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2021-08-25 09:44:31Larissa watched while he worked in the kitchen. She really had zero cooking skills, so it was like learning a new equation for something. He seemed to be having a good time, though, as he worked. Talking about the most inane subjects or starting off stories, this one time. She was just listening. Still a little dazed by her lack of sleep.
That was when someone was at her front door. She didn’t get visitors often, so she looked at him confused. She walked to the front of the house, and he turned everything to a low heat and followed her. She opened the door and saw it was her sister-in-law Stacey and her two daughters standing there. They all were upset.
“They found him,” Stacey said.
“What?” Larissa asked as she tried to process what her sister-in-law said. “Where is he?”
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Gabe looked at her and stopped moving around. He was completely lost in thought when he turned and turned off the burners and then turned back to face her. She thought by telling him the truth about herself, she had ended things before they began. It would be safer for the two of them. For some reason, now she felt like she was going to cry. He could see that in her face as he looked at her.His stare at her was unbreaking. She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes. There was also an aching pain in her chest. She had never felt that before. He took three steps to be right in front of her, and then he looked down and wiped one of the tears that had fallen from the corner of her eye. “Larissa Walker, you may not know how to be normal, as you put it, but I don’t want you to be anything but what you are.” He said softly, “If I wanted to change y
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The next two days flew by for the two people. Though at school, she cornered Judy in one of the offices and then closed and locked the door behind her. “What the hell is going on?” Larissa asked.“What do you mean?” Judy asked.“They found Drew and Ann with the kids that were missing in some car two states away burned and hardly recognizable, but they got a positive ID on Drew from my father.” Larissa said, “How the hell did that even happen?”“Things happen like they are supposed to.” The older woman said, “I told you that I wouldn’t allow you or him to get involved in this.”“Judy, did you blackmail my father to lie or something?” Larissa asked.“All I have to say is he saw the benefit to having this end quickly. Elle and her parents have also seen the light as well. This will
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The days turned into weeks and then months. Gabe was always with her even after she stopped working at the high school and then changed her hours from the graveyard shift to the day shift so the two could have the nights to themselves. They had gone to two services in those first few weeks. They had also made a stand when people questioned the two of them being together.“Larissa, I got some news today,” Gabe said as he walked into the house while she was cooking some noodles for their dinner.“What is that?” she asked without turning around.“Remember at dad’s service you asked me to leave this job, and I told you I would apply to the middle school a few towns over?” Gabe asked as he placed his things down on the table and then walked to in the back of her.“Yeah, I remember that.” She said.
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Inspiration Lewis Capaldi Hold me while you waitChapter 1Dawn Newberry walked onto the campus of the local college and could feel all the butterflies in her stomach take flight. She knew that she was different from every other person on the entire campus, and though she was special in some ways, different was not good when dealing with other people. She hated the idea that she was there. She was small and knew that she had mapped out the campus and had the map in her mind. She was going to take forever to get to one side and back. Her legs kept moving, though, knowing that she was probably going to be late regardless of whatever she did to try to make it on-time.She had been told from the Dean of the college that all her professors had been told of the slight difference with her. She knew that only meant one thing. She was going to be singled out even more. She would rather explain it he
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Dawn walked into the chemistry building to find the teacher there waiting for her. “Dawn Newberry, I presume?”“Yes, sir.” She said as she looked up to him with her bright blue eyes.“I see it now.” He said with a soft smile. “The admissions board contacted me and some of the others to discuss you. We have a few minutes before class begins, so I would like to talk with you myself before allowing you into the classroom.”“Okay,” Dawn said as she looked at the man whom she could easily read as one of those professors who took safety seriously and was proud of what he had achieved in his life. She understood these people. They had worked to build a good structure in their classrooms. She could easily distract from that.“Why are you here?” He asked.“To learn.” She replied.“That i
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He stood up and began to get ready to walk out. “Where are you going next?” he asked as he looked down at her. She already felt small, but when he stood up, he dwarfed her. She had to crane her neck backward to see his face.“I have an hour off, and then I have an English class,” Dawn said as she grabbed her bag.“Mrs. Little?” he asked as he made his way to the door.“Yeah, How did you know?” Dawn asked.“I have the same class.” He laughed. “Come on, kid. We can go there together.”Dawn had no idea that meeting someone who would be nice would be easy here. She thought they would all think she was a freak like the others she had known. Her friends couldn’t play with her anymore. Their parents didn’t like her now that she was different. They all looked at her weirdly. They looked at her parents, though with anger. Dawn kne
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The pair were seen together through the days from fall to spring. They had three classes together, and those were the ones he wasn’t having trouble in. She spent most of her free time tutoring him on the other three. Because of her, he was passing now, and they laughed about it. They talked almost every day as well. Over the breaks it was weird to have the other one not around. Though it didn’t change once they were back together again.“Mav!” She said as she came running up to the bench. They always met up at before the long walk to one of the buildings.“What, Kid?” He asked as he looked up to see her flushed and smiling. At seven in the morning, she was never that happy. He knew this was going to be good.“You remember that astrological science group that meets here on campus on Friday nights and also Saturday’s?” She asked as he w
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Over the summer, they attended the meetings, with her father dropping her off and Maverick bringing her back to the farm later in the evening. The next day was often the worst for her because she would still get up before the sunrise to do the chores she had been assigned. The fact she was different didn’t get her any special treatment on the farm. She was okay with that. Her parent's divorce was being dragged out in the court system even though all the kids had said who they wanted to live with already, and their parents were not contesting that at all.Maverick knew that she had told the courts she didn’t care who she had to live with. Her father had taken most of the custody when it came to her, but it was still a problem because of her being in college and her needing a ride to and from school. Her mother had little to no contact with her. Dawn wasn’t all that surprised by that either. He was, though. He had n
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