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.272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPXwSr6Odu
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOkZREYeSw
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtzR7OyxBh
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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!" 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1SPGQOK5x
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I paused and turned back to him. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxrZ30Eqzn
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2ObBNmNKi
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What was going on here? 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZgIvO3BSK
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGhGnJsOMa
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyn811VJ7WE
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfGyQzfkTr
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JLe1aOr0q
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7eusnEamS3
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYretvsXqz
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghbZhf0sNK
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9drPcfdiN
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02qyLTkCiz
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMo5NyM9f4c
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pvCSd07VI
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRtOAUwen1
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVg4ST5i970
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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsYiq7X8DC
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5uA2cWQMy
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWKjcXt2NS
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3512nn2zYS
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But today, something changed. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkjubInquau
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFHuW9xnQt
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM976w8Adc1
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNzdSNN7Bx
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBbqHVf9Q1
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2UaXgMtnC
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SquIQUwho
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ioOq5Pu9h
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5IWF7BlCO
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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCLr5LWKR8
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8h2T5WPeG
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD01nUgD4A6
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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.272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiL9bCzwtRM
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVF3iADdY3l
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62r6IUB4I4
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"Missy!"272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9L314lcxB
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"Soup!" she whined back.272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XLstt37JM
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyUbhAqf10
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCes33PBvB
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmfRyQnw1U9
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQqMBJM0dd
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiHfhp9iQS
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRL6Wf0yrp
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEbjkq9zKX
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡODeTUDK1BL
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWaX9oaufe
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUSxSJSUSB
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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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH8OTruWuFk
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUl6MaeZCZ
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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? 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdu963vQ8cf
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. 272Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRRzX0aG5g
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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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