forgot to ask her where she lived. It took a while, but after a few tries I got it right. "Sorry I got you home so late," I said, I think I would've blushed if I could've.

"S'okay," she said, "I'm sure my foster parents don't mind."

"Foster parents?"

"I'll tell you 'bout it some other time."

She kissed me on the cheek and went into her house. It felt good, real good! I hopped into mom's car without even opening the door. I was so damn happy I didn't even care what happened next.

To be continued…