Forgotten l.h

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    The small coffee shop smelled of piping hot coffee and freshly baked pastries. For as long as I could remember this little coffee shop had been a sort of safe haeven for me when I needed to escape the walls of Freshwater Institution, but right now on this cold december morning, it felt anything but that. 

    I glaced down at my lap were my hand was clutching Luke's for dear life, as if his hand was my life preserver and I was drowning in a deep blue ocean. He started to rub circles on the back of my hand with his thumb, sencing my tension and sending soothing sensations up my spine easing my racing mind.

     It felt wrong, Travis should be here. I don't even know if he wants to see me after our fight but he should still be here. But Rupert, the detective sitting across the table from me, had expressed ill trust towards him. Rupert wouldn't tell me why he wanted Luke to come to our early morning meeting but I figured it was somewhere along the lines of providing support. He sounded worried over the phone, haist was evident in his tone when he told me we had to push our meeting to this mroning and that it couldn't wait. Maybe it had been the eerie tone of his voice during our phone call or the cold air brushing past my legs as I had used the pay phone outside in downtown Boston, but I someonhow knew that this meeting was going to put my life up in flames.

     Now looking at him from across the table I felt sick to my stomach. Rupert had been so helping and understanding with me in discovering my past but right now I didn't want to know anymore. The once daring girl, hungry to find out who she was, was all of a sudden small and scared. I had finally started to build a life for myself, started to build a life as Jane. Rupert gave me a sympayhetic smile that he so often does when he has heartaching news. He slides the thick brown folder to me from across the table as I take a sip of my coffee, trying to busy myself with something other than the folder which now sat folded in front of me on the coffee stained table. Rupert let out a long sigh.

"I found some things Jane that you might want to read" my breath caught in my throat and Luke's hand tightened around mine "and Jane I'm not going to lie to you, I never have and I won't start now because I know you're strong, but it's going to be a tough one to swallow." We made eye contact and I could see in his eyes how much it hurt him to give me this folder. This one folder with a few pieces of paper was going to change everything. He took a sip of his coffee as if trying to swallow what he was about to say.

"Jane it's times like these where you have to decide what's harder, starting over or remembering your past."

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