Just Breathe
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MatureComplete Thu, May 28, 20205h 18m
BAILEY
Everyone knows the saying, the calm before the storm. That's been my life every waking moment. Just waiting for when the tsunami finds me and takes the very last bit of me that I have left. Well, it better ensure it wipes me out for good because this girl will fight until her last breath.
GAVIN
Every day is the same shit. Wake up and put on an act of being the carefree playboy tattoo artist. Every night the nightmares come threatening to take me into the darkness and never let me go. Until I met her, Bailey. She's my chance at breathing again and I intend to keep her at all costs.
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