Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.
Why me, then?_ I ask. __hy not Branley? She__ way hotter and was just as drunk as I was.__lex shakes her head as she sits back down. __hysical attractiveness has nothing to do with it. You were alone, isolated, and weak. The three of them had been watching girls all night, waiting for someone to separate from a group. It happened to be you, but it could__e been anyone else. Opportunity is what matters, nothing else. [_] I__ telling you, Claire. It doesn__ matter. What you were wearing. What you look like. Nothing. Watch the nature channel. Predators go for the easy prey.
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Why me, then?_ I ask. __hy not Branley? She__ way hotter and was just as drunk as I was.__lex shakes her head as she sits back down. __hysical attractiveness has nothing to do with it. You were alone, isolated, and weak. The three of them had been watching girls all night, waiting for someone to separate from a group. It happened to be you, but it could__e been anyone else. Opportunity is what matters, nothing else. [_] I__ telling you, Claire. It doesn__ matter. What you were wearing. What you look like. Nothing. Watch the nature channel. Predators go for the easy prey.
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