EMMA

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11:43 AM

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11:43 AM

My mother and I had an argument this morning. She asked me why I wasn't eating, and I asked her why she hadn't asked me that two weeks ago, and she called me a freak and I told her that I wished Dad was still around, and that's when I decided that I didn't love her. Not because she yelled at me or because she got on my nerves, but because she didn't know that my favorite color was green, or that I liked sad things because they made me feel something worth writing about, or why I even have the problems that I have in the first place. She doesn't know any of these things because she never asks, and she never acts like she cares. That was when I realized that she is just like everyone else.

It was cold outside, but I didn't bother putting on a jacket because I was already chilled from the cold shoulder my mother gave me before I left the house. I tried to hug my body with my arms, but they failed to provide much warmth because they have become so gaunt that, for a moment, it felt like they were no longer there. I stopped to get coffee, and I spilled it. I stopped to get hot chocolate, even though I would have only taken a few sips, and I dropped that too.

I didn't want to go to therapy. And if you're reading this, Dr. Edwards, you will already know that I didn't go that day (I am sorry, by the way). I wanted to turn around and march angrily in the other direction until I walked straight off the edge of a cliff, but all of these thoughts stopped when I felt something heavy on my shoulders. It was a jacket. It was olive green and it smelled like Old Spice, and I turned around only to come face to face with Davis.

He smiled at me.

I think I just stared.

His eyes were so blue, and I swear that time stopped and I started drowning.

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