Save Your Soul

Say Goodbye

Aro stared into my eyes for a brief moment, almost as if my surrender caused him to second guess his own agenda, "Now, Luna, I am not an evil being. You must say goodbye to your parents first. One day you will not remember them, it will make your transition easier."

Say goodbye to my parents? If this angel-vampire-god-man took me at that very moment, I would wager it take them a month to realize I had gone. What good would saying goodbye do, when they could barely muster a hello.

"I don't need that," I stepped away from him, "I spent years trying to get them to notice me, I do not need to break my heart a last time"

After a moment of an understanding silence, Aro sat back on the bed, he reached into my bedside table drawer and pulled out a photo book. In it were photos I had taken of myself in the many countries my family had visited; galas in Italy, frolicking in France, rolling on the hills of Wales....memories I suppose I would soon forget.

"Then at least, my dear, take a moment to say goodbye to your mortality," he pulled out photos from India and America and put them in his pocket, "Soon these photos will look at those of another girl...you will not recognize them as yourself"

I couldn't help but smile, he seems genuinely empathetic, as if he cared that I was so sad in this life. As if he truly wanted to save me from my own misery.

"Aro, I left this life behind years ago," I once again felt entranced as I stood in front of him. He stared up at me, his red eyes almost glowing. Was that thirst? Hunger? Desire?, "A strange man walked into my life an hour ago, and for the first time I felt a connection to another person. I felt as thought I had been found after being lost. All within an hour, Aro. Don't you see...I am already yours"

I may as well have said Bon Appetit, within nano seconds I was thrown into the bed and laying beneath him. Slowly he removed my blouse and almost seemed to analyze every inch of my body. I know now he was deciding where he should bite as to not tarnish my perfect skin.

"I have waited lifetimes for you, my Luna", I never felt him bite. I felt his lips trace my arms to the palms of my hands and back up to my shoulders. Then without warning, I felt the burning.

The burning engulfed me like wildfire. I was dying, in the most painful way any human can imagine. I could see him, my own blood staining his lips.

"Momenti di dolore or di eternita di gloria"

I could hear my heart fighting to stay alive. Each beat getting louder as my heart became weaker. I focused on it, trying to bear the flames, until it was gone and everything was black.