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These Feelings I Breed

Author: Seprai Harle
last update Last Updated: 2024-12-06 12:00:17

/ HEIDI /

This headache will mince my brain to nice little cubes sooner than I’m able to find a painkiller in one of these fucking drawers.

There used to be many of them—the painkillers, I mean—usually on the table, under the pillows, in the wardrobe, in the drawers, even on the damn floor. How I cannot find one when everything else in the room remains the same is not a mystery, but unsettling.

“Fuck. I can’t be arsed,” I mutter just as my phone dings on the bed.

Sitting on the floor and resting my back against the bed, I go through the meager, little thing that won’t stop buzzing

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