Lover's Walk
By Ivory-Princess
I could still hear her quiet sobs as I rushed through the woods one final time. For a moment, I felt as a common human being would: I felt the unbearable heartbreak of a love lost. I had to bring my pace to a slow halt as I suddenly fell to the cold, hard ground. The shadow of the trees shielded me as I buried my head into my hands. It suddenly occurred to me that I couldn't catch my breath or more, hear the beating of my cold heart. Even though I knew that I hadn't been able to hear my catch my breath in over two-hundred years, I had never been in so much grief. My only love…the only thing that I had ever come to desire was her. Bella Swan was, indeed, the love of my life—or to be more accurate, my undead existence. And now she was gone from me.
As I looked up to face my surroundings, I began to realize where I was exactly. I was there. The spot where it happened… where our lips first met. I closed my eyes and took in a needless breath as I thought back to the not-to-distant memory of the first kiss. I retraced the thoughts of how her full and pink lips grazed mine. I could still taste the sweet kiss as I thought harder and squeezed my eyes together even more. I could still smell her magnificent scent. Her precious smile…her beautiful brown eyes… Still. I noticed that if I were human, I would be crying helplessly. No…I was wrong. If I were a human, I would be dying. I wondered that if it was actually possible to die of heartbreak, could it be possible that it would be worse than transforming into a vampire?
"No…" I gasped aloud. If I were human, I would be with her now. I wouldn't be leaving her side for any reason… She would be with me always and I would be holding her until death came for us both.
However, that was not the case now. At this current point in time, she was a human, and I was a vampire. We were both on two completely different pathways… or as Rosalie would say, Bella and I were "from two different worlds." And as much as it pained me to say it, she was right. I had to face the truth that Bella would move on with her life as a human and I would… not. I let out a thunderous roar as began to beat the ground below me. I began to rip at the wet earth as I continued to feel the demon within me bear its fangs. I could feel the dark power within me aching to come to the surface, desperate to harm or kill anything. I wanted this pain to go away…now. I was far too weak to take this kind of pain.
Suddenly, I could hear her calling my name and the rustling of the dead leaves beneath her feet. I was on my feet once more, leaving her behind. "Edward!" She called pleadingly. There it was again…the heartbreak. This time, I was for sure that the cold heart was finally broken.