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had pulled out for her. It didn’t take me long to notice the eerie silence that surrounded us, a silence that I should have noticed minutes before; the restaurant was completely empty. I shook off the odd feeling it gave me, and it was odd, I had never booked a whole restaurant before; I could have done but it just seemed like a waste of money, money that I worked hard for. But then I hadn’t booked it, no, I hadn’t been given the chance.
    “How are you?” I asked quickly as the silence began to get the better of me, I didn’t like the silence, my bear almost growled in approval as the thought crossed through my mind, no, he didn’t either.
    Then Jasmines eyes were on me again, they didn’t leave my own; they didn’t shift not even for the briefest of seconds. Even when our food arrived they never left my face, boring into my soul, into me. She nodded in all the right places, agreed and disagreed without saying a single word. It almost seemed like she wanted to but she didn’t; question after question I asked her but with nothing in response. After 30 minutes the restaurant staff ushered us out of the building claiming there had been some kind of accident and then we went our separate ways without a single word.
    I had chalked the odd meeting up to nerves, nerves on her part and strangely on my own, I didn’t get nervous, my bear agreed. I questioned my mom of course, about the odd dining experience and our rushed removal from the restaurant but as innocent as ever she denied everything. Now I was at the church, dressed in a tux with an unusual and slightly horrid pink tint, waiting for a woman whom in the last two weeks had only said seven words to me.
     
     
    Chapter Five
    My paws dug into the soiled earth as I ran, they dug deeper and deeper until they almost buried themselves in the freshly damp earth. I hadn’t run this fast before, never pushed myself this close to my limits, it was exhilarating. The light morning wind brushed against my fur forcing it backwards as my legs pounded against the earth. I could run like this forever, feel the freedom of the wild, and let the part of me that normally lay hidden take over. But something wasn’t right, there was no noise, the normal morning tune of the birds was vacant. The sun didn’t shine right; the golden rays were just a little tainted. This wasn’t right, I wasn’t there; I wasn’t as free as I felt.
    “Stop it,” I groaned as my feet shuffled uncomfortably on the now seemingly harder wooden floor boards of the church. The walls of the room closed in a little around me, sealing my fate and then I was completely back, the forest just a half memory.
    He had a habit of showing me what I couldn’t have did my bear; he had a sick sense of humour like that. Drooling over pastries in meetings, forcing me to schedule company events a little too far into the forest and worst of all showing me where I would rather be. He was me of course in a strange way; it was me who wanted the pastries, me who watched the same people year after year get lost in the woods and me who wanted to be running rather than waiting for my fiery fiancé to arrive.
    “William,” she said my name, no she whispered my name. It was barely a gentle breath against her lips. The sound was fitting; my name sounded right coming from her tinted lips. I turned to my fiancé, having only just noticed that she had arrived.
    As I stared into her wistfully blue swirling eyes I almost lost myself. It was only my stupidity that knocked me out of my daze, I hadn’t even noticed her walking down the aisle, hadn’t even heard the wedding march. If I hadn’t been in front of at least a hundred people I would have hit myself in the head.
    “Jasmine,” I spoke back, a little louder than her. My lips formed into a smile as I said her name aloud for the first time since our dinner date. She smiled right back at me, the image of utter jaw-dropping beauty. I shifted my legs again as my body tightened.