I sit in the chair at my boyfriend James' funeral, tears running down my cheeks. I hear speaking but I don't listen. This is all my fault, I shouldn't of let him come to the woods with me! I think. The flashbacks start again. I squeeze my eyes shut. "No, No! NO!" I scream. I don't open my eyes when I feel someone pick me up and carry me home.
2 days before:
I smiled as I watched James climb up and jump tree to tree. I run along the forest ground laughing. "You can't catch me!" He yelled down to me. I smile and put on some extra speed.
"Oh you wanna bet?"
"Yeah I do!" He laughs. I throw my basket up towards him. He catches it. "What the..?"
"If you're so good you'll be able to run with my basket!" I say laughing. We stumble a few times but laugh it off. We come to the small clearing full of targets. "Drop me my basket." My basket falls in front of me and I open it. I smile as I pull out my throwing knives. I launch on straight into the center of one of the targets. I continue throwing one into the center of each target.
"Hey Cadence so were you excited when you turned 15?" I climb up the tree after I collect my knives and put them back in the basket. James wraps his arm around me.
"Of course, that was the first time my parents let me into the clearing without supervision!" I smile. He leans in and kisses me.
"So are you ready to head back?" I stand up in the tree and nod.
"We'll both travel by tree." I smile, but, he looks a little uncertain.
"Are you sure you don't really travel by tree." I roll my eyes.
"I'm sure." He moves to the other side of the tree and we go. I get lost in thought and he passes me. "Oh no you don't!" I try to go faster but I slip. "James!" I cry as I grab on to a skinny branch.
"Cadence! you hold on as long as possible!" He is thirty trees up. He starts to make his way back, meanwhile my fingers start to slip and I panic.
"JAMES!" I screech. He moves faster and throws himself down onto a fork in the tree and tries to grab my hand but misses. I start to fall. He quickly flips over hangs by his knees and grabs my hand and pulls me up. Tears run down my cheeks. "Oh James, I was so scared I almost died." He helps my stand up and we start to move again. After about half an hour I notice it's really dark. "Hey James why is it so dark?" I ask.
"I don't know didn't we head out around 11am?"
"Yeah, wait are we heading deeper?" I look around to see if there are any differences.
"Not sure I'll check it out." James says as he jumps out of the tree. I jump down too. As soon as my feet hit the ground I hear a growling. I look into the bushes and I see eyes.
"James.." I try to warn him. He doesn't listen. In a flash something big and black jumped out of the woods onto James. "James!" I scream. I stand there not sure what to do. I watch as the wolf rips James' stomach. Tears stream down my cheeks as I grab a knife and threw it into the wolf's back. He yelps and runs into the woods. I run over to James and hold his head in my lap. Tears drop onto his face. He smiles up at me.
"Cadence don't you cry you put a smile on your face right now stay strong," He reaches up and touches my face. "you just have to remember I love you and move on you were the best thing that ever happened to me." He smiles. I leaned own and kiss him. He kisses back for a few minutes them I don't feel his breath. I try to smile but the tears keep coming. "Why!?" I scream at the sky. "Why him? You couldn't of taken me?" I lean on his bloody chest crying. I stay that why for a while then I pull myself together and carry him back to our village.
