𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬

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It's been a hot minute, and I don't even know what to say right now. So, I'm not even going to say too much. But I'm very sorry, for leaving y'all hanging like that. I really am.

Now that I have managed to come out of whatever it was that I was battling with, I will try my best to be as steady as I can.

I will not come here and make promises to be consistent (we've seen how horrible I was in keeping up with that), but I will be as steady as my strength can take me.

The goal is to finish the book this year and have the next one out by February 2024. So help me, God!

But for now, enjoy 🍻.

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Dedicated to daniellaaniii ❤️❤️❤️

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I was going to make her scream even more. Not for help anymore, but for mercy.

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~[TRACY]~

These kids were always talking about the most stupid things, further proving my point that they grew even more senseless with each passing minute.

Currently, they were debating on which guy in our set had the longest rod. And I immediately switched off my phone the moment one they called Femi claimed to possess one of eight inches.

Stupid kids.

Stupid phone.

Everything was just stupid... save for the eyes I was busy trying to avoid, the reason I picked up my phone in the first place.

I could feel the warmth of his gaze on the side of my face, yet I refused to acknowledge them.

"You'd have to stop ignoring me at some point."

I pretended to be deaf.

"Tracy..."

Still, I was pretending to have lost my sense of hearing.

"Tracy..."

Now, I wished that my ears would actually stop working. Forever.

He called me Tracy?

Tracy!?

Never, in my entire life, had I ever hated hearing my name from someone's lips like that. I used to be Tee, his Tee.

And now, I was just Tracy. Like any other person.

"Tr—"

"Shut. Up."

If it was just a pain in my chest, or my temper rising, I didn't know. But my jaw was about to shift from how hard it was clenched.

"Go away."

"No." From the corner of my eye, I saw him move farther slightly. "I'll give you your space, but I'm not leaving."

I scoffed, chuckled in everything but humour. "What happened to staying away from each other?"

That question, I aimed it specifically to go through his chest and slash his heart. But my own words had turned against me, and it was my own heart ripping,