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He held my arm and rubbed it in a fatherly fashion

‘The world has finally lost its mind, and we are about to pay for it Go home’

‘But the cabs’

He nodded and radioed someone His mustache twitched and flickered with every word He set the orange device down and looked ht in the eye

‘The truck is co will drop you off as close to your place as you need them to’

My chest swelled with gratitude that he was allowing the building security guards to escort ed the ht of hi close to my dad

‘Stay safe, Julia My prayers are with you’

I didn’t answer back, simply because I never prayed A nod did just fine The truck picked me up and ent on our way The streets were as they were always ned and sanity was lost

The guards dropped me off three blocks away fro any closer I thanked theain and they nodded at me casually in response, as if it was part of their job duties

The inside of rass tea andme, no one to say hello to I was alone in thechaos all around me

Apparently, I had learned while skilobal pandemic called the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, hadshut down so that people could stay safe We had to isolate, or we could catch and spread this very contagious virus

I thrust , exasperated sigh, wondering when or if the world would ever be norain

And when or if I would ever see Henry again

I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if I had lost my opportunity to be than just an e with hiotten up the nerve to try

Well, except for a couple tio nearly as far as I wanted with him