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.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJS8EiaTqir
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He took a few steps forth when I passed him, wagging a finger. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQGUz0BC3B
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I knew what was coming and smiled at it. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV44yVpOPyX
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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!" 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbClmkUfEpH
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I paused and turned back to him. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1raUYkAUpv
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelBADrx7E5
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What was going on here? 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHUfW1h0Gi
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4CiKLujJo
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What was she doing here? She was supposed to be home! 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKPuOxPgjD
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"Soup! Don't be scared! I only want to find out a few things!" she blurted on her way. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJR6B7W0hc
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No, no, no! She was meant to be happy, not chasing me! 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFITR4dXT0o
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I scurried for the bridge, pausing at the beginning of it to see Missy throw her arms down in defeat. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYCdQnePOZ
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyplMecXQuj
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"No, don't go!" she whined out to me "Soup!" 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KYbKiYiKf
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She had her dreams of solitude. Why was she trying to ruin it all now? 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQb2XeE2MVs
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I rushed over the bridge and kept going until I was safely over the river. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLVMCF8YCx
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MAduHHjjR
Every afternoon I approached the tracks, she would be there, waiting. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjnDc7tWBX
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkQ3x5aGkx
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VLOBJmQKJ
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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SRNbDdACt
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCjxOMZGRWv
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNNNmQObdd
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeD9UAXBtD
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But today, something changed. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOd8Ydxnwx
Missy stepped onto the tracks. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWiZmaHayKC
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡussyN7g5Xp
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9X05NEYKS
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41h5rd2Qxh
I wouldn't be able to do anything but watch hopelessly if the train decided to run early. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1hMxWrVHB
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4WT60y3AF
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DlJB9uh50
Time had done nothing to deter her. If anything, it had fuelled her curiosity into what happened that night. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QiAsWSNQR
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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNUCAorArpD
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgl2SLoCT7
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"Come on!" I cried out to her still powering along "hurry! Please!" 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoGy9xlKBz
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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.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpxveEVkfr
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiLtyB4N3i
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsltGNnm8wL
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"Missy!"386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0aoJp055W2
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"Soup!" she whined back.386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGYQtT5jA3
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The train ploughed past the station, screaming out frantically now. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuAeo9MKxvk
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Missy was approaching the safety of the land, but still couldn't outrun the train quickly closing in on her. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSmc8amX9P
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfurj7QVG6N
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgSW93Wse6
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLwt69IagM
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"Never do anything that stupid again" I gasped out and squeezed her close. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCg4LuoPucH
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNitDfpPt1B
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Her glistening brown eyes looked up to mine, searching again. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbC80Gl7jg
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx0ecaTDOaa
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0XOeGSh0m
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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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡETAZzippSq
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"Can I still call you Soup?" her voice breathed as her eyes found mine again, curious. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGf5XVKq9EW
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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? 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFdydhygWm
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. 386Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0iSXMJceh
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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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