Burning Horizon

Burning Horizon; I'm So Stupid.

Renesmee Cullen;

Chapter Thirteen: I'm So Stupid.

I hadn't even realised what happened when my consciousness slipped away from me. One minute I was sprinting at one of the people I hated the most in the entire world, Aymie, and then there was a pain so unbearable that I just fell straight into meaningless darkness. When I next opened my eyes I had been lying here on the forest floor, a warm, wet sensation spreading over my skin and seeping through my matted hair. There was pain in my legs, my arms, my shoulders, my neck, my head but mostly in my chest. It was more than pain in my chest, it was like someone had a burning hot spear and was ripping constantly through my skin. However it seemed that they were ripping much deeper than that, it felt like this person was ripping right into my flesh. I wanted to thrash out at whatever was killing me but my limbs would respond to my brain, I was frozen on the forest floor.

"He's vicious isn't he, the wolf; he did a better job than I ever could have wished with you."

The voice that spoke was sickeningly familiar to me from all the time I had spent gossiping to the owner, totally oblivious of the truth behind her mysterious arrival. Though, I knew had seen it, that first time she appeared in the clearing I knew that I had seen her before somewhere. My dreams, she was in my dreams every night I slept. Always stalking me down, lurking in the shadows with her brother and sister, her sickening twin siblings - Alec and Jane. She was their sister! Why hadn't I remembered before it had been too late? Aymie wanted me dead, they wanted us all dead and now she was here crouched in front of me while I was unable to move. I wasn't ready to die. I had lived for only four full years. Why was the world so furiously intent on ending my life? That was something I seemed to have inherited from my mom. She had, and was still dangerously prone to fatal misfortune and it seemed that I was too.

I had to get away. A surge of electricity flooded through my body, adrenaline or fear, I didn't particularly care right now. All I was bothered about was that it freed my body slightly from its frozen state. Only one of my legs would move willingly although it still felt like there was a ten tonne weight resting on the rest of my body. I kicked at the ground, pushing myself slowly towards the back of a trunk of a tree. This wouldn't be enough to get me out of her sight; she could catch me so easily with no effort needed.

I was dead; there was no doubt about it. I intended to scream for help but I just released a tiny squeak, the pain surging up to paralyse me again, my unbearable agony increasing further and further.

"No. Don't be scared of me Renesmee," Aymie whispered, her body slinking closer to mine in a catlike fashion. "Your pain will be over soon."

It better be. If it continued to burn me like this I wasn't sure if I could hang on to consciousness in reality any longer. Unless that is what she meant. She was going to kill me, and then my pain would be over because my life would be gone for good.

My voice dwindled away with pain so no sound emerged as my lips mouthed the words: "Please, don't..."

I kicked out again but this time something slammed my leg back against my other, dislodging the broken bone in that one further. I could feel the sharpness of it protesting against my skin, increasing my pain immediately. In some ways I wanted her to kill me now, just to end all of this. I couldn't stand it anymore. She could snap my neck in less than a second, stop my stumbling heart with her bare hands by punching straight through my chest so quickly that I wouldn't even have a chance to scream and then it would be over. Her small, cool hand slid up my leg to my waist, pressing it firmly against the ground. I had no help of escaping now. My body fell limp under her grip.

"That's it." Aymie whispered again, her other hand brushing my hair gently away from the skin of my neck, her mouth now millimetres away. "I would try doing this quickly because you're so young but I haven't had the taste of blood likes yours for a while, it hasn't treated my senses for such a long time that I'd prefer to saver it as much as possible. So this will probably hurt quite a bit."