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.632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHD964kwZLg
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5eDZmW7icP
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtrcv5NeFn
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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!" 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9C9KOtbgyN
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I paused and turned back to him. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTbzvdWYtH
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHXUQzivYg
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What was going on here? 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpOrX0DUgE
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz4FZrWEafP
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssMy0tAQw2
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9eigo6Iqi
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJX5gjdCvU
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRmuRIU2Lt
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkWg24fG2E
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUpd88ycV0
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSIBVK9jVf
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsix24jLJ3
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTU1KR9Cvvl
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LjbF8Zk06
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHUyEDpwOB
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCoL5k19kJ
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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5OscgbDCG
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvPm1cCyMU
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx03plfMC75
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvWpNMFUpG
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But today, something changed. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYbzgPF8Xh
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfDpg1CCW8
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6cDebt17O
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpq4YLM6GA6
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mt9EI7Bcw
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4gKqC8n9RO
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfjG7X7qqe
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKHG18JkQpa
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXGOxYRAOa
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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwEjoWr40a
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ61uwYAoYF
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeRaERt9IHf
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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.632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvP8HzHzJU
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2RgsfJFEII
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11lZDueygm
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"Missy!"632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUbYpBtlqb
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"Soup!" she whined back.632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡap1OpMAFqQ
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZMpZMK0Ju
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNj809q7rLT
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbWqSoLa2E
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Y9ra4RHyI
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLiIZuVx7ja
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS0om6TTHTr
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3dsdNnfmX5
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0nIF5N5pX
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ALAVQ2isa
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidWHUBDFCK
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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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWabzdIRbV
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjtHXNSo2U
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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? 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHDqPKJoKY
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. 632Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFavA8fQbEF
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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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