With Love - Christina Grimmie

"True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations; it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." - Honore de Balzac


Maddy's POV

"I will not love you forever, but I shall love you for eternity," Miss Fitzgerald reads out from the book that the class is supposed to be reading. I say supposed with a heavy heart, because I myself am not. However, this sentence catches me out of of my lost daydream, and it seems to have captured Miss Fitzgerald's attention too, because she pasues and looks over the top of her copy of the book. I raise my hand, for a question burns inside of me that I feel the need to be answered. Nobody pays any attention to me. I am at the back of the classroom, so to their defence, they can't see me, but I never ask anything anymore.

However, Miss Fitzgerald looks right at me. Her expression is hidden by the book and the glasses she wears, but she does pause a moment before stumbling to find the right words. "Yes, Maddy?" At my name, the whole class turns around to look at me. Shock, as much as anything, is written on their expressions, including Shannon and Tom, who are sitting in the desk in front of me.

"What does that mean? Surely eternity and forever mean the same thing?" I say in the loudest voice I can imagine, which to anybody else would be the quietest voice you could use before nobody would be able to hear you. I watch Miss Fitzgerald carefully, ignoring everybody else, and see that she seems to be pleased with what I have said. I know already, I've thought about what her next question was going to be. She lowers her book and holds her arms out towards the class.

"Exactly, what did he mean? What is the difference between eternity and forever?" She turns away from me, so I let my eyes train to something else, who is in fact the next person she turns to. "Jimi, what do you think?" For once, even though I can't quite get a clear view of him, Jimi looks baffled.

"I don't know, Miss." Miss Fitzgerald looks disappointed, but she turns to someone else, Katrina, before she can say something to reply.

"Because they both love shopping?" Katrina asks, as always, completely clueless to anything that's going on. I can tell my brain is telling me to smirk, but I don't, because my heart rules my body now. Miss Fitzgerald looks completely desperate now, so when Shannon warily raises her hand, Miss Fitzgerald pounces on her.

"Yes, Shannon?" she asks, her voice full of relief and hope. If anyone can get something right, it's Shannon, but then if Shannon gets it wrong, then nobody is.

"The difference is in the time," Shannon explains, and for once I actually listen to the full extent of the answer, because my heart is telling me to, "Forever is a place of time with no end, but Eternity is a place with no time at all. If you love someone for forever, it means that you will love them for the rest of your life and beyond, but is you love someone eternally, is means you've always loved them and always will."

This is the memory that swirled around in my head as Rhydian stumbled in the room. The first thing I feel is my heart fluttering at an inhuman speed, I swear even missing a couple of beats. Then it's just shock that fills me. In the two and a half years that he'd been gone, I'd thought of a million and one ways that we would see each other, but most were by accident. I never once thought that our reunion would no be chance, but rather be fate. If you were destined to be with someone for the rest of your life, what would you do?

I cried. It took just one faint whisper of my name from his lips for everything to come crashing down on me. He'd changed, certainly. Physically he looked more powerful, and his hair, although definitely had to have been cut at some point was longer. His eyes shone a brilliant blue, but they were even more vibrant that I remembered. Yet I couldn't stare into them fore long, because after only a few moments, my vision was blurred by tears, and I had to look down. I tried to wipe them away angrily, but they just kept coming.

Then, all at once, I was in his arms. He held me close; his arms wrapped securely around me and tight enough that my cheek was pressed against him. Tears kept rolling down face, soaking his shirt. I started to wail, faintly and not overreacted, but definitely loud enough I was gasping for breath. That was when Rhydian spoke again, comforting words filling the air. "Ssh, it's ok. I'm here. I'm here."

My own arms wrapped securely round him. I was never going to let go. I could have lived forever in this moment, the moment I got him back. I also knew that I was never ever give him away again. He was mine, and anything else was false. I could hear footsteps, first fast as they came pounding down the stairs, but then slowing as whoever they belonged to entered the den. Rhydian and I were in our fixed embrace in the middle of the den, so we would be the first thing that people would see. The air sort of tensed a bit more when the five other people entered the room.

Eventually, I managed to get hold of my breath again, but with Rhydian's head resting against my own and his arms wrapped around me, I was trapped. I didn't care. I wanted to be like this. Nobody spoke another word. Rhydian and I refused to let anyone else into our world, no matter how close they were. I was never letting go, but Rhydian had to, in the end. We couldn't keep holding on to each other forever, because that would mean we wouldn't be able to do anything else - even more memorable moments - again.

I was determined to make sure one of those moments was here. As soon as he pulled away, but our hands still linked, we looked at each other again. While it was clear he hadn't been crying, is was also obvious that he was near to it. His eyes were watery, making his eyes shine even more. His moth broke into a smile; one of those happy Rhydian grins that I'd been missing for months upon months, but this time even more truth-ridden than before. It was all I needed, his attention, for me to go ahead.

I'd grown in the months he'd been gone, despite the minimal amount of food I'd been consuming, but I still needed to stand on my toes and and pull his face with my right hand to be able to do it, but I managed to do it in the first go, probably because it was exactly what he was intending on doing so he'd been ready. I kissed him, and he quickly kissed me back. For a moment, it was just me, but then he forced himself to kiss me back.

It was now that I could feel tears rolling down his cheeks, and soon I was going all over again. It was the same as before, but even more so; our own little world. I loved him, and he loved me back, and that was all that mattered. He'd always be there for me, during my darkest hours and my happiest, he would be there, and I would be there for him. In that moment I knew, that wherever we would go, whatever he would do, I would be there. We would be together for eternity.

After she explains and Miss Fitzgerald continues on with the book, Shannon turns to me. All she does is stare with this expression of curiosity on her face. I try to ignore it, I don't like people looking at me, even Shannon, but I know I can't simply hide away from it. I turn to her, a peaceful as I could be expression on my own face, and raise my eyebrows at her.

She straightens a little, taking a deep breath. Then she mouths something at me. 'After class' and I nod back. Then we both turn away and carry on with whatever we were doing before; Shannon concentrating on the hopeless book we're reading and me lost in my hopeless daydream, the daydream that will seemingly last forever.

After class I wander away slowly and Shannon comes up behind me, speed walking to my side. Tom's gone off to play football or something; he was talking about it this morning, I remember. I glance at Shannon, who's looking at me. "What did you want to talk to me about?" I say in the most stable voice I can manage. She takes another deep breath as we round another corner, heading towards the toilets, before answering.

"You won't be sad for forever, you know." It almost sounds fake, and certainly prepared, but there is emotion in it; hope. I mumble a quiet 'hmm' in reply. I'm not in the mood for this. That's all anyone really tries to talk about with me anymore, how I won't be sad forever. Then Shannon adds something I'm not expecting. "And certainly not for eternity."

I frown and lean against the sink counter. I may be sad forever, that may be true, but I certainly haven't always been sad; happy for no time at all. Nobody ever speaks the complete truth to me anymore, just hopes and aspirations, so why would she say that? "Nothing lasts for eternity, Shan." I eye her as she bites down on her lower lip, possibly suppressing a smile, or unsure of what to say next. We're alone; there's nobody else here, so I don't understand what could possibly be holding her back.

"No, nothing does," she says, "Except your love for Rhydian."


Tada! I know it's not much, but still. I've always thought my fluffy chapters of a story would always be pretty bad, to be honest, but I'm actually really pleased with how this turned out! I wrote it with the song, With Love, on repeat, and I simply thought how wonderfully perfect it was for Rhydian and Maddy. I'm not even kidding, I swear on my life this was written for wolfblood. Like how can it not? For example the first few lines are: You called me out and taught me tough, You fought my flaws, my teeth, my claws! Like it even lists attributes of a wolf!

Haha, well I hope you like it, even though there isn't tons, I was kind of in a rush because I'm so busy, but even so, I still had to post something! And MelissaLoveRH, thanks and I hope your ok with this, because this one I felt was really emotional just to write!

But as always, and forevermore, I hope enjoyed it! Please review, and I (and seriously hope you do too) look forward for the next one! Thank you! xoxo