I was falling.
And I watched the world spinning around me as I did with one arm stretched out before me, my hand trying to reach out towards nothingness. I couldn't remember how high up I was—only that I was falling and that my body would hit the earth at any moment. Yet it felt like it would never come, like my body was suspended in time. I saw him sitting by one of the branches, almost entirely obscured by the leaves as I desperately tried to hold onto that tree before my fall. I wanted to cry and ask for his help but that was when the branch I'd desperately been clinging to snapped and so began my seemingly slow descent. When I looked up to where he was before, he was no longer there. He was beside me. I was crying. I could feel hot tears on my cheeks. He smiled. He was unfazed. But his eyes remained kind, like they always were.
"It's going to be alright," he told me. I knew it wasn't. But I hoped. I closed my eyes before it all finally stopped.
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When We Were Young
Mystery / ThrillerFollowing an accident she was involved in the year prior, Aria Townsend leaves the one place she finally thought she could call home. She transfers to her parents' old boarding school in hopes of starting over and befriends her shy and lonely roomma...
