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or night .' Her smile was so wide that it made her eyes squint . I didn ’ t like her . ‘ How are you this morning , Lily ?’ she asked . I felt my face tighten . I stared around the room . ‘ I ’ m- ’
~.~ They must ’ ve left . I didn ’ t remember them leaving . I ’ m alone again .
I was teasing a stray pubic hair that poked out of my underwear when I started to hear the house . Can you here that ? It ’ s sick with silence again . Silence gets into the pots and pans . It squeezes between batteries inside the TV remote . It drifts through the pipes too . That ’ s why pipes creak sometimes .
Did you know that ? I bet you didn ’ t know that .