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Catch My Fall


The punches fly through the air, almost no time passing between the loud sounds of a fist hitting skin again and again. I’m screaming, screaming, screaming for it to stop, for everything to stop, but my screams do nothing, not even a pause in the beating that is happening. Wherever he’s gone, he can’t hear me.

Forcing my sore and possibly broken body up off the hard ground, I stumble over to where they are, lurching forward and grabbing his arm with both hands as I try to pull him away. My hands on his skin seem to bring him back to reality, at least for the moment, but I fear that he will go back to that dark place

I hear the distant sound of sirens, and although ten minutes ago I was praying to hear this sound, now I’m terrified. They’re going to arrest him and take him away from me if I don’t calm him down and get myself together enough to tell the police exactly what happened. I’m scared and broken, but I need to force myself to stay strong for him. I’m more afraid of losing him than I am of anything else.

His eyes… the beautiful eyes that I’ve come to love so much are full of rage and pain, and I can tell that he’s far away in his head. Letting go of his arm I lift both of my hands up and cup his face, forcing him to look at me.

I am barely able to croak words out of my sore and swollen throat, my screams having depleted my voice to almost nothing.

I force the words out, needing him to listen to me so that the police don’t find him wide-eyed and raging.

“Stan, you have to pull yourself together. I need you. I. Need. You.”

My words breakthrough whatever fugue state he’s in, and my heart breaks as he crumbles. Dropping to his knees he wraps his arms around my waist and buries his face against my stomach before he croaks out one word.

“Mimi…”



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