After the healer leaves, everything in my room is still chaotic. I watch Matthew panic, while I continue to cry, unable to believe that this is real.
"Alice…" The boy pulls his hair. He is frustrated like me. He looks at the floor. I wipe my red cheeks, they quickly fill with tears again. "You don’t know how sorry I am. I… I swear I will find out what happened. I won’t leave you alone with all this, my beautiful one." He lifts my face. His eyes are red. "It doesn’t matter that you are human, I don’t care, because I love you for who you are, Ale. You can count on me to support you."
I grab his shirt in my hands and lean against him.
"I… I don’t know how to feel," I spoke after five minutes of silence. "I have many mixed feelings. I want to cry, and I don’t want to look weak."
"You are n
