Past

A/N: This is the last chapter you're going to get that's in the past! Yay! Lol. Anyway, its in short flash back sequences. And it is very short!

Disclaimer: Not mine. Well, Alyssa is mine, but that's it.

"We shouldn't be doing this." Edmund muttered as he pulled Alyssa against him.

Alyssa closed her eyes. "But we cant not." She muttered back, then she grabbed him around the neck and pulled his head down so their lips met.

He groaned, and kissed back for a moment, then pulled away. "Alyssa- we cant-"

"Yes we can."

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"Alyssa and Ed are getting along better." Peter said to Susan as he watched his wife laughing with his brother.

"Yes, they sure are." Susan said, but she didn't sound very happy. Peter looked up at her and saw a scowl on her face.

"What is it?"

Susan turned away from him quickly. "Nothing. Its nothing."

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"What are you doing Ed?" Susan whispered furiously that night.

"What?" Ed said. He was looking at Alyssa, a slightly dazed look in his eye and a small smile on his lips.

"Edmund." Susan snapped. Edmund looked at her then, a slight frown line between his eyes.

"What?"

"What are you doing with Alyssa?" Susan questioned abruptly.

Edmund was instantly serious. "I don't know what you're talking about." He said quietly.

"He's going to find out." Susan whispered furiously.

"Not if someone doesn't tell him."

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"Something is different lately." Peter told Edmund in confidence. "She's different."

Edmund looked away from his brother guiltily. "Why are you telling me this, Pete?"

Peter shrugged. "You used to know her better than anyone. And you two have been talking again lately. I just thought maybe you knew something."

"No." Edmund said quickly. "She hasn't told me anything."

And Peter, who had known Edmund since he was born, knew he was lying.

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"We cant do this anymore." Edmund told Alyssa that night, almost exactly a year after they had started the dangerous game they were playing.

Alyssa stared at him. "What?"

"We cant." Edmund said, not looking at her. "Peter loves you."

"Well, good for him!" Alyssa snapped. "But I love you!"

"Don't." Edmund said quietly. "Not anymore. Its killing him."

"If you do this, it'll kill me." Alyssa whispered furiously.

Edmund swallowed hard, still looking at the ground. "It's finished Alyssa."

Then he turned and walked out of the room, and Alyssa ran down to the stable and got her horse. Then she rode into the woods.