“Fool me once, fool me twice, are you death or paradise?”

Aisling flew over the twinkling stars, a gaping hole still burning through her heart. The silence was eating her up. “After all that… nothing…!?” she yelled to particularly no one.

Suddenly a voice spoke from behind her, “not nothing…” she almost fell out of the sky. “You- you again!” Aisling yelled. He gave her his most charming smile, the one that made her fall into his web of lies the first time. She pushed harder and before long she was way ahead of him. But then he grabbed her hair. She screamed and writhed but it was no use. He had caught her again. With a snap he erased all her memories of the past year. In her mind she was in the time she first met him. She fell limply into his arms. He dropped her in bed and pretended to walk in. She stirred awake and leapt into his arms. “Oh honey, I missed you,” he whispered in her ear. She stared into his eyes,” You are my paradise…”

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