My heart bleeds on paper
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..."Are you free tonight?" he asks and I look at him crazily like 'sho wa okay?' but he repeats the question "Are you free tonight?"
"work" I sigh out
"tomorrow night?" he asks again
"work" I speak
He just smiles and tells me "Wonderful, so it's a date then. I'll pick you up tomorrow night by 8 pm and please bring your camera"...
Trying to breathe when life itself seems to be drowning me is so difficult, why struggle to come up for air when I finally can be at peace for once?
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