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.606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3cusgCQB9
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNY41Q1YLa
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61Qz4V9Jqr
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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!" 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm810sm3FLL
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I paused and turned back to him. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerOCXhD4It
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2Wm8CqyhH
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What was going on here? 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0qNgLNWse
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTU5nXK7CM5
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcfL50ubyHA
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZYtLNpMnqT
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwirwanAtOx
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhvPpvoyRX
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyUYUXo673
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6N6jVKb5JM
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXa7DBx63j
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gOOTH5K4Z
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGJ5htz6Rl
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NZRRRHfv0
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAMNW99cY2
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMPrlQLVbT
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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QVmelmGVW
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjs8qu0kd1s
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpI3QilMfQk
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkdFti0GNb
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But today, something changed. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6TGzgJzcv
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwX7iq2IdnH
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLew8cIAte
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9sRG6mERm
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7WrGHJTTk
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBl5vEy8y4L
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWteFhxx4Em
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVx0hO9dPn
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIelgIexRgM
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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJz3HZC4ZM
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEf6w1nZLMZ
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR4arzEjyCs
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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.606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXyxPbN2Yn
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1frfMnBLK
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKU8p3SBXmL
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"Missy!"606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93ZyylWgwJ
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"Soup!" she whined back.606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7IyUJX6ae
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFonYYiHUcO
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoor6kPuXQY
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrC0UaV0pEW
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSMLpMCfqf
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5qbITf7Fi
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorpSHPQd82
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx44VyOtSLr
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnqaBqxq8g
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0Gix3Q5zQ
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHwGkyzBuE
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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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGMllkz4SZN
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cnClP74A3
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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? 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf2McArcskq
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. 606Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbndnGtZXA
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I only had the name she gave me. Whatever she wanted that to mean would be up to her.
and then Add to home screen.