Gut Feeling – Part 2

Every time Tess closed her eyes she could picture her sister's face. Claire's reaction to seeing her little sister was someone strange – it was almost as if she was scared.

Tess rolled over for around the hundredth time and sighed. She couldn't sleep. Her brain just wouldn't switch off.

All Tess wanted to do was find Claire. She was out there and she was alive – that's all that mattered to Tess.

Again Tess rolled over, trying to get comfortable.

Finally Nick sat up, "We aren't going to get any sleep tonight are we?"

"Sorry," Tess rolled over to face her husband. "I'm keeping you awake."

Nick ran a hand down his wife's cheek, "You gotta stop wondering about this Tess."

"I'm not wondering Nick. I know she's alive – all I have to do is find her."

Nick rolled his eyes and pulled his hand away, "I'm sorry Tess but I think you need to take a step back and look at the situation – look at yourself"

Tess, frustrated with Nick threw the blankets off and stood up, "I might go sleep in the spare room. You'll get some sleep that way."

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Everyone thought she'd imagined the whole thing. Why couldn't they just trust her? She knew her own sister for goodness sake! Alex even had his doubts. Of all the people in the world Alex should have been the first one to join the 'Claire's alive band wagon.' But he wasn't.

As Tess lay in her old room she remembered the conversation she had heard Alex and Nick having that evening.

"So this thing with Tess…" Alex began "What, she really thinks she saw Claire?"

"Yep," Nick answered before taking a swig of his beer. "She's got this stupid idea that Claire survived. She's obsessed with the idea and it only happened a couple of hours ago."

"Look I know how she feels… if there was some hope… but there isn't. We all know that no one could have survived that plane crash, not even Claire."

"Well Tess thinks otherwise, mate," Stated Nick. "Because Claire's body wasn't found Tess is clinging to this idea."

"So there was no body – doesn't mean Claire survived. You need to get that through your wife's head little brother. You saw what it did to me when I wouldn't accept it… you better make sure she doesn't go down that same path."

She couldn't believe the way they were talking. They had no trust in her what so ever.

Tess was on her own. But she was going to find her sister no matter how much support she had – or in this case didn't have.