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.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXuqNZrVGj4
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdgt97Wtil
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1scTRdKBUz
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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!" 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgbquVR7LJ7
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I paused and turned back to him. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPAhSSxRYi
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMVF82y52P
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What was going on here? 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsd7TGP0NMv
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe021jn9nXb
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6YNFQRomj
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8D36IdiIg
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBTfy6J4E0
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UL06EpPLr
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9DGPV3Aav
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGLEdpTWBT
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpT0UhmVq6
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgQb5l7JSp
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26TuxjYHjH
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHalBExluNm
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFE5oBb9CNV
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MCAGX8WM0
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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVLQ5jYWUd
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQ1pTVvNQx
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrweqCBDPuE
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbgTlPVFPC
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But today, something changed. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiUL89FZiX
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpfO4PK7i4
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgenXy0LnO
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QWmRmxOgo
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAinlSa11V
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGu1e5qgc3S
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ci4IL3Nmh
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pJg50YZxn
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWaGQJYItH
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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9AtQYWfQq
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTA2H67CjCU
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGOHK519Um
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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.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQMkRLB3Ze
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRhKx03HBf
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryAJIUBbqv
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"Missy!"369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRM30wr8bcw
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"Soup!" she whined back.369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRcQQiYprz
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjXhWHpXqG
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85wyCpGjgq
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0B2mBhUlB
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrwOKRmPyI
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7C4VcH35a
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTnu4WC2Pl
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rtPA9is89
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIcMiFyOcr
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPC8N4It6vp
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlMaFXsd0A
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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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cVAxcUy3d
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8X9nAiieG
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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? 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWgDX9hEO5m
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. 369Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ58EMdEATt
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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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