Author's note: Sorry I haven't updated, my school is coming to an end so I have all these tests, but In a couple days it'll all be over and I'll be free. Thanks for being so patient! I know this chapter is short. I tried my best to get something in. You'll see Rowaelin coming together starting from the next chapter. I have a half-day tommorow so I'm crossing my fingers to get somthing in. Okay, I'll shut up. As always, review!

"So what do you think?" Lysandra asked.

"Huh? What?" Aelin replied.

Lysandra rolled her eyes, "You seem to be a bit out of it today. Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine, um... I just need some fresh air," Aelin lied as she got up and walked to their porch.

Aelin wasn't okay. Not at all. She couldn't stop thinking about Rowan, that bastard. She didn't know what it was. She needed to snap out of it. She narrowly escaped Aedion's interrogation after class. How was she supposed to work with him? She needed to get good grades to get the highest rank. She wanted to go to college so badly and it wasn't like her parents were around, alive for that matter, to help her.

She had done some research on him since he probably wanted nothing to do with her. He didn't have any social media accounts. The school database said he was engaged a while back but hasn't go married yet. It said that he was adopted, but his adopter was put behind the bars for child abuse. Yikes, no wonder he had shadows beneath his eyes. She wasn't surprised if there were scars on his body. Stop thinking about his body Aelin. Damn those hormones.

So Aelin concluded that Rowan was an orphan and went through terrible adopters. He's a bit older than her. And he has some relationship issues.

Man, he went through a lot.

(In class)

"Alright class, your first, official challenge will be to navigate your partner through an obstacle course, the catch is that the person that will be navigating you will be blindfolded. This challenge will take place in the courtyard in two days," Aelin's teacher rambled.

All of a sudden, Aelin's phone rang. Jarring the class from its slumber. Aelin didn't particularly care if the teacher saw her as she picked up her phone and answered. Her world spun, she couldn't think straight. It was like everything around her was drowned by a ringing sound. She could feel tears in her eyes as she stumbled out of her seat and ran outside the building. She slid down a brick wall and let loose a cry that seemed to split the Earth in two.

(At the airport, before Aelin left for her new school)

"Please Aelin, listen to me. Stay. We can find another way to get you that scholarship. Just don't leave," Sam begged.

"Sam, if you cared about me, you would have accepted this," Aelin snapped,

"You don't understand. This means everything. So you should have the decency to be proud of me."

"I am proud, I really am. But is it really necessary? To leave. Leave your home, me?"

"Sam, I promise I'll come back to you. We'll start a life together, nothing can ever change that."

"Stubborn as ever," Sam sadly smiled, "Don't forget Aelin, I lov-"

Whatever he was going to say was swept away as she hurried to catch her flight. Swept away by nothingness.

(End of flashback)

She thought about him. About everything he'd done for her. She'd left him in tears. He didn't deserve this. All he wanted to do was to talk to her one last time, to declare his love. That god's damned flight. Not the one that she hastily mounted on, but the one he earnestly adhered to. Had blown up. What were the odds? That he of all people had to board that flight. While she had been prancing around, he had missed her heartbreakingly.

She never did get those sweet words out. He will never propose. She'll never see those warm, brown eyes again. And she wished that she could see him once more.

And with a rage that caused casualties, plagues, and everything that made this world cruel and merciless, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius let out a cry that shook the world and rattled the stars.