“Look I know it sounds crazy, but how else do you explain the earring?” Gino asked Romeo as he drove them to work. It was nice out so they took the convertible. Plus Romeo figured Gino could use the fresh air.
“Okay, I’ll humor you for a minute.” Romeo said over the wind. “Let’s just say she is alive. How is she doing all this? Talking to you? The earring? Has she done anything else? Tell you a clue to where she is? If she’s safe? Anything at all?”
“She’s spent the majority of her time just trying to convince me that I’m not just dreaming again. And the earring isn’t a coincidence. It couldn’t have been there the whole time, I would have found it the last time I cleaned the shower, or it would have washed down the drain by now. Carlotta put it there. She had to.” Gino reasoned as he looked out the window. Romeo wasn’t so easily convinced. “So you believe this is real, right? So when does she start telling you where she is? When do you normally see her.?”
“It depends. Less and less now. She’s tired, Romeo. Showing herself takes a lot of energy and lately she’s been making herself more and more corporeal. She looks so thin. We need to find her before it’s too late.”
“Why didn’t I see her this morning?” Romeo asked pulling up to the gate at Arcane Chic. He handed the guard his keycard, “Morning” then drove in when the iron gate opened.
“Maybe because she knows you don’t believe this is real. Or maybe she was tired; she’d been with me a long time. I felt her this time, Romeo. I could put my arms around her. I kissed her. I wasn’t just remembering. It was real.”
“You haven’t said anything to the kids have you?” Romeo asked worried.
“No, I’m not that irresponsible. I’m not going to tell the twins their mother is alive until I know for sure I can bring her home.” Gino was determined and his best friend couldn’t do anything but be supportive. If they could just find her body, maybe then Gino could get some peace.
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