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.
I knew a sudden shyness. There was a look on his face, a stillness to his body that had never been there before. Though I couldn__ give the emotion a name, I felt it, too. We had something special. Something hard to define. Something past friendship.__ must go now,_ I said and rose up on tiptoe to kiss his cheek, marveling at its velvet skin. __hank you for the book.__e drew me into his embrace and sighed. __hank you for the stars.
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I knew a sudden shyness. There was a look on his face, a stillness to his body that had never been there before. Though I couldn__ give the emotion a name, I felt it, too. We had something special. Something hard to define. Something past friendship.__ must go now,_ I said and rose up on tiptoe to kiss his cheek, marveling at its velvet skin. __hank you for the book.__e drew me into his embrace and sighed. __hank you for the stars.
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