Finding Scarlet

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Four

Scarlet

I haven't seen Toby in what feels like a thousand years.

Every time he stays away—longer than the last—I find myself slowly start to lose what's left of my sanity. He was my anchor, my rock, my foundation. He was the one who kept me grounded.

He was the one who kept me here.

Where is he? Is he not dreaming? Can he not find me anymore?

Has he forgotten about me?

Every time I turn around I just see space: space that's empty and unfulfilling. It makes me feel like a criminal trapped in solitary confinement, even though I'm not a fugitive. That is one thing for sure I'm not.

I desperately want to leave. Not just the playground, but maybe to what lies beyond.

Sometimes I get the strangest sensation; something magnetic tugging on my cells, trying to coax me in a direction that I can't come back from. I so badly want to follow their heed; to give into the temptation and make it all stop. But I can't. I never can.

But the longer I find myself alone, and the more I am left to my thoughts, the more the temptation grows, and the tugging turns into a pull and then I know will eventually turn into a shove.

And there will be nothing I can do to stop it.

I take a breath. "Toby, where ever you are, you better come back."

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I know it's a short one but I really wanted Scarlet to share her thoughts, and this is all that she gave me, so... what can ya do.

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