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Mahima Puram

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the eleventh hour

Weekly Contest #342

The first week of December, I noticed something had changed in Scotty. He was around me more; it almost felt like he was trying to fix our friendship. And that’s what mattered to me the most, our friendship. Deep down, I’ll always love him, but even if he wasn't my boyfriend, I wanted him as my best friend. Scotty was the only real friend I had before Austin. But now I didn’t have Austin, so I had to make sure I didn’t lose Scotty, too. He called me almost every night to make sure I was doing okay. It felt like how it was when we were dating...

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escape

    My palms are shaking, and I can feel the sweat building up in the crevices between my fingers. I hated it. It was sticky and warm, like syrup that gets all over your mouth when eating pancakes or waffles. The hairs on my neck practically danced like they were trying to taunt me. I feel the pit in my stomach grows more prominent every second.   I sit on the bar stools behind the kitchen counter, resting my forearms on the cold white marble tops, trying to block out his voice. But I could hear it like a p...

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