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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2iAhAb9SZA
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTCwj73MGl
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8WbsG0og9
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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!" 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFBHVknitv
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I paused and turned back to him. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoY1IIEV2TM
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISqR17TdJX
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What was going on here? 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPMvWvUINX
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLA97bBbQq
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeQ41KF3NAp
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjExtMegOOh
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNpb1JGGik
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsbbbRfDO27
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5HpAznk8z
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkThsQ0eUER
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTvN7IwH4pe
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RuyhjofiQ
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBfk72J1q7
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDl8sv8TzVp
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbQygCxVXK
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdng1DvQaO
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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFk3i8cJJW
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPYczMmo3Q
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3szvRBFxw
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8JcFJv9FPV
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But today, something changed. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNq8uIlv7ON
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPODwhMxZUt
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPJukvsHtra
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXrNe82Vqb
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuAjlhB1ND
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyelEvYpS5a
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAWSWEhr7I
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMX5DFkBwjb
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqs468hjK5
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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfXKbQno2k
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1SmtEm0UL
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE5uK6YMClx
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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.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZ28wypCjq
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCji4FbZZMg
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeInOPdxyF
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"Missy!"319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6vIAsQ7sb
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"Soup!" she whined back.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qtjuv9Hoy
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNdrC1DH6X
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTjNGYhmQw
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN41S9m2AIU
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3xHhxd4ah
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLyvicNFbf
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsRikdOSMH
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WHvSIKNx1
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigCqMEeAQp
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaRHr1W6DM
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlM7vgzHCRm
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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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4om1eiZuFd
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KXej9Eucn
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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? 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjXztt2rS9
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. 319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KUsqDLRz7
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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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