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She sounded so small, so afraid It speared me

"Wherever you end up, Perry, it’ll be for the best," Maxi audacity "They’ll ain The doctors will help you They’ll treat you You’ll be given medicine and it’ll fix you Those mental institutions have a bad rap, you know that But they do ood than harm, especially for people like you It ood as new"

I couldn’t let this happen He was full of absolute shit What the fuck did he know about being diagnosed with a

But I did

I clearedup "Are you sure about that, Max?"

Maximus flinched, startled, and whipped his head toward ed, his face pale with disbelief That’s right, you red nutsack Guess who’s here? Your worst nightmare

Ada brushed past me and walked around the foot of the bed, her eyes on Perry, trying to give her fair warning forhere?" he exclai hard as if I were an apparition He’d be so lucky A ghost wouldn’t kick his fucking ass the way I could

But I couldn’t concentrate on him He was only part of the problehtening up to look at me dead on, he revealed Perry on the bed behind him

And my whole world stopped

It barely even looked like her I mean, it was her Her beautiful, petite face that was so easy to cup inher like a shield Her breasts as they filled out her sweater, soer than before But her eyes didn’t look the same, her expression was shocked, just as shocked as I was, but soh Nothing mattered at that moment except for the fact that the love of my life was in emotional and physical pain, strapped to her own bed, very much like the anis passed between us--love, anger, regret, sorrow They flew faster than anyone could see, in a language all our own, between my dark eyes and her dark eyes No, that was it Her eyes They weren’t her eyes They belonged to so on here? What happened to her?

I snapped I charged right up to the first person I could blame

"What the fuck is this?" I yelled in Maxi to her?"

"What the fuck is this? What the fuck are you? Why are you here? You shouldn’t be here!" the Douchefucker yelled back, not backing down, as if he had the right to be mad and not me

"You should thank your freckled ass that I’ closer Did he think I was afraid of hied person behaved

"Guys!" Ada yelled She then looked at Perry nervously "It’s okay, I invited hi like that?" Maxi him his own dick

"Stupid?" Ada cried out, her hair flying "I’ to sit back and let you tie oing on with her, and then cart her off to a hospital to back!"

As nice as it was to see Little Fifteen acting so supportive of her sister--especially when I kne strained their relationship could be at ti everyone, her eyes darting between the three of us until they rolled back in her head and it slumped into the pillow She started to twitch Oh Jesus

I took a few steps closer, wanting to touch her, to hold her This couldn’t be possession This had to be so with her?" I asked

"I’d stay away if I were you, son," Maxi his arm out to stopso I really wanted to say and threw his arm off of me I went over to her and crouched down so that I was at her level Her head rolled back and forth, as if she was arguing with herself inside

"She’s not well," I said stupidly Did she even really knoas here?

"No shit, Sherlock," said Maxi at ht, they weren’t hers They were brown "Did you notice her eyes are a different color?" I asked Maxinorance

He snorted "What are you talking about? No they aren’t, they’re just dilated"

I shook er "Dilated but the color around them is bro Perry’s eyes have always been blue Like the ocean on an overcast day"

Ada gasped "Dex is right"

Of course I was fucking right And I wasn’t about to stand here and take this I reached for the ropes, starting to untie the at ho her delicate skin was I sed hard, trying to keep focused and calh this, for both of us

"Dex, don’t do that," Maximus warned "She’s tied up for a reason, not for sport"

"She’s not a fucking ani him

Suddenly, Perry raised her head "I wouldn’t do that if I were you," she said in a quiet voice

I looked at her just as the last knot cae new soul She had to knoas here to help her, not to har to save her "It’s me, Perry It’s Dex"

She s

"Precisely" A depraved, gravelly voice came out from her raised lips Not her voice Not even a human one

Before I could even process as happening, she lunged forward out of the ropes and grabbed me by my shirt Her hands almost burned into me and the s me across the roo on the ground, pain shooting up from my shoulder