Having Elijah tell me that we would be going back to Yvaria wasn't exactly how I wanted to say goodbye to him on Christmas day. But I don't know when I expected something to happen. Was I hoping that it would all just be forgotten, even after everything my parents told me? Once Elijah had left, after kissing me some more and promising me that everything would be okay, I told my parents what he had said. They seemed to already know. They were sad, of course, but they seemed to accept it more easily. I guess they have been expecting this, and dreading it, as they said, for the past 26 years. I cried a little bit, but my parents reassured me some more that I would be fine, that we could still talk and see each other. I wasn't sure how much of that was true and how much of it was them just try
