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Hope

So that’s not dark and broken

IBlack and purple also stand out fro, I touch the lock of hair that hangs overso closely I can’t help but shiver

Did he paint these for me?

Shaking hts that take hold of me It can’t be for me There’s no way I could’ve had an effect on Julian Elliot in a few days

But then again, he’s certainly done soht and day Long after I leave work, he’s there, constantly on irl with a crush on the popular boy in school And each ti starts up in my stomach

It’s stupid

I’rown up

I’m an adult

Then why does he s?Chapter 12JulianBy the ti up, Nea is near the doorway I o back to thepassed The moment I reach her, she turns to me

“I love all your work,” she tells me earnestly “You’re so talented, I can’t believe you’re not doing this annually,in the entrance, but I know she’s been particularly moved by the canvasses I painted while she was under my roof

“As you said earlier, some people take the utterances of fools to heart,” I tell her Even though she doesn’t know my past, not really, when she said that, it was almost as if she had reached inside me and found my most inherent fears