Meadow Lake: A Short Story

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Everyday at the Meadow Lake, she would be there. She’s came ever since she was a child. She came to read a book just for an hour and sometimes in that hour she’d get a whole two chapters in. She wasn’t embarrassed here, she felt like she could be herself here and that no one could judge her. It was her favorite place in the whole entire world and every time someone tried taking it away from her, she took it right back. That was before he showed up. She could no longer focus on what book she was reading, she only focused on what shirt he was wearing or what he was doing in that very moment. She tried to stop herself so many times but she couldn’t bring herself to stop because he was that interesting. Sometimes she contemplated on whether

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