Chapter 4

We walked in silence across the grounds towards the cemetery. I saw her sneak a few glances at me and noticed that she opened her mouth to talk but thought better of it eventually. I was too busy looking around the grounds of Swords and Cross for the final time. It would be strange not to be here when I left and there was heaviness in my heart when we finally reached the cemetery.

At the gate of the cemetery she stopped and hesitated. When I glanced at her I remembered that she was not familiar with this place and so I led the way to a small clearing in the middle of the graveyard. Slowly I turned to face her. She looked slightly anxious but determined at the same time.

"What do you want to talk about?" my voice sounded sad and flat but I was not going to pretend this was a conversation I wanted.

"Cam, why are you being like this? Did I do something wrong?" her voice was gentle but I also heard the sadness clinging to it.

"What do you want me to say Luce? I thought we had connected that night but then I disappear for three days and when I come back I see you with Grigori? Believe it or not but I actually do have a heart and I was not just toying with you when I came to see you that night." My anger was increasing with every word I said and the last sentence was aid in a tone of pure hurt.

"I'm not going to lie to you Cam. When you were gone, Daniel had come to see me many times and I guess I felt a certain connection with him when I first saw him and then when he spoke to me it was like magnified."

"Stop! I don't want to hear it. Spare me this Luce." I turned away with tears in my eyes and got ready to leave. Hearing her saying it out aloud made my heart ache even more. In so many lifetimes I had heard it and now I had to hear it again.

I felt her hands close around my arms but I refused to turn towards her. Then she stepped in front of me and held my face in her palms, wiping away my tears. I looked at her confused. I was sure Grigori would not have wasted time in telling her how evil I was but here she was standing in front of me and wiping my tears.

"What are you doing?" I whispered to her, the shock clearly visible in my green eyes.

She didn't answer me, just led me down until we were sitting on the grass with her on her knees in front of me. She moved my hair out of my face but it fell back over my eyes. She tried again and it stayed then she took my face in her hands once again.

"Did anyone ever tell you that you don't give others a chance to talk? You aren't even letting me finish what I have to say Cam and there is so much that you need to hear, so much that I need to say. Will you let me finish what I started?" I just nodded, looking at her in wonder.

"Yes there had been a connection between Daniel and me but Cam there was also a connection between you and I. Do you not remember me asking you why you seemed so familiar to me?"

"I do, it was the night before I left."

"Yeah, and I would still like to know where you went to by the way. But anyway, after you left me that night I couldn't stop thinking about you. You had awoken this strange feeling in me and I could not wait to see you again. I wasn't sure why you left of course but there was so much that I wanted to ask you the next day. I even carried the lily that you left with me when I came to class the next morning but you weren't there. I waited, hoping to see you later on in the day and you didn't turn up but Daniel did."

I didn't say anything as I listened to her. I didn't dare to hope but I did feel better that she had thought of me and waited for me. I noticed her looking at me then and nodded for her to go on.

"He came to me while I was waiting for afternoon classes. I was flustered at first and when he asked me to take walk with him I didn't even stop to think." So there it happened again I thought bitterly. I don't know why she insists on telling me this.

"Look Luce, I don't want to hear how you and Grigori fell in love while you two were walking across the grounds or whatever."

"Cam, seriously, shut up and listen." I bit back a retort and waited for her to continue.

"He took me into the forest and as we spoke he started to get closer to me and eventually he kissed me."

"Ok that is it! I have heard enough now! Please just let me go and you can run back to Grigori and play the lovey dovey game you two have going on. You do not owe me this since I mean nothing to you Lucinda Price." I was furious now. Did she really think I wanted to hear about the two of them snogging? Enough is enough, I couldn't remember her doing anything like this before but then again she was never around for so long before. That's when it registered to me that she was still here.

"Didn't you hear what I said Cam, he kissed me and I am still here." she said this quietly, echoing my thoughts and when I looked into her eyes I realised that she knew.

"How much do you know?" I asked, afraid of the answer I would get.

"I know everything Cameron. Daniel told me everything about how you all are fallen angels and about the cursed love that he and I had shared in every lifetime, the love which gets me killed every time he kisses me." She looked at me scared and I knew that this was the first time in three days that she had said it out aloud.

The end of Chapter 4! I really do feel sorry for Cam having to hear about Daniel and Luce snogging but at present I thing he is the only one Luce trusts enough to tell about all this. In chapter 5 we get to the juicy stuff yay, do remember to please review and I will meet you again at the end of Chapter 5