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out like it was apologizing for existing. So the second I stepped into that sleek bathro

look smaller than I already felt. But there was soap. Real soap. Not the kind you get in gas station bathrooms. This one smelled

s like I was trying to erase the last week of my life. Cafes. Broken sleep. The feeli

aybe the world wasn't completely falling apart. And yeah I sang. Loudly. Off key. May

horus when

ban

o. Banging on the door

ed a little on the wet f

the

l around myself and then grabbed the oversized hoodie from my bag. Threw i

el. Standing there with that storm cloud loo

down he snapped the wall

urned and walked off wi

s retreating b

muttered alw

sigh and leaned again

. My hair was still wet but I didn't care. For the first time in days I

thing na

split anything at all. I didn't want to be a freeloader. And as much

lked down the hall

when I

e low ca

ything. Background address r

fr

ng about me.

mach t

e couldn't

nd I knocked once befo

now more about me I said

en look up f

lly just came to ask how

t his a

yes flicking over me like

he sn

could a

pped harder t

y jaw and fo

ly know how to make

back to whatever he was doin

Slammed the door to my r

ty

ing? Ab

o clean. Too quiet. It didn't feel real. Like I'd stepped into someone else's life and left mine behind on the sidewalk. And maybe I ha

I g

eyes like I was the problem. I was just trying to breathe. To survive. Maybe sing in the shower without being attacked like I was hosting a concert in Madison Square Garden. And that thing he said about the rent? Like I couldn't afford it? I mean, this did send like ab expensive apartment but still Excuse me. I might not have had a silver spoon shoved in my mouth at

fe was t

iving under the s

per