After some time, Lisa pulled herself together somehow. She released Silas slowly, noticing, that he cried, as well. She looked deep into his eyes, expecting an explanation. He looked back and gave her a loving smile. Then he stroke some hair behind her ear. 

„You changed your hair.“ 

She scoffed. 

„There was no reason for being blond, since you left.“ 

He pulled her head closer and kissed her lips again. 

„I love you with every hair color and you know it.“ 

„But you prefer blond.“

„It’s not true.“

„Yes, it is.“ 

„Liar.“

He cracked a smile.

„Tink, stop arguing.“ 

Again she looked at him.

„I want answers,“ she finally claimed. 

Silas was sorting his mind. He imagined this conversation with her over and over again, but things came pretty different as he expected. 

„Nothing makes sense without you. I tried to forget you. I tried to replace you. But it’s hopeless. All I’m longing for is you.“ 

Lisa processed what he just said. She was deeply touched, but this wasn’t enough.

„Five years, Silas. You’ve been gone for five years without any trace. And suddenly you’re back and say all this things to me. Do you think this is fair what you doing?“

„You know I had no choice. Your mom wished me to hell. She threatened me. She said she’ll report me to the cops.“

„All she wanted was you keeping your hands off me. No one expected you to leave the continent and break up contact to everyone. Do you have any idea how many hearts you broke when you left?“ 

Silas closed his eyes for a short moment and took a deep breath.

„I knew I couldn’t resist you for a single second, if I stayed. And I knew you could’t either. This was the only way to make things right. I had no other options, Liz. I just wanted to do the right thing.“ 

„Right thing? Right thing?! You destroyed me, Silas! I was unable dealing with my life for two years! Being without you was hell for me! It almost killed me!“

Silas grabbed her face with both hands.

„There was no chance for us, Liz. I wished so much there was a way, but there wasn’t.“ 

„Of course there was a way! You could have taken me with you!“ 

Silas smiled cynically.

„You would have run away with me, leaving your whole life behind?“ 

„I would have done everything for you, without hesitating. And you know it.“ 

„Ya… you’re right… I knew you would. But we both know this couldn’t end up well, Tink.“

„Why not?“ 

„You can’t be serious asking me that! You’ve been sixteen, Liz! I committed a crime being with you! Your parents would have done anything to bring you back home! And me behind bars!“

„Dad wasn’t this way! He would have convinced mom to leave us alone!“

„Lizzy, for god’s sake! She had every right being outraged when she found about us. I’m almost a decade older than you! All she wanted was protecting her minor daughter!“ 

„This is ridiculous, Si! She had no right blaming us! She was married to a man being almost a decade older than her, as well!“ 

Silas gave her an irritated look.

„What do you mean with she was married? Are you saying they got divorced or something?“ 

Lisa’s eyes filled with tears. She shook her head, trying hard not bursting out crying again. Silas turned uneasy, deeply worrying about what must have happened.

„Tink… what happened to your dad?“