~26~

I was coming down the path, dangling my purse in one hand, and clutching Aiden's heart necklace in the other. It seemed amazing to me how things had changed in this past month; how much me and Aiden realized we needed each other. I could still feel Aiden's soft lips on mine, and I got the chills thinking about how wonderful that moment had been.

As I was coming closer to the clearing, I heard that sound of a musical laugh, with evil disguised in it, and the sounds of bones breaking. I threw my purse to the ground, kicked off my shoes and ran to the bridge, knowing that my Aiden was in danger.

When I made it out of the woods, I saw Aiden crumpled in the stream in front of the bridge, with orange fire hair leaning over him. It was like my dream all over again.

"AIDEN!" I screamed to him. The rain had started to come down again, soaking me to my bones, but I was too afraid to notice. The ravenous vampire turned toward me, snarling. I should have known all along she was a vampire. The pale skin as pale as mine, how she always had to go to the bathroom to change her contacts, how I didn't smell any blood running through her as I smelt all the other humans, but I was too disgusted by her to notice. It all added up now, and Aiden was in danger because of it.

"Remy, get out of here," he struggled to scream. I watched in horror as Marney picked him up and threw him against another tree. She then turned to me and was there beside me in seconds, her hand cupping my throat. It would only be too easy for her to strangle me, but I couldn't die. I was immortal, did she know that? Did she know who I was?

"Renesmee," she laughed at me, "What a shame you didn't realize that I was a vampire before I got to Aiden. You could have stopped me. You could have warned your family to destroy me, but now it's too late!" With only an ounce of effort, she flung me back toward the path, and I landed on my side on the stone path, my dress ripping up the seam and my hair starting to fly out of my bun.

Marney had made her way to Aiden in a second and was beginning to lick his blood on her hands. I ran toward her as hard as I could and with what felt like nothing, I pulled the snarling stone off of Aiden and flung her into the stone bridge. The bridge crumpled under the force of her stone figure hitting it, and the stones began to pile on top of her. I wasn't sure if it was my pumping adrenaline or if it was some new vampire skill, but somehow, I was able to throw Marney with enough into the bridge and away from Aiden.

I knelt beside him."Aiden!" I screamed at him, "Aiden, please wake up!"

I watched as his lids began to flutter, and finally those blue eyes found my face. "Remy, get out of here!" he managed to say.

"No, I'm not leaving you!" I said, just happy he was still breathing.

"Remy she killed my father!" he yelled, tears pouring out of his eyes. I should have known. She had a deep attraction to his father's blood, and she came here to find Aiden to get that same blood from him.

I touched my hand to his cheek in an effort to soothe him and wipe away his tears, but I didn't realize that I began to show him Marney through my eyes.

I quickly took my hand off of his cheek, as I watched him cringe in fear. He looked up at me in horror, like he didn't know what kind of creature I really was, "Remy, what are you?"

"Aiden, it's okay. I'm not going to hur—"

Marney had apparently gotten free from the pile of stones on top her and yanked me away from him. She threw me to the ground, my head being bashed against a rock. I screamed in pain as I laid on the forest floor and she dug her heel into my chest. "You little witch! I should have known you Cullens would do nothing but cause me trouble!" she screamed at me, as I landed face first into the pile of stone that remained of the bridge me and Aiden had so passionately kissed on only a half an hour before.

I couldn't move any of my muscles or bones, but as I heard an agonizing scream from Aiden, I turned to see Marney's mouth on his neck, sucking the life out of him. I got up as fast as I could and ran to Aiden. By the time I got there, someone had already pulled Marney off of his neck and he was writhing in pain.

I looked down on him, seeing his eyes roll to the back of his head and his neck gushing blood.

"Aiden, look at me!" I said to him, putting my hands on his shoulders. "Look at me! You'll be okay, I'm here!"

"Remy," he said, "Help me! Help me, Remy. I'm burning all over, I'm dying!"

"No you're not, don't say that! You'll be okay!" I screamed at him through my tears and sobs. I didn't know what to do, how could I help him? I put my head down on his chest, clutching him, refusing to let him go.

"Remy, I love you," he whispered before his eyes rolled back into his head, and he appeared to go unconscious, even though his body was still shaking all over and writhing in pain.

I looked up at him and whined, "Aiden, come back," not sure if he was gone or not. He couldn't die on me. I would never forgive him if he did, and surely he knew that.

Two sets of stone cold arms were taking me off of him, and for a minute I thought they were Marney's again until I saw Alice rush over to Aiden.

"No, let me go!" I screamed as my mother and Rosalie were pulling me back. Alice and Carlisle were both bending over Aiden, trying to revive him. "No, Aiden come back!" I screamed again forcing the two handcuffing my arms to let me go. "Aiden, come back!" I sobbed again, even harder. "COME BACK!" I screamed in agony one more time, till at last someone had scooped me up into their arms. I still screamed for Aiden's name as they began to carry me into the darkness, until all I heard was the sound of my sobbing and the soft music of Faith Hill's "There You'll Be" coming from the pavilion in the distance where the dance was still going on. Did they know what had just happened to a boy, their classmate? Did they have any idea what happened to Aiden just down near the bridge, the same spot Aiden had last seen his father?

The pair of arms holding me began to run through the forest, with numerous others flanking them. The sobs began to stop choking out from me, and as my body gave into the state of unconsciousness and I drowned in the darkness, I thought of the boy I loved, and how his innocence was taken away from him in an instant. The happiest night of my life had become my worst nightmare, and I didn't know how I would ever recover.