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My cheek stings and tears fill my eyes. “DON’T TELL ME NO!” He screams. I can feel the heat of his breath on me and I drop my eyes to the floor. My tears betray me and fall with each blink of my eyes. My cheek throbs and I know it’s going to bruise. I force myself to disconnect and focus on the color of the flooring.

Despite how I've been overwhelmed lately with chores and I get to brood most of the time over my pathetic life, the more I tried not to break down, the more Vanessa kept making my life miserable. While I stood there before the duo and she kept hurling insults at me, I held my breath as long as I could. I fought back the burning sensation in my eyes, the ache in my throat. I tried—God knows I tried—to keep my tears from falling. But no matter how hard I tried to swallow them down, I lost the battle. A lone tear broke free, sliding down my cheek. Panic surged through me. I couldn’t let them see it. I turned sharply and rushed away before either Vanessa or Lucian could catch a glimpse of my wea

“What’s bothering you?” “Take it back," I said, trying to hold on to my angry tears. "I don’t want it.”

Again. Fighting back the burning sting of humiliated tears, I pushed away from the table and lurched to my feet, causing my chair to scrape loudly on the floor. Ignoring the looks from the other patrons, I half-ran towards the entrance, blinking quickly to hide my tears. I needed to get out of here, to escape this mortifying spectacle before I completely fell apart.

I tried to scream, but that only made me inhale a lungful of some harsh chemical My eyelids fluttered shut and all the tears I've been holding back finally found their way out

As we started back up the stairs, I felt the burn of tears behind my eyes again, but I swallowed them down. Now wasn’t the time to break. Now was the time to fight.

When I pulled back, I whispered, “Then I’ll fight for it.” He brushed a thumb under my eye, catching a tear I hadn’t realized had fallen. “You already have.”

I tried so hard to will back my tears, but all they did was to roll down my cheeks in quiet surrender as my throat burned from the effort it took to hold my sobs at bay. I quickly hid my shaky hands inside the deep pockets of my jacket and shuddered heavily as tears fell from my cheeks in liquid crystals and smashed against the asphalt ground in silent death. I refused to look at Kai. I couldn’t bare to see the emotions glistening in his lovely blue eyes, half-afraid of how I would react if I did spare him a glance. “Fiona, I—” “No, it’s fine. It’s all in the past anyways. There’s nothing to apologize for.”

Just a small turn, like gravity finally won. A single tear slid out of the corner of my eye and soaked into the pillow. I noticed it the way you notice weather through a window—distant, impersonal. My face stayed still. My chest didn’t hitch. I pressed my lips together and forced the rest of the tears back down like they were something shameful. Don’t fall apart yet. Not yet.

Our eyes lock again. “You always do. Even when I feel like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, you come to my rescue…” she bites her lower lip and I can tell that she is fighting back tears. “Take this pain away… please?” A tear leaves her right eye and I catch it before it falls and my palm lingers there.