A/N: incredibly short I know but my laptop has been confiscated by parental unit 1 XD Plus there's that messed up sign in BS going on. Oh well.
Blackest Night
Chapter 1: Of the Average Despicable Teenage Romance
He always abhorred high school drama, especially pertaining to romantic relationships. Not only were they tedious but the same stories repeated at each school he'd been to.
The girl would claim she loved her beau, seeking absolution she would never find within her own petty soul and the boy would respond with the same false words, usually with questionable motives.
Edward could never understand why that was so important. Sex was sex. A physical activity, a means to reduce stress. After all, he had never wanted anyone-let alone in that way-and he'd turned out just fine.
Even the horrid adolescent romances that would eventually, one day spring into a real love, a real life, Edward never envied. Nothing and no one ever captivated his attention the way his mother had his father and he had never seen any one of those teenage humans look at each other in the way Jasper and Alice did or Carlisle and Esme.
He didn't really think he was missing anything.
Not until Isabella Swan quite literally stumbled into his lap.
She was wonderful and kind and endearing but certainly she could never look at him the way he wanted. No.
But then by some miraculous occurrence (or a few) she could. And she did.
And each time she verified it; each time she told him so, his heart soared to new heights.
Because he not only wanted but needed it to be true, so slowly he began to believe it with all his heart and soul. Because they loved each other enough that when they say those three insignificant little words that hold so much power over all of us they don't seem so insignificant. They love each other enough for it to truly mean something.
He tried ever so hard to forget those simple facts, pretend it was nothing more than one of those teenage romances he despised to acidly, as he drove to her house from the mailbox, on the way to break her heart.