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Austin’s little hand pointed up to the dark sky "Those three right there are Orion’s belt Can you see theht there are the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters But to see all seven stars at once, you have to close your eyes, then open the only a few left over," he told ht-year-old kid brother as I held Levi inbrown eyes, a hed "How d’you know all this, Aust?"

He shrugged and turned bright red "I read it in a book at school I’ve read lots of theht red "Yeah They make me feel happy"

It went silent, and I kneas eat the sky again, I pointed at a star "What’s that one, kid?"

Austin er "That’s Sirius, Axe," he told me excitedly

His face looked over at

Austin settled back down, just as we heard our papa co at Ma him not to hurt her I felt Austin stiffen beside ot scared of our papa when he caht hi down, I wrappedhated our loser of a papa All he wanted to do was hurt us So Ito protectAustin grab onto lass smashed inside the trailer and my mamma screamed out in pain

With a shaky voice, Austin pointed at a bright star "Th… that’s M-Mars…"

"Nah, really?" I asked "Is it h beside , and some people think aliens live on it…"

"Really? Aliens?" I asked excitedly, pulling Austin and Levi in closer

Austin releasedof Mamma inside and I exhaled in relief "You see, Mars, it’s h the bad ti us away froht sky beca,overfor the ride He’d trusted e of twelve… just like me

Austin, Levi and ain

Imissed Austin and the relationship we used to have… one I never got to start with Levi when he was old enough to understand

As I stared at the sky through the glass, ht now Couldn’t keep thinking of our lives before everything rong

A hand running softly downaround Aliyana’s concerned eyes ide as she stared up aton my back I could feel the heat of her iatmy skin feel like it was on fire "Are you okay?"

My instinct was to pull away and tell her to go to hell Push her away like I did everyone, but as looked into her eyes, I couldn’t fucking move… I wanted those hands to move lower, to touch every part ofpast er ran over ripped her hand to throw it off my face Her breath hitched as our hands touched, but I held on… Fuck knohy, but I held her hand againstcrazy fast in my chest

A flush of red raced up froue ran over her full pink lips and her eyelids lowered as she stared at

"Elpi…" Aliyana hushed and begantowardainst the wall and fuck her until neither of us could stand