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The Disguise.

ผู้เขียน: TheScribe
last update ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2025-08-14 04:14:20

ARIA'S POV

I sat there for a while after he left, still on the edge of the bed, my fingers held the sheets like they might help me make sense of what just happened.

But they didn’t.

He kissed me, then fucking walked out like it never mattered.

My brain scrambled to label it—momentary weakness? Impulse? A test? I didn’t know. I couldn’t figure him out, I wasn’t even sure I could figure me out.

It almost made me cry again.

But I’d done enough crying the past two days.

I was tired.

So I did what I always did when things spiraled—I cleaned. I packed away the first aid kit, folded the blanket, smoothed the creases in the bedsheets like it could smooth out the chaos in my head. And when there was nothing left to fix with my hands, I finally crawled into bed.

Not to sleep, just to rest.

And I must’ve drifted off at some point, because the next thing I knew, morning light was peeking through the curtains.

Five days left.

Only five.

My head throbbed faintly not a migraine, just enough to remin
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