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_________________𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑨𝒔 𝒊 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝐲 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉. 𝑰 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒅 𝑰𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆? 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒎 𝒊 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒑𝒊𝒅.. 𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒂 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓. "...𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒂.." 𝒊 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆. 𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑼𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒂 𝑨 𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔. "𝑲𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊..?" 𝑯𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅. "𝑺-𝑺𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒂....𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝑰-𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆..." 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒅. 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔. 𝑯𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑯𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆.
𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚. "𝑰𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑴-𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒂."
𝑰 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒏 𝑻𝒐 𝒉𝒖𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑯𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. 𝑾𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝑯𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. "𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝑲𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊." 𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒚. "𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒂....𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒊 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒊 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕. " 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏.
𝑯𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒕. "𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒂, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒆, 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 "𝑪𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓" 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕. "𝑯𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓.
"𝑰𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚, 𝑲𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊." 𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒚. "𝑳𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕." 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎.((4 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅))
𝑾𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌. 𝑯𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒊𝒌 𝒕𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒊 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓. 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑯𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝑳𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔. 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅. 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒔. "𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅?" 𝒊 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅. "𝑶𝒉 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕." 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆.
𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕.
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