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Part 18

The crickets chirped noisily in the background as a lone figure stood next to a grave. Isabel stood there in the cold night air, flowers in hand in front of Alex's grave. She then bent down and gently laid the fresh flowers at the base of the headstone. She stood back up and put her hands in her pockets still staring at the ground.

Finally she laughed softly to herself. "It surprises me how much I miss you now that you're gone." She said. "I mean really miss you." She glanced dreamily into the distance, old memories springing up.

"I never paid attention to the little things about you. Like your quirky smile, your adorable ears when they turned red from embarrassment." Isabel laughed. Then her voice grew soft. "I never paid attention to the way you looked at me, with love and understanding. You-you saw through it all. My-my fake image didn't fool you, not for one second…" She quickly wiped the tears that had managed to spill from her eyes. She gave a short, teary laugh.

"I should have known that I would fall for you. I should have known it the day Liz first told you about us." Isabel paused, not even bothering with the tears that streaked down her cheek as she talked to Alex. "I should have known-" Isabel broke off before speaking slowly again. "I should have trusted you. You were nothing but patient and-and…and all I did was hurt you in the end."

She sank down on to the cold dewy ground. She leaned her head against the cool headstone and closed her eyes as she tried to picture Alex at the prom with her. "I did know, you know…" she whispered. "That day I first kissed you, you know that 'experiment'? I knew it the second my lips touched yours that you were the one…and that scared me. More that I cared to admit. I didn't know what to do. I saw Max and Michael getting hurt by loving humans…and I didn't want to get hurt like that. So I ran from my feelings, hiding them."

She sat up and looked almost pleadingly at the headstone, as if it was Alex himself. "I should have known that you could never hurt me. Only-only I could hurt you…and I did."

Isabel let out a sob as she cried softly. "I hurt you and I'm so sorry Alex. I'm so sorry." She kept whispering over and over, rocking herself to and fro.