CHAPTER FOUR - SOME THINGS ARE BETTER FORGOTTEN
Adriana had kept walking after leaving the classroom, continuing straight out of the school and heading towards the woods. She had to get out of there, she needed space to think and she wanted to be alone. Plus, she really didn't want to see Stefan right now. She knew exactly where she wanted to go and she let her feet take her there as her mind shut off.
When she arrived at her destination she gasped quietly, she hadn't expected it to look this way. A ruin was all that remained of the church, the place where everything had changed.
She felt a deep pain in her chest as she looked down at her daylight ring and the intricate silver pattern on the blue stone. She rubbed her thumb over the ring, her thoughts going back to one thing-him.
Adriana had never been a believer in the supernatural, finding the very idea of it ridiculous. True love, however, was something she could believe in.
The first day she had met him she knew he was different, his gentle brown eyes had met hers across the room and she couldn't help but smile as he gave her a shy wave. These days she didn't believe in such things but at that point she knew it was love at first sight.
It had not been long before she had found herself madly, deeply in love with him and he with her. She was young, yes, but she knew what love was and she knew that had been it.
He was tanned, tall and boyishly handsome but what had amazed her had been his immense capacity for kindness, irrespective of what he was. He had told Adriana that he was a Vampire early on in their relationship. But she had loved him regardless. She knew he was no monster but rather one of the best men she had ever known. It was for that reason she accepted what he was, and when he had asked her to spend the rest of her life with him she had agreed without hesitation.
However, unfortunately for Adriana, being part of one of the founding families had meant marrying the son of a respectable family. Personally, she had not believed marriage should be decided upon through mutual benefit to family reputation or to provide a partnership between two businesses. However her father had held different beliefs. The man she loved was not from a wealthy background, nor would their partnership benefit her family in any way, not that she believed it should. And so, her father had failed to give her consent to marry her one true love.
She had turned to her brothers for advice, not knowing what to do next. Both of them had told her to follow her heart, to do what had to be done to be with the one she loved. Not that she had expected them to say anything different, they were both hopeless romantics and wanted her to be happy. Adriana, at that point, had realised her father would never let her and her love be together and in the following days, plans were made to leave town.
Adriana had convinced her love that the best decision, if they wanted to truly be together, was for him to turn her before they left town. And it was for that reason they had found themselves, on that fateful night, deep in the woods, Adriana lying on his lap, looking into his eyes as he told her that he loved her. That had been her last memory before she had woken up. Alone.
They were going to be together forever. If only the world had not been so cruel.
The sound of a crow cawing brought her back to the present day. She wiped the tears she had not realised were running down her face and whispered his name.
"Harper."
A/N:
Well, i doubt any of you expected that one!
Sorry about the shortness of this chapter, i found it rather difficult to write and therefore its pretty crap. Anyways, things should start to pick up in Mystic Falls soon with the return of a certain Salvatore Brother!
Thanks for reading!
