“Damnit Angel!”
“You haven’t called me that since I got back.”
She looked defeated, like she was going to reply but couldn’t find the right words to shoot back with. She was angry, and hurt, and let down that things were not the same as she remembered.
“I grew up. I had to.”
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“When the world crashes down, all I know is you.”
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“I believed that you’d come back. And that I would just have to live through the moment, and the one after that. But somehow, I remembered how to breathe again without you around. I stopped waiting.”