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“What does red mean?”

His eyes met mine “They’re in the house”

Then he swung the door closed and the darkness surrounding me was absolute

Slowly, I inhaled throughthe way ht I’d been in the dark before It wasn’t anything that I couldn’t handle

They were in the house They were in the house They were in the house

The words played over and over in an to rock back and forth

It was happening again I was hiding again Just like the first time Just like the last time

I flinched as a loud thump came from somewhere in the house

It was happening again

I began to hu reached my ears

It was happening again

So on

It was happening again

Meh ht of her as I dragged her away The feeling of bullets hitting the tree againstintoso close to my shoulder that it cut a hole in my t-shirt and left a welt on my skin

Gunshots

I couldn’t figure out if they’d been part of my memory, or if I’d actually heard them

It was happening again

I rocked faster Huainst my hold on her

Footsteps overhead

Then, like so

No fear, no ht