Heyyyyyyyyyy people, guess who's back from vacation :)

I know ya'll hate me, but I couldn't really do much without internet or my laptop. To make up for it, I'm going to post this chapter up right now. I know it's really short, but it's something, right?

Thank you sooo much for baring with me. You guys are truly amazing.


If Arabella was still in the room, I may have considered playing along, but since she was gone, I could have cared less. Shoving her away hard enough that she tripped over herself I ran out of the room, and out of the house. I kept running, deeper and deeper into the forest that surrounded the house. When I realized that I was running in the direction of the Willow House, I stopped abruptly.

I dropped silently to my knees, closing my eyes tightly, cursing Arabella, Katherine, Atian, myself; everything and everyone I could think of.

I still had her necklace in my hand...

Chapter 52

I woke up to the burn of the sun on my bare ass.

Groggily I squinted my eyes open, trying to get my bearings. I was laying on my stomach on the fluffy white carpet of my living room. Frowning, I rose up onto my elbows and looked over my shoulder at myself. Sure enough, the bright fuchsia dress I still wore had ridden up so that it was bunched around my waist. A thick ray of sunlight, coming in through my large bay windows, was shining directly on the exposed skin.

With a disgruntled sigh, I pushed up so that I was sitting and wondering why the hell I was sleeping on the floor. It was when I started to get up that I noticed something sparkling on the carpet next to my hand. Frowning, I reached for it, and when my fingers came in contact with the smooth ring attached to a chain, the events of last night came back to me.

Silently I dropped down to my knees again and cradled Alexander's necklace in my palm. I couldn't remember all the details, but I could vaguely recall fumbling for my keys as I hurried into the house. I clearly didn't get too far, because I just sat there on the floor and stared blankly at the necklace until I'd obviously fallen asleep.

Rubbing my hands over my face, I realized that yesterday's makeup was probably smudged all over my face. I slowly got to my feet and made my way upstairs and to my room. Dropping my clothes as I went, I moved in a trance-like state as I went into the washroom and turned on the shower.

I was still holding his necklace...

._._._._._.

I was having myself a pity party.

I was sitting in my pj's in front of the TV at about five in the afternoon with only 'A walk to Remember' and a tub of Cookies n'Cream ice cream to keep me company.

Rosalie came over about two hours ago, but I told her to leave. After about an hour she gave up trying to comfort me and left. I felt bad for being such a bitch, but I really just wanted to be alone.

I was at the part of the movie where Jamie was singing Only Hope. The look on Landon's face made me want to cry. Well actually, the entire movie made me want to cry.

I was just turning up the volume when someone knocked on the front door. I didn't even bother to portal out and see who it was before I ignored it. I hoped that whoever it was would get the memo and leave, but they were persistent.

After another few moments I sighed and got up. Opening the door, I was met with a bunch of pink, blue, and purple wild flowers. I looked around the flowers to see Atian, smiling at me.

"Hey there pretty lady," he said and I found that I smiled despite myself.

"Hey Atian," I said and took the flowers from him. "Come inside," I heard myself say, despite the fact that only a little while ago I wanted to be completely alone.

The truth was that Atian made me feel so special especially after the whole fiasco with Alexander and Katherine. A part of me knew that I was only using him and his affections, and I felt bad for it, but the other part of me dismissed that.

"What have you been up to?" he asked and sat on my couch, stealing a spoonful of ice cream.

"Nothing much. Just watching a movie."

He looked at the cover of the DVD and smiled knowingly.

"Depressing chick flick? What happened?" he asked and again, I was in awe at the fact that he always seemed to know when something was wrong. In fact, now that I thought about it, he always managed to show up after something particularly nasty went down with Alex.

"Nothing," I said and shrugged. When he continued to look at me I sighed and sat next to him. "Today was Katherine's bridal shower..."

"Oh, I see... Have fun?" he asked and I snorted.

"Yea. Tons," I replied sarcastically.

"When's the wedding?" he asked after a moment.

"In about a week," I answered quietly and he nodded.

"Do... do you want me to come with you?" he asked and my head snapped towards him.

"...What?"

He turned his head away, looking a little self conscious.

"I asked if you wanted me to come with you... as moral support. I'd understand if you didn't want me to though..."

I looked at the side of his face and nearly melted. He would do that for me?

Scooting right up against his side, I smiled softly up at him.

"I'd like that..." I said quietly. I looked up at him and noticed our nearness, and for some reason, it didn't bother me at all.

"Atian," I murmured, "thank you for being there for me."

And with that, I tipped my head up and kissed him.

Atian's POV

Hot. Fucking. Damn.

I had to hold myself back from jumping Arabella's bones. But God it was hard. After spending day after day listening to her whine and bitch about that good for nothing leech Alexander, and pretending like I cared, I was finally getting somewhere.

Huh, who would've thought that that bitch Katherine knew what she was talking about?

When Arabella shifted so that she was practically in my lap, I took it a step further and actually pulled her there. When she stiffened, I froze, wondering if I'd gone too far too fast, but she soon relaxed and continued to move her incredibly soft lips on mine.

I couldn't help myself and ran my hands up her long, silky, bare legs that were displayed enticingly by her incredibly short cotton shorts. I could hear her heartbeat pick up and I smiled. She wrapped an arm around my neck and I took the opportunity to deepen the kiss. After only a few moments I found that my control was slipping dangerously. I was impossibly hard and was throbbing everywhere. I guess my lust finally won over because I started to pull up her fitted tank top, skimming my fingers over her tight, smooth belly.

That was when she stiffened and pulled away, looking up at me, breathing hard.

"S-sorry," I said, adding the stutter to the line and looking suitably embarrassed to make it more convincing. Sure enough she smiled slightly.

"It's okay," she said softly. When she shifted off my lap I nearly growled and pulled her back. But instead I settled for putting my arm around her shoulders when she rested her head on my shoulder.

I spent the rest of the day at her house, listening to her talk, pretending to listen while in all actuality I was just imagining what she'd look like naked. Well, if things kept going the way they were, I was pretty sure that I'd get to find out soon enough.

Eventually she said that she had to get to bed and said that she'd call me later to let me know about the wedding. Nodding, I got up and followed her to the front door. She opened the door, smiling up at me and I couldn't help myself, so I leaned down and kissed her. She only hesitated for a second before kissing me back.

Having to play the good little wolf, I pulled back, even though I just wanted to throw her over my shoulder and take her up to her bedroom.

"Bye," I said and started down the steps. She gave me a little wave and then closed the door.

Whistling to myself I decided not to shift as I started towards my house. I suppose, in hindsight, that I should have been paying more attention to my surroundings and less to the thoughts of fucking Arabella. I caught the scent of him a split second too late and then I found myself flying across the clearing and into a tree before I landed hard in the tall grass.

"You son of a bitch," he snarled and I chuckled breathlessly at him.

Alexander's POV

I stood in a defensive crouch, my hands fisted into tight balls. It was a good thing that I'd put Arabella's necklace away in my pocket beforehand, because I would have surely crushed it in my anger.

I was sitting there in the grass wallowing over my ex-girlfriend whom I was still madly in love with, when I caught the thoughts of that mutt thinking about that very same girl, completely naked. For an agonizing second I thought that it was a memory instead of a fantasy. All I knew was that if he had laid a single finger on her, I'd have gladly ripped him into tiny little pieces.

Now, as I watched him get to his feet, I felt this incredible anger. I didn't know if it was just the fact that I was so pissed off at everything and everyone and I'd just reached my breaking point, but it was actually kind of scary.

I nearly lunged for him, but the asshole clearly saw the intent on my face because he started to speak.

"Don't forget leech, she needs me for this cure to work."

And just like that, I knew that I wouldn't, couldn't, kill him. No matter how much I wanted to. And boy did I ever want to.

"Just fucking keep your hands to yourself," I snarled and then when he thought about kissing Arabella I growled.

When I realized that it wasn't a thought, but a memory, I actually did pounce on him, punching him square in the jaw. He hit the ground with a satisfying thud, kicking up chunks of dirt.

"She was the one that kissed me," he said, getting to his feet, rubbing the rapidly forming bruise over his broken jaw.

I could tell from his thoughts that he was telling the truth. That Arabella really was the one who initiated the kiss. It felt as though the ground had dropped out from under me.

I suddenly wasn't up to talking to Atian anymore, so without another word I turned and started to walk away.

"See you at your wedding!" he called tauntingly after me and I couldn't even bring myself to respond.


I knowwwwwwww it's short and I knowwww that it's been forever since I updated, but I just got back from vacation and I'm slowly starting to fall back into my old sleep schedule and such. I have the wedding written out already, but I didn't realize that I already had half this chapter already typed out. Since I couldn't find a way to exactly put them together, I decided to split them into separate chapters.

So now I'm in the process of typing everything out and I hope to get the next chapter posted as soon as possible. And I know I say this a lot, but the next chapter is definitely the wedding :P

Until then,

Peace, love, and 'A Walk to Remember'

Xoxo theadarkangel22