_ Why? _I paused in the doorway of the store I had been in before it all happened. _Why did I trust her? I should have just kept it the way it was. It wouldn’t have ended like this if she hated me like before. If only —_

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Then I cried. I haven’t cried in years, I thought I’d forgotten how to. But I found myself leaning against the wall with tears rolling down my face.

“Hello?” I barely heared t...

“C’mon, let go!” She grabbed my hand and pulled me into the photobooth,

“Do you have anymore money?” I searched through my pockets and found no spear change. I had spent all the money I had with me on claw machines and festival games.

“Sure I do…” Jamie looked through her purse for any money,

“Before we take a photo…can I…um…can I tell you something?” I blushed and looked down, praying to the gods...

I passed them the leather satchel,

“Where the hell did you find this?”

“As if I’d tell you. Now, I charge a thousand coins per gram.”

“A thousand? Where do you think I’ll get that money? I’ll give you fifty at most.”

“One thousand and one hundred, every time you put up a fight I’ll raise it a hundred.”

“Fine!” The demon handed me a thousand and fifty coins.

“Only one? I thought you where sm...

Her dirty blonde hair tangled as she ran, she had this face where she bit the inside of her cheek when she was tying to consentrate and it made her cheek bleed and her teeth red. No on payed attention to that, though. They payed attention to her slim body and smooth skin. They payed attention to the way she gracefully stepped on the track. They payed attention because she was anything _but _me. An...

“Today you will be cleaning up the beach as punishment. I expect it to be cleared by the end of the week.” Mr. Tyr unfolded a chair with his remaining hand and sat down to watch us clean the dirty beach as our community service. I had been caught underage drinking and I stepped on a policeman’s foot so I was punished with cleaning up the beach.

I had started to clean it up, picking the less dirt...

_ What? _I found myself tied on the floor with a gag in my throat, I was resting on the edge of a fireplace. I had the same dress on that I wore to my girlfriend’s bat mitzvah. I saw my shoes resting on a pile of books in the corner of the room. It had no furniture except for a chair and a small table with coffee on it. In the chair sat a man with brown hair. He had a slightly scruffy beard, but o...

_ Finally, _Oliver thought. He had finally made it to Maine. He had finally made it to the place where his friends where being held captive. That’s when Oliver started to worry. What is they didn’t remember him? What if his father’s leads where wrong? They shouldn’t be, but if they where Oliver didn’t know what to do! And that lady…what if she did something?

Then Oliver found himself standing in...

Do you remember,

When we ran through the wildflowers, when you told me your favorite color was a light green, when I picked a light green flower so you could remember?

Do you remember,

When we ran away, when we escaped the hell commonly known as home, when we ran past the cities?

Do you remember,

When our goal was to reach Arizona, because we heard it was beautiful in the country, because that’s w...

Lucy was a lot like her cat, Lilian. Lilian had blonde fur and blue-green eyes. Lilian even had the little birthmark on her ear. The way Lilian walked around like she owned the world. And the way people stepped back because they knew she wouldn’t move for them. Lilian acted as if the world was a chess board and the people were her pawns. She would love you one day and glare menacingly at you the n...

Oliver couldn’t stop thinking about that time. It was ten years ago, yet he couldn’t forget. At the time he didn’t understand the depth of the situation, but when he had gone to school days and weeks and years after and he didn’t see them, he wouldn’t be able to forget. That’s why he snuck out that night. November tenth. He didn’t want to leave, he loved his family and his mom was hosting the Than...