"Exactly," I said sadly, breaking the silence. "You can't? Can you, Leo? Just one simple kiss." I clasped my mouth, and I took a step back to go away.
"Please don't go." He said with a small frown.
"You don't want me to leave. You don't want me to be close to you either because you don't want to trust me, and you don't want to forgive me. Then tell me, Leo, what do you want me to do?"
"I don't want you to kiss anyone, even if he was dying." He yelled. Finally, expelling those words out loud. "You should have pushed him away when he did, but you just stood there and let him kiss you, like that."
My chest contracts at this. I felt tears welling in my eyes, and it quickly became hard to breathe. I felt his blame struck me like lightning.
"It's never going to end. Is it? It's never going to go away?"
He stayed silent about this.
I knew Leo, and knowing him meant that I understood he wouldn't just forgive me. There wasn't just forgiving with him, no matter how badly I wanted that. I felt more disgrace than ever.
"Why am I even trying to prove my love for you? When it's just a waste of time, Leo. Yours and mine."
"Aries." He came and pulled me in his chest.
"I'm sorry, Leo," I whispered, slowly gripping on his shirt. "I'm very sorry," I sank myself into his body further—wailing.
"I'm sorry that I hurt you, hurt your feelings. I made a mistake. I knew it was wrong, but I didn't do anything to stop it, and I wish I could take it back, but all I can do is apologize to you." I cried desperately. I was sincerely hurt.
"I just wanted this pain to go away. I can take this anymore, this power, this pressure. I wanted a normal life. I should have run away as I'd planned." I gently pull myself out of his grasp. My insides twist as emotions continue to swirl inside of me.
"I know that you love me, but when you keep me away from you and not touch me, it hurts me as if you hate me, like you don't want me anymore."
"That's not true." He came close to holding me.
"Don't," I warned him.
He froze in place. His eyes were widening in surprise before his heart rate picked up. "Aries... I just need a little time."
"Time. You need time, Leo. On that island, I've spent all my time thinking of you, all my Time missing you, I spent my time crying at night while thinking of our time together."
"Aries—"
"No," I cut him off. "I-I've to go. I just wanted to be alone, and I don't even want to be near you or be with you right now." It was the truth. I couldn't look at him.
"Ever since I got these powers, only bad stuff keeps happening. I wish I'd never got them. I wish I’ve never—" I was going to blurt out something that I would have regretted saying my whole life. So I just stepped back and was above to walk out of the room brusquely, when Leo caught me by my arm to stop me.
"NO!" I yanked my arm out of his grasp. "DON'T TOUCH ME!" On my cue, the spell became active. The spell of stone graven—the spell—touched against my will, which I'd cast on myself, began to work itself.
An impermeable layer of soil formed, turning itself into a kind of hard clay, molding, slowly taking the shape of my body, it was hardening wrapping me in it, and I was becoming rigid and stiff.
"What's happening?... ARIES!" He whined, the betrayal and agony from his face completely vanished and was replaced by an expression of regret as he held my gaze.
"I love you, Leo... only you and always will," I told him before I turned into a cold stone. The image of his saddened face burned into my memory. I never wanted to hurt him or cause him so much pain, but now I could see that I'd destroy him.
Perhaps it was wrong of me to go to this extreme, but this was the only way to be separated from each other.
~xXx~
A Glimpse On Leo's P.O.V.—Part I
"No, Aries. NOOOOO!!" The pain screamed out of Leo. His eyes were showing agony as he watched Aries becoming lifeless. The clay slowly caked her body into a solid mass in front of him, and he couldn't do anything to stop it.
He looked at his mate. The stray bead of her tear hardened, encrusted on her cheek. Leo's chest constricted painfully at the image, he averted his face for a moment, as his own fat drop of tears rolled down now.
He struggled with his feelings. If only he could wipe that teardrop away and bring Aries back to life.
She never completed her sentences, but he knew it too well what she was above to say. 'She wished that she had never met him,' and he'd made her think of that.
"I did this to her. I broke her." He said with his head hung low.
Inside, Both Leon and Theo howled loudly in pain, in suffering at the sudden loss. Leo's heart squeezed until it bled gore, leaving him weak and broken.
He wanted to touch her to come alive, but he held his hands tight, as her last words 'DON'T TOUCH ME' came to his mind.
He couldn't stay here and see Aries look like this—in this state. Leo made a tough choice and forced himself to walk away from all the responsibility and duties and headed to the woods.
He left the house, the pack without utterances of a word to anyone who tried to stop him, and wanted to speak—talk to him. He just walked right out of the pack land into the woods. He kept wandering, nonplussed into the woods.
'How did this happen? How did it get this far with us? Separation after separation. Why is happiness jealous of us?'
The moon illuminated in the
