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Because that is the one thing that’s driving us both insane right now

What is it that we’re so afraid to say out loud?

What is so dangerous about this one thing we’re not supposed to feel for each other?

The clock in the corner tolls out ht

She tears away frorip and marches off toward her room upstairs, and I let her

Marcello

Heading to id blast of water I’ it’ll clear my head or at least quiet it

But it doesn’t do a da

When I step out, skin prickled from the cold, I’m just as confused as before

Sleep won’t be easy tonight I’ of Harper under this very same roof But I don’t know if it’s because I want to be inside her all the ti for her that it refuses to acknowledge

Andforme away

Sighing, I eet dressed quickly Then before I can second-guessout of my room and down the hall

My feet carry me to a locked steel door

When my head is heavy and filled with emotions, I find myself here

I unlock it and drift inside It shuts behind me, and the locks whir back into place

I pause a few steps inside the room and listen for a ht duty glances up at me from her perch in the corner Without a word, she scurries out through the side entrance

When the rooh deeply, then walk forward

There’s a seat for visitors beside my mother’s bed I sink into it

She’s a wraith under the sheets So skinny So very nearlyand falling again I do the same ritual every time

It never gets easier

“Ma very often”

No answer, of course I’et what her voice ever sounded like

“Things are… bad Not just outside the house I wish it was just outside the house” I laugh bitterly “That stuff, I understand I kno to fight I kno to conquer I kno to runme”

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