EPILOGUE
She snuck into my room through the window. She told me we were going on one last adventure before we had to be grown ups.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"Anywhere we want." She replied.
"What if we go to the park and we spend the night there? We can be rulers of a new kingdom; it will be extraordinary."
She looked at me and gave the smile I had grown quite fond of from the moment I first saw her use it. "You're pretty extraordinary yourself, William." She came closer before whispering. "Don't let any masks change that about you."
I smiled at her and shook my head. "No one ever should." She nodded once in agreement. "I promise I won't."
We went to the park, we sat on the playground, and we lay down next to each other, looking around the corners of the roof of it. We took our masks off to get a better look at the stars, but when we woke the next morning, we forgot our masks there, leaving them behind.
Yet, I don't think either of us really needed them anymore anyhow.
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Graveyard Shift
Teen Fiction"She acts like nothing can touch her; like the sky's the limit; she's able to touch the stars." He shrugged, "Maybe to her they are; maybe to her it's a possibility, man." I shook my head, "If that were true, why does she snap?" He thought for a mom...
