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New beginnings

Author: dreamywriter
last update Last Updated: 2024-12-29 21:02:37

Did I hear right? or did I finally loose my mind?, unable to differentiate fiction and reality, or had I slept off on the armchair? catapulted into one of my day dreams.

Or was this a joke?

Unable to control myself any longer, I laugh out loud, uncontrollably, till tears bud on the edges of my eyes.

‘Protect!’ I test the word on my tongue, a snicker racking through me.

Simon stared at me still, eyes soft, even as I turned my face everywhere but those captivating orbs, in the process of laughter.

‘I know I have not been the best of persons…’, he continues but gets interrupted by my loud scoff,

‘What best, you were the worst person in my life, the worst person I ever encountered’,

‘You get that Simon, you were the worst’, I say this energetically not minding the way his look turned beaten.

‘I was unable to sleep last night, all through the night I thought of you, what you said’

I wipe at the corners of my eyes, my face turned into a mask of indifference with the words coming out of Sim
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