Attraction

37.

I know what I have to do, I'm doing it because it's my last option, I don't have any other way. Paul would be disgusted by me if I let this happen to myself and I can't live with myself if Dylan changes me tonight.

So I know what I have to do now, and when it's over I hope it's made known that I did everything in my power to save myself. If only I would have stayed with Paul tonight, he was right. If only I would have known what was to come tonight in these woods.

My legs carry me as I run to the edge of the cliff with tears brimming the corners of my eyes, the crashing of the waves can be heard, the dark almost black looking water if it weren't for the moonlight shining down on it. This is going to be it, this is it- it's now or never. I take the leap from the cliff as the feeling of the air blows my hair back, my sweater begins to choke me as I realize I've stopped falling.
I look up to see the outstretched arm with its tight grip on my sweater causing me to choke fervently, Dylan smiles a sickly grin as I hang from the cliff.

"You really think you're going to get away?! You think I'm going to let you get away?" He says darkly as I continue to squirm and choke furiously.

I can't give up but I don't know how much longer I can do this, he's going to try to kill me.

It's getting harder to breathe. Much harder. My fingers try to pull the sweater from my throat but it's far too tight. I'm suffocating and I don't know how much longer I'll be able to hold on and fight this off.

This can't be how it ends, he isn't pulling me up but he isn't letting me fall into the water either, is he trying to kill me? I gasp and cough as my throat begins to burn from the pain. I focus my mind on Paul as the ache in my chest continues to grow, I never imagined tonight would be the last night I would see him, I would have hugged him a little tighter, told him I loved him more, kisses him a little longer.

My vision begins to blur as I can feel my body giving out as I fight the wave of unconsciousness that wants to come over me. A loud scream interrupts my thoughts as I manage to look up through Dylan's stronghold grasp to see four large wolves ripping Dylan to pieces as his screams grow quieter now— I want to feel relief, I want to scream loudly but my throat hides my voice from the pain of being choked as I realize I'm falling— as my body hits the dark cold water I feel my eyes begin to close.

The unconscious feeling washes over me while the darkness takes over until all I am able to see is the blackness, unable to breathe, unable to speak.

Paul's POV

Three hours have gone by since Willow left for her hike, at first I told myself not to worry but now I'm really worried, it's dark now and there is no way she's still hiking— she has to be lost. I have a bad feeling in my stomach about this, something isn't right, she normally sends me texts to let me know she's okay. This isn't just my over protectiveness getting to me, something isn't right, this isn't like her. I have to go look for her.

As I close the front door behind me, I answer my ringing phone in my pocket. It's Sam.

"Sam?" I speak into the receiver.

"You need to meet us in the forest. Something isn't right." His voice sounds grave making my heart begin to beat in palpitations.

"What's going on?" I pick my up pace of walking getting closer towards the woods.

"There's another vampire in town, I sensed it today but I brushed it off." Sam inquires me. "I'm going to phase, you should too. We'll be safer this way."