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Tick Tock [short story]

Teen Fiction

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[i]t's 4am and i can't sleep

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by wishuponajinni

by wishuponajinni

Thursday, July 25th, XXXX ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀04:00

United States of America

NXX XXXX

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There’s a song. I don’t know what it’s called. But I remember the lyrics.

It’s 4am and I can’t sleep

Her love is all that I can see

Memories made in the coldest winter

Goodbye my friend will I love again

I can’t sleep. It’s 4am.

But I can’t see anything. Not physically. My lamp is on and bright white. But metaphorically. I can’t see.

It’s like I’m blind. I don’t know what’s waiting for me. That scares me. It terrifies me. Where will a person like me go? Where do I have to go? What kind of future am I going to have?

I wanted to be a “Lucy.” But…can I become one?

The night is so lonely.

I want to be with the moon.