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Evaline laid still, letting his one-word answer absorb into the story she already knew about James. He didn't seem like he wanted to share, but neither did she, and she ...

James answered Evaline's question, but there was a long pause afterwards, and she wasn't sure if he was going to elaborate or not. She'd let him fill in the holes ...

Evaline expected a short and simple answer, but suddenly, James spilled details about his personal life. This caught her off guard, but she did her best to listen and follow ...

Evaline felt like she should be having a proper reaction. Increased heart rate, nervousness, anxiety, defensiveness, something. But she was too physically and mentally exhausted to do this. "What was ...

A lingering silence filled the air, causing the pre-built tension around them to nearly drown Evaline. He was awake the whole time. Of course, she only started to talk because ...

Evaline was about to let the heavy silence fill her exhausted body with her nearly-empty mind now, but when James quietly spoke up, it was like lightning had coursed through ...

Evaline thought it would have felt cathartic to admit these things out loud with James sleeping nearby, but it didn't. Not really. It just made her feel her own self-pity ...

Evaline paused to shuffle the confusing thoughts in her mind, trying to figure out what she really wanted to say here. Was this even helping her? James wasn't even awake. ...

Evalint continued on, quietly talking to the darkness. "Life wasn't so bad back then. It was, you could even say, peaceful. I would have been okay with my life if..." ...

Evaline waited for a response, but didn't get any. She took a quiet breath out. It was better this way. She wasn't sure she'd be able to do this if ...

Evaline didn't know how much time had passed, but a thick, tense silence seemed to suffocate the room. Usually, James defused a brewing argument before it could get too far, ...

me, instructing others to give questions and forgetting to add mine myself Carter: What do you think about the name 'James'? I think it's a lovely name for a lovely ...

CORRICK UR GETTING BOOTED SRRY

"AND THAT'S TIME, FOLKS!" K.K. Slider hooted before the chaos could escalate. He rose out of a hole on the stage, spinning on the podium before posing with a guitar ...

"Okay, then," Evaline said, turning so her body faced away from him as she leaned against the prickly, uneven rock wall. It felt wrong to just end this conversation here, ...