Author's note: One more chapter til vampires! Even better, I feel really bad about posting such a short chapter, so you'll probably have the next chapter before the end of the week. Happy reading!

I beat my pillow again. I hated it when I couldn't get to sleep. It seemed like it had been happening a lot lately. Tristan had only been gone a week. It felt like it had been a lifetime. How was it that the days stretched so long.

I sighed and sat up. Most girls wouldn't see it as such a tribulation. Three months, that was all. Then he would be back and I would begin my life with him.

That was not how it felt to me. I felt trapped and restless. Without him, I was invisible. It felt like my heart had been painfully removed. It was silly and irrational to feel this way. Tristan was coming back. He loved me. I believed that, but I still couldn't shake the instinct that everything was changing, and that the happy time I had had with Tristan was coming to an end. I hit the pillow another time for good measure. It was entirely silly. I would survive the separation and then he would be back, smiling and as beautiful as ever.

All that I had to do was survive a couple of months. After that, no one would even recognize me, I would be so happy. My silly thoughts were pointless. My prince would soon return to wake me from this emptiness.

I comforted myself with this thought and finally laid myself down to sleep.