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Haunted by the Past

Author: John Authur
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-19 01:00:58

Sounds echoed as I was hit, my body covered in bruises. "Stop! Leave me alone! Let me go!" I kept yelling, but my pleas fell on deaf ears.

The pain was unbearable, and in the next moment, I found myself thrown to the ground. It was a breath-breaking moment, my eyes jolting open, wondering why my past was coming back to haunt me now. Was it because of her return after all these years?

I hated my past; I was so pathetic and weak, bullied by my classmates. Some were jealous of the fact that I had it all – money and power – and they made sure I never had a single peaceful day at school.

I hated the fact that I was too weak to fight back, to stand up for myself. But even my own parents weren't there to help me through it all.

I never wanted to think about those memories, the moments I needed her, and she wasn't there. I would stay locked up in my closet, weeping at the fact that I had no one.

Running from my fears as they crept up, almost pulling me down, suffocating and tormenting me furt
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