"Why are you here?"
She should've known that question would come up eventually, yet she still didn't have an answer.
"I don't know," Taylor fiddled with the pen in her hands.
"You're about the last person I expected to visit me," he added.
"I didn't even know I could visit until I called."
"So, why are you here?" He repeated.
"I don't know," she repeated, "Maybe it's to figure out why you keep infiltrating my dreams."
"You dream about me?"
She chuckled, "Well, when you put it like that." He chuckled for the first time in two-and-a-half years. It made her smile.
"You know, I'm sorry," she started.
"About what?" He asked, genuinely confused.
"About what happened to you," a shocked silence filled the room before she continued, "I have this thing," she explained, "I just feel... no one should have to go through this hateful world thinking that nobody loves them. Because no matter what they think, there's always that one person who cares."
Henry looked up at her as if a realization or new hope had crossed his eyes.
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Why Is It Him?
Fiksi PenggemarIn Derry, Maine, ten young outcasts faced their worst nightmare- an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children. Banding together over one horrifying summer, the friends overcame their own p...
