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.377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mxiUTScGc
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjjdR66Uod
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0unPxxtpIg
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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!" 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCbmxtAb0T
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I paused and turned back to him. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ309lazXKW7
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTGt1C78l7
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What was going on here? 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbepk1dQn0O
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeRxwgagjq
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMnqHeN81o
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVodGVkiRqh
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfg7QC7fpdN
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVOJVBsdgB
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdi6WE5hrG4
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcCe9XhIMJe
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOJJnlKtla
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlGcUnflpK
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZCjUkKCcwR
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEbxlFerqY
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpYoXItCvC
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGGsSY2bide
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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBRSqtXXg5
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHFpEwIBZb
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1SFkadDXH
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaxhgCoTeV
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But today, something changed. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwMbJHTpek
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgG9lDKTi7
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qsXIDzxEJ
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcdNl1XzikN
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmwIZ1u7KR
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5NtYxJhSg
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kRGQiUrBl
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OiaV5jesY
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgOyeMob5F
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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhT3llP4kjG
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYYETbvYrx
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxSefAJ3D6
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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.377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uTJUpPDlj
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRQ4YFLAVe
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANsDPnBAAf
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"Missy!"377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iyjGtmCnL
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"Soup!" she whined back.377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0OmfcIVZn
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqPkvR5DgX
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXsKvdlrNc
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGETE0TBpUe
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhO1Zl1xrF
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcm6icHmhDl
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxwcFRzGx2
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wpZk0r1OL
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0FpDofG2O
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RlDkXZv0w
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ta9Ae5HUc
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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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrNVvsImUp
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWXoFZCCa0
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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? 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQKFqquVWm
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. 377Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdxuTeSFJk
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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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