The next few days were the best ones I've had since my early childhood. I felt like a child again, so beautifully immature for the first time in years. I laughed at Alex's dumb jokes and I ran around the deck in socks playing floor hockey with the crew. I stopped worrying so much about table manners.
I still hurt, I hurt so much and I missed my family so much. But I let it burn inside me instead of stifling the fire like I used to. I let the pain seer along with my careless childlike laughter.
I was alive.
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Beacon
Adventure20 year old Elisabeth has been caring for her younger brother for all his life after the loss of their mother and no help from their depressed and distant father. Her life is boring, taking the role of a mother so young, but soon everything changes...
