Distant Hearts

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soon after the day he gave me the gifts, he went back to ignoring me and I felt so broken, I hid in the cottage throughout the next day till dad started looking for me. Nigel was the one to find me, I was in the cottage crying my heart out. When he asked me what was wrong, I was too drained to answer him and he was so worried, he turned pale. He begged me to come back to myself and I burst into tears again but he held me till I stopped crying. The next day, we woke up, tangled in each other in the bed. He looked so shocked that if my heart hadn't been breaking, I would've laughed. We had only slept but his reaction would make you think otherwise. It wasn't the first time we shared a bed but he looked at me all wrong and that's when I realized we could never go back to before. He took me back home and went back to ignoring me until the day my classmate asked me out on a date. Nigel stormed the date and literally carried me out of the park. He was livid. I was angry too because he had no right. It was a big argu

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ve been frequenting Dotties for years now which makes me wonder if she just started working here recently. I don't walk to the counter immediately, instead I watch her from where I am, following her eve

umed she was going to steal Dorothy's money the night before. Seeing that Dorothy has managed to drag everyone's attention to me with her loud voice, I have no

st night honey?", Dorothy asks,

rothy, as always

if she wasn't a black woman, I would

ways serve to please",

her Tatum has still not turned to us. She's acting busy and ignoring my presence altogether, not even b

e one that cooked the dinner. She's one of my junior chefs. A wonderful ta