Caged Pheonix
A small notebook lay near his feet.
He picked it up, it was Aria’s drawing book.
He looked toward the school gate but it had already closed. A helpless sigh escaped him.
“How did she not notice she dropped her drawing book?”
Then he paused. He hadn’t noticed his missing keys or wallet either. That realization made him chuckle softly. For the first time in years, he felt a genuine lightness in his chest.
He hesitated before opening the book. Inside were drawings, messy, colorful, childish. Drawings of her mother, Bella, dogs but none of her father. He flipped page by page until he reached one that made him still.
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