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Chapter 29
I watched her leave soon after I washed the rest of the dishes then put away anything that was left out on the table. I went back to my room once I was done and laid there playing on my phone passing the time until I had to get ready for this date. I began to clean my room after I got dressed because I was already nervous to go out and there was still an hour before Elliot came to pick me up. I sat there on my bed as I played around with the rubber band around my wrist and it felt like I haven’t done this in a while. I looked down at my wrist before taking a deep breath knowing that there wasn’t anything for me to be worried about. I made my way outside once it was time and made sure the door was locked behind me when I saw Elliot pulling up.
“Hey.” He said, smiling.
“Hi,” I said as I put on my seat belt after I got in.
“You okay?” He asked.
“Yeah, I’m just curious about what we’ll be doing
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Elliot finally went underwater and I watched him from where I sat by the edge. I started thinking back to when I first met Elliot barely two months ago and the school year is close to ending in three months. Maybe Elliot was right about me being different than who I was before when I started school and yet I still don’t see much of a difference in me. I looked at my hands as I reached out to touch the water and wondered when was the last time I'd been disgusted by someone touching me. Luis hugged me yesterday and I didn’t think much of it or Elliot when he held my hand. Maybe I’m not completely cured, but could I finally be better now that I don’t have to be afraid? Did I just not have to think about it when people reach out to me?“Michael.”I looked up and saw Elliot kneeling right in front of me.“I was calling you.” He said.“Sorry,” I said shaking my head a bit to clear my thoughts. “I
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“Every time people touch me, all I can see is me in my room,” I said as my voice grew louder and I moved a bit away from him. “I can’t breathe. I can't move. I don’t want to feel anything because when I do I always get hurt in the end. And I’m tired of it. I’m tired of this pain. Why won't it just stop?”Elliot was looking at me as he covered his mouth and he didn’t have anything to say. He reached out trying to pull me into his arms and I tried to move away, but we had a scuffle until I gave up and I just felt his arm wrapped around me. I ended up crying against his chest and I don’t know how long we sat there or cared if people saw us, but I just felt exhausted after saying all that to him. Mentally or physically… I’m not sure anymore. Maybe this was all that emotion that I’ve kept to myself and I never wanted to express.“Please… please, don’t ever say you can’t,&
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I sighed as I leaned back against the headboard. “And about what I said…”“Don’t. If you're going to give me an excuse about what you said then I’ll be mad. I think you said what you said because… you wanted someone to hear you.” He said cutting me off and I tugged a little at the bottom of my shirt. “You can’t take back what you said.”I nodded my head as I looked back at him, “Okay.”“Alright… now let’s get ready.” He said standing up before turning back to me. “You don’t happen to have a spare toothbrush, do you?”I smiled. “Yeah,” I said getting up and going to the restroom to grab it. “Where exactly are we going this time?”Elliot took the toothbrush and walked over to the bathroom sink. “Um, I don’t know.” He said as he started brushing his teeth.“I thought you alway
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He started walking to look for a machine to grab change to play the arcade games and looked around figuring out which game to play first. I tried not to think about the people walking around us and I made sure there was enough space between as I walked around trying to let them pass by first. Once deciding on a game of air hockey and it took me a while to get into the game, but the time I did Elliot was able to win me by scoring seven to two. We played another round and it wasn’t so bad this time since it was helping me focus on the game, not the people around us, but Elliot still won in the end. I didn’t mind losing because I’m not used to spending my time in these kinds of environments and I never had the chance to play a game of air hockey or any of the other arcade games.I tried to enjoy myself hoping to not show that he’s made a mistake on bringing me here since he had good intentions. When we find something else to do, I try not to think about e
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Elliot followed and he took his turn but I won this time. “What about your dad? What do you miss about him?”Elliot turned to me, surprised by my question before shrugging his shoulders as he continued on playing. “Um, I think just spending time with him. I remembered he used to take me to baseball games when I was young or the time we went to the beach.”“Do you think about him a lot when we go there? Is that why you like going to the pier?” I asked him.Elliot smiled as he hit his ball into the hole. “Yeah, I do. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s just good remembering him that way.”I nod and I sighed as I moved to sit on a bench taking a break. “I wonder about that sometimes. If I had died, would anyone remember me like that or thought about me.” I told him and he moved to sit next to me. “But thinking about it now, I think it would have only hurt my parents. I don’t even
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