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“I’ve never been perfect. I’ve never been… what other’s expected of me. But that didn’t matter… Because despite everything I had lost, everything that he knew, hehadstayed. ”

The words that left Tabbitha’s lips were agonized, her chocolate brown eyes flicking from place to place, her jaw tense and back a straight line. She didn’t talk about him, he had been so important to her yet she couldn’t bring herself to utter his name. She couldn’t bring herself to send his family a letter or call them, she couldn’t bare the thought of throwing out his worn down jacket. The memories that follows her over through the hiking trail and over the sandy water’s edge at the lake, through hallways and around backroads. Everything in Albion held an echo of him- of who she used to be.

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“C'mon Tabs! Just pick something and I’ll pay,” Alexander’s voice was full of laughter as he watched the redhaired Damphir, his body leaned against the shelves as Tabbitha glanced over the makeup, her iced coffee propped on her phone as she blushed, throwing the taller werewolf a glance, unable to hide the grin that filled her face.

“Anything I want?”

The Peruvian asked with some hesitation before she stood, looking at her boyfriend, chocolate eyes on his blue ones as she stepped closer, her darkly stained bottom lip pulled between her teeth. Alexander nodded, his own toothy grin reflecting her shy one as he gently ran his fingers across the guardian’s cheek. Stepping closer, the damphir pressed her lips to Alex’s, a brief kiss shared as loved poured from the senior student’s hearts.

“Then I want you to be my forever.”

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The memory flooded Tabbitha’s eyes as her stomach twisted into knots, in her hands was a carefully mailed invitation from Xander’s parents to his funeral, her heart shattering as the night replayed over and over within her mind. They had been in the United States over Spring break, their last spring break as High School students. At sundown Alexander had proposed with a simple ring as they stood against the water’s edge as the sea lapped at their feet. They had gone to a party to celebrate, a bunch of drunk humans packed into one flat… Tabbitha knew something wasn’t right but ignored it.

Then, someone pulled a knife on Alex. A silver coated blade, and Tabbitha froze.

The Damphir are the protectors of all species, from a young age each one is taught that their life is the first to go on the line for anyone else. This mentallity was not one that Tabbitha had, especially for those who she didn’t know and didn’t give a shit about her in return… But she had cared about Alexander and had sworn up down and backwards to protect him.

~~“I couldn’t even do that right.”~~

Brokenly, Tabbitha slipped the invitation within the locked diary she had, shaking hands reaching for the cardboard box of Camel Crush Silvers, pulling a cigarette out and lighting it.

“You’ll always be my forever, Xander..” The broken 17 year old whispered before she broke into a fit of sobs, the only answer was the echo of the home she’d been gifted as a going away present from her mother.