Chapter 4: Alone Time

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

-- Roy Croft

The scenery was all blurry as it passed my eyes. I could see buildings forming into shrubs, shrubs into trees. I paid no attention really, I simply dreamed of him and only him. I wished that things could go back to normal but the hardest part of being a dreamer is knowing that most of your dreams won't come true. I sighed into Alexs' dirty worn sweatshirt and held onto him tightly. He then set me down and came back to reality. I looked around trying to figure out where we were. I walked forward but he pulled me back. I looked up at him as he said

"Hah, that wouldn't be a good idea dear. Watch your step." I looked down and realized we were at a cliff. I also remembered how much I was afraid of heights. I whimpered quietly and he laughed at my cowardness. He sat down then pulled me along. I was frozen with fear but he seemed so at ease and it made me question. The air was tense and cold in my dead lungs as I sat there. He simply swung his legs out and let them dangle there and I looked at him. He smiled and said

"What's wrong?"

"I'm afraid of heights" I whispered and looked down to my skirt

"Come on, don't be afraid, you're with me." he said proudly.

"I know...but still..." I replied, even more quiet

"Even if you fell, you wouldn't feel it." He said

"What do you mean?" I asked

"We're dead, we can't feel anything except for maybe when we deal out pain to each other. Other than that, we're pretty much invinsible."

"Really?"

"Yeah really." He said smiling

"I see...so that's why Dustin and Cornelius hurt after I attacked them?" I asked

"Exactly" He said touching my back. I sighed and touched the grass. It felt so dead and wet under my fingertips. I looked around and found myself staring at the moon. It was so big and crescent shaped right now. It only gave light to a certain part of the forest. As I sat there, I thought back to when Adam and I came to a place like this one time. It was during the day though so it wasn't anywhere as beautiful now. I swallowed a hard lump in my throat as I touched the small gold chain around my neck. I trailed down the cold piece of jewelry to the end where it hung down. The heart shaped pendant was still there and I was thankful for that. It was the only piece of him that I still had to remember him by. I was just about to cry when I heard Alex speak quietly

"I remember that night..."

"what night?" I asked quietly

"When I became this thing..." he answered and stared at the abyss below.

"...what happened?" I asked but instantly regretted it because he tensed.

"I...I was trying to save someone...but they got to her first...then me..." He replied.

"Well...atleast you didn't let them just have you..." I said, trying to make him feel better but he fell silent. It must have really bothered him because it went silent for ten minutes straight. I looked around and then stared at my feet. I seemed to be missing a shoe so I decided to take the other one off. I pried it off my cold, dead feet and I was in my socks now. I held my black heel and stared at it. The next thing I knew, I threw it right off the cliff. I watched it go sailing down and next to me, I heard him laugh slightly. I looked at him and questioned it

"Are you laughing at me?"

"No, just laughing at something else."

"and that is?" I pried on

"You just remind me of her..." He answered quieter now

"Oh...the girl you couldn't save?" i asked

"yes, my love..." He responded and got up. I looked up at him but he held out his hand for me. I took it and stood next to him. I was five-four and he was so much taller than me. He seemed to be six foot something and I had to stare up at him. i then realized something and asked

"Why did the humans call you Hunter? and everyone else those dinky nick names?"

"Because, we can't talk to them like me and you can. We can understand them but to them, we just make weird noises. They don't know our actual names so they just gave us those 'dinky nicknames.'" He said smiling.

"Oh...so what am I?" I asked.

"Well, to them, you'd probably be a Banshee or something because you shriek like one." He replied and laughed coolly

"Oh...nice. Exactly what I wanted to known for, my screaming." I said sarcastically. He laughed put me on his back again. i held onto him tightly and nuzzled my face into the back of his neck. Even though I didn't have a heart, I felt oddly sorry for him. How would it feel to let the person you loved down? To not be able to save them? I bet worse than not being saved. i sighed and closed my eyes. I held onto him and fell into a distant sleep as the wind flew passed my ears.