The Infinity Trilogy

Chapter 28

***Oh, my gosh, people...break out your tissues!  You're going to need them!  I know I certainly did writing this freakin' chapter!

The song on the side if officially Owen and Lola's song!  It actually started playing when I was proofreading this chapter!  I was freaking out!***

 Chapter 28

Alex was dead.  I’d actually killed him.  He wasn’t going to hurt anyone else anymore.  We were all safe. 

I stared down at his crumpled, bloody body as people ran around us, screaming and calling out for help.  Hopefully that help was going to come soon for them. 

But right now, I needed Owen.

I started running toward where I left him, lying on the street.  My heart wasn’t just pounding from exertion.  I was afraid that I was too late. 

Not seeming like I was running fast enough, I lifted the air under my feet and it propelled me up.  I shot forward, ignoring the gasps of the people below me in the streets as they looked up at me, flying through the air. 

I could see him then and everyone was surrounding him.  From the air, the blood that had soaked the ground around him looked even more horrible.  Even though it was night, the streetlights that were still on illuminated the red on the street. 

Caleb’s body had been moved away from Owen and I was glad.  I didn’t want to see it.

When I landed, I started running toward where Arin was with Owen’s head in her lap.  His eyes were slightly open and I could see him looking toward me even when I was hundreds of feet away. 

“Owen, thank God!” I said, dropping to my knees beside him.  I leaned down and put my hand on his blood-stained cheek.  “It’s okay.  Everything’s going to be okay.”

Owen smiled slightly as a trail of blood dropped down the side of his mouth.  His eyelids drooped as he looked at me. 

“No!” I screamed, just as his eyes closed.  They opened up just a little to show me that he was still alive.  Arin and Variel, who was standing with Trygg, his arms around her, were crying.  Trygg and the twins looked broken.  “Don’t you dare do that, Owen Taylor! You’re not doing this to me!”

“I’m just tired…” 

His eyelids started to droop again, but then I took his face in my hands.  They fluttered open and sparkled into mine.  My tears started streaming down my face as I looked down at him.  I had to admit…it didn’t look like he had very long. 

“Can I tell you something?” he asked quietly, gazing up at me still.

“Yeah,” I choked out. 

He swallowed hard and I could see tears in his eyes.  “I love you, Lola,” he whispered.  “I have since the first day I saw you freshman year.”

I choked out a laughed.  “That long?” I asked.

He nodded slightly.  “Yeah, but then you started going out with that ass Caleb,” he said.  “I actually didn’t know why I loved you so much when I’d never met you before.  You were just a normal girl when I knew I was supposed to be with someone like me, who had powers.”

“But I do,” I said, brushing his hair back from his forehead. 

“Yeah, I know, but we didn’t know that then, did we?” he asked.  He closed his eyes for a moment before opening them to stare at me again.  “Arin, tell her everything.”

I looked up at Arin, who had tears streaming down my face. 

“His grandma,” she said.  “She’s like you.  With your visions, I mean.  She has them, too, and she always used to tell Owen he’d find his match in the girl with the four elements, the girl he was meant to be with forever.”  She looked up at me with a watery smile.  “That’s you.”