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ince I was a kid. I never had a guardian; I think sometimes, if I f

recognizes my presence. I don't look scary or d

e, casting a silver glow that shimmered

to open the window of the library and also tried to

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f us are trying to read; if you don't wa

ask me, who will I even ask?" another one replied..."maybe

ng why I went to the window in the first plac

e wind carried the scent of damp earth and fallen le

ummed deep inside my bones. But sometimes love to experience it, be

to go to the doctor and check myself, or am I sick? This my being a

t stand these ladies; sometimes, I wonder if I should just

ary. My brown eyes scanned the darkened streets, and my boots clicke

me kind of remote; I glanced up at the sky, my breath catching a

mell the moisture in the air after an afternoon rain, and f

e restless, as if the world around me were s

secret that I need when I obviously know I was abandoned so what more could

at I did wrong because of all this burden; I'm just too small for all this. At least this is what I tell my

, the town looked like something out of a gothic fairytale. Street

story loft just outside the town center-but the short way home seemed end

fore, the cool breeze carrying scents I'd never noticed before in

it was. My senses were heightened like never before-every d

the house, a magnetic pull guiding my steps towar

udden sharp pain shot through my chest, I

knew, and now every sense is shaper means it here to carry me or w

. I stopped and pressed my palm to my heart because I could

be?" I solemnly

rtray the outcome and why it was happening, but I decided to acc

anging inside me

ld be. My breath grew shallow than ever before, and my eyes,

ebumps as the tingling sensation in my spine grew into a pulsing ache. M

k my apartment door. I stumbled inside, slammed it shut beh

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ld it po

y be happening to m

ow, distant howl echoed through the trees-a call that sent

a whisper escape