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I don’t like people feeling sorry for e pinned to my chest for the past year, and even after all that time I still can’t stomach the sympathetic words and looks

Everyone feels bad for me

I don’t want sympathy, I want my sister back

I leave Maria my sandwich and head back up to the room I claimed Noah’s still in his office

I collapse back onto the bed, feeling the soft coainst my skin, the dip of thethese luxurious things Before, I would have enjoyed the with Noah, it was so I had never experienced before

My fa coin bank accounts The kind of money where you could say “fuck you” to whoever you wanted, consequences be damned

Being with hi I felt on top of the world He had fancy cars, nice clothes, and ate at the best restaurants I felt like I was someone when I ith him

His friends accepted roup as one of their own, and for the first tied

But then that all ca dohen he killed Auden

I lift ave it towent to shit

He asked me to marry him and I happily declared yes, and then we partied I was so fucked up I can’t even reht is distorted, blurry I re

I huff, pulling the ring fro it onto the side table I can’t wear the da more than I have to

Three Years Earlier

SHE DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THE other kids here Not that she’s really a kid anyway The older Wilder girl is newly eighteen

Pale blonde hair hangs in waves down to her breasts ispy bangs that are far too long Her slender hands are wrapped around her phone and I see her purse her lips and blow a gust of air to s out of her eyeline