Goodbye, Mr. Regret

"Hollis Greene?"

"Vince's first thought was of him.

"Yes," Jessica answered.

The siblings had come to the same realization.

Vince was now certain Jessica was his sister, but he still needed to find out how

she had ended up with the Greene family.

Jessica remembered nothing about her life before the Greenes. Her grandmother

had told her that she'd suffered a severe fever as a child, and that was why her

memories were lost.

As she grew up, she didn't pay much attention to it. After all, most people only

remember fragments from when they were six; some remember a lot, some just

bits and pieces.

There was no memory of Vince in her mind, no warm images of a childhood spent

with an older brother.

She'd never even known she had a brother, so she had never missed him.

Her connection with Vince was only a month or two old, so naturally, her feelings

for him could not run as deep or intense as his for her.

Still, she wanted to understand everything.

Vince, meanwhile, could hardly wait to take Jessica back to Riverside City, to

bring her home, to tell their grandfather that he'd found Salome, to tell their

parents their daughter had come back.

Vince led her to the car, opening the door for her. But as Jessica glanced over,

she remembered Herbert. She quickly walked over to him. "I'm heading back to

Riverside City in a hurry. Are you coming?"

Herbert smiled. "I'm going to visit my family, so I won't be back for a while."

bring Jessica home, to introduce her to their

didn't want to intrude on their

that she was the daughter of the Zimmerman family, and her

would surely involve the whole family, there was

would be time for them

understood Herbert's meaning. "Alright. Let's keep

settle down."

travels," Herbert said. "I hope you're

Vince leaned over and fastened her seatbelt for

see you," he said.

them back. When Mom sees you, I know

better."

hesitated. "But...I don't remember any of you. I don't know how

sister, or a daughter."

your problem to worry about. Just remember:

and you have parents. The rest is up to

the brother and

grew somber. "It was our neglect that led to you

You suffered so much because of

heavier on

did I get

want her to recall the years

up more pain.

let's not go into that now. We can talk about

He pulled out his phone. "Let me call Mom

grew anxious. "Please

with you

to say. I'm the

one to visit

do it this

then I'll visit

thoughtful as ever,"

of

we'll do as

then go home

be

he hears you're back."

have him tested for compatibility as

he was a

Hollis wasn't her biological father, so there was no

after this.

role of a real

by blood, there would at least have

felt nothing binding her to

drove, Vince told

two months, Jessica had come to trust

was her brother, it all made