We Were Simply A Transient Presence In Each Other's Lives

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marks, all of them from when I had bitten mysel

my soul felt weightless, as if it w

reality again, which meant t

learned about my past, his eye

never growing impatient because of it, and repeat

id that the future w

ong as he was here with me, he

thought it

let me get psychologically sick again had been doing t

t I had bee

with severe trauma to climb out of it and

ition might worsen, that I might fall into complete

did it

sincere love for him, as a stepp

and I did not know w

are of it, wandering daze

d rainwater streamed d

g, and I finally came back to my senses when the sound of

trying to get yourself

ou watch where you're goin

and saw a middle-aged man

d sav

shed the handle into my hand and said earnestly, "Young lady,

to tell whether the water runnin

alked toward the cro

ied at the p

a stranger, I finally couldn

right there in the middle of the crowded, r

an a dozen missed

e from m

were fr

records with Jere

at I could no longer fi

t was proof of how muc

neither of us could bear

about, from something as trivial as the black-and-white cat by the roadside giving bi

things he had said were just

had been thinking w

ould never find someone more gullible an

"Yeah, it is raining really hard

My nose is stuffed up, so my voice sounds a littl

ieved I wou

"Mom, actually, there is something I want to tell you. I changed

your wedding with Callum, but I can at least be a bridesmaid, right? I am really fine,

e to pack

not be there. After all, he ha

ys longed for and truly lov

ly busy getting back togeth

sword, and I had not even had time to open the door

aked from head to toe

ntly knitted together, as if he

y pulled

ssed me down onto the couch and wrapped me t

oth trapped inside its ow

el and gently dried

all me and ask me to pick you up? You had me searching everywhere for you. What if you catch a cold or come down with a fever after getting soaked like that

lt d

d gotten worse, and if I was hallucinating

at afternoon had really just been a nightmare, and if he

hone

nd stopped drying my hair.

I knew I had no

had happened in the

o me and hid in the st

hing him cover the microphone with his hand and speak

was thinking about how happy you would be when you rec

ead and met my calm gaze

with a slightly