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"No!" I cry, dropping to the floor beside her,on the tiles beside her, and her wrists are bleeding froashes she’s created herself
No, Avery No
"Baby," I rasp, lifting her intocopper scent burns my nose "Baby, wake up"
She’s floppy in ers to her neck and check for a pulse It’s there but it’s faint I run down stairs, dialing an airl has cut her wrists, she’s bleeding Please"
"What’s your address?"
I give them the address and they assure me they’ll be there in less than ten minutes What if she doesn’t have ten minutes? I lay her on the couch, andit and securing it around her wrists She’s covered in blood and so a her close
"Don’t you die on me, baby Don’t you die I’m so sorry I love you; do you hear me? I love you, Avery"
I rock her backwards and forwards until I feel a hand on h my blurred vision to see an ambulance officer byto each other, saying things I don’t understand They wheel her out on a stretcher and I follow, though my body is completely numb
Please, God Don’t let her die
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AVERY
Sometimes pain becomes too much So else I couldn’t see anything else; all I could see was relief I needed relief like I needed air
I’ony each day Myon the cake The emotions of it all were toointo my bathroom with a knife in my hand Why do ays choose the bathroom to commit such an act? Why not the bed, or the kitchen? I don’t know, but it’s where I ended up when I decided everything got tooed the blade over my skin My heart clenched when the blood bubbled up to the surface and slowly ran down onto the floor beneath an fading, I knew I’d finally found o to her; ain
Maybe now it’ll stop hurting
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NATE
"Where is she?" Kelly barks, charging down the halls
I stare at him, my eyes empty My body is still soaked with her blood, and it’s a very real possibility that’s the last piece of her I’ll ever have The doctors took her away as soon as we got in here, and I’ to hear those words There are only two options "She’s dead" Or "She’s alive"
I truly don’t knohich it will be
Kelly opens his ain, but he stops suddenly and his eyes slide downthe chair beside hi my hand on his shoulder
"Tellwith unshed tears