Novel & Cerita Lay Your Troubles On My Shoulders

I pause at the scar on his shoulder, an old training injury, and lean forward to kiss it. “That tickles,” he mumbles, but he leans into it. “You have a knot here,” I say, digging my thumb into his shoulder. “Stress,” he says. “Carrying the weight of being right all the time is very hard on the shoulders.” “Idiot.” I massage the knot until he melts against me, his head falling back onto my shoulder. He closes his eyes, letting out a long, shuddering breath. “This is nice,” he whispers. “It is.”

and that is just cutting it to close for comfort for me. I'm so tired, and the world is resting on my shoulders. What do I do? What do I say? How can I fix this? How can I make this better? I just feel so small in the light of all of this. Everybody is depending on me, and I have no idea what to do. This is so much for one person to bare.

I whisper, burying my face in my hands, my shoulders shaking. Where are you?

My shoulder burned like it was answering for me. “I’ll go,” I said quickly. “Good.” She smiled faintly, satisfied. “Then do not keep him waiting.” A tray was already prepared by the time I stepped into the corridor again. Fresh bread, fruit, tea, everything arranged perfectly like it mattered. Like this mattered. I picked it up carefully, adjusting my grip when my shoulder protested again. The weight wasn’t much, but it felt like more than it should have. I told myself it didn’t matter. That this was just another task. Just another order. That whatever happened in that room didn’t change anything but my chest still felt tight.

My heart still aches, twisted tight with pain, but my shoulders feel lighter like maybe, just maybe, I’ve started to let go of something I was never meant to carry alone. I am scarred, but not less.

she advised deeply. My shoulders fell in defeat.

Eager to impress him, the head of security pressed harder on my shoulder and kicked the back of my knee to make me fall to the floor. "Stay still, Mavis! If you stole from the company, you should've known you'd get caught! How can you do something stupid when you're so young?" My knee gave out from the pressure, and I nearly fell on the tiles. That was the story they had prepared for headquarters. A scapegoat, a forged confession, and the same lie repeated by everyone at the branch. They assumed the chairman would never bother listening to an intern. Once my thumbprint was on the page, the five-hundred-thousand-dollar gap would simply disappear.

He helped placed it on my shoulder, it didn't take long before it came crashing down to the ground. "I don't get. I was having no problem carrying it on my shoulder and trying to balance it some minutes ago. Why I can't I do it now." I yelled out exasperated. "You are weak, but far from that. You are overthinking it and also not focused. Stop dwelling in your pain, pay no attention to the aching on your shoulder blades." Arkalis lectured calmly. I released a huge breathe ready to try out again. I absorbed the water from the ground, and still added some water from the drum cause the water from the ground didn't fill up the buckets.

"No one can lay a single finger on you." My eyes fall shut, the tension in my shoulders goes away and I feel myself drifting into peaceful sleep. I didn't mean to say it, I didn't even know I meant it, but the words simply tumble out of my mouth without permission. "I know."

I smiled at his getsure. With a sigh, I pushed back the covers and swung my legs over the edge of the bed, the cool floor sending a shiver coursing through my veins. The weight of the day ahead hung heavy on my shoulders, a relentless tide threatening to overwhelm me with its ceaseless demands. Yet amidst the chaos, one task remained paramount, a beacon of hope in the stormy sea of uncertainty.