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𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 。*゚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬 by -lxverscast
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𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖔 , 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖔𝖜𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖕𝖊𝖇𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘 ( 💌 ) 。*゚𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 - 。*゚ 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 - 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨. 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 ; #410 stenbrough #230 benverly #618 reddie 𝖒𝖞 𝖉𝖆𝖉𝖉𝖞 𝖘𝖆𝖎𝖉 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖞 𝖆𝖜𝖆𝖞 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖏𝖚𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖙 ( 💌 )
𝖎 𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖞𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 𝖆𝖌𝖆𝖎𝖓 。*゚𝐛𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡 by -lxverscast
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𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖎 𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖊𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚 ( 🚬 ) 。*゚ - 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 - 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 . 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐 , 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖎𝖙 𝖜𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖊𝖓𝖉 𝖜𝖊𝖑𝖑 ( 🚬 ) 。*゚+
𝖘𝖚𝖓𝖋𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗 。*゚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 by -lxverscast
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𝖞𝖔𝖚'𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖚𝖓𝖋𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗 ( 🌻 ) 。*゚ 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 - 。*゚ 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐄𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐤 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠. gorgeous cover by @nvptxne 𝖎 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖇𝖊 𝖙𝖔𝖔 𝖒𝖚𝖈𝖍 ( 🌻 )
𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖑𝖊𝖊𝖕 。*゚𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐮 by -lxverscast
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𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡. . . 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗧 𝗔𝗨 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗸𝗶𝗱-𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀,, 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻𝗲. ༄❀❁༄ Different levels. Different challenges. Different people each level. Different fears. The only thing that's the same. . . 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙥𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙨. 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨. 𝘽𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙡𝙪𝙩. 𝙀𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙆𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙠 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙝𝙮𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙘, 𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙚. 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙣𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧. 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙐𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙟𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙊𝘾𝘿. 𝙍𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙯𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙝𝙤
𝖎 𝖌𝖔𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖇𝖆𝖇𝖊 。*゚𝐛𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐫 by -lxverscast
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𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦. ༄★ 𝑰𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉, 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑩𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝑴𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔. ༄✰ 𝑴𝒂𝒙 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕? 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒌𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝑫𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒔. ༄✯ 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 ; #229 𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐱 #667 𝐛𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐫
𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖔𝖑'𝖘 𝖔𝖚𝖙 。*゚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 by -lxverscast
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" 𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒐, 𝑬𝒅'𝒔. " 𝑯𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒅. " 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝑬𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝑬𝒅'𝒔.." " 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔. " 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒅. " 𝑬𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆. " ༄︎♕︎♔︎• 𝑰𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉, 𝑬𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒔. 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆? 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒖𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕. ༄︎♕︎♔︎• 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅.
𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝖒𝖊 。*゚𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐤𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐤 by -lxverscast
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This whole thing with It in the first chapter hasn't happened..........yet
𝖎 𝖘𝖊𝖊 𝖗𝖊𝖉 。*゚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐭 by -lxverscast
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𝖎 𝖘𝖊𝖊 𝖗𝖊𝖉 , 𝖗𝖊𝖉 , 𝖔𝖍 𝖗𝖊𝖉 ( 🍒 ) 。*゚𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 - 。*゚ 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐤 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 ; #22 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐭 #156 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝖆 𝖌𝖚𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 , 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 , 𝖔𝖍 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 ( 🍒 )
𝖘𝖒𝖔𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖈𝖎𝖌𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖘 。*゚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫 by -lxverscast
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❝ 𝗜 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗔 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 ❞ 𝘐𝘕 𝘞𝘏𝘐𝘊𝘏...𝘐 𝘏𝘌𝘓𝘗 𝘊𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘛𝘌 𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘉𝘐𝘖 𝘉𝘠 𝘎𝘐𝘝𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘈 𝘉𝘈𝘚𝘌 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘙𝘌𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘋𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘍𝘖𝘕𝘛𝘚. ❝ 𝗜 𝗚𝗢𝗧 𝗠𝗬 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗠𝗬 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗥 ❞ 𝘐'𝘓𝘓 𝘉𝘌 𝘋𝘖𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘐𝘛 𝘉𝘠 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘔𝘌𝘚 𝘐'𝘝𝘌 𝘋𝘖𝘕𝘌 𝘐𝘕 𝘈𝘕𝘖𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙 𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘒, 𝘚𝘖 𝘙𝘌𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘚𝘛 𝘐𝘍 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘕𝘌𝘌𝘋 𝘈 𝘕𝘌𝘞 𝘉𝘐𝘖 𝘗𝘓𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘌! ❝ 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 , 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 ❞