Alec's POV
Everything fell apart because of that stupid vision. Aro had just ruined everything without even realising. He had torn apart not just his chance at adding a psychic to his collection but my chance to mate permanently with the woman I loved. I felt never ending numbness creep up above me. I had no idea how to make her believe that I wasn't lying. And honestly I wasn't. It killed me to know that she was suffering because of a misunderstanding. Every moment without her was like a century without ever breathing. You can still live but you would be missing half the world around you. I had to get a move on, think about what I could do to repair whatever was left of our relationship. I got up and shook off the rubble on my body. I took off my swimming trunks and put on a fresh black shirt and black jeans. On the ground, I found Sam's shirt covered in white dust. I picked it up. It was a cute red top with a Disney mouse character on it. I put it to my face and inhaled the scent that hung to it. A scent that I already missed. I could not wait any longer. I darted out of the cottage, leaving my belongings there. I still had my mother's necklace in my hands. My grip on it tightened, but I restrained myself when I realised I could crush it to dust if I wasn't careful. I pushed myself over my limit, running faster than I ever had in my entire life. I ran towards the direction that my heart led me to.
Sam's POV
I was packing and throwing my few skinny jeans, t-shirts, jackets and shoes in a huge Betsy Johnson bag. I grabbed the bag and the gym bag I had planned for our trip. Anger was the only thing that kept me going and composed. I just wanted to crawl in a corner, curl up in a ball and whimper till my body mummified from lack of blood. But over my damned body was I going to allow him to see me like that. I would keep strong and fierce till I get out if Italy then I would fall to pieces on the outside to match my rotting insides. I made my way towards the throne room. Just my rotten luck, I met Dimitri on the way.
"Hey, Sam. I thought you and Alec would be away longer than- hey! Somebody has been naughty! You and-" I cut him of. I slammed him hard across the wall.
"Do I look in the mood for this shit? Don't even mention him in front of me." I said icily. "Farewell, Dimitri. I probably won't see you in a really long time." I said and continued walking. I knocked on the throne room's door and somebody opened it.
"Ah, Samantha." Aro said gleefully as he probably recognised Alec's sent inside of me. I guess my glare was the reason why he frowned. "So, what brings you here?" he asked me.
"I wanted to thank you for your hospitality, but I will remove the burden of myself on you. I intend to leave. Now." I said firmly, trying to control the venom that escaped my lips.
"But... I though you would stay permanently with us now that you and Alec have mated. What about him, will you leave him behind?" he asked, looking at me as if I had gone insane.
"Unfortunately, there are some mistakes one cannot repair. And mine was being fooled and played like a child." I said, not managing to contain the hiss that escaped after I finished speaking. "Fortunately, I can always leave, because as you said, I have no bindings to here. Who knows, perhaps I could follow Carlisle Cullen's footsteps. Too bad you can't just lock me up, now is it?" Aro looked at me with eyes wide, as I replayed his words to him. Suddenly, Alec burst through the door.
"Sam..." he said but I put up my hand.
"I've had enough lies, Alec." I said to him. My voice even sounded convincing in my own ears. Yeah, the power of anger can do that to a person. To him I must have looked like I was already over him.
"Is there anything we can do to change your mind?" Aro asked me helplessly.
"No. My mind is made up. I do not want to stay." I said. I turned around ignoring Alec completely. Though my heart was begging me to allow myself just one peek at him I refused. I ran in vampire speed until I was bombarded by two mini tornados.
"Are you really leaving?" Heidi asked me.
"Yeah, guys I just can't stay here. I'll go insane if I stay." I looked at them and I saw them sniffing me and there eyes widening as they processed my scent.
"What happened?" Chelsea asked.
"I can't... It's just too painful... Please understand. I know I'm being a crappy friend." I muttered. I came to think of them as my friends and to get away from Alec meant that I wouldn't see them too.
"We will really miss you." Heidi said and Chelsea hugged me. Heidi joined in our hug while I muttered stiff thanks.
I hated goodbyes. They just hurt so damn freaking much. "Bye, guys I'll miss you too." I said and got out. It was about four o'clock but the sun was hidden underneath thick grey clouds, as if it was reflecting my mood. I took a deep breath an started walking towards the unknown. I was about to break into a fierce run when I felt two strong hands griping me. I had no need to turn around or smell around me. I knew it was him.
"Please don't leave me. I can't keep going without you. You're my life now." he begged me. I felt my already thorn heart braking into minuscule pieces. I wanted so badly to turn around and hug him tightly and tell him to never let me go. My heart pleaded with me, but my good sense told me otherwise.
"How can I ever trust you again, Alec? The coincidence is all to much." I muttered, trying to make my voice icy instead of the broken mess it was.
"Please, believe me, love. I don't know what I could do to make you believe me. Anything; just name it and it will be yours." he said. I had an idea that lit up my heart.
"Alec, leave with me. Let's go somewhere far away from here. I don't care where as long as it's just the two of us." I whispered softly. His face twisted in pain.
"Sam... What you're asking me... You know I can't leave without my sister. You know I'd follow you everywhere but I can't abandon my sister. Please stay. We'll work something out..." he stammered. I shook my head violently at the thought.
"Alec, I'll go insane if I stay here. I'll start seeing betrayals everywhere. I can't... I just can't. I know this is selfish of me but you have to chose. There's always going to be someone between us. If it isn't Jane, it's Aro. Until you prove to me that you're independent from them, there just can't be an us anymore. I can't believe you anymore. Though my heart wants me to belief my mind says otherwise. And I'm going to listen to my mind because every time I listen to my heart, I'd just keep getting hurt and opening wounds I want to forget. My heart can't take another crack. I'll just go. Don't follow me." I said, choking back the sobs that were bubbling up my throat.
"Wait. I want you to keep this." he said and he gently lifted my hair and tied his mother's necklace around my neck. His hand lingered softly at the back of my neck.
"I can't take it, Alec. I don't know when - if I'll be back."
"My mother had told me that I would give it to the one I love. You have to keep it. Do with it whatever you want. Its yours. Just like my heart. No matter how many miles will divide us, I'll always be thinking of you. Please return. I will keep my word and not follow you, but please come back to me." he whispered softly in my ear. My urge to stay overwhelmed me but I knew I couldn't give in. I stepped away and looked one last time at his piercing burgundy eyes.
"Goodbye Alec." I said, though my voice broke, I was feeling too numb to feel embarrassed. I ran and ran away from him. I don't know how many miles I ran or even where I was. I ignored all the signs and directions. I just ran with all my might. After hours and hours of vegetation and long roads I found a forest. I couldn't take it anymore so I stopped in the heart of a forest. I just broke there. I threw my bags away started digging a hole in the hard ground. The expression 'I wanted the ground to swallow me' was quite correct. I threw myself in the hole in a helpless bunch. I shouted his name for hours and cried tearless sobs for days, it started to rain on me but I didn't matter. Though I was completely covered in a thick layer of mud and soil I didn't care. I was just the shell of a girl. Hollow on the inside. My insides had gone rotten with the pain. I was not just dead on the outside but I practically had no spirit. I felt fog surround me and I knew I was having a vision. Around me there was nothing except for fog. It was so dark that even my sensitive eyes were having trouble to adjust. Suddenly in front me I saw a wall made of glass. My reflection was astounding. I was wearing a black ball gown which made my skin look whiter than milk. My usual dark brown hair was ebony black and my pink lips were a dark tint of red to match my piercing scarlet eyes. My reflection smiled cruelly at me and exposed a pair of dainty fangs which were dripping blood. She then touched the V pendant that hung around her neck and suddenly Alec came into the picture. He looked deadlier than I had ever seen him. The creature who resembled me touched his lips and trailed her hand down his chest across to hers and touched her breasts naughtily and slid her hands across her body and rubbed between her legs. Her body was pulsing and he was just getting lustful by the seconds. Suddenly they started tearing each others clothes right off and rubbing themselves against each other. I felt sick and wanted to get away. Would have been this my future with Alec and the Volturi if I had stayed? Was this what I would have turned into? A bloodsucking whore?
I regained control of my feet I sprinted far away. Suddenly, chainlike vines sprouted from the ground. They chained my arms and legs, rendering me unable to move. They pulled me until I was chained to a boulder. My clothes were rags and I was feeling very cold. I was trapped inside that boulder, unable to move. My screams were no use. My vision turned like a move. It showed me where the boulder I was trapped in was. Inside my heart. My warmness and joy in life that Alec had brought to me disappeared, leaving coldness and despair. Pain surged through my body like wildfire.
There's so much pain a person can take, even for a vampire.
I let the numbness conquer me and blackness swallow me till I was gone.