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I stared down at the dream pool, my empty reflection waiting. The only place I could summon her.
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Her laughter echoed around me. The sound sad clowns make when they're happy. A choked chortle that vibrated through me. A drowned creature reaching out to me.
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"I thought you loved me."
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"I did - I, I do!"
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I stared down at the pool, my reflection changed to that of her. The halo of blond curls. The blue eyes that glinted with angry tears.
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"You left me behind."
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"You refused to move!"
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She laughed bitterly.
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I reached down to her, my hands grasping water and loss.
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"Do you miss me?" She asked me, ignoring how my fingers skewed through her.
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I lifted my hand, cupping her face. For a moment she smiled radiantly, the water veil shifting so I saw her true smile. The smile of my childhood heart. I felt nothing with my hands as my heart began to buckle under the sheer volume of her weightlessness. Her absence and presence choked me with fragile fingers.
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"I miss you the way children miss their comfort toys." The emotion burning through my brain leaked out of my eyes, the tears hissing as they hit the water.
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She was pleased with my response, those hard eyes softening for just a moment. Long ago she held my hands and promised me the world. A world I never got to see.
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It crushed me. My chest feeling as though my rib cage was crossing over itself.
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"I love you." I whispered to my reflection. "You were my first love. No matter how poisoned or broken it was. You were what taught me that I could be picked first."
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She giggled. My hand in the water cramped against her ghostly cheek.
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"Do you ever think of me?" I murmured, my heart hammering.
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She narrowed her eyes, tilting her head to the side so my wrinkling hand passed through her face.
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"Why would I think of the one who left me behind? I was drowning in my choices. You left me there."
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"You didn't want to be reminded of my success! You said my light burned you. You. Left. Me."
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She stared at me with a sad smile. It tugged at her lips in a pained expression. My heart ached as it dripped blood into my body. Slow and sluggish.
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"I miss you." I whispered harshly, "I miss us."
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That cruel, haughty laugh that used to chill my blood echoed through the water. Her hair slowly darkened as she grinned a toothy grin.
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She was my childhood coin. One side an angel. The other, the demon she never escaped.
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"I know." She cackled.
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A hand shot out of the water, gripping my neck and pulling me forward so I stared inches from the water. I didn't struggle. Only committed her face to memory.
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"May you miss me into the twilight of your life." She hissed.
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I woke up. Soaked in sweat.
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"So be it."
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THE END
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Credit from the Writer/Author: Bluemoon Scriptor https://www.penana.com/user/1001
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