The sight of Bartie already at the tracks when I walked along them in the bright sunlight filled me with hope that things had returned to normal.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TH8mEuOdy
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyT8h7VH4Zz
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXi7vFv7Qkg
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"She's worried sick about you, Soup!" Bartie grumbled at me "running off on her like that. Shame on you for having her in tears!" 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGSFBUR7ol
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I paused and turned back to him. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAYBtqYPOI
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That wasn't his usual warning. He was supposed to tell me not to hurt her, like he always did. He never changed it. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzy5UR8zJ6o
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What was going on here? 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf24DqnhAbQ
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Missy's face poked from the newsagency and lit up at the sight of me before she rushed out of it and for the tracks. Her pale pink dress billowed around her when she ran, kicking up around her legs to glimpse the red under-fabric. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCl0YWRblWn
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHFPjiawLZ
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Ux6JqDzBQ
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zaAWEN1na
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqeUPfU9TV
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She wasn't going to follow me. She knew it was too dangerous to be tempting fate on a place like this. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu51BjyJ1fy
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVXs8tF2br
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxHsdw8jE4v
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡron2IgeZx6
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She just needed more time to realise. Then, we would be back to normal again.
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Unlike my hopes, Missy was relentless in her pursuit for answers. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CPbHkwXwD
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEwerBxRYB
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She tried giving me distance at first from Bartie's shop but realised that I had too much time to dart back to safety on her sprint down toward me. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpn0FWg89Ln
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After failing that tactic a few times and giving up on it, she tried ambushing me from the side of the track as soon as I walked out into the open. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJt40O7E6VW
I was too quick for her, even with her advantage. She still refused to step onto the tracks that I darted along to escape her hunt for the truth. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUN6umkSC7
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I could see it was breaking her spirit at how wary I was being of someone I had cherished so highly. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEvAP2HqNe
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Missy started to give up whenever I spotted her across the river and refused to close the distance between us. She didn't call out to me anymore and just watched hopelessly while I backed away to continue my scavenge for food elsewhere. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jaADdyd82
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Starvation was bringing me back to those tracks every day to only be met with disappointment once again.
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Two weeks of the same occurrence refused to deter Missy from hoping for some miracle that I would approach her. Every day she would wait at the tracks for me in silence, and every day I would turn from them when I saw her face pull up into a hopeful smile. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXUGL3pFJ5
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But today, something changed. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoozyB4gffp
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaAxuihayMX
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She came marching towards me with worried glanced over her shoulder to any danger that might be barrelling past her home from the West. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpMSQ0EGVv
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I didn't dare leave my side knowing that she had nowhere to escape. Her trembling body was already over the river, trying to hurry towards me as quickly as she could over the rolling gravel sprayed over the boards she stretched her body over. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZ2kpnT2A6
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I paced nervously in my own fear of being caught over the water with her. She was still so far away from land, even with her frantic pace. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgupyT2nszz
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9d5gkGohsO
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Listening to her now wouldn't change her mind and get her to return to the safety of the roadside. She wasn't going to let me ignore her any longer. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6CmQbasY4
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Determination fuelled her fight. I was going to give her whatever she wanted if it meant she wasn't going to be so reckless anymore. If she wanted to destroy her life by hunting down impossibilities, then I couldn't stop her. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPj4M3z9ReO
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYL2CeLes9Z
I couldn't chase her away with ignorance or distance. Missy was going to find a way around it, even if it tried to kill her. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpP2ZLzu5Y
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My whole body trembled at the thoughts blaring through my mind. They smashed through my nerves like the train dragging Missy's body along the tracks in every possibility I saw. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ffvQdZ26m
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxU7NArbg88
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I didn’t want to be here anymore. I knew the train had to be approaching this point at any moment now.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbYq0Mlake
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Sure enough, I saw it in the distance behind Missy. It powered effortlessly on its approach to her house it easily passed in moments. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtDWKwjcN2
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The horn of the train screamed out to make Missy turn her head and frantically race towards me. I knew that the gravel had to be spearing the bottoms of her thin flats, but she didn't have time to stick to the safety of the boards anymore. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ak3ZH2x4Y
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"Missy!"380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGfaHSIlzN
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"Soup!" she whined back.380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUWAuMZc0o
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4SAJNoZFc
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wij7wS8xb
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I leapt for the grass that knocked the air from my lungs and felt Missy's body hit the grass beside me as the train barrelled by. Its brakes screeched down my ears and froze my blood that shivered down my spine. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaC6c1LNtYy
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Missy gasped and trembled beside me before clinging to my arms in fear while sobbing. I cradled Missy in the grass while trying to shake my own grateful tears she was safe. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRNRvBGARc
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She was so delicate huddled into me. Her head rested on my chest that warmed with her rigid breaths. The rest of her skin was frozen from the fear still coursing through her. Her arms tucked against me to try and warm up on my body. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BA4Ai7Lp9
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOO7wwNyXA
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Missy leant into it and didn't try to pull from me. Her trembling breath was steadying, and her sobs had subsided to little sniffles she tried to control. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALQM06SzVw
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobNJDVpZYl
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My body stiffened, dreading that the same fear and confusion would wash over them like that night I had run from them. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznuU9bs144
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I didn’t want to see that or know I was the cause of it. I moved my head away, looking at the clear sky and the drifting clouds above us finally threatening rain. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1J9err3Qdq
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Glancing down, I saw that Missy's eyes softened in the same way they did when she greeted me each day. They fluttered closed just as her shaking lips gently brushed on my cheek, leaving a tear to glide effortlessly down it. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCJBSssCnC
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmbF6CAtAs
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Did she want to shatter it all for me? Or did she want to keep it the way it was, blissfully ignorant? 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJNejSlmK2
She wouldn't be able to understand my answer anyway. I was just a creature trying to escape the drag of life, just like her. Everything else was drowned in the water tower and floating in the river, like it could remain to be. 380Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qSbaShSIc
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I only had the name she gave me. Whatever she wanted that to mean would be up to her.
and then Add to home screen.