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.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpbHoAzslh
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2GprIcsWb
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8syVv8AyH
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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!" 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoar9dqA3L
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I paused and turned back to him. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iepcCMeLf
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymNnt6Bv0e
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What was going on here? 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnV1lRR1yB
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1jCIFRTzl
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGvVKI601p
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡajOhEZUjNI
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7YNNgjR7u
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKuMIrr6Ao
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFdWCwlC97
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVE6TsC9S4
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULL95JWA1M
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKYvHkllCt
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiZ6dsV4zW
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡju4YLA8JPU
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AGtUfD9Jk
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjJxfVL3aJ
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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyvqUoe70x
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjwN57Z0uZ
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCR5gFATdvx
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zs0IlFpX4
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But today, something changed. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgmaUB4YLn
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccwflZnIDe
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbwW1pzG9J
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZnVgF4HBJ
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYthgo4Q5n
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMfwfB26TrZ
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PYGZJGAyC
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPULwH42zA
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqwM01s7tT
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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHPck4UPOe
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Fipjj2XXY
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HfFiNKZ25
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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.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkFIhxoAyf
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVSWwdJTWM
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlHV2ct7N1
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"Missy!"249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpkCOY1MTT
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"Soup!" she whined back.249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqChheE1k0
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CjgxzAEuq
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Rl1WItgSD
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIyAQxR1GZ
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yOIIR2TWz
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXVEW1bs25
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuexfuoDLYm
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83QV6fidZb
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQ1fTnlb6q
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5S2LXwn6P
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBa3nTptKh1
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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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckS0MUGIXe
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRLUguIEUC
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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? 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNiqRlfvvM
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. 249Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ibu9erF6A
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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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