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Present day...

"I don't know where Ossieus went to sleep, I assume somewhere far from me," Esme continued explaining, feeling vulnerable for having opened up to Tristan the way she had once done with Rose. She remembered how Rose took the news of the truth, and she hoped deep down that Tristan wouldn't respond the same way.

As they sat on the lawn beside the school, waiting for the bus to pull up in only a few minutes, Tristan had grown increasingly quiet throughout Esme's story. As the truth spilled from Esme, albeit toned down quite a bit for Tristan's sake, Esme began to realize that maybe Tristan wasn't going to respond the way she wanted her to.