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Betaed by the lovely Mrs. Agget.
TREINTA Y CINCO
I walked out of the restaurant, cursing when I remembered that I had left my coat inside. I hugged myself, trying to fight off the biting cold of the night. I had already given up fighting my tears, and I felt the cold trail they left on my cheeks as I walked briskly back to the hotel, trying to fight off the attack that I was sure was coming.
"Jasper, wait!"
Peter grabbed me from behind, stopping me a block from the hotel.
I shook him off and turned to look at him.
"Anything else I should know about? Or have you come clean with all your lies?" I screamed in his face.
"Jasper, please... I was only trying to protect you, babe."
"Don't call me that! And protect me from what?"
"From the truth!"
I sobbed, clutching my head, feeling like it was about to explode. "And what is the truth, Peter?"
He pulled me into his arms and hugged me tightly.
"The truth is that Alice committed suicide because she couldn't stand being blind."
I cried on his shoulder, feeling like I had lost Alice all over again, knowing that what he was telling me was logical.
"I don't understand, Peter. She was here with this Aro guy, her boyfriend."
"That doesn't prove anything."
"Then why is he hiding? Why didn't he show his face at the funeral?"
"Maybe he wasn't with her anymore. Maybe he left her when he saw the surgery failed and that she would never recover her sight."
Victoria's words from the center came back to me and I had to accept that maybe it was a possibility.
Was I really chasing ghosts?
Did my sister really think she didn't have other choices?
I refused to believe Alice would do something so selfish, but everything indicated that she did. I should be convinced, but my gut was practically screaming at me to continue digging, that there was more to it than what was in plain sight.
I just wished I knew where to go from here.
I wiped off my tears and opened my eyes, a gasp escaping me as soon as I did.
"Jasper? What's wrong?"
I touched his face, making sure he was in front of me.
"Peter... I can't see."
Now we know what Peter was hiding. More chapters later... xoxox ~Mina