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Chapter 13

Penulis: Silverfox
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-21 04:11:31

~~Oriana~~

Thinking, it turned out, was harder than it sounded.

I had gone back inside after a while, walked up to my room, sat on the edge of the bed and stared at the wall. Which was not exactly productive but it was all I had for the first twenty minutes or so.

“A boy on a bench”.

I kept coming back to that.

I was been seven years old and he had been thirteen and I hadn’t known his name or anything about him except that he looked sad in a way that made my chest hurt. So I had done the only t
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