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Chapter 20
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2020-09-03 02:15:15ALINA
There were things in my life, certain situations, that I had never shared with anyone. Not even my two best friends. No matter how much I placed my trust in them, that trust always fell short. If I told them the truth, if I opened up, I feared they would look at me with sympathy and that was something I loathed. I wanted them to accept me for me and nothing further than that. They shouldn't feel the need to be with me out of pity but because they enjoyed my company.
That was the reason, the only reason, I never disclosed my life to them.
The rest of me I knew was meant to be kept a secret. It was not meant for anyone else but me to know and I had made peace with that a long time ago. My abilities, being the freak that I was had to be concealed. It wasn't a choice, more of a need in the world we lived in. No one would understand but I couldn't help but think maybe he would. Like me,
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