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"Don't you dare touch me," I said, hoping to keep up this surge of bravery. I pointed the lamp at him but he only laughed which was rightly justified.
"You think a lamp will save you?"
"I'm not warning you again."
He w...
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Song: Broken by Seether & Amy Lee
The worst is over now and we can breathe again. I want to hold you high, and steal your pain away. There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight. I want to hold you high and steal your pain.
What?"
"You heard me clearly," she asserted, fixing a loose hair behind her ear. "Why your sister moved away, why Nancy's shop was bought out, why you couldn't get a job...It was all because of him."
"You're lying," I accused, refusing to believe her. Her sweet, wicked eyes transformed into leering, almost sinister ones right at the moment I said those words.
"You think you know Henry so well, when sadly, you don't know one thing about him. Did you know that he calls me every night? Did you know that while he's busy, or away on business, he comes to my place? He tells me these things. Henry trusts me."
This wasn't true...It couldn't be true...She was just saying this out of jealousy. Henry wouldn't do this to me. He was trying... He promised he would never lie. He promised he would never hurt me again. Henry wouldn't ... Would he?
"Oh dear, I've said too much," she said, glancing at her gold watch. "I think that's enough for today. One more secret out of me and you might actually cry. I'll take my leave now."
Henry's friend grabbed her bag and stood on her three inch heels, her height now surpassing mine. She confidently slipped on her pair of sunglasses and walked away but before she got too far out of reach, she whirled around and said, "Until next time, Ally."
The sound of my text tone displaced me from my petrified state. It was Henry saying he would see me in five minutes. But for some reason, I panicked and hurried out of the building. As soon as I was out of sight of the hotel, I texted him that I couldn't make it because of some emergency at work...
I didn't go back to Henry's house immediately after I was done. I didn't want to confront him about this yet. I didn't know how to bring it up. In reality, I was afraid to.
What if it was true? What if Henry had done all the things Victoria had said? I didn't know if I could take it if Henry confirmed it as the truth.
As soon as my shift was over, I found myself driving in the direction of Nana's old shop. It was no longer a floral shop. It was now a small antique shop with a new person as the owner.
After the shop, I unconsciously drove to my sister's old house. I parked my car a few houses down, seeing that another family had moved in. There were two new cars there. By the size of them, there was definitely a big family inhabiting the house.
Victoria's words lingered in my mind while I rested my forehead against the steering wheel.
"Why your sister moved away, why Nancy's shop was bought out, why you couldn't get a job...It was all because of him."
