gaze slid beyond me to the kitchen sink. She took a glass from a shelf and poured herself some water before draining it in one go. I watched her silently, wondering if there was something else I should say to her but not even knowing where to begin. We were like magnets, destined to gravitate towards each other or repel each other, but nothing in between. And I didn’t know how to flip it back to how it had been just before my father had shown up. It should have been the last thing on my mind, but in that moment all I wanted to do was take hold of her and pull her into my arms. My heart was
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