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head was shattering, and I realized just how my own mind was my biggest enemy. How everything that I had caref

have anything to do with her. That time, he had stayed out throughout the night, and he had come back to tell me he

swimming in despicable acts of shame with no remorse whatsoever, this was the real Damien. Everything else had been a fragment of my own imagination. A s

now. I was str

self, and I hit it again and again, hoping at first that it would loosen up and let me breathe. At some point, I just ke

ice low. "Will you be okay? Do you want a

linched, her hand on eithe

best option, but I unders

he place in. The others were on the floor, all drunk, and I could only imagine how hard they had partie

e to shut this down. To tell me he wasn't. He was here, lying on the floor, his back restin

ace. They were mostly Damien's friends whom my brother had warmed up to becau

mber the name. He was... the last thing I wanted to t

ring. My finher had a mark from all of the time that ring ha

thout waiting for much longer, lest I lose my min

n the mismatched shoes I had thrown on. I looked up at the sky, my eyes filled with a layer of tears thi

I couldn't let myself see that again. I co

the middle of the road when my feet gave out on me, and I slowly went to the floor, my knees rooted on the warm ground, my lips

stars, like if I looked hard enough, the life, the illusion, the li

a sea of separating colours. The sound came again and again, as the light grew brighter and brighter, but m

e, watching the

ox

yself being pulled out from the car's path violently. I gave a small yelp as I stood,

what were y

that person. And I dreaded

s I remember finding extremely attractive on my eighteenth birt

the other was a light green.

ng my face, his eyes darting across both of nine. "You

heaving hard as my eyes met his. "I am not fuck

be stup

gns, and I ignored it. I loved him too much, and I knew he was always cheating on me, and yet... yet... I let it get here." My ha

I do? Wha

efore I could say anything, he leaned,

tears as my body went cold. He turned around and headed