The Wallflower and the Alphas

Avery. P.O.V.

"Thirteen Years Ago"

~Six years old Avery~ I am watching out the kitchen window. I am excited for the day with my big brother Edward. I am smiling when I see him walk through the kitchen door. Yay, I thought with a grin on my chubby little face. "Bubby!" I yell and run to his arms. I feel he picks me up with an ugh, and I saw him smile down at me. "Hey, little one!" I heard my brother say with a big grin on his face. "Are we going to swim today at the lake house?" I ask him with so much want in my voice. But then I saw my brother's face, and he wasn't smiling anymore.

I knew he wasn't going to spend time with me today. "Uh, sorry little one, not today." He tells me so much "I am going to meet up with my friends." Next time we go swimming, okay? He told me with so much regret, but I knew he didn't want to hurt me, but he had other plans. So now I am in my brother's arms, hugging around his neck with a sad expression on my face. That is when my brother looks down at me. I can see the regret that he has for me. So, I try to tell him. Please don't feel bad about my eyes. 'Look, bubby, and I am a big girl." You don't have to be sad." 'I can go with you, and we can spend time together," I am trying to tell him. I had just learned to speak more words when I was six. I am a late bloomer. But my little self is trying hard to speak words everyone can understand.

But I went back to my brother. "Well, little one, I know your big girl. But I am sorry, sis." "You can't go with me," he tells me strained, meaning it in his eyes. He was saying no! That I can't go with him and his friends. He didn't look at me, put me down, and walked away from the kitchen. I watch my big brother with sadness in my eyes. I feel like my whole world is falling apart around me. Because my brother told me no, and I wanted to cry, and so I was trying to hold in my tears. That was when I ran after him.

I grabbed ahold of his leg, and I started holding him tight and saying repeatedly over again. "Oh, please let me go, Eddy!" I promise to be good." "I promise." I kept telling him, looking up at him with the sad puppy dog eyes. He could not resist my sweet puppy dog face. But to my shock, he didn't give it to me.

That's strange he didn't buy it. So, he looked down at me. I didn't know what to do but stared at me with sadness. He finally stopped and grabbed my little hands wrapped around his ankles. I was very softly and gently grabbed around the waist and picked me up, and he walked out of the kitchen and sat me on the couch. He looked down at me with a small smile.

"See you later, little one." He said and bent down and kissed my chubby cheeks. I saw my big brother walk out of the house, and I got up off the couch and ran to the window. I saw him walk down the road and into the woods. I had a choice to make go and follow my brother or stay here and wait for him to come back. I know my mom and dad are upstairs doing something. So, they don't know my brother left, and I am standing down here by myself. So, I decided to grab my coat and put on my rain boots because you never know if it will rain.

I didn't want to be sick and catch a cold. That won't be good for me, and I don't want to miss school. So, once I was dressed in my rain gear. I started walking out of my living room and walked to the front door. I begin to open it. I didn't want to be in trouble. So, I opened it slowly and looked up at the stairs waiting for my parents to come down here and stop me. But when I open more of the door and look up. I didn't see them come out of their bedroom. Once I was out the door, I started following my brother's scent and footprints in the mud. About a couple of minutes later...

I heard people talking and laughing and having a good time. So, people were around me when I walked closer to the sound. I saw my brother and a couple of his friends swimming and jumping off the waterfall. I love to go with my brother when we go swimming. But now I am seeing these people with him. It's making me see red. I am mad he drops me to be with these stupid people. I wanted to run up to him, hug him, and tell him I loved him.

But I remember he told me no! I can't be here. So, I sigh and turn away from him and his friends. Once I was leaving, I turned one more time to stare at my brother. I saw him smiling and laughing with his friends. I should have known. He doesn't need me. I'll just be in the way. My brother to cool for me now. He is older and needs to hang out with people his age. He doesn't want to spend time with a snot little girl that can barely reach the door.

But once I am standing there watching my brother having fun, I can see he doesn't need me to spoil his fun. I turned away from him and started walking to the other side of the lake. Once, I was down by the water. I can still hear them howling, yelling, laughing, and having a great time without me, I thought. I felt the tears coming again. So I try to stop crying. I did. Stop crying. I started taking off my rain boots and coat. I started dipping my toes in the water.

Oh, wow, it's warm today. The other time I was in here, it was freezing cold. But once I got my whole foot inside the water. I started walking out more. There is a place my brother and my momma and daddy tell me not to pass the stick my father place in the lake. But I started swimming, and I was having so much fun. But suddenly, I wanted to pass the post my daddy marked for me. That was when I had the idea. I could swim more and now I am a big girl now. I should be able to swim, and I will be alright. But I didn't know there was a deep end; I should not have crossed it.

I started swimming, and I sank down. I try to swim up. Once, I was under the water. I knew no one knew I was out here and I was going to drown and die. I waited to stop moving and die. But suddenly, I felt hands pulling me out of the water. I guess someone did hear me because I was getting ripped and pulled higher in the water. But once I was out of the water. I let out a deep breath, and I was coughing out of the water inside my lungs.

I didn't see anyone yet because my eyes were still closed. But I opened my eyes when I was trying to catch my breath. Now I am on the shore. But when I turn around. I felt my self-pale and turn white, and I couldn't believe it. It was Edward jump in and saved me from drowning. But what I saw will haunt me forever. That's when I saw my brother when I opened my eyes. I saw him trying to swim and still afloat at the upper level of the water. That was when I saw he was having trouble staying above the water. I saw him disappear under the water. I am looking around and hoping he comes back out of the water.

But it had been a long time it felt when I heard my brother in the water. He was back above the water, coughing up water. Then I saw him go back under the water. That was when I started screaming, and I wanted to go in there to save him. By the time I wanted to go back in there. I was about to. I heard my brother again come back up, and I saw his face. He was getting tired. I felt like this was the end. I was going to lose my brother because I didn't listen to him. I should have listened to him. I am so sorry, Edward!" I screamed. Then to my horror, he went back under the water.

I didn't see him. That was when I ran to the water, and I was trying to get to him. But someone was holding me back. I looked behind me. I saw Jake and Elijah and Matthew and Andrew standing right beside me. They can see what is happening, and I can see the sad expression and sorriness on their face as they can see my brother is fighting for his life, and maybe he wasn't going to make it. But when my brother comes back above the water again.

I looked, and I was trying to get out of their hold. "No! Let me go." "Edward" I am sorry! I will listen to you; I promise to be a good girl." I cried out for my brother in the arms of my bullies. But once I got out of their hold. I ran down to the water, and my brother stopped me with a stare and mouthed No! I stopped and watched my brother smile and wink I felt dread up and down my body.

That was when I was trying to get in the water, but my brother made me stop. Oh no, Edward, I didn't see the scared look on his face. What I saw was peace and calm. Like he knew he was going to die. But I didn't have it. I wanted to jump in the water. But I saw my brother mouthed. "No! I stopped, and I then started screaming for help. "Please help! Him, I asked the guys! But they didn't move.

That was when I knew they weren't going to help my brother. That was when I started yelling for anyone to help him. "Someone helps us!" "Please, my brother, he needs help!" I kept screaming, but no one came, not even his friends. So, the boys and I bullied me and watched my brother's face, he was staring at me with love, and he had a smile on his face. Oh, God, please save my brother. I thought to myself. But that is not what happened.

I will never want to think about what happens next and watch it again. I saw Edward's eyes, and he was slowly going down again. But this time, he never came back up. My brother never came back up. I was waiting for him to come back up. I looked around for him to escape the water, but he didn't. I just watched my brother die.

"EDWARD!!!" I scream his name so loud, hitting the ground with my knees. After a few minutes, I am still waiting for Edward to jump out of the water and that he is okay. But that never happened. He's gone... You killed him. You killed your own brother...