A/N io non acquistato. Capice?
Book of the update: Black by Ted Decker
P.S. I didn't really know what to do during the "travel time", so this is later, when they meet Carlisle. Sadly, this is also the last chapter. If anyone wants to make a "sequel", feel free to do so, cause I'm not going to. Onto the story!
Chapter 12
I look at the people around me, talking and laughing, then down at the engagement ring on my finger. I could have a family here; we could be together as vampires. I won't have to hide what I am any longer, except from the outside world. And our future….it's hazy, but from what I saw…..it seems pretty great.
I take a yellowed and crumpled piece of paper from my pocket and slowly unfold it. The words that I have memorized fly through my mind, my eyes resting on the signature at the bottom: always and forever, Kenneth.
It's been in my pocket all this time. But now…..now I feel sort of guilty carrying it around. I have a new family, a new home, and a fiancé, for goodness' sake! In a split second, my hand reaches over and tosses the letter into the fireplace. I watch it melt into the flames, feeling oddly satisfied. That was my old life, this is new, and it's right now.
"Alice? Come on, love!" Jasper's voice calls from the unused kitchen.
I smile. "Coming!" and turn my back just as the last fragment of paper fades out into smoke….