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"Dont tell them."

I stared in horror at her damaged wrists, cuts new and old slicing through the skin. She yanks her sleeve up and lies on her bed.

"Chara, I have to tell mom and -"

"No you don't," she seethed. "You think they're going to fix everything, all the damn time. But they have problems, too, y'know?"

"But, Chara -"

"God, Asriel you're so naive!"

I don't say anything. There was nothing I could do. In the spur of confusion and sadness I crawled on the bed next to her, and held her close.

We stay like that for a long time.

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