Hanggliding with my besties

As Kal trotted with a limp up the slight incline of the concrete path to K-Haven, the rain lend no mercy to his current state. The rain kept pouring, the cracking, constant booms of thunder kept sounding, and the momentary bursts of vast, intricate lightning that lit up the black sky like an exploding lightbulb continued to shriek.

Kal's black sneakers made sloshing noises every time he put pressure on one foot, but at this moment, soaked shoes were the least of his long তালিকা of concerns. How humiliated he was দ্বারা the sheer satisfaction Jackson drew from he and his compliant obedience. How badly...

All was quiet that পরবর্তি morning. As the sun finally rose and replaced the moon in the sky, the little birds outside began to rejoice দ্বারা gleefully chirping for hours on end, prompting a man to raise his window angrily, and toss a book at one of the nearby clusters. They scattered and took their business elsewhere as the city began its daily routine.

A slim crack of light edged its way in through the curtains of Hannah and Damion's home, and found its rightful place on Hannah's left eye.

She slowly woke up and rubbed her eyes gently then sat up. They were still on the couch, she noticed, which...

The time was 8:42 p.m. The temperature outside was cool, and the sky was a soft পরাকাষ্ঠা with small hints of blues and yellows and oranges cascading through every ounce of মহাকাশ between. Cars no longer occupied the worn down roads in the area, and the children had gone inside their homes for the night. The neighborhood was quiet; peaceful, আপনি could even say. In a brick house located at the end of the street, there was a rusty clank as the sill of a window was opened to let a flume of cigarette smoke out.

"You've cheated. I swear to God, you've cheated at some point, and, and, and, I just- didn't...

That following morning was a morning like no other, and it felt so surreal that Maria questioned if what she saw a few hours prior was even real, even though she knew it was.

All those pictures. All those women. They kept flashing continually in the back of Maria's head like a broken film. And every time she tried to turn it off, to just reroute her thoughts for a few minutes, it came back. It always came back.

And it was for that very reason why she couldn't even turn and look at him in that bed. She couldn't turn herself to focus on the man she devoted her entire, young life to--the man who...

"Alright, miss Anais, it looks like you're coming along nicely in your overview." a female nurse ব্যক্ত energetically as she skimmed over a few pages attached to a marked up clipboard.

"Zara." the recipient in the chair blankly responded.

"I'm sorry?"

The girl sighed frustratedly and adjusted herself in the chair, gripping the handles as her eyes locked onto the nurse's. "My name, it's Zara, I don't go দ্বারা Anais anymore. I told the other nurse that and the one before that--both of them ব্যক্ত they would change it, and clearly, neither did."

"O-oh! Well, let me be the break in the chain then." the nurse...

Without even thinking of the consequences, and not seeming to even care, Kal dashed over to the ট্রাঙ্ক of the tree. As he came to a sliding halt, he threw up his arms, latching his hands onto one of the lower boughs, and yanked himself upward until he found himself sitting on it. From there, he found another branch and repeated the process.

"What in the hell is that boy doing..?" One of the men in the back of the car asked as he watched dumbfounded. He turned to see if Jackson was as confused as he was, but ultimately found that he was আরো annoyed than bewildered.

The other man in the back decided...

দ্বারা this time, যেভাবে খুশী onlookers were starting to form in groups around the two of them, and as even আরো people began to যোগদান in, the আরো Damion began to feel uneasy about the situation. The mumbles among the groups were becoming louder, with some asking if anyone saw someone attack her, and others asking if she had a breakdown of sorts. Some whipped out their phones and began to record as one man started shouting, claiming he saw Hannah throw herself down and how she was doing this purely for attention, because, according to him, "that's just what females do."

Damion saw over the crowd with...

দ্বারা the time Damion and Hannah pulled into their driveway, the clock on the dashboard read 10:32 p.m.

"Well. We're home~" Damion stated cheerfully as he unbuckled his seatbelt. "Now, let's go make that tea~"

He turned to his left to open the door and slid himself out, but before he could shut the door, he noticed that Hannah didn't move. She stayed buckled in, with her arm propped up on the window, still looking out. She seemed to have not even noticed they were home.

"Hannah?" Damion asked, puzzled. "We're home, baby."

She lifted her head off her hand and dreamily looked around. "Oh~"

Damion smiled...

Hannah couldn't help but let her mind wander as she waited for the bus at the bus stop that dark night. Maybe she really was getting in way over her head and it was a bad idea to let this girl come into her life. As her mind flickered back to the daydream she had as she stood in that loud police station just 20 hours before, her hand slowly rose from her side and found her soft neck. She rubbed it slightly in the spot where the gash was made, making sure the skin was still intact. Maybe it was the paranoia, অথবা maybe it was the tiredness, but she could have sworn she could still feel the glass...