The Ash Tree

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

I felt as if my world had crumbled before my eyes. Alice, the one who means the world to me, the one who claims to be dead, sobbed in my arms and shook violently. My heart felt as if someone had ripped it from my chest.

"You cannot be...How..." I did not want to believe her, how can I believe something so-so... I do not want it to be true. I do not want to lose her again. Suddenly her body went still and her touch disappeared for a second.

"Alice?!" I sat her in my lap and looked at her. I know not if I am imagining it, but she seemed translucent. "Alice!" I shook her.

"Oliver, Oliver I'm sorry." She raised her hand and cupped my cheek. Her body seemed to be more translucent, like she - she is disappearing.

"No, no, you are staying with me. I am not losing you again." My eyes began to become watery, her touch was becoming lighter. I held her hand cupping my cheek.

"I'm sorry..." She breathe, her appearance becoming even more translucent.

"No, Alice. You can't leave me, Please, I just found you." I begged knowing deep down that it was hopeless. She was almost invisible.

"I'm sorry, Oliver, I'm sorry..." she spoke before she was gone. I sat there in that position, my arm empty and cold.

"NOOOOO! ALICE!" I screamed on the top of my lungs. My chest ached, my heart is shattered, it hurt to breathe, and tears blurred my eyes. I stood and turned toward the tree, I punched its bark over and over again until my hand throbbed and my knuckles were bloody. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain coming from behind and into my stomach.

"I see you followed my directions." A voice spoke from behind. The pain intensified as I felt something move from inside me. I placed my hand to my stomach. When I looked down, it was soaked in red as was my shirt.

Slowly I turned around, the pain becoming unbearable. I leaned on the tree for support. There stood that maiden, Christine.

"You-you killed Alice. How could you?! Why are you doing all of this!?"

"My apologies, I do as my master wishes, and he wished to never see you again. As for Lady Nash, when my master found out she loved another man, they got into a huge argument. My master, in so much pain, wished for her to experience the pain of having your heart feel like someone had pierced it with a blade. Alice wanted to run away after that and I figured it would be the perfect time grant my masters wish. I told her I would meet her here, like I did to you, and when she greeted me with a hug I made her feel the pain Lord Burch felt." the maiden spoke.

"Alice-she-she trusted you. You bitch! She trusted you and you killed her!"

"It is her fault. She should not have hurt a good man like Lord Burch for a worthless peasant like you. She brought this on herself."

Rage pulsed through me dulling the pain in my side.

"If you think about it, it is Ironic. Two lovers same blade same place and soon to be same grave. Isn't this what you wanted? To be together forever." She smirked, turning around and walking away.

"I'll be back in an hour to burry your body." She waved goodbye with the knife in her hand.

"AHHHH!!!!" I screamed. Pushing off the tree running towards her. I tackle her to the ground thinking only 'she killed Alice.' I heard a gasp and a crunch before her body went limb. I sat up, my side burning in protest, and saw the tip of the dagger through the back of her head, drenched in blood.

She's dead. She fell on her own blade.

I tried to walk back towards the tree, my shirt now soaked in blood, but my legs gave and I fell to the ground. I crawled back toward to tree, leaving a trail of blood. I positioned myself where I was half sitting half laying on the bark.

I started seeing spots and my vision was becoming darker.

"Alice..." I breathed, slowly losing consciousness. A bright white glow appeared in front of me. I felt a soft hand cup my face spreading warmth through me.

"Alice?" I asked, my voice strained. I blinked trying to clear my vision. There kneeling in front of me is Alice, crying.

"I am sorry Oliver." she cried placing her hand of my wound.

"It hurts Alice, it really hurts." I cried, the pain too unbearable.

"Shh, I'll make the pain go away, I'll make it go away." She cupped my face and leaned forward. I closed my eyes and shank into the kiss, feeling the pain go away.

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This is the end of my book. Your probably thinking "Finally!" Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it. and please, please I need reviews. my project is due Monday and I need them for my presentation.