Author's note: SM owns Twilight. I worked really hard on this chapter. Enjoy!
I had been living in Volterra for three weeks now. My class should have left a week ago or maybe sooner since two students were missing. Everything was normal and Demetri would talk to me or tease me like brothers. Sometimes we would watch movies and sometimes we would play vampire hide and go seek. It's like human hide and go seek except faster and we have smarter hiding places. It's a bit harder though. When Aro was in need of their service ,I stayed with Renata or Hiedi who would normally play dress ups with me. I wasn't really mad at Hiedi anymore. Just as I predicted, Volterra was growing on me. Some days I visited the wives. It was like I was let out of school early.
l woke up early one morning to an empty room. I thought it was kind of ironic that nobody was in the room with me. I was so used to waching whatever I do, say or even think. It was six in the morning and I was to awake to go back to sleep. I got up, brushed my teeth and my hair, and went to find Felix and Demetri. Maybe they're just playing hide and go seek with me. I looked in the closet first with no such luck. I looked in all the usual hiding places; niether were anywhere to be seen. Both were really good at hiding though I preferred hiding with Demetri. If I hid with Felix, Demetri would find us both. Demetri was the best at hide and go seek.
I walked into the hall. I heard a noise coming from the end of the hall. I walked towards the source of the noise and opened the door that I knew was the closet. I flung open the door to nothing. I sighed and turned back into the dark hall
I was at the other end of the hall when I heard the rattling of leaves from the plant by the closet. I walked back over to the plant and looked behind it. There, hiding behind the plant in the shadows was Alec. I gasped. He looked embarassed.
"I'm s-sorry. I was looking for Felix and Demetri. I did-didn't mean to-"
He cut me off. "It's okay. I'm sorry. " He looked down. He was sorry?
"For what?" I asked sceptically.
" Well... I've been...watching you." He answered truthfully.
I didn't know what to think of it but I wasn't mad. He stood up, but still couldn't look me in the face. He speed walked away.
" Wait!" I said urgently. He stopped. "I'm not mad. But why were you watching me?
He made eye contact with me for the first time. " Because I find you interesting." My heart blew up at his words. I could feel the smile spread across my face. I was suddenly plagued with curiosity.
" What do you find so interesting about me though? To myself, I'm not the most interesting person out there."
He was now in front of me. My heart was fluttering and I knew that he could hear it. He was looking in my eyes as he said, " Your intellegence intrigues me. You're smarter than your age. And when you're playing with Felix or Demetri, you fall but you don't cry- you laugh. You're probably one of the few humans that wants to jump out of an airplane. And your scent...it's different. It suits you. Like...grapefruit." He gave me a small smile.
"I smell like grapefruit? ...I like grapefruit. I've been wanting ot ask what I smell like." I replied stupidly.I blushed as he chuckled. Before I knew it, all my surroundings became a blur. He skipped the elevator and ran down the stairs. He slowed down as we neared a tunnel I had never seen before. As we walked in, he looked at me.
" I go to this place whenever I want to get away."
"Where?" It came out kinda gleeful. Almost childlike.
"You'll see."
We neared the end of the tunnel. He opened the heavy door with one hand( the other was supporting me) effortlessly. It was raining outside. He walked faster than the average human but slower than vampires. We were in an alleyway with a few suspicious looking people staring at us. Alec growled and his eyes turned black. We walked out of the alley and were now behing the castle. Both of us were already soaked. Alec looked both ways to make sure nobody was around, when he ran into the forest. We ran, or he ran so fast I was afraid we would run into a tree. I trusted Alec to be careful though. His senses were sharper than mine anyway. We slowed down, just so we were going about twenty miles per hour.
He had brought us to a waterfall. It was small, but it was beautiful. He leapt across the river ( with me still in his hands, nervous as ever!). He put me on his back and told me to hold on tight. I wrapped my legs around his waist and he climbed up the ten feet of rocks. He set me down gently on my feet by the edge. He held onto my wrists as if I were going to fall. The rain hit the flowing water like diamonds. I looked to the drop where the water slip off the rocks like a silk sheet off my skin. I looked over at him and he was looking at me.
"What do you think?" He asked
"It's beautiful..." I was mesmerized. By both the waterfall and Alec.
He sighed, " I found this a few centuries ago. I've never told anyone. Not even Jane."
" You're close to Jane?"
He never told his sister, probably the person he was closest to , but he told me and he only knew me for three weeks.
"Yes." He answered. " But I wanted a place to myself, knowing I'd never get one."
I looked back at the waterfall. Something on the water caught my eye. As I realized the sun on the water and felt the warnth on my cheek, I thought about Alec. I looked over at him and he was sparkling. I reached out and touched his hard skin. It had a rough texture since the sun caught it. I pulled my hand quickly away from his face and blushed. He smiled at me before he pulled me back on his back.
I notices an array of colors. It was as picture perfect. The rainbow on the other side of the trees with the sun peaking behind it and in front of the image, a crystal clear waterfall.
" Wait!" I said quick before he could climb off the waterfall.
"What?"Worry was in his tone.
"Look." I pointed towards the rainbow. He looked at it for a few minutes before saying, "Beautiful." There was a three second peuse before he continued, "Like someone I know."
And I knew who that someone was (thought I hate to sound self concieted.) He climbed off the rocks and sped back to the castle. When we entered the tunnel, he took his coat off and put it on me. Then he scooped me back up in his arms and walked slowly back to my room giving me enought time to reflect what had just happened.
Author's note: I know it's kinda short but I worked really hard on it. We're getting closer to the romance...I'm so excited. And thanks for the reviews! ~Kayti :D
