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2024-10-29 19:42:5610: let's meet in the middle.
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She was alot of things. Trapped. Abused. Assaulted.
She was dead inside.
Until she met him. She heard his voice in her head.
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Zachary awoke with a terrible ache in his head, like forks bashing into his temples and painful joints-
-he hadn't had enough sleep. He knew it. Most of the times, he'd stare at his ceiling, remembering the days he usually heard her voice.
They'd stay up late and he'd probably read her certain lines from the stories he had written. They spoke-
-they spoke to each other, all in their heads.
RENNÉ HIGH, PARIS.
The sound of the school bell rang in his head as he closed his locker and grudgingly made his way to his class. He didn't even bother to look around for Amy.
His eyes were reddened with fatigue as he lingered into th
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