— Alice. Things are… things are bad again. Without Jake I just… I can’t stand it. I don’t see Edward anymore. Will it really feel like he never existed? I will find the place where I can see him again.

“I told you that you didn’t want to hear it,” he said.
“I don’t understand who you mean,” I whispered.
He raised one eyebrow in disbelief. “I think you understand exactly who I mean. You’re not going to make me say it, are you? I don’t like hurting you.”
“I don’t understand who you mean,” I repeated mechanically.
“The Cullens,” he said slowly, drawing out the word, scrutinizing my face as he spoke it. “I saw that - I can see in your eyes what it does to you when I say their name.” - New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
open your eyes now
it’s time to leave me
open your eyes now
it’s time to see
It will be like I never existed, I promise.

It was really him, no hallucination this time. And I realized that my delusions were more flawed than I’d realized; they’d never done him justice.