The week had rushed past Jude and now that she had time to breathe for herself she barely knew what to do with it. She'd become used to people pulling at her hair and applying makeup and telling her how to stand and what to feel and now she was just...Jude. She wasn't quite sure what to do with Jude.
After all,
Jude wasn't the most wonderful of people.
Jude had blocked out those who showed any signs of caring. She thought, just maybe, that she had been getting better. Getting stronger. But she could see now she was wrong about that.
She stood where she was, cold air seeping into her, and pulled her phone from her pocket, still watching straight ahead. The air escaping her lips was white and it took a handful of rings before the phone was answered on Slink's end.
"I'm outside my father's house," she told the other girl, eyes still on the lit up windows in front of her. She stood numbly on the grass outside and closed her eyes. "Give me a reason not to go in." The
please on the end was unspoken but it was obvious in her voice anyway.
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