A/N: I'm sorry that it has taken me so long to post again, I am an absolute retard and forgot my own password! and its not even that exciting of a chapter. Trust me. I wrote it. But a lot of bad things have happened recently, w/out naming names coughMATTTREVARcough stupid boys. Anyway, the next chapter will be much better I swear!
Nerdalicious: You ruined the plot twist!! Ahhaa! Oh well. w/e. you still don't know anything about that. Lol. I am glad that you like this.
Charter Mage Z: Yes, they could hide in the rafters in the sky! Lol. I know what you meant. Well. Read!
hisdarkprincess: oh I can't wait for you know what!! I'm glad that everyone likes this story. I hope that the next chapter is more exciting than this. Going through some hard times, and a lot of writers block. It really sucked.
Ch 3. A change of mind
Aric wasn't home when Emma had to leave, she had waited for him all day and he never came. She knew that he was mad, but he had never been this mad before.
As she went out the door to finish putting her things in the carriage, he walked up.
"Were have you been?!"
"Oh, I thought you would have left already." Aric said with venom in his voice that she had never heard before.
"Aric…" she stopped.
"What?! What do you want now?" He snapped without turning around from the steps.
She didn't say anything and just turned to leave, he was hopeless. She had no idea what she could say or do to make him understand the reasoning behind what she wanted to do. She never told him that her father had sent her a letter asking her to come.
She opened the doors to get in and was almost in when she was roughly pulled back out. She never had the time to see who her captor was because his lips came down to hers way too fast. Emma looked into Aric's red tearful eyes and she broke down in his arms.
"Aric… I am so scared." She confessed finally to him.
She felt his sobs against her. His body shook like crazy.
The sky had just then let loose the rain like the tears of sorrow for the two lost lovers. The rain began to pour and the thunder rolled. But they held strong to each other. The coach men called out something inaudible to them. Even when the coachmen pulled away, they did not move.
Aric lifted Emma into his arms and carried her into the house and up the stairs into their bedroom. They helped each other remove their soaking wet clothes. Aric just put on some pants and Emma put a gown on and they huddled together for warmth. They didn't say anything for quite some time.
"Emma…" Aric started but Emma stopped him.
"Shhhhhh. You're going to ruin the moment." She said.
"What moment? There wasn't any moment." He replied.
"I know, but I didn't want to talk about it." She drifted off as the smile disappeared from her face.
"Emma, you know that we have to some time."
Emma rolled over and picked up a piece of paper from her wet clothes and handed it to Aric. He gently opened the wet tattered paper and carefully read what it said. He didn't say anything as he folded that paper back up and put it on the table next to his bed.
"Emma, why didn't you just tell me this from the beginning?" he asked.
"Would you have let me go?"
"Hell no! I'm still not letting you go on your own! I am coming with you, whether I come with you or I fallow you. I am not ever letting you go. I can't take that risk again, whether or not Jonathan is still here or not." Aric explained.
Emma laughed and moved closer to Aric.
"I knew you would. I am glad though. I knew I couldn't do this without you. But what about the letter? And my dad, err, Raoul." Emma smiled, remembering.
"Let me handle that part."
A knock at the door broke them apart. Erik came in.
"Oh! I'm sorry; we all thought that you had left Emma. Was I interrupting anything?" he said with a smirk on his face.
"NO! No, nothing. We were just talking." Emma said quickly.
"And, Aric is now going with you, back to France?" he asked them. "If you wouldn't mind my coming back with you, I would like to visit the opera house once again. I miss it terribly, I didn't stay over my last visit long enough to see them again."
"Oh I would love that; I would like to see the caves again!" Emma squeaked.
"I don't want to see them ever again. Too many bad memories." Aric said to the side.
"What are you talking about?" Emma was shocked that he had said that.
"It was before we met, it was fine after that, but before. I just don't want to remember." He finished.
"What happened Aric?" Emma wanted to know.
"I told you, I don't want to remember. Please do not make me remember, ever."
A/N: ok, so this chapter is short and stupid, but I needed something to set up for whats gonna happen next! R&R! please!