The sight of Bartie already at the tracks when I walked along them in the bright sunlight filled me with hope that things had returned to normal.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZof66usUv
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoEkkPkwNG
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexm6f8hrhr
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"She's worried sick about you, Soup!" Bartie grumbled at me "running off on her like that. Shame on you for having her in tears!" 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFo5Rq05rCr
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I paused and turned back to him. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGP1AgICqP
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That wasn't his usual warning. He was supposed to tell me not to hurt her, like he always did. He never changed it. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03gqwOgRj6
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What was going on here? 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEkYF0ehQs
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Missy's face poked from the newsagency and lit up at the sight of me before she rushed out of it and for the tracks. Her pale pink dress billowed around her when she ran, kicking up around her legs to glimpse the red under-fabric. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnj7msg5CKo
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJ8pH7NLe1
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmp1qCxi4F
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMf9dIYPoK
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZU3PVscYR
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She wasn't going to follow me. She knew it was too dangerous to be tempting fate on a place like this. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VVr27M57H
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3QewZgHTb
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxQQ9FRVba
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdUoyw5W5J
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She just needed more time to realise. Then, we would be back to normal again.
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Unlike my hopes, Missy was relentless in her pursuit for answers. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjr37Des4b
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK8Xnsg2g4u
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She tried giving me distance at first from Bartie's shop but realised that I had too much time to dart back to safety on her sprint down toward me. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1D4ohA9pE5
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After failing that tactic a few times and giving up on it, she tried ambushing me from the side of the track as soon as I walked out into the open. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs64Iwa5stu
I was too quick for her, even with her advantage. She still refused to step onto the tracks that I darted along to escape her hunt for the truth. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5FZIm0kBT3
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I could see it was breaking her spirit at how wary I was being of someone I had cherished so highly. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNTB7zWKjb
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Missy started to give up whenever I spotted her across the river and refused to close the distance between us. She didn't call out to me anymore and just watched hopelessly while I backed away to continue my scavenge for food elsewhere. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHzPYO4Ru3
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Starvation was bringing me back to those tracks every day to only be met with disappointment once again.
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Two weeks of the same occurrence refused to deter Missy from hoping for some miracle that I would approach her. Every day she would wait at the tracks for me in silence, and every day I would turn from them when I saw her face pull up into a hopeful smile. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyX09PZk9X8
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But today, something changed. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmmsXjd20B
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wjJHK9QH4
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She came marching towards me with worried glanced over her shoulder to any danger that might be barrelling past her home from the West. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB75dhv2vfg
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I didn't dare leave my side knowing that she had nowhere to escape. Her trembling body was already over the river, trying to hurry towards me as quickly as she could over the rolling gravel sprayed over the boards she stretched her body over. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaVtX24fn6
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I paced nervously in my own fear of being caught over the water with her. She was still so far away from land, even with her frantic pace. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcrBgP82zS
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYkEcWzCWJ
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Listening to her now wouldn't change her mind and get her to return to the safety of the roadside. She wasn't going to let me ignore her any longer. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDWjrB0h42
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Determination fuelled her fight. I was going to give her whatever she wanted if it meant she wasn't going to be so reckless anymore. If she wanted to destroy her life by hunting down impossibilities, then I couldn't stop her. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ52oycTnS2
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpPhLILDY5
I couldn't chase her away with ignorance or distance. Missy was going to find a way around it, even if it tried to kill her. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ixu1HrOVA
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My whole body trembled at the thoughts blaring through my mind. They smashed through my nerves like the train dragging Missy's body along the tracks in every possibility I saw. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkuqtBcYBS
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxAGfqAEcO
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I didn’t want to be here anymore. I knew the train had to be approaching this point at any moment now.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oocSgTU7O
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Sure enough, I saw it in the distance behind Missy. It powered effortlessly on its approach to her house it easily passed in moments. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ560H4SWObg
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The horn of the train screamed out to make Missy turn her head and frantically race towards me. I knew that the gravel had to be spearing the bottoms of her thin flats, but she didn't have time to stick to the safety of the boards anymore. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0NNnaiIN1
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"Missy!"385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSjQjYZYrw
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"Soup!" she whined back.385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulUCXmPBb7
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6kKrM8dE89
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehA6J3SvtB
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I leapt for the grass that knocked the air from my lungs and felt Missy's body hit the grass beside me as the train barrelled by. Its brakes screeched down my ears and froze my blood that shivered down my spine. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0kunSZF06
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Missy gasped and trembled beside me before clinging to my arms in fear while sobbing. I cradled Missy in the grass while trying to shake my own grateful tears she was safe. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfy5UeY8m48
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She was so delicate huddled into me. Her head rested on my chest that warmed with her rigid breaths. The rest of her skin was frozen from the fear still coursing through her. Her arms tucked against me to try and warm up on my body. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2h5clyWCSq
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapvaWdJsag
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Missy leant into it and didn't try to pull from me. Her trembling breath was steadying, and her sobs had subsided to little sniffles she tried to control. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1K3csw4Kde
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX3TJ95RD1n
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My body stiffened, dreading that the same fear and confusion would wash over them like that night I had run from them. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pY35dqOJN
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I didn’t want to see that or know I was the cause of it. I moved my head away, looking at the clear sky and the drifting clouds above us finally threatening rain. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8tVsaHtUF
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Glancing down, I saw that Missy's eyes softened in the same way they did when she greeted me each day. They fluttered closed just as her shaking lips gently brushed on my cheek, leaving a tear to glide effortlessly down it. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNKSviNqnG
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jDl6xntP3
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Did she want to shatter it all for me? Or did she want to keep it the way it was, blissfully ignorant? 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLEJBPK6Zr
She wouldn't be able to understand my answer anyway. I was just a creature trying to escape the drag of life, just like her. Everything else was drowned in the water tower and floating in the river, like it could remain to be. 385Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3dcfYESh4
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I only had the name she gave me. Whatever she wanted that to mean would be up to her.
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