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reaction. said as he stands up, and
"Well, try it for me. leads her over to the edge of
the balcony.
want to understand where you
are coming from. I want to "No I didn't, and now I
know where you are going." kind of see why."
He smiled and awaited her
response. "It's beautiful, isn't it?"
"What, the city? I guess,
"I don't know where I am with all its buildings. All the
going, I just know where I am people walking by, all the
right now. I am with you and separate lives, how everyone
enjoying it. goes in separate
I am sitting No one has directions. So many
up here on the different things hap-
ever looked at
umpth-teenth her like that pening all at once."
floor of Hillside before. With "Don't look down,
Manor Apart- him, she felt look up, girl. Look at
ments. I am out the heavens and the
••• home.
here with a chill sky, filled with
in the air and the beautiful stars
warm inviting scattered across the
weather. I am night. Isn't that
being treated like no one has amazing?"
dared to treat me before. "A clear night in the city is
For a moment I felt like I didn't
quite rare. I guess we should
deserve it," she looked down,
but then made sure her gaze enjoy it."
met his again. "All my life has "Much like how I enjoy you
been leading up to something,
to someone. All my failed re- and your company. I enjoy
lationships, all the abuse, all every moment of being with
the trials and tribulations. It you, and when I'm not alii can
do is think about you. I swear,
reminds me of how God takes Naomi, you truly complete
certain people out of your life me."
for a reason, and then intro-
duces others. All the times I She blushes and looks
wanted to give up-" back out towards the stars.
Sometimes the moments with
"But you didn't," Jason him are so intense, so real, just
the emotion, that she has to
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