Yeah... I updated. :D

I actually wrote 90 percent of this chapter in like two hours. I wanted to update, even though I should be in bed, ah well. But I wanted to update because alot of you reviewed. So it inspired me to write and update faster. 'hint hint' HA.

Well I this chapter has alot of interesting stuff, so

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I couldn't find Collin anywhere.

His scent was going in three different directions so I couldn't follow him. Was he outside the cabin when me and Caden were talking? I thought to myself. Collin gets jealous badly, but not that bad.

It was almost completely dark, making it a lot harder to find my way home, but I followed my scent back to the house. I could hear Daniel and Kyle's booming laugh from inside the house as I jumped up and over the railing of the porch. I opened the front door and they both were standing in front of the stair way blocking Andrew, their little brother, from getting down the stairs.

"Come on guys, leave me be." He begged before making a pouting face. I walked up to the back of Kyle and Daniel and smacked them across the head.

"Why do you guys have to torment him?" They both moved aside and let Andrew pass, which he went straight for the kitchen. I didn't say anything more to the both of them, I wasn't in the mood to talk.

"Collin said that you need to ride the bus tomorrow," I stopped in my tracks. "Well actually he said to get a ride from us, but we don't want you to miss out on riding the cheese wagon." Kyle said with a smirk planted on his face.

I ignored that look. "Did he tell you why?" I wondered, but Daniel shook his head 'no', so I started walking up the stairs again as they went into the living room, discussing a football game.

Collin can't really be upset. Could he? I flipped the switch when I opened my door, which revealed a messy room. I dragged my feet to my bed, and roughly sat on the edge of it; wondering about Collin.

Then something caught my eye. I got up and walked to my desk; holding my breath. A neatly folded letter was placed on top of a few homework papers I had left there a few days ago. I picked it up and examined it, and turned it over which revealed in neatly cursive letters: Victoria Marie Sherwood. My arms with the letter fell to my side, and I caught an unnecessary breath.

"I haven't heard my name said with my dad's last name since the day I met my social worker." I whispered aloud.

My hands started to shake as I flipped the folded paper around and opened the side with a fancy pressed gold seal. When I got it open, I slowly started to read quietly aloud.

Dear Victoria,

I hope you liked the rose I sent to you today. It's almost the color that matches your gorgeous eyes and your ring. Speaking of ring, My body tensed and I looked down at my ring-missing finger, so I took a deep breath. I found it in your mother's jewelry box on your dresser. What is that about? That ring is very important and I gave that to you after I claimed you. You should be wearing it. So since you're not wearing it, I'll wait till we see each other again to give it to you.

I'm sure you're wondering when we will meet again. But you don't have to wonder anymore because we will be seeing each other very soon. I have finished my business in Italy, but I have some unfinished business here that I need to take care of before we meet again. When we do meet again, our lives will finally be able to start, which I have a great idea of how we can spend the rest of our lives together. I must go now, you will be getting home from school in a couple of hours and I don't want my scent around your room. Plus, your little sister, Abigail I think it is, smells pretty good, so I must leave before something terrible happens.

Love you forever and always,

Aidan

My body tensed and I almost wanted to scream from the thought of Aidan hurting Abigail. She is so innocent and fragile, and he is so violent and cruel I couldn't imagine what he would do to her. I crumpled up the paper and threw it in my closet, not wanting to see it ever again. But I knew I would have to show Caden. So I picked it up and stuffed it in my messenger bag to give to Caden tomorrow.

I was starting to become mentally exhausted, which I was happy that it was night time and was time to go to bed; I needed my mind to rest. So I changed into a pair of sweat pants and one of Collin's old middle school t-shirts --that he couldn't fit into anymore, but I could—and slipped into bed.

I turned off the bed side lamp and wrapped the covers over me tightly. I was slightly afraid of the darkness, even though I had super hearing, the thoughts of me not hearing a well trained vampire coming in my room seemed pretty realistic; so it caused me to freak out.

But in seconds, my mind finally got enough of everything, and let the darkness take over my thoughts.

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Waiting for the bus, sucked. Bugs started to bother me, constantly flying around me, and the sun was starting to get pretty hot. Luckily the bus came, but the loneliness started to begin as I sat by myself, with no one else on the bus. When I got to school even with all the people around, it was still pretty lonely without him.

I walked to my first period with my head hung low, but occasionally waving to people I usually see in my classes. When I walked into class, I didn't even look up to see if he was there, but I quickly picked out his deep voice over all the others. With my head still hanging low I sat in my seat and rested my head in my hands that rested upon the desk.

Class began and he still hasn't said anything to me. Why are you not talking to me? I thought directed to him. But nothing happened, exactly what I expected.

--

He wasn't even there for lunch. I sat there with all the other werewolves, which didn't help me at all. Thanks to Collin keeping his thoughts and emotions to himself, they didn't even know what was wrong with him.

"Well thanks anyways. I'll try and talk with him after school today." I lied before walking to fourth period, which I was looking forward to talking with Caden.

Walking into fourth, I held my head high. I don't want Collin to think I'm a weak person and that I'm upset. I focused my glare right towards Collin, who didn't break his conversation with the girl Katie, which is the one I ran into my first day of school.

I sat in my seat and Caden's eyes widened and shook his head.

You know what's going on. I thought.

He shook his head, while pretending to listen to Mr. Stafford. Your boyfriend doesn't keep his thoughts to himself very well when he's upset or stressed. So I heard everything. He thought back.

I sighed. What was he thinking? I'm lost in the dark. I saw his eyes roll.

Well I'm number two on his death list, and he's extremely upset with you because you lied to him.

I caught my breath. Am I number one on his death list? I thought slowly. He didn't answer right away so I looked over at him, and he chuckled.

Yeah, your way up there on his death list. He followed you to the cabin yesterday.

I closed my eyes. Of course he did. I thought more to myself, but I knew heard my thought.

I didn't open my eyes, and Mr. Stafford didn't seem to mind because he didn't call on me or slap a book on my desk to wake me up. I could only guess that I looked stressed and upset, so he's leaving me alone.

You need to tell him Tori. Caden's voice made my eyes pop open; waking me up.

I looked up at him as the bell rang, so I grabbed my bag and started to walk out the door, Collin already gone.

I know. I will after school. I lied again.



The next two classes were the same. We both didn't talk or even exchange a thought to each other. He also raced out the door when school let out. Giving me no chance to talk to him, so I raced—human speed—to the parking lot to meet him at his car.

When the last car left the parking lot, I started to become concerned. Did he run home because he saw me by his car? I wondered to myself. He can't be that mad… Couldn't he? I questioned myself.

Maybe I'll go look for him. I bounced off his car and headed into the school again. I looked in our locker hallway, nothing. I walked to our last class, maybe I thought he left but he didn't. I walked up to the open door and my arms released my messenger bag strap, and fell to my side. My breath also stopped in a loud raspy gasp.

"Collin." I whispered only loud enough for him to hear from across the room. He paused the kiss he was receiving and his eyes got wide. He pushed the girl he was talking to earlier, Katie, off of him so hard that she landed a few feet from him.

"Victoria." He whispered as he was still facing away from me. "It's not what you think. I didn't—"His voice broke off in mid-sentence. But I didn't wait till he finished. I ran as fast as I could out of the hallway, and out of the school parking lot; running home.

The buses were gone, and thinking about getting a ride from Collin just made the long run home easier to go through mentally. I knew he wasn't following me on foot, but I could hear the roar of his truck as he rode near me on the nearby road.

When I made it to the edge of our yard, I ran and jumped over the railing as quickly as possible. I opened and closed the door without looking in my driveway to see if Collin was parked there. But when I locked the door I went and looked out the family room window, which revealed Collin's navy blue truck parked by the edge of the road.

Rage and confusion hit me like a ton of bricks and started to boil inside of me.

"How could he do this to me?" I asked myself aloud. I ran up the stairs in vampire speed and barged in my room.

"Who cares if he saw me hug Caden last night. What he did after school is so much worse!" I yelled to nobody. I paced the room back and forth, from door to the window-door. I stopped in my tracks as the picture of Collin lip locking with a blond witch, and actually looking like he was enjoying it.

My legs collapsed and I sat on the soft carpet; not having any energy to get myself back up. A feeling I haven't felt in a while rose from the darkness, making me want to cry.

But I knew I couldn't cry. It was only a human thing to do, which is something I'm not anymore.

All my human memories came to me as a blur. Me with my mother playing in the park, or me and my best friend who I could trust sharing a chocolate cookie we got for being good. Also a picture my mother took of my father in a park and few weeks before I was born.

I wanted so badly to just let it all out and cry. But I knew no matter how hard I try, tears would never come. They will never come and release this pain that is boiling and tearing me apart inside.

I got up from where I was sitting and dumped all my school stuff out of my messenger bag, and replaced it with extra clothes.

When I was done with that, I sat it down on my bed and headed towards my desk, and looked for a pen and paper.

I found what I was looking for and started to write.

Dear… everybody, I noticed that I was pushing the pen a little too hard against the paper, which it made dents in my desk.

I have left so I could calm myself down and so I can think about certain things. So please, don't worry about me, I'm fine. I won't go far, but please don't come and look for me. I might be back later tonight or late tomorrow. But please, everybody, don't worry about me.

Love you all,

Victoria

I sat the pen down, ran out the door, down the stairs and into the kitchen. I opened the refrigerator and cold air rushed to my face as I grabbed for two of my bottles. Anger started to build up as I thought of how my eating habits were a huge inconvenience.

When I stuffed them into my bag, I noticed that pain that wanted to be released was getting worse. I didn't want to try to cry, because I didn't want to make matters worse.

I took a deep breath and raced out the door and over the railing, but instead of going in the woods where the cabin would be, I went on the other side of the house and ran in the direction of the 'firefly fields'.

Jumping over fallen branches and dodging trees seemed to have gotten easier for me. I wasn't tripping as much and running into spider webs, which I am thankful for. When I reached the huge field where Collin's old grandfather lives, I paused to look around. I wanted to see if it looked any different in the daytime.

It actually looked really bad.

I shook my head when images and thoughts came back rushing in my head. It caused me to notice that when I'm running my mind is too busy to think of anything else but running and what's going on around me, so thoughts like now can't exactly pop in my head.

So I started to run again.

It wasn't till several minutes that I noticed I was in 'firefly field'. So I slowed and paused with my hands resting on my knees. My breathing was fast and raspy before I realized I didn't need to breathe, so I quit and stood up tall to notice my surroundings.

The sun was setting, so the sky was a little bit darker blue with red mixed in with it around the horizon. The grass was still pretty tall, and some fireflies came out early; maybe to greet me. The moon was visible, but wasn't the same beach ball sized moon like last time.

I laid my bag in the tall grass before I seated myself right next to it. "I guess this will be where I'm sleeping tonight." I quietly said out loud. I moved my bag so it was behind me like a pillow and rested my head against it.

I looked up the now darker sky, where stars were now showing up and tried to think of the good old times. Like when I first met Daniel and Kyle, and how goofy they were. Also all the times I hurt Kyle, which made me laugh out loud.

Then I started to think of Grace, which was a good memory, but also a bad one. She used to talk my ear off, which I would love to have her here with me so I had someone to talk to. She also was kind and we became friends quickly. But then the day I found out she was killed played over in my head.

"That was an unpleasant day." Said a familiar deep voice, which sounded to be behind me. My body tensed, causing me to be frozen in place.

"If she didn't call your brothers, she would have been alive today. And we would have been together." I heard the grass around me crunch.

"You don't have to be in anymore pain Victoria. I'm here for you now." The familiar voice said.

A shadow casted across my face, causing me to stretch my neck so I could see what it was that was doing that.

"Aidan" I barely whispered, as I noticed the face that was towering over me.

"You guessed right, my love." He smiled. "I'm back."

I know.. a cliffy, and a pretty bad one too. But this interesting chapter should make up for it. Hey, maybe if alot of people review I'll update soon like I did with this one. :D Evil, I know.

Buttt, I hope you liked it. It was really interesting to write, and for all you Aidan lovers, he's back. And for all you Collin lovers... well... he's on hold right now. He'll probably be back next chapter. So don't worry!

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