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aige was brazen, I had to give her that. After discovering her creeping around my house like a fucking cat burglar, I had to do something. The weight of her absence was taking its toll on everyone. My little sister from another mister especially, I hated the way Phoenix put on a show, trying to make everyone believe she was okay with Tel’annas’s absence. Phee had been through enough and I knew deep down this was just another person she believed had abandoned her.

It angered me, how could someone claim to always be there for you and then just disappear, ghosting everyone that cared for them, ghosting me? I despised the way she made me feel. The gaping hole she left inside me was something unfamiliar to me. I’d never let myself catch feelings like this but something within her called to me. Like somehow Tel’annas Lennox was the other half to my already blackened soul.

Storming back into my house I followed the crisp apple and cherry scent of Tel’annas’s perfume down the hall, I could