“Much later I’d wonder what would’ve happened if I hadn’t gone to the ballet that night. Would I have been able to keep Gabriel a little longer?Or was our end already written from the beginning, long before we were born? Wednesday“Hello, family.” The older man’s drawl sounded like honey. Like Gabriel.“Lucas! What you doing here?” Marie asked flustered, discomposed in a way I’d never heard her be. Instinct told me to keep silent. So I did.“That was rather rude, Marie. You wound me and in front of... a guest no less. Whatever will she think of us?”Although he smiled I could see it didn’t quite reach his eyes. At all. Instantly, I realized this man was an enemy to me. My euphoria from the last hour evaporated, destroyed as if it never was.This suffocating sensation was what I understood, what I’d been used to since I was forced to go to school with people who automatically thought I was trash because I wasn’t like them.Aloofness became my cloak, fitting me so well as if I hadn’t cast it off in the last weeks.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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