I rocked my body back and forth, trying to calm myself down. I could feel my chest tightening, as if my muscles were trying not to let another breath in. My breath came shallow, and my lungs felt like they were unable to move much against my suddenly heavy ribs.
Then my mind became static, thoughts making no sense, replays of horrors I pushed at the back of my mind. Before I know it I'm sitting on the floor, limbs unwilling to work at all as tears began to form. I could feel the hard painful lump in the back of my throat and an intense pain struck the top nerve in my head as tears streaked my face.
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