Official Description: Snapshots into the lives the Twilight characters. All pairings, all ratings. Canon, AU and AH.
Word Count: 5,813
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Ah, it’s no secret that I am a super duper fangirl for theladyingrey42. I’m a late-comer to her work, but I’ve been spending quite a bit of time trying to read everything she’s written. I have yet to find something I haven’t fallen love with. This one-shot is definitely no exception.
One of my favorite things to read about is always unrequited love. It’s such a beautiful thing, I find myself able to connect with and sympathize with the characters involved, to hope for their happy ending. And I definitely found myself doing just that with these characters.
As the story opens, we get a look into the protagonist’s (Edward) mind. He’s nervous—his crush, the man he’s been with, and feels brushed off by—is returning after a trip home for the summer. He’s not sure how it will go, but he can hardly contain the excitement within himself at his reappearance.
I’m just about to start tearing my hair out when finally I hear an engine noise I’d recognize anywhere.
My stomach starts doing flip flops as I launch up and over to the door, yanking it open and racing downstairs. I reach the pavement just as he’s opening the trunk, and for a minute I simply stop and stare, wondering if it’s possible that he’s actually gotten more attractive in the months since I’ve seen him. If his hair always had that perfect golden sheen, and if his biceps were always so … bite-able.
After a somewhat tense—in Edward’s head, at least—re-acquaintance, the two separate, and Edward allows himself to fall deeper into the belief that everything that happened between them in the past meant nothing. That he’s doomed to be around this boy he loves and for the feelings never to be returned.
I can faintly hear the front door to the apartment building open, and I just give in and let my head roll back to thud against the back of the futon, feeling tears prickling but refusing to let them go. I’m just so angry at myself for allowing myself to hope and for thinking the boy I loved could want me.
theladyingrey42 has this powerful way of making you feel and see everything her characters do, so when Edward is surprised by a knock at the door… things get, umm… interesting. In all the best ways, if you catch my drift. Can you see me winking? I’m winking.
This story is a definite testament to the fact that unrequited love isn’t always that. Sometimes things to do work out in the end.
“I shouldn’t … I shouldn’t have left things that way I did,” he finally manages. His voice sounds twisted and strained. “I didn’t know – I didn’t mean – Just – ” He gulps and seems to be trying to compose himself. “I mean, look, when I got back today, I thought I could just tell you, but you’ve been so, like, distant, man. Like you’re afraid of me or something. And I – I think I get it. I shouldn’t have left stuff that way.”
I really don’t have any idea what he’s talking about, and it’s starting to piss me off, annoyance mixing with all that hurt. I’m just about to tell him to spit it out already, when he finally blurts, “I was an asshole to leave you thinking I didn’t want this.”
*happysigh* I’m confident you’ll love this, and then, if you haven’t already, go read everything else she’s written and join me on Team theladyingrey42. 
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