First of all i want to thank everyone who had the time to read the story plus all of you guys who reviewed. Thank you.

This is all taking place in the 18th century, or something like it. I forgot doing the maths. lol.

So this is the last chapter people! I enjoy every second of writing this. Never thought I would manage to write a story like this. It has been a blast and now, (like South) it has come to an end. Hope you enjoy this.

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That night I made love with her. The intensity, the lust, everything I wished for came true. I wanted her. I would give up anything to be with her. She was still wrapped in my arms when I woke up in the morning. She was asleep. I kissed her forehead and replay everything that happened last night. I made love with her. This is unbelievable. I could still feel her naked skin against mine. Her soft, silky skin.

"Good morning." She whispered.

"Good morning" I pecked her soft lips. "Are you ok with what happened last night?" I asked.

"Yeah, are you?"

"Yes, but it's still new to me, though. Should I make you some breakfast?" I asked.

"No, I want to stay like this forever. Here in your arms."

"Yeah, me too."

The morning flew by. She stayed with me. I didn't want anything else than this feeling I have inside me. My stomach is doing flip flops again. Every time I look in her eyes I feel like a normal girl. A girl that isn't gifted or cursed with an eternal life. Now I know what I want in this life, I want her.

We were sitting by the river. The sound of the waterfall and the peaceful forest. With Spencer in my arms again.

"So how did you become immortal?" she asked.

"It all started when my dad was hunting here. He shot a deer in the neck, but the deer stood up alive again. He followed the deer that leads him to a spring that granted him immortality. Next he brought the water with him and gave it to us. That's how we become like this." I explained.

"Did you regret drinking it?"

"Yes, always. But then if I didn't drink it, I wouldn't be sitting here with you, right?" I smiled and pecked her lips.

Her blue eyes watched mine as she ask this question.

"Do you love me?"

The question I've been asking myself the whole time.

"Yes, I do."

"I love you too." She respond. "I loved you since the day you told me to stay here with you. You were the one who was stubborn enough to bring me back to your home." She giggles. "I want to stay with you, Ashley, forever."

"You mean it?" she nods. "Do you really want to live forever? It's not a gift you know."

"Can you show me where it is?" she begged me.

I don't know if I'm allowed. I mean seriously, my dad found it. And telling her our secret is already enough, right? "No, I can't."

"Why?"

"I'm not allowed to. Look, can we just...talk about something else?"

"Sure."

It wasn't just for a day. She stayed longer. She stayed with me for a whole week. When I asked her if her parents weren't concern about her absents, she answered they thought she was staying at her fiancé's house somewhere outside town. I can't get enough of this girl! We stayed inside the woods. I told her everything what I have been doing in my 175 years of life. I traveled around Europe with Kyla. The things I've done. Like trying to kill myself.

I did. I jumped off a building, got myself hit by a car, getting into a mess with some mafia's who also failed to kill me. I did everything I could to die. It all hurt, but it didn't last long. Not longer than to live forever. If you shoot at me with a gun, the bullets will go out after. Nothing hurts more than to see the people you used to care about dying. And you're still alive. It's weird to see children playing on the street and then 30 years later you find them sitting at the bar, drinking their unhappiness out. It hurts to see some grow old and die. And now I am telling myself, Spencer will grow old. And I will watch her grow and eventually, die. If I want her to stay with me, she has to drink the water. But is this what I want her to be? To be cursed? No, I can't. She doesn't deserves it.

"Hey," she came to sit on my lap. "Why are you so sad?" she asked.

"I'm not sad."

"Yes you are. Tell me."

"It's nothing really." She gave me the look. The look that means I have to tell her the truth or else... "It's just nothing. I really don't want to talk about it."

I pushed her off me gently and went outside. She followed me behind.

"Ash, please tell me."

"I was just wondering what will happen 10 years later from now."

She hesitated if she should speak up or not. She knows what I meant. But I refused her to do it.

"Ashley, listen to me." I turned around to face her. She took my hands in hers. "I want to stay with you. Forever." she leaned into me and pressed her lips against mine. "No matter what."

I went down town that afternoon. Buy some food. And there's where I saw how crowded it was. Police mans were standing on a small platform. What was going on? They weren't the only one I recognized. I saw him too. Patrick Simmons. Spencer's so called fiancé. I watch him whispering something in the policeman's ears. Then the policeman spoke.

"People, I have some important news to tell you. Last week, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlin went missing." The crowd got noisy. "Please be quiet! Thank you. She hasn't been home for days. Her excuse was to stay at her fiancé's house outside town. That turned out to be a lie when her fiancé, Mr. Simmons here, didn't know either where she was."

She lied. They were looking for her. She lied just to be with me. Now they're going to search for her. This is what my father warned me to. If they find our house, if they find the spring, we're screwed!

I went home immediately. God, why did she lie to me? I knew I should've not let her stay. It's all my fault. I am the reason. She wanted to be with me. And now things got messed up because of that. When I arrived, she wasn't there. Not in my room, nowhere. So I went to search her at the river. There she was sitting peacefully watching the waterfall flowing.

"You lied."

She turned around to face me. "What?"

"You lied to me and to your parents."

"So you know." I nodded. "Look, Ash, I did it for us. I wanted to be with you."

"I know, me too." I walked towards her and wrapped my arms around her waist. "But you have to go back. It's not save for me and my family anymore if they come here to this woods. They could find the spring."

"I'm sorry, Ash." She pulled me in a hug. "I didn't mean to put you and your family in dangerous. But I don't want to go back. I want to say here."

As much as I wanted it too, it can't. She was a Carlin. They look over for her. They will come here. If they find the spring... god, I don't know what else to do. I don't want anyone else to suffer this curse. They will regret it, like me.

I know I'm not alone in this. But still I have to fix it my own. My family who I really truly love isn't here. And I need them. So badly. My sister Kyla, Aiden, mom and dad. I need them. They said they will be home in a week or something. I hope sooner.

"Ash, will you show me where the spring is?"

Ok, I give up. It's time to show her what she has been asking for the whole time.

"Yes."

I took her hand in mine and guided her through the woods. I remembered when my father showed us the spring. It was flowing under a big tree near the river.

We stood there for a while. None of us has spoken. Spencer released her hand from mine and kneeled down to the tree. She touched the water and smiled. The next thing came to another when she carefully brought her hand to her mouth.

"No!" I said and pushed her hand away. I held her arms. She was struggling with me until I turned her around to face me. "You are not going to drink it do you hear me!" I demanded. She was looking at me as if I did her pain. No, I just save her life from a terrible curse!

"Why? Why Ash?!" she glared at me with those blue eyes. "Why won't you let me?"

I noticed the water in her eyes. Tears. Like the first time I met her. The tears that brings her hurt. Like the waterfall at the river, her tears were flowing down. I let her go. Wiping away her tears and kissed her.

"I don't want you to suffer."

"Why would I suffer when I can spend forever being with you?"

"You will suffer, Spence. You will see the people around you die. The people you love, the ones you cared, like your parents. You will never grow old again. You'll stay young like this forever and you will never see heaven if you drink this. Trust me Spence, you will wish you were dead."

"Then let me die young or let me live forever." her voice was shaky. Tears were running out more. I couldn't see her like this. It doesn't only hurts her, but me too. As I felt my own tears escaping me. "Let me die young or let me live forever." she repeated herself. This time her voice was confident. She meant it. Her eyes were begging me. Begging me to let her life die.

"No!"

"I don't want to live if I know I can't be with you forever, Ashley."

"No Spencer! No!"

"Don't you want me to be with you?" she asked me hurt.

"Yes, of course I want you to be with me, always. But I don't want to see you throw away your life just like that." I took a deep breath before continuing my explanation. "Don't you see I suffer? Imagine for one second how I'm feeling right now. I have to choose if I want you to stay with me forever or letting you go live a normal happy life. It hurts, Spencer, so bad. If I let you stay forever, you will get hurt. I guarantee you, you will hate me for letting you drink this. But if I let you go, I'll be seeing you grow old."

I don't care if I'm crying right now. I love her! That's why I won't let her drink it. I tried to put up a smile, but failed. Things were getting blurry. Her angelic face and eyes, all blurry.

"Listen to me, Spencer. You will get married someday and you will have kids. You're going to live a happy life and you will get old. You will reach the age of hundred and die from your oldness. You will go to heaven, the place I'm wanting to see. From up there you will watch over me. Do not fear death, rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live." My eyes got blend with a pair of blue eyes. I was lost again. "Promise me this, Spencer." I begged

She didn't say anything. She smashed her perfect soft lips against mine. The touch of her lips, maybe I'll never get to see heaven, but I sure know how it feels to be up there. I guess it's a promise.

"I love you, Ashley. Forever and always."

"I love you too, forever."

That day I took goodbye from her. I brought her back to her house where she belongs. Her family were happy to see her coming back safe. And so was her fiancé. I stood behind the window, watching the family reunion. Tears were coming back again. I couldn't hold them anymore. She saw me standing there outside and smiled. When I saw her smile, tears were running down my face. It wasn't just a smile.

It was her way to say thank you.

My family came back. I explained them everything. I was glad they weren't mad at me or something. They were happy that I finally found true love. I found the one. We moved a couple of days later. To some other city, but this time we didn't live in the forest anymore, we were mingled with the normal people.

Years passed by and we decided that it was time for something new. We separated once again. I went alone this time. Kyla went to Africa to help the helpless, Aiden moved to Spain for the ladies that were around and my parents were everywhere and nowhere. I guess they're staying in Germany now. And me? I stayed at a place called Los Angeles. It's always sunny here. I don't mind the hot weather cause this reminds me of a place I used to call home. I went to college this time. People always ask me the same question; why do you look so young? My answer is;

If you eat enough vegetables you'll stay young forever.

I don't know what I'm going to do next. It's 2009! Life is unpredictable. You'll never know what's next to happen. Maybe I will do something with music. Or maybe I will become a writer someday and write a story about a young girl who wanted to live forever. To give up her life just to be with her lover. I remember that story very well. And I'll never forget it.

I was driving around when I suddenly pass the old town I used to live in. The buildings were renewed but some things will never change. The streets were more crowded than it ever was. I've never been here since the day that we decided to move on to another city. How long has it been? 80 years ago?

I've missed this place, not the town itself but the forest. I parked my car outside the Carlin's mansion. The house is still the same after 80 years. I moved on to the woods and stood still at a familiar place.

The place where I found her.

After remembering what happened that day, I moved on to see my old house. I wonder if he's still there.

And yes, the house is still the same. I went inside, knowing that we've never had a locker on the door. It's still exactly the same as we left it behind, except the dusk that were everywhere. The small kitchen, Kyla's room, Aiden's room and my parents. Last but not least, my room. The bed I used to sleep in. The room that was filled with her love. That night, how could I not forget about it. I couldn't sleep. Then she asked me to stay with her. She showed me love. She had to prove if her feelings were real. Her feelings for me.

Every single thing I remember. I walked out of the room, taking one last glance before leaving it all behind. After that I went to the river. The place where she caught me peeking on her. I was burning red when she revealed her gorgeous body to me. I smiled at that memory.

My final destination, the spring.

I saw it. The tombstone that's blocking the water out. Flowers all around. My heart ache and tears were escaping me again. A tombstone that's surrounded by beautiful flowers with her name on it.

Spencer Carlin.

I kneeled down and closed my eyes. Imagining how her life would have looked like. A perfect family. That's what she always wanted. Tears were flowing out more. She did what I asked her to do. To marry and have kids, to have a life I couldn't give her.

In memory of Spencer Carlin Simmons.

Dear wife - dear mother.

1904 - 2004.

I know she's up there. Watching over me. I can feel her presence around me. She's finally up there in heaven. The place I wish to see. Maybe one day I will. And maybe one day I will see her again, we'll be together again.

Like I said that summer;

Do not fear death, rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

And she did.