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[124] WE ARE STRANGERS NOW
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2021-09-12 22:24:48“Aramide please come out, let's talk this out, please” Aramide heard Daniel's voice from behind the rest room. The melanin beauty ran her hands through her hair and bit her lip as tears stung her eyes, She parted her lips and spoke in an emotion filled voice
”please leave, there's nothing to talk about, I don't want to see you”
“But you can't run away, and why don't you want to see me? it's been so many years Aramide...” She heard him trial off,silence lingered on for a while and just when Aramide thought he had left He spoke to again
“I thought you were dead” Aramide shut her eyes close and let a few tears fall, her fists folded besides her, as always this was a her fault wasn't it.
FLASH BACK
"You are here" Aramide said as she pulled out of the hug Daniel had trapped her in. The man smiled as he looked her down, Aramide hadn
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