Discovery
A/n: This chapter was written completely, 100% by my beta, Bnjwl. This is her vision for the ending of Choices. I love it.
She's given me permission to post it to the story, but all credit goes to her. She totally got into Edward's head.
Enjoy.
As I turn from your grave I see her.
She's crying, she's stumbling and she's falling.
My grief is forgotten as I rush to help her, I grab her arm and help her stand again.
She looks up at me, her eyes aren't yours, they mimic my pain. I hand her the tissue that my Mom handed me as I left with Harper.
We sit in the diner and she tells me how she lost Ben.
He was a runner, one morning he didn't come back from that run. She had only been married for two years, she didn't even have the time that we had together. We had almost fourteen years if you count the years in high school. She had two. No kids, nothing to show for their time.
I'm more thankful for Harper now after hearing her story.
I realize I'm almost late for Harper's party at my mom and dad's house. I don't want to leave her alone, she's still so sad. This is her first anniversary to get through. I remember my first one, it was not good.
I invite her to come with me. She accepts. I introduce her to my mom and dad, my sister and her husband. Harper comes over and I don't know what to do, should I or shouldn't I?
Harper handles it for me, she introduces herself, she says she is the birthday princess, Angela laughs and tells her that she most certainly is.
A small fear begins when I see them together. I want to run, to scream, to cry.
That night I see you, you run through the trees at our back yard, the same ones I wanted to cut down.
As I drift off to sleep you tell me to live, to enjoy, to choose again.
I wake up crying, I don't know if I can choose again. I don't know if Angela wants to choose again.
You tell me to stop overthinking and just live. So I do.