Alice POV
I lay there for countless hours, just listening to the blood seeping through the miniature holes in the ground. I watched the moonlight sparkling on the neck of a deer; the blood still stained its brown coat. I gazed into the glazed over eyes, black, with a hint of sorrow. Just like my Jaspers. I heard wild dogs barking in the distance, lizards scuttling over the grass in an effort to get into the sunlight to warm themselves as the sun rose. The sun managed to push through the thick canopy, throwing a warm glow onto my feet. Birds were singing high up in the trees, normally I would have welcomed the sound, the beautiful cheery sound of the sweet little birds warbling hello to the new day.
Today they sound was much less agreeable; I wanted to be alone, to wallow in my grief. I didn't want to feel the warmth on my skin. I didn't want to hear a thing. I wanted silence, cold dead silence, just like my heart. The heart that still echoed a beat when I touched my Jasper. My heart would never beat again, my eyes would never see the most beautiful sight in the world again. My ears would never hear his clear voice, his sweet laugh. My hands would never coast across his snow white skin, my fingers would never trace the scars across his slender arms.
The scars, the only thing we could see of his many years spent in war, with her… the one who was probably kissing him, touching him, they were in our bed, I didn't want to contemplate exactly what they were up to. It would rip me in two. I rose to my feet, running my fingers through my hair, picking out the leaves and the twigs and separating the matted chunks held together by the dried up blood. I stood in the gloomy forest and listened. Silence? Why? The birds had stopped singing, the dogs no longer barked, the lizards stood still.
Footsteps, whispers, HUMANS. I span around frantically, there was no way to hide the bodies of the deer in time. If I ran they would find the blood drained bodies, they would ask questions, rumours would spread. My kind would be discovered. I walked forward, towards them, two humans, male. A metallic smell, a gun. Hunters? I sped towards them then lay in down in the clearing. They were on the other side of the trees. A few more steps, they would find me.
And I was ready.