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1x1 Kim and Shade RP (+Hush)
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Jan 21, 2019 12:59AM
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Kim was safer if she slept like that. I have it from the foster homes. No one could sneak up on you, and though you were cornered you were actually able to react better to defend yourself if someone tried something. She was lucky but the worst she had ever experienced was bullying from the other kids. But the horror stories and as she grew older and into more of a woman made her incredibly guarded. “Feel free, mi casa es su casa.” She said slightly tired lately. It was a saying that she heard a lot in America. Why Americans who didn’t understand a lick of Spanish would make a Spanish saying something that they always did was beyond her, but she liked it.
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Kim blinked. She hadn’t expected him to respond that way. Did he know Spanish? Well if he did. “muy poco español.” She smiled. “Mostly from television.” She pointed to the small hall. “ just passed the kitchen on the left.“ There really wasn’t much else to this apartment they had already seen the majority of it there was the living room dining room which was one area the small kitchen closet the bedroom which was Hardly a master and the bathroom.((*Very little spanish*))
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Seemingly for the first time Shade’s mouth quirked a little. “Ah, well I won’t try to have a conversation with you in Spanish then. Spanish is my first language.” He wondered if she realised he was Argentinian. “You seem to know a fair bit from learning only from TV though.” He nodded as she directed him to the bathroom and guided him towards it. “You go first then buddy.” Hush gave him a timid look and Shade smiled and gave him a light nudge. “It’s alright, I’ll be just outside the door the whole time.” He reassured him and finally Hush slipped through the door and shut it. Shade knew he had a spare pair of underwear in his pocket at least, and he’d just change back into those same clothes, they weren’t too bad.
Kim began thinking that they came with nothing because they had nothing. And who knew How long they had been like that. She got an idea. “Well you can feel free to speak to me in Spanish, might help me learn it better.“ She said with a smile, considering the rocky start she was being awfully friendly to him. However that’s just how she was, didn’t do to hold grudges just wait someone down and made them useless blind. She covered her mouth as she yawned. Man was she saw her, she really shouldn’t of done all that running. Not to mention the leaping and climbing. But she supposed it was for the best. She lowered her head and thought but then begin to drift off unintentionally. However her phone vibrated which made her eyes shoot open. She took a calming breath, because everyone knew when you woke up from just falling asleep it was kind of a jarring experience. Her eyes widened as she saw the number on it. “Hello, this is Kim.“ Her tone professional but really not much different from how she normally talked there’s just a slight lilt to it. “ there is, you do? I’ll be right there!“ Despite being tired adrenaline powered her now. “ I got to go.“ She directed that statement more at shade into her self. “ I was called into work, someone called in on their shift. She pulled out the spare key and set it on the makeshift table. “In case you leave.For some reason you need me I work at the 24 hour diner around the corner.” She hurried towards the door. This is just what she was waiting for, this would be huge. And it was perfect timing a real godsend!
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“ it’s 9 PM now, I’ll be back around 3:30 AM.” She moved to the door and unless he stopped her she would go out it. And fortunately it was only a six hour shift but, six hours was better than no hours. And this was just the time she needed to go. The boys would have a very nice surprise when she got home. And her smile show just how excited she was. Most people hated the shift she always asked for it.
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“Okay...” Shade said in reply, again a little bewilderedly. But maybe it would be better for him and Hush to be alone in here for a while, or maybe not... Shade wasn’t sure what Hush would be more comfortable with, falling asleep while the woman wasn’t here and knowing Shade would make sure all was fine when she returned, or falling asleep while she was here and accounted for. Come to think of it Shade now had the thought that what if it was fake... But her phone had rang, and she hadn’t used it since meeting them so how would someone know? Unless this had been orchestrated since before she’d walked into the alley and met with them. He sighed, trying to settle his paranoid thoughts. He’d just stay awake until she returned and see how it went. He indeed didn’t stop her as he watched her go out the door and then he went over to it and locked it, not to keep her out but for security. He then returned to the bathroom door in time for Hush to emerge. “She got called into work so she’s gone now we have the place to ourselves. Are you alright with staying out here while I shower? You can keep an eye on the door for me yeah?” Hush looked a little nervous but he gave a nod. Shade tapped him comfortingly on the shoulder and then entered the already steamy bathroom to take his own shower, meanwhile Hush sat on the floor right in the middle of the room with his knees drawn close to him, clearly so he could manage to hear if anyone came up to the door outside over the running of the shower, but still fairly close to the bathroom in case he needed to dart in and warn Shade of someone approaching.
((Haha, well I don’t know what typical hours are in England but here in America a typical workday is 8 1/2 hours 30 minutes off the clock lunch.))Kim arrived in record-breaking time which of course please the manager he told her how much she appreciated her coming in at the last minute and said a few choice words about the employee who has been increasingly unreliable. Kim just said that she was glad to help and it was probably just something they could avoid. Even though she could’ve taken the opportunity to trash mail for Tryon get favor towards her that’s just not the type of person she was. So she work the evening shift. And then came what she called Magic hour, at 2 am. Any food they had already made or set out cannot longer be served any guests. Kim had cleared it with the boss that she could take trashbags and other things if she needed to and he could just charge her paycheck for what she took. So she loaded up a huge garbage bag full of food. While cleaning making sure that no one threw the bag away fortunately she was the only one on duty. There was a reason most people didn’t like the shift because it was a good time for someone to try and rob the place. But it wasn’t like diners were known for making the big bucks and besides, this was the time when they got rid of the food. I said she was the only one on shift she could get it, she had tried to do that before but the other employees just mocked her, And through the stuff in the dumpster anyway. No one will be able to stop her this time though, and it wasn’t like she was stealing do you have permission to use the bags and the stuff is going to get thrown away anyway why let it go to waste?
Someone 3 AM rolled around she started setting up for her relief unfortunately her relief didn’t get there till 4 AM. She didn’t get mad she took her bag a little paranoid that he was going to throw it away because he was one of the ones. And he might’ve attempted it to but there was a look on her face that made him back off. She hurried back home tired from the shift and all the cleaning scrubbing the grills and all of that. Not to mention having to lug this huge back around but she wasn’t complaining!
It was about 430 when she got her door and unlocked it. She was having a hard time keeping her eyes open and she was breathing heavily exhausted. Presuming nothing stop the door from opening she walked inside with the huge trash bag not really looking for any people or anything but moving straight to the kitchen to get the stuff in the fridge.
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Kim hadn’t even paid attention, in truth it might seem that she was a bit careless, but she had proven that she wasn’t want to be underestimated she was a trained police officer she knew how to handle a gun but she also always kept a knife on her person. If anyone ever attacked her, well they wouldn’t take her down easily that’s for certain.However she had a huge trash bag in the kitchen and was loading things in various containers. For a moment her large smile faltered and she realize just how much this is going to probably take out of your paycheck, but she shook her head and reminded her self this much food was worth more than what he would take out of the paycheck for the containers! She was lucky that the cook was a really nice guy, he was the one that told the manager he should hire her because she had ‘a sweat demeanor’. The man was late 40s, married and a partner, Though he didn’t act like it. Mostly because the manager had more say unless he decided to pull rank and he didn’t try and do that often to rock the boat. She could tell that he had made a little bit extra on purpose, the leftovers that they had thrown away before work this much not any of the night she had tried to go in and get it should manage to salvage some from the trash a few times sadly the rats figured out when the food was coming and she couldn’t beat them to it. This time however it was victory and there was enough for the three of them for days maybe even a week or two!
It was so much she actually almost couldn’t get on the fridge by the time she had put in the last container and had the empty trash bag she was leaning on the door is very heavy. She closed it and move towards the bathroom she needed a shower. Not once taking notice of the snow leopard, or anything else.
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Now Shade was more than bewildered. He just stood and stared at her as she unloaded, what he realised was food, from a trash bag and into her fridge. Not once did she even glance at him. Finally when she was heading to the bathroom he padded over to her before shifting back, cocking his head at her when he was human again. “Uh Hey?” He called to her, kind of wondering if she was deliberately ignoring him or just really hadn’t noticed him. “What was that about? You didn’t... get food out of the trash did you? Because trust me we’ve gotten sick from that enough that honestly no food is better...”
Kim’s head snapped up. Eyes wide as she looked around, appearing a bit startled. It would be clear that she was exhausted. I just question though she shook her head and smiled brightly again. “No, that’s why I got excited that I got called in. If you work the shift you can grab all the food that they’re going to throw out before they throw it out. The manager let me back it up and that’s a pretty big score!” She didn’t speak very loud, mostly because she was too tired to. But her enthusiasm was definitely genuine. “Sorry I woke you up. I’m just gonna hit the shower.”
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“Or maybe because I invited you here?” Kim joked, but then yawned again as she tried to answer. “Sorry, help yourself.” She smiled again, turning i’m going into the bathroom. She was the sort of person who did believe that you reap what you sow. And she did something that she felt was right and now she had food for all of them. Even if they eat in excess, though she was going to be careful because, she didn’t know when she would get a whole like this again she didn’t want her stomach to be always hungry so she was still going to try and eat smaller amounts. She got into the shower running the hot water putting her palms against the wall letting the heat relax your body sooth her stiff neck. She drifted off, while standing up.A decent amount of time would pass, and at one point about 10 minutes later the water stopped, but the. Started again. After another five minutes Kim came out, a towel wrapped around her head she was fully dressed with her clothes were soaking wet. She apparently had taken a shower with her clothes on. Her eyes look wide an alert. She moved to the fridge and mumbled that she found it. “There it is.” It was coffee That they had made and she poured some into a few to go cups. It wouldn’t be as good since it wasn’t fresh but, she downed it. Even though it was ice cold and shaking her head, and hustling trying to warm up.
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So, he started to sing. The lullaby he tried to sing to Hush every night. It was something his mother as used to sing to him as a small boy in Spanish, and at first he’d sung it to Hush in Spanish, but for his sake he’d translated it into English, thinking it would help more. Continuing to stroke Hush’s hair, Shade sang softly.
Darkness, of white you can
Through the sadness take your flight
And become the wings that pierce the veil
Spreading strong and true tonight
Brought into the light at last by the cold exposing sun
Through the mirror, night reflected, miraculous to see,
Disappearing fake light,
Be reborn a true light,
Within these eyes
Breaking the wounded light
We reveal the other side
Where despair embrace
They share a face
Which will light both you and I
Braving the dark of night
Piercing through the painted white
Cut it all away from yesterday
Till a new era's in sight
Unlock the the heart within
Let it spread its wings and soar
Rising up in flight
Through the night of white
And fly on forever more...
Surprisingly Shade actually had quite a nice singing voice. It likely carried over to Kim as she exited the bathroom, after she’d grabbed her sadly cold coffee. When Shade has finished the song, he went ahead and shifted back into a snow leopard, pressing his warm and fluffy body against Hush, whose breathing was already starting to steady.
((Song is actually True Light by... D.N. Angel apparently wow I only just looked up the band XD Let’s just pretend it’s a song his mother sang him in Spanish and that he translated XD))
Kim slowed seeing the custard tart and smiling. It really was nice of him. She had begun to write a note and put it on the fridge. It said:
Working double shift, came back to bring the food and shower. Wont be back till afternoon.
Help yourself to anything you want.
She hadn’t closed the door all the way and was about to leave when she hears the singing. It was beautiful, for some reason her eyes began to tear up even. Shade really cares about Hush. Everything he did was for him it seemed. She sighed softly and with the grace of a cat, gently closed the apartment door the rest of the way and locked it. It wasn’t easy to be quite with that door, but she managed. Locking it softly, she went for a jog.
It was a trick she had learned when working as a police officer and doing school work. Took a nice hot shower to relax and soothe the muscles, then take a freezing shower for just a few minutes to awake in the adrenaline, the coffee in the custard would help because one would give her fuel and the other will help make her alert and since her clothes are wet she went for the jog to keep the adrenaline going and help her clothes dry. Fortunately it wasn’t cold outside by the time she finished her jog and was mostly dry it was time for work. So she went to the diner undressed in their makeshift locker room to switch into her uniform which she kept work. Begin her shift. And unless someone decided to come visit her she wouldn’t return till about 1 PM looking even more Zombified than before.
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Since Shade wasn’t asleep he heard Kim go out the door when she did and he lifted his head confusedly. Very carefully he shuffle away from Hush and then got up and headed to the door. She’d left again? He padded around the apartment, eventually just managing to see the note on the bench and he shifted back to his human form to read it before pursing his lips to himself. But he did smile ever so slightly at the part about helping themselves to anything. He exhaled through his nose and made his way back to Hush, shifting back into a snow leopard and curling up next to him again. But he still didn’t sleep sadly, he’d even pushed the door open on his way back so he could keep an eye on the front door. It was a long night for him, keeping his eyes awake, only dozing off every so often, but then jerking awake by his thoughts and worries. But finally the morning came, he and Hush basically woke when the sun was up. Hush finally stirred and woke and Shade pushed himself up next to him, stretching out in his leopard form before shifting back.
“Come on buddy want some breakfast then? How does cereal sound?” He said lightly and Hush gave a little nod before looking around warily. “She’s gone, working again.” Shade told her as he went and got the cereal for Hush, only putting in a tiny bit of milk since Hush pretty much preferred it dry. He decided to just eat the cereal as well because he didn’t want to use up too much of Kim’s food. He couldn’t believe she was working yet again with how tired she’d seemed last night, never mind Shade wasn’t paying attention to how tired he was now... Nevertheless an idea struck him. And once they were finished their breakfast Shade grabbed the spare key and they exited the apartment. They were about to do what Shade found he had quite a talent for.
((I don’t want to do another huge post so have Kim be walking home and be going through the Main Street if that’s okay :) ))
((Yeah! ^_^ ))Kim was limping along. She could hardly keep her eyes open, oh man was she tired. She managed to stay looking nice and alert till she left and she even talked to her boss and he said how good of a job she did and that he would remember she was someone he could count on. She smiled at that thought, maybe she could get more hours. True it would leave less time to her detective stuff, but she had to survive too. She was walking down the street, taking the tips she had earned and getting a gallon of milk from the store and a loaf of bread. Now she could dump the out of date stuff in a bowl for alley cats. Holding her grocery back she continued on towards home. Never had this seemed such a long walk.
((Ooh boy! XD ))
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Shade had made sure to lock the apartment of course he was no fool. What he and Hush did was make their way back to their alley, where they kept an old plastic table which had legs that folded inwards, and carried it back to the Main Street, where they basically set up a pretend pop up store. And what took place was some sort of con artist act by Shade getting people to buy whatever it was they were selling, which turned out to be things that had been bought from dollar shops with the tags ripped off and being sold at higher prices then they had originally been bought for, which was of course technically illegal. In fact the boxes at their feet often literally said ‘not to be sold individually’ or some nonsense like that as Shade saw it. He used his charm though to convince people to buy them, saying they were of high quality, made by a family business, whatever lies he could conjure. They were often more focused on him then the items anyway and he ended up making such an impression on him that they bought the items anyway. Likely just as Kim went past, Shade was in a conversation with a man who was saying he was certain these were the same as ones sold at a dollar store and Shade was trying to convince him they weren’t but were in fact higher quality personally made things. The man huffed and said he wanted one to check alongside them and Shade only politely told him that he’d have to buy one for $10 but he was more than welcome to return it if it wasn’t to his liking, but once the man was gone
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((Sorry was talking to Mum and accidentally tapped post XD))
Kim had been so dazed she had walked past before she heard Shade’s voice. “Shade?” She asked sounding weary indeed. She looked at the table and the items they were boxing up. “What are you doing?” Former cop here, even tired knew something fishy was going on. Though they didn’t know that did they? They hadn’t seen how she ran, leapt nor seen her pull a weapon. Luck for Shade she was so out of it, she might be able to get sidetracked.((All good, happens all the time XD and you did a great job ^_^ ))
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Shade looked up and jerked in surprise to see Kim. "Oh, hello." He said quickly, though managed to keep quite a neutral tone. He swiftly finished packing up the table, carrying one of the boxes of stuff under one arm and the table under the other, while Hush struggled to carry the two remaining boxes but the boy remained grim faced and didn't complain, verbally or non-verbally. Shade signalled for them to keep walking and he picked up the pace before finally answering Kim, shrugging lightly. "Just making a little extra money that's all." He said with a slight smirk.
That response left Kim with more questions than answers. “And where did you get those things, may I ask?” She moved with them, still carrying her grocery bad. That man was arguing with him, and then they packed up after he left. That was fishy right there. “And what was that man complaining about?”((Oh she wont XD ))
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In truth that actually had been Kim’s first thought. She had hoped it wasn’t the case and it was an ally to say it was a little relieving to hear that, but as someone who’s worked to up hold the law, it grated her nerves. “That’s wrong.” She said flat out. “That’s racketeering, you can go to jail if someone caught you or if that man remembers what you look like.” She sounded very serious a little angry and a bit concerned. So he might not of noticed the concerned.
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Kim huffed. “That’s what the prisons are full of, people who said ‘I won’t get caught’. It’s wrong too. You’re lying to people. I understand needing to make money, but people get hurt when others break the law.” She couldn’t believe how little he cared?
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Kim was a little bit taken aback by what he said because he said three, he was counting her? She figured they would probably try and leave after a few nights or something get tired of her or just you know you guys wanting to be on their own not that they weren’t welcome to stay longer… However she shook her head. “Yeah and you thought I was someone who can throw away money too. You can’t judge a book by its cover.“ She reminded him, and then Main forward as they walked into the apartment speaking quietly so no one would over here. “ besides. There’s right and there’s wrong, and if people start saying that it really doesn’t matter because no one gets hurt or the consequences aren’t that big of a deal then what happens is all the rules start getting bent and everything looks gray and then without a sense of right and wrong it becomes every man woman and child for themselves and that only causes people to get hurt with that selfish attitude. I know you’re looking after Hush, how you get your results is just as important as what results you get.”
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Kim walked in after him closing the door behind her not locking it, but turning to face Shade instead. She took a breath and then spoke, calmly but clearly. “And what kind of world would we live in, if everyone decided that since a handful of people commit evil and don’t keep the law then we should throw all laws out the window? In the foster home that I grew up in I had boys of various ages and sizes all try… To do things to me.” It seemed difficult for her to say. “I had people attack me, steal from me and lie about me. I could’ve decided I have the rught to give back what I was given. Instead I looked out for the others that weren’t like that, and stood up to the bulkies and wicked hearted people. In a world where the good people dont find nother way, no matter how hard, it just leads to more pain and suffering. We should stand up and stop the bad people, not become like them...”
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Kim tensed, and wether he knew it or not, she had reached for her knife, but didn’t draw it. She was subtle, like always, an instinct. She flinched when he slammed the door. Maybe she should have gone and apologized, because she genuinely felt bad with how she had upset him and wanted to make it right. However given the fact that she experienced a few other things while in the foster home one was when people got angry violence typically in sued, she was never hit, but that’s because she learned to hide quick. Even though she was a adult without even thinking or processing she went into the closet. Fortunately it was empty. She was quiet about it sat down and kept her hand over her knife. Closing her eyes much like a child would. As if if her eyes were closed they couldn’t see her. It was funny that she didn’t react like this as a cop because when she was in uniform she knew what she was supposed to do, but these are people she invited into her home and in the home she really wasn’t very good at defending herself if it had been invader she would’ve attacked them but the situation was unique and she had a programmed response. Despite how exhausted she was her adrenaline was pumping a mile an hour her heart was beating practically outside of her chest. Her eyes started to tear up, all the same reactions that she had 10+ years ago.
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Hearing the tense silence after Shade’s yelling Hush cane wandering out to find the apartment seemingly empty, though he knew Shade had only gone to the bathroom. But where had Kim gone? Had she gone to don them in now? Warily Hush looked around, at a loss for what to do.
Shade leaned over the sink in the bathroom, trying to get his breathing back under control. He still felt like his blood was boiling. Like them... how dare she even think that?! Swindling a few dollars was not at all comparable to what THEY had done, to him but even more so to Hush. He wasn’t hurting anybody. But... maybe he had fallen into the mindset that what he did didn’t matter, that he owed nothing to people of the world because they had already taken so much from him, conning them had been easy, he hadn’t even felt guilty, because for once he had finally been doing the taking. And maybe he had indeed fallen into that human instinct. Wanting to take something back when stuff had been taken from him. Even if it hadn’t been as much, yes he could argue that, but in the end, he realised Kim was right... What if someone did that to him now... He could say to himself he probably wouldn’t fall for it, but hypothetically. Not everyone in the world was as sick as those people, Kim had proven that... And good lord now he’d just yelled at her in her own apartment, where she had invited him and Hush in to stay. He sighed and quickly pushed off the sink before opening the door and stepping back out into the main area. But he didn’t see Kim anywhere, only Hush, looking about uncertainly.
“Kim?” Shade called. He glanced questioningly to Hush and the boy only shrugged and shook his head in the negative to show he had no idea either.
Kim hated it, hated her weakness. The voices... Cry baby, cry baby. Baby gonna cry!
Aww, scaredy cat, scaredy cat!
She grunted softly as she abandoned her knife and out her hands over her ears to try and shut out the words, silence the horrible and cruel noises, mocking, cursing. Tears burned her eyes, as involuntary tremors moved through her arms.
When she worked with the police, they never knew. Never knew how she could spot the abused kids so easily. Just like she had noticed Hush. When people are older they mask it better, but the younger the easier for her to tell. Or did they know that she would leave work, go home and cry to sleep. From the horrors, the pain and the people she couldn’t help. She wasn’t cut put to be a cop, she was too ‘soft’. She couldn’t take the constant onslaught of pain, injustice and suffering.
Now she didn’t even have to have an abusive person, she did it to herself, mentally. Attacked and destroyed herself. Over and over again, until she was a mangled mess. This was why she avoided people, they wouldn’t like the real her, how could they? She was a mess, disgusting and weak...
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He called again, one last time. “Kim! If you’re here! I’m sorry!” Shade swallowed. But if she wasn’t here... “I don’t think she wants us here anymore Hush... Come on, let’s go.” He said aloud to the younger boy and they made for the door.
Kim was in no state to respond, but as he shouted so close to the door she jumped, hit her head against the back of the closet wall, then something on the shelf above fell and clattered down beside her. No way they could miss that someone was in the closet. What had fallen? Apparently an old picture frame, the glass had broken on her right hand protecting her head, and despite the glass cutting and embedding in her arm she only gave a small cry still covering herself. The warm blood trickling down her arm.
Go away, go to the forest, the place, near a water fall. Safe. Happy, warm. Safe, happy, warm.
That was what she did, left the moment, retreated into her imagination. Tried to survive. Still trembling.
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It was childishness, she knew it. However it was a comfort mechanism. It was all she knew to do, hide. She was typically good at hiding. She would try and take attention of the other kids, the little ones. Make them mad at her then hide. It was like a cruel game of hide and seek. Unknowingly as she had retreated further into herself, she had begun to mutter. “You don’t see me... you don’t see me...”
Sadly poor Shade may have triggered this reaction, but he was in no way at fault. It had been a perfect storm. She was too tired, it was in her own home, She already felt a desire to help them, and she just couldn’t seem to process. She broke down. She tried so hard to be positive, to encourage, to be happy despite the struggles. It was sadly the straw that broke the camels back.
The only thing she was aware of? Her arm hurt, but she couldn’t remember why, had she been hit?
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Amazingly, he picks the right word. Sorry, I may not of made sense to other people. However the word sorry communicated to her fault was elsewhere. She quit talking, gave single shake and a shuddering breath. She didn’t move fast, however slowly should begin to become more aware of her surroundings as if waking from a dream… More accurately nightmare. She shivered as if cold, and slightly began to lower her arm before she went from the glass that was still embedded in Her right arm.
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