or maybe just wishing I hadn't read them correctly. He stared at me for a

lking out of the apartment. Slamming the door so hard that

king to my room and locking my door befor

still spilled, wetting the pillow under my cheek.

g. I had thought it would go away with time, but I was wrong. It never did.

ss, again and again, then put my face on the pillow and sc

Stifling silence that contrasted with t

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top on the rooftop lifting my mood a little. Just a little before it dropped down a

die had promised me. It was more of a p

loor and a flight of stairs like every ot

the s

just the stairs? how silly of me, of course she'd give me something else. I also had

hem didn't have much changes. Some actually w

couple of hours later than usual, which

oing to be s

he stairs was that there was no one in sight since all employees used the elevators. That was probably wh

t anyway, people are just a pain in the ass

d twelve thirty. He caught my eyes, a flash of regret in his as

putting next month's allowance for him

was all I could afford to give

grocery shopping! da

wich as a lunch menu for me th

r and jelly sandwiches. To wake up surprisi

rk at four thirty so I could reach there in time to cle

s the stairs. By the time it was my lunch break, I

ally didn't know if we were even allowed to go there.

deserted as usual, the afternoon sun was playing hide and seek with us as the clouded sky cle

that, I didn't know at the tim

sting silence. I had just opened my mouth and raised

to see me as I was. I blinked up at the man, only the top half of

at I was expecting o