Selfish
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Last published Tue, May 13, 2025
April has always been selfish.
She's always understood things in her point of view, refusing to understand.
*****
When quiet and lonely April was ten, she didn't and couldn't ever understand, the sweet, bubbly, but strange Northe who stopped at nothing to want to be friends with her. When cynical and still lonely April was sixteen, she didn't want to or ever want to understand, the still sweet, bubbly and oddball Northe who somehow still remembered her even in highschool.
But now, April is twenty. And just when she thought the strange and oddball Northe was out of her life forever, she unexpectedly meets him again, but now...
He's no longer the same sweet, bubbly, and strange oddball she once knew.
*****
Started: 12.31.24
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Word count: 4,528 words
Status: ongoing.
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