Montage time! Every new section is a new day.
We waited for our little bonfire to completely die away before Alec even began planning our next move.
My arm hurt for the entire thirteen hours it took for the fire to wither away into just a large pile of ash.
But it was finally starting to fade away into painlessness.
It was nearly noon, and Alec suddenly decided, "We'll peruse the others now. Demetri, lead the way."
Demetri had taken us all the way to Lismore, following a singular trail.
The group of three had apparently broken apart.
As we traveled conversation arose.
Alec turned his attention onto me, "Leo, you've never told me about yourself before. Your human life, or even the time you spent with the Cullen clan."
I took a brief moment to decide which would be less painful.
In all honesty, I was rapidly loosing my memories from my human life. What was once sharp had begun to fade. The memories that were already fuzzy were completely gone.
I can remember every second I spent with Carlisle's family.
I instantly decided which would hurt less to talk about.
"I was born and raised in Glen Haven. It's a tiny town. One post office, a Town Hall, one hotel."
I sighed, "I had a family. I was closest to my younger brother Ryan, because my two elder sisters didn't really pay much attention to me."
I still had a lot of fond memories of my brother.
Alec asked, "What sort of things did you two do?"
I smiled to myself, the sharpest memory returning with vigor as I thought about it. (Even though it was foggy.)
"There's this stable in town that has horse riding lessons. When we were eight and six Ryan wanted to go. He was all confidence on the trip there, but as soon as he saw the horse he freaked out."
It was comical, actually. My three-foot-tall brother standing beside a horse whose shoulders are almost six feet off the ground.
"I hated horses, because I found sitting on one and walking around in random patterns irritating, but I told him I would go on it with him if he still wanted to."
Alec smiled, "That was kind of you."
I shrugged, but before I could ask him about his history, Demetri announced, "We're close."
He nodded towards the Lismore Castle, towering in the distance.
"It's in the forest right by the walls."
Alec decided, "Demetri, Leo, you two take care of this one."
I smirked and followed the tracker into the forest.
The next day we traveled, and hunted.
There was mild conversation, but it all revolved around the two newborns we had left to track down.
I found my mind wandering. Ireland was near Canada, which was above the United States.
Colorado is in the United States.
Ireland is a lot closer then Italy…
Maybe I will ask him later.
The four of us sat around the hot black flame the next night, barely able to see; or breath for that matter; through the oily haze the roaring wind was whipping all around us.
We couldn't just leave the fire, though. Humans tend to ask unfavorable questions when they stumble upon un-naturally colored bonfires.
Renata was on the lookout for them, ready to send them a different direction.
Because our group was not supposed to break up anymore, after doing resulted in my arm getting torn off, we all waited with her.
I took this moment to ask the question that has been nagging at me for the past sixteen hours.
"Alec?"
I faintly saw, through the purple fog, his head turn towards me.
"Now that we're done, what do we do?"
He answered simply, "Return to Volterra."
That's what I was afraid of.
I asked curiously, "Do we have to? Or can we do a little traveling first?"
Alec scooted closer, growling in irritation as he tried to break away from the smoke that surrounded us.
When he gave up and just sat back down in it with me he asked, "What do you want to see? The rest of Ireland?"
I suppose that would make sense, we are here already.
I didn't try to be evasive any longer. "Will you come to Colorado with me to visit Alice and Jasper?"
I could see he was surprised, but he didn't look opposed to the idea.
After a short silence he decided, "Sure, Demetri and Renata can return home and tell Marcus for us. But they have to get us plane tickets first."
I chuckled, "Right."
I was eleven and he was twelve in appearance. We definitely won't be allowed to buy our own.
I was glad I had a passport already, because I was suddenly extremely excited to get moving. I didn't want to wait a week longer then necessary.
I knew Alice would see us coming, so I didn't want to make her wait, either.
I turned to Alec and smiled, "Hey, do you want to go shopping?"
