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LXXIV

Author: Abigaildee
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I stared into the corner of the room one last time.

Staring into something that didn't exist, into the void that had always been there. Something that had been in the darkness for the four years I had been trying to move on from it. It was a frozen past, waiting for something to burn it so that it melted and sought to become water, flowing and eventually free of the cold temperature that forced it to endure.

I was the cold temperature, the existence that couldn't let my past go. I was still holding onto it all this time, and perhaps it was what had always been my obstacle to moving forward.

I had believed that my heartbeat was dead along with my dead body, but now I found something feeding it and making it live again.

It was ironic because whatever was keeping it alive was a fragile hope that could not keep it beating forever.

Time... it will end as soon as possible.

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My eyes opened, staring at the morning breeze hitting the trees outside my bedroom window. I sat on the bed
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