I reached the opposite side of the road and turned back around to stare at the back of the man’s silhouette. I didn’t realize how much I was anticipating for him to look back at me until he disappeared completely, and I let out a pained sigh.

 

At that moment, my impulses got the better of me, and I ran back across the road, completely disregarding the red traffic light. As a result, lots of cars screeched to a stop to avoid crashing into me, but their angry shouts went in one ear and out the other as I kept on running.

 

me, merely brushing the blood of my scraped

whizzing past me as I desperately tried to look for him. Growing dizzy, I squatted down and took a minute to calm my quickening breaths, tears threatening to overflow from my eyes. I felt like a child who had gotten separated from their parents

towards a clubhouse as soon as I got back on my feet. Brushing my tears away, I made

out, blocking my way. “This is a

getting further and further away from me. “I don’t have a membership card,” I frantically explained to the bouncer. “Please let me in! I’m

can’t

 

emphasized the distance between Christopher and I. All I wanted was to see him, but I couldn’t even enter the places he went to, left with no other

the sun, blazing high in the sky, and I was nothing more than a moth drawn to

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