- So what you need is some help to relax and get things of your mind for a while?She didn't answer. He moved his hand and gently lifted her head with ...his finger under her chin so he could look into her eyes. A tear was forming, but her face didn't show fear or sadness, just a mournful silent longing in her eyes.- Yes please. The voice was low and almost cracking.- OK, let's see what we can do about that. He gently kissed her forehead and whispered to her. Let's go inside.He placed the glass of. So, just whose fault wasthis anyway?Now it felt as if there was no barrier, nothing between them but anempty space she had just given up on trying to get him to help herfill, and some of it was his fault, a fault he needed to fix. Therewere possibilities here. She was willing to see beyond the past and trya new interaction; was he? Could he persuade her to help him fill theempty space in the right way, a way that was honest?"Hey..."She looked up with wet eyes but said nothing."We wouldn't be. .."Alice couldn't resist saying, "He likes my butt, too." Mom!"Stifling a laugh, Raven put a cup of coffee in front of Alice and one in front of Andrew. Like a man dying of thirst in a desert, he took a huge gulp out of it and nearly choked when it burned his mouth. He sputtered and coughed."You might want to leave us for a bit," Alice said looking over at Raven."Sure," Raven said glancing over at Andrew.When Raven had left the room, Alice turned to look at Andrew. He still looked shocked by. Waited to feel the pain of his ending. Waited for the ground to finally give way to nothing.He had nothing.Jasper's fingernails penetrated the flesh of his palm, and when he finally, finally bled, his lips twitched like a dying body.---The stale linger of its taste in his mouth was the worst.It was bitter, with an edge of saccharine, like blood and candy. He could feel it's violent dance on the tip of his tongue with every passing day. It never waned. Like a ghost, it haunted his empty halls,.