Chapter 25: Funeral
"How come I never knew you had a sister?" Alyx asked after a few moments of silence, while I stood there getting my thoughts straight.
"No one knows. It was too painful for me to talk about," I said looking at him.
"May I know?" he asked and I gave him a small nod before sitting on the counter.
"You see Kalina and I always talked about finding our birth parents and where we came from, because we were adopted, but the orphanage our parents got us from didn't know where we came from. We were planning a huge trip during our senior year that we'd go on once we graduated. The week right before graduation she just vanished. We searched for weeks, but couldn't find a sign of her. The police convinced my parents and siblings that she was dead. We had a funeral for her and after that I was so distraught. Right when we got back from the funeral I packed up and left, just driving as far as I could. My car broke down outside Nespelem, Washington," I said watching his facial expressions change as my tears flowed freely again, then dried up just as quickly knowing she was still alive.
"Wow. So that's how you ended up meeting Lucifer and everything?" he asked.
"Yea was out job hunting and I wasn't a local and so I didn't believe all the ghost stories about the house. After that everything just sort of happened," I said Alyx nodding a bit eyes wide, but with a slightly worried look which I didn't understand why. After a moment though I noticed he was staring at the rose on my cheek. I jumped off the counter putting a hand over it. He looked shocked and I ran out. I knew he didn't say anything, and he must have dismissed my reaction on the shock of finding out my sister was still alive because he started going about his daily routine.