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"Look! There's a bunny in the moon." Kenzie giggles as she obnoxiously chews a handful of kettle corn.
This girl and her kettle corn...
"That's not a bunny," I mumble.
"Yes! Look, there are the ears and that's the tiny cotton tail." She smiles.
I don't reply, I just watch her huge grin somehow manage to get larger as she stares out the window.
I'm not even sure what time it is but Kenzie insists on coming down here every night to see me.
I never ask, she comes on her own and talks my ear off.
She talks about the most random things and even though I have a perfectly capable voice of telling her to stop...I don't.
I like it when she talks.
I like it when she cleans my cuts with gentle hands.
I like when she starts humming and dancing around like a ballerina.
Tiny dancer.
That's what I call her.
She doesn't know that but it's what I call her in my mind.
I've been stuck in this basement for...well, I don't even know how long.
The days are bad, filled with torture and wicked games but the nights...that's when I can smile.
"You're not eating?" She asks, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"I don't like sweets."
Her eyes widen before she begins coughing like a maniac.
"H- How?!" She gasps.
"I don't know...they're gross."
"You take that back!"
"Or what?" I tease.
"Or- Or...um- I don't know right now but I'll think of something!" She huffs, her cheeks turning red.
She ends up finishing her sweets before lying down.
"Lay with me." She says, patting the floor next to her.
And I do.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" She suddenly asks.
"I don't know."
"I want to be a ballerina- oh! Or a doctor who helps animals! What are they called again?"
"Vet-"
"I love puppies and kittens...but Mama and Papa never let animals in the house." She cuts me off with a sigh.
What did I tell you about the talking?
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Whispers in the Shadows (ON HOLD)
Romance******DARK ROMANCE****** In the shadowed halls of Shadowvale University, nestled in the eerie town of Ravenwood Hollow, where whispers linger like ghosts and secrets fester like poison, the line between love and darkness blurs. Behind the facade of...
