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She couldn’t help but to look at pictures from years ago shoved in the seam of her mirror, like a perfect time capsule of high school. Charlie and Bella on a fishing trip in the rain, Leah, Jacob, Embry, and Quil laughing at the camera while lit by a bonfire’s glow. Jessica and Angela in sleeping bags with mussed hair after a sleepover where they never even slept. Her breath hitched at the photo of a young Bella holding a purple sea star while Sam smiled at her.
She swallowed sadness looking at the photos, wishing she had more time in the nights and days that were captured in the pictures with the people she loved as they were, but those versions of them now lived only in the creases of her mirror. Some because of natural separation caused by life, some because of friendships broken, secrets kept, and adult bitterness.
The woods behind the house were alive with crickets singing, a summer breeze, and the soft wave of tree branches. A crack of a tree branch and a wisp of a black tail disappeared into the tree line before she could even turn her head towards the sound.