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I was the girl at school who always played by the rules and made friends with everyone. I was the one teachers used as a good example. Not because I was perfect but because I’d learned how to play perfect.
But there was a time for violence and a time for patience. Only a few could balance the righteous heat with cold calculation. I shoved that fiery desire to destroy them deep into a heart pumping antifreeze through my blood, granting icy control.
“You’re worthless scum. No, you’re worse than scum. You’re the insignificant spore on scum. Do whatever you’ve been told to do and fuck the hell off. You don’t deserve my attention.”
Pride had been a helpful tool, wrapping tight around my rapidly fraying outrage. Unfortunately, it had also been my downfall.
“So, you’re the quiet, silent type.” He smiled. “They’re the ones who have the farthest to fall.”
This one moved like she had a crown upon her head. A crown made of dignity and diamonds, heavy on her brow but invaluable to her sense of worth.
Raw and untouched, she bristled with injustice and courage. She could be Artemis’s reincarnation or perhaps Aphrodite’s twin. She didn’t need to be turned into a goddess, she was one.
I wanted her more than the mountains of money she’d give me. And that was the worst confession I could ever utter.
It was an inevitability. A promise. A decree written in the stars.
I’d never been a stargazer, but in one second, I went from confident in my worth as a human, aware that I existed and breathed air and ate food to survive, to not having a clue what I was. How could I matter when faced with such vastness? What inconsequential little thing was I when witnessing the untold magnitude of worlds outside our world? The solar system where we bounced around like a Ping-Pong ball, thinking we were absolutely important and special and real, when really…we were utterly insignificant. I stood transfixed.
Raising my hand, I huffed as he dangled upside down, his bright black eyes inquisitive, intelligent, and far too naughty to get away with the murder he managed on a daily basis. “Coconuts. Goddess. Sex! Sex. Sexxxxx.”
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Heaven hiding hell. Angels cloistering Satan himself. A mythical story I couldn’t escape from.
