Surprise, surprise! We have a little bit in Alec's POV this chap! I hope you like it. I had to do something cause I'm sure you'll kill me for chap 38… just a head's up…
Chapter 36: Surprising Experiences
Sam's POV
I explained my encounters with Logan to the Cullens. They had all agreed with me that something was up, but no one seemed to guess what it was. But today it was a special day so I had to put all my troubles behind me. A few months had passed, school was over and Emmett and Rose were going to get married, for what I had been told the tenth time. I looked through my closet to see what I could wear but nothing seemed to be right. The only dress there was which wasn't as terribly disappointing as the others was a high necked black dress with long sleeves. I looked at it in horror. Man I really needed to get some shopping done. As if an answer to my thought Nessie knocked on my door.
"Hey, we girls are going shopping. Are you coming?" she asked me. I was not a fan of shopping but I had to accept since I had nothing to wear. "Sure." I said monotonous.
At the shopping mall everybody dispersed. It seemed like every girl had very different tastes of clothing. I roamed the stores looking at the clothes like a lost ghost. I saw one that caught my eye. It was black with a halter neck top which flowed to the floor. I was about to try it on when someone came in my way.
"Seriously? Black? Are we doing this again?" Nessie said as she took away the dress from my hands and put it back where it belonged.
"Ness, just let me get done with it." I begged her.
"No way, let's choose a more appropriate dress for you. Something cuter and not so dull." she said.
"Can I see what you picked?" I asked her. She grinned and showed me a white dress with beautiful turquoise, brown and black flowered prints and matching rhinestones in a pattern over the dress. It would complement Nessie's skin tone and her curly bronze hair perfectly. She had a pair of silver stilettos in her hands too. "So let me see," she said as she scanned the shop. "Oh! That one would be perfect on you!" she said and before I could even register which one she pointed to she grabbed a dress, and checked the size for the pair of shoes underneath the rack. She then dragged me to the changing rooms, shoved me in one and left me with the dress and pair of shoes in my hands. I tried it on and put on the shoes. I had to say, Nessie was right, this dress was a killer on me. It had differed shades of blue under a white base with a front slit that came up to half my thigh. It was a halter V-necked with blue glass beads on the straps. It looked like it was painted on me.
"Sam, come out when you're ready." Nessie said. I stepped outside. Everybody was there wearing a different elegant dress. Nessie's looked marvellous on her. Bella was wearing a grey chiffon dress with sequins on the bust, Alice had on a burgundy dress which had a fish tail trailing behind her and Esme was wearing a forest green dress with a front slit that complemented her auburn hair perfectly. Rose was giving us advice since her wedding dress had been picked out months ago.
"Ness, I like the dress you picked for me but don't you think it's a little bit showy?" I asked her uncertain as I walked around and half my upper legs were exposed.
"No, it's perfect and it suits you nicely. I bet if Alec saw you he would agree too." She said thoughtfully.
"You're never going to let it go, are you?" I asked her.
"Not until you woman up and try to see what he's up to. I bet he's miserable too without you. You're too stubborn for your own good." She said to me.
"I said I'll do it. Just not now. I don't need to tempt myself any further. You know the facts and they won't change." I told her feeling just slightly irritated.
"Still… I think it would be helpful for both of you. From what I heard what you share is true love but seeing him again, and I mean not in one of your past visions might help you build up the courage to go talk to him. I know he's caught between a rock and a hard place, having to choose between you and his sister but perhaps…" she trailed after her long ramble. "I guess there's just one way to stop me from bringing the subject up again, right? You should do it." she said grinning evilly.
"Wait! Right now?" I asked her, looking conspicuously around me giving wary glances to the shoppers."
"Sam, you're starting to look like some secret spy from the movies." She said to me. "Let's just get in the changing rooms." She said. I sighed, defeated by my best friend. But I couldn't deny the excitement I felt. I would visit Alec after almost eleven years. I wondered when I would find him. Would he be in the feeding rooms or talking to Aro. I really hoped not.
"Come on. You have all my support Sam. You can do this." Nessie said as she put her hands on my shoulders for support. I nodded, feeling a lump forming in my throat. I inhaled deeply and closed my eyes. I willed the fog to me, let it embrace me and transport my spirit to where I wanted to be the most. When I opened my eyes I was in Volterra, at the highest point in the clock tower, a few steps away from Alec's bedroom. The door to his room opened and Jane came out looking worried and distressed. As she walked past me I heard her sigh deeply. "I wish she comes back to him." She said and left down the stairs. Did I hear right? She wished I was here? I grew worried. It must have something pretty serious to make Jane wish that I was here. Was he okay? Had something happened to him? I ran with all my might, and as I was about to pass through the door it opened on its own.
That shocked me, but what shocked me further was that it wasn't Alec who opened the door or nobody else for that fact. It opened up on its own, as if to signal Alec that I was in the room. And if that was its purpose it worked. Alec who had been curled up on his couch, his back facing me turned around, to stare at what for him must probably have been an empty space.
At the sight of him I felt my breath being knocked out from my lungs. If I had been missing him during the past decade or so what I felt now was unexplainable. My whole body ached. As if being separated from him this long had scarred me completely and now seeing him again… no words could describe what I felt. The love, the pain all mixed together making me unable to think clearly. This was love; an unexplainable feeling that warms your heart to a point where living without that special someone is not worth living at all. Love isn't about sex or lust or gifts. Those are just the superficial gestures. The true love is when no matter what you do, no matter where you are; when you are with the person you love you forget everything. The world could burst to flames for all you care… as long as you're with him, you're content and at peace.
I made my legs move towards him, and though I knew my hand would pass right through him if I touched him, I just wanted to hug him. The need was so bad that my hand throbbed with anticipation. His scent hung around the room making all the more difficult for me to focus.
"Alec." I breathed out as my hand touched his shoulder. I saw his eyes widen and I swear his eyes met mine. And never left them.
"S-Sam?" he stuttered. I was surprised that he saw me. That had been unexpected. But I was so glad. He darted off the bed and stood on the floor next to me. Believe it or not I could actually feel his hands on my shoulders. I wanted to cry with happiness. His simple touch could make me forget a whole decade of suffering.
"Yes, Alec. I'm here." I said, while battling with a lump in my throat.
"Sam, I can see you. You came out of nowhere. I… please come back." He said and pulled me in for a hug. I had never felt so at home anywhere. His arms were my haven of safety. Suddenly I felt my body being shook. I shot him one last loving glance as I knew my time here was over. His look was one of pure panic. "I can't lose you again." He said to me and gripped me tighter, but I felt myself fading. His words were lost to the fog.
Alec's POV
Jane was furious at me… again… for no good reason. "Get up. NOW Alec! I know you're thirsty. Get the heck out of this goddamned room and go hunting." Jane said as she pushed me off my bed.
"What's the point?" I asked her hopelessly. She glared at me, her eyebrows becoming one with her hairline.
"Um… I don't know? Nutrition! Survival!" She said sarcastically.
"Again, what's the point?" I asked her, burying my face in Sam's old shirt which had become my comfort pillow. Jane growled at me.
"Alec I swear to God, you've become intolerable. Please. I beg you. Do something. Our Masters are getting frustrated at you. You won't even do the basic commands. Master Aro is disappointed in you and so am I." she said to me. I rolled my eyes at her.
"Tell Master Aro," I said the word master as if it was some disgusting word, "that he can stick his disappointment-" her hand shot to cover my mouth from saying what I was about to say, which for her was equivalent to blasphemy.
"You're a lost case Alec." She said to me as she removed her hand from my mouth. Before I could respond she left. Ah, finally some peace. I rolled myself up in a ball and continued checking out my laptop. I wasn't doing much. Just listening to music and writing. Suddenly the door shot open. I tried to smell who it was but I got nothing. I turned around just for curiosity but still, nothing. It might have been a draught, but I doubted that as no windows where open. Suddenly I felt something in the air. Like a buzzing power getting nearer to me. As I tried to figure out what was happening I felt something on my shoulder. I looked at it and saw a faint hand, as if it belonged to a ghost. "Alec." The voice whispered at me. Everything froze that moment. I knew who it was.
Sam.
Only she had a voice that could melt my insides. I looked up and found her, standing next to me. She was wearing a beautiful dress but I didn't waste one moment looking at it. Instead I looked at her. "S-Sam?" I stuttered, disbelieving that it was really her. Our gazes locked and I got up immediately. I put my hands on her faint shoulders which just like the rest of her body were becoming visible.
"Yes Alec, I'm here." She said. I pulled her towards me, intending to never let her go. Even her scent was becoming traceable. "Sam, I can see you. You came out of nowhere. I… please come back." I asked her, knowing that this might be a once in a life time chance. She looked at me with an expression that showed nothing but love. My eyes felt uncomfortable, as if I needed them to shed tears but they couldn't. Suddenly I was losing my grip on her. She was becoming transparent again. "I can't lose you again." I said with deep agitation in my voice. I tried to grip on to her but she disappeared completely. I tried to grip her again but all I got was thin air. I slid down the side of the couch, feeling exasperated and empty. I could have sworn she was here. But how was it possible? She appeared and disappeared like a ghost. But I could have sworn I touched her and smelled her. Her smell! That was the answer. I removed my shirt and inhaled it. Sure enough though faint I could still smell her.
"What's all the commotion about?" Jane said as she entered the room, looking at me as if I had become a nut job.
"Sam was here today! I swear she was. She appeared out of nowhere and then vanished. Just like a ghost." I explained to her. She closed her eyes tight together and squeezed her nose bridge.
"Okay, you're going insane. Get your shirt on. You need blood." she said clearly disbelieving me.
"It's true. I swear. If it wasn't true than how do I have her scent on my shirt?" I asked her.
"You were holding her shirt to your chest! Grow up, Alec. Stop hallucinating. I know you wish she was here but she's not. Deal with it. Now get dressed or I'm slinging you on my shoulder and dragging you outside. You have exactly sixty seconds." She said to me.
But I had been so sure. She had felt so real. Was I really hallucinating? Had I touched this bottom, had I become insane?
Fucking shit. I was hallucinating. First signs of insanity.
Sam's POV
The fog was gone. I was back in the changing rooms with Ness's face hovering above mine. Among her where also others but she was the one making the most fuss.
"God, Ness you will never believe what happened." I started. "Wait, wait, wait!" she literally yelled and got many shushing gestures from her mother. "Do you usually start become invisible and fading when getting present visions?" she asked me.
"That was the weird part Ness. He could see me and we both could touch each other!" I told her. Her eyes widened significantly.
"You… You have his scent slightly on you. You… really were becoming visible there and invisible here. You were about to teleport. There's no other logical answer." Alice said. I just stared at her, though what she said could have been true my mind chose to ignore the probabilities. As if seeing visions wasn't a pain in the ass enough.
"Okay… I need to think a little bit about it." I said. I realised that I was so boxed in and that I was leaning against the walls. I was about to walk away when my legs gave away on me. I fell to the ground tough not for long as many hands shot out to help me. I reassured them that the complicated vision had taken most of my energy which would obviously return shortly.
It did and after we changed back and paid our clothes we went home. We started decorating and were finished quite quickly.
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As the guests started arriving we greeted them and smiled at them. Daren was standing next to me, looking bored and on edge.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked him. He turned to face me, giving me the daggers.
"Blond. You made me dye my hair blond. Of all colours." He said under his breath. Since he was supposed to be a runaway teen he had to come undercover. When I went to the market I forgot to tell him which colour for his hair he would like so now he was stuck with surfer dirty blond hair.
"Oh, stop complaining. If it makes you feel any better I think it suits you." I told him. He winked at me and put his arm around my waist. I glared at him and he instantly put it down. And they say girls find double meanings in words.
As I joked with Daren, suddenly my mind blanked and one though came to my head. A thought that wasn't mine.
Come to me my child.
What the fuck was happening to me? My legs started moving on their own towards the exit. I heard Daren whisper loudly at me to get back because they were about to start but I couldn't get my legs to stop walking on their own. I was panicking on the inside but my outside was as cool and expressionless as always. When I was alone I started running. I tried so many times to stop myself but I couldn't. I just ran, the dress flying behind me. I ran through the Canadian vegetation, which was getting denser and more alive than ever. I did not know where my own legs where taking me. Suddenly I stopped still. Two vampires emerged from the shadows of the trees. Their eyes flashed crimson at me and while the man was smiling, the woman was glaring at me. The man looked in his forties when he was turned. He had brownish graying hair but the woman was a whole different story. She had blond hair and I must say she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, I dare say even more beautiful than Rose. Yet they were strangers and I didn't know what they wanted from me.
"Who are you?" I asked them, finally regaining control of my voice. My limbs seemed to be stuck; I could not escape if I had to.
"I am your maker."
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1 word. CLIFFHANGER. This is the last twist for now. I had to cut it short because I really need A back but I think you'll like it.
Thanks for your support. I keep hearting you people! I just had one query. What do you think of Sam's vision? Yeah, she can teleport but do you like the way I described love? I'm asking cause I've never loved anybody so I have no first hand experience except for many many book…
This chaps deserves a review, right? That would be awesome
Until the next time, my lovelies :3