Brought To Life
She can feel the change in the way Edward is looking at her immediately. It's like a primal instinct, an inner knowledge brought to life inside of her.
At first she ignores it. Surely it can't be true. (But she knows it is.)
It doesn't make sense. (Does it?)
As days pass by it grows harder to avoid and her urge to resist weakens. She watches the walls she had put up around herself long ago crumble and fall.
One day it hits her.
The care she sees in Edward's eyes is mirrored as fiercely in her own.
They belong.
fin.