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.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08eygm5qQp
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcsIVAxzNd
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AjZtCGItX
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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!" 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEZBkoncva
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I paused and turned back to him. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhlQckyKBN
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8hKvo4z3R3
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What was going on here? 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡykMBnJLPNC
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaqyX2ouek
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUqCREPokH
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndGYBuxiHA
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFA1XGGM59r
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgI3Jig2KBp
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpeYS5cEWd
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoPAcRELbQG
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVuK4i5TOb
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMKoh2Esos
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mPRhH4CK8
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6WCFnWIuc
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkU3ozDt8K
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEx84dgxLf
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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZF0ArWaWc4
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrroRKOmVV
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLgunC4jzo
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBTm5huERg
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But today, something changed. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCWKfM2NDht
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdClOQprRKa
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGqrqTDN2v
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgJtrFZW7CX
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdh0LewUM2
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhbn5UheUth
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZrCK8QcQD
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyEONT5ABF
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszbPbDxZ7W
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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYgswMJAMa
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7knHb8M3F
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1DdoK57y6
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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.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINYTyEvmc2
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcbHQuqDAA
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NqxRukJj5
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"Missy!"77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uOpzEw3Z1
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"Soup!" she whined back.77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeVaxCgyqa
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtb45Mdvfg
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukccK5Om7L
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xdukrGnCh
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnhCiEgnD5
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4P7geSAImL
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEp1lddOTG
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInCsqxOhKf
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMns3kMOLrB
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBW7NNI9l5
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqLfqx9i52
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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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TDLxwZotF
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQeTVIAfjn
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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? 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNbkxTcKOVc
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. 77Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXSUTlCeBZ
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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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