tainted ink

Quinn hated them. She hated them all. It never got better, the pain never diminished. But maybe it could. Maybe, just maybe, everything could change. Wishing on everything from clovers, so birthday candles, to old and rusty pennies, she just wanted to escape the world, love among her books and music and never leave, trapped in her dream. Her life was fire and ash and cinders to a green meadow, and the first piece of yellowed stationary tucked and sealed tight in a faded blue envelope was like a fallen star.

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Leighton was loved, but kept to himself. Some say he was dropped when he was a child and something in his head changed. He's that one M&M that tastes sweeter and better than the rest for some unknown reason. His big brown eyes hold more intelligence than most have in their hole head. But that one crinkled piece of parchment in a stained green envelope changed his view of everything he thought he knew.

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