The Twilight Twenty-Five ( )
Prompt: #11 (Omen)
Pen Name: Maddie-the-Muse
Pairing/Character(s): Leah Clearwater
Rating: K
Word Count: 345
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The sun was shining the day Leah Clearwater left La Push for the first time with no intention of returning. She had had her bags packed for weeks, ready to leave but not able to make the move to do it. She woke to the feeling of sunlight filtering through her window, making her eyelids glow orange. The change—the sun—was enough to make her pull the trigger on her plan to leave the life she'd known behind. She left letters for her mom and brother on the kitchen table, and snuck out the back door with a small backpack worth of belongs over her shoulder before either of them were awake. She caught the first bus into Forks, and walked far enough out of town on the highway that none of the deputies would bother her before attaching the little cardboard SEATTLE sign to her back pack. Her plan was to hitch a ride into the city where she could become another nameless face in the crowd.
The sun so rarely shone in the little corner of the world she had called home for her whole life, and she soaked it up greedily; let it warm her from the inside out until it radiated from her face in a broad smile. She'd only been walking along the shoulder for a little more than half an hour when a car pulled over and stopped a few yards ahead. A girl about Leah's own age leaned out the front passenger window, shielding her eyes from the sun with her hand. The offer of a ride was given and Leah gladly accepted, climbing into the backseat and greeting the pair of young women in the car.
Leah decided the sun shining down on her the day she changed her life must be an omen, and she decided to take it for the good sign it felt like. Rolling down the window, Leah let the wind blow through her hair as she looked back at the life she was more than happy to leave behind, and smiled.