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September Chapter 93: Toying with the Child you were
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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Are you going to keep smiling like an idiot, or are you going to clean up the mess you made while your uniform dries. I called your parents while you were in the shower. You certainly took your sweet time," Mrs Holmes decided to state and interrupt Lila's emotional moment.
Her voice somehow began snapping as if she were some sort of angry piranha fish, before morphing to something resembling an exhausted receptionist who didn't have the capacity to deal with anything else for the rest of the day, and then transforming one final time into something resentful and snarky to end with.
Lila, the first time that she had heard Mrs Holmes speak, had automatically shrunk into herself, interpreting her tone as a sign of hostility, when in reality the woman was incapable of sounding nice at all.
Nonetheless, Lila stood up and made her way to the kitchen to clean up her messy, muddy footprints, tucking the letter back into the envelope with the photograph, before having th
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