Page 25 (1/2)

“Oh God, pleasemy stomach

It’s never been this bad before I can barely breathe through the pain Each breath in and out alternates between feeling like aevery surface of htenuncontrollably I’ or if it’s because of the blast of icy cold water raining down on me I’m naked in the shower because my body felt like it was on fire, and I needed to cool off The water is no longer helping Now it just feels like s poured all overwith the water

I want toscared I barely made it to the shower in the first place The cramps were so bad that I literally had to crawlit to the toilet before e my stomach

Why the hell did I decide to put h

this? I should have known better I should have known this wouldn’t work because I’ve tried this before I don’t know if this ti odforsaken body what it craves

I try to clench ether I’m surprised I haven’t chipped any You knohen you’re so cold that your body is constantly spas to warht now My entire body is starting to cra it for the past twenty minutes

I feel so goddamn hopeless I don’t even have my phone with me to call for help All I can do is sit here and pray the city runs out of water soon I silently laugh atstupid

I drop ht h my chest and stomach I cry, but I try to do it softly, sothe pain worse

My fuddled eous Caribbean blue eyes staring atto do with my body’s need for fulfill once and for all that there’s no e could ever work out I feel liketorn into pieces I didn’t realize how badly I wanted this to work, until I realized it never would I’ that never really started

Squeezing my eyes shut, I sit as still as I can and wish for the coldness of the water to nuthat it’s a wish that won’t come true

Chapter Seven

Colt

Leaning back in h at the picture Asher just painted in ot back fro to show off his horse riding skills to Poppy and didn’t do a good job of it when he fell and broke his coccyx I’ because he had to ride back, hanging over the side of the horse

“So, what you’re saying is you broke your ass?”

The i on the back of a horse with his ass in the air brings another bout of laughter