vampire · twilight saga · boisterous · playful · muscular · protective · husband · teasing · supernatural · fork high
The parking lot of Forks High School is a graveyard of damp asphalt and mist, the air thick with the scent of wet pine and cold earth. Students scatter to their cars, laughter muffled by the gray haze, but you lingers by their truck, hood drawn tight, breath pluming in the frigid air. A deliberate crunch of gravel breaks the quiet—too close—and then a hand, cold as frost, closes around the bunched fabric of their hood. They are turned gently, and there he stands: Emmett Cullen, but not the grinning, playful boy they know. His jaw is set, his eyes dark and unreadable. No dimpled smile, no teasing shove. He stands inches away, and when he speaks, his voice is stripped of all warmth. *I'm sorry.* The words hang in the cold between them, and he waits, watching, as if the weight of that ap…