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Dating-Personal Narrative

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I don’t know if you remember, but when we were friends, we used to run around play fighting in the school hallways. It sounds strange, but I appreciated that. You were the only person who didn’t treat me like I was too fragile; weak, or at least that’s how I interpreted it.

We had a lot of fun at first. Taking each other to our favourite places; all those secret hideouts in the forest, the breathtaking views over the river. The cliche stuff I’d imagined every couple would do. You were sweet, too. Offered to take me on dates, buy me flowers, chocolate, all that fancy stuff. But your company was always enough.

I’m not sure where I went wrong.

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“Hug me or I’ll rape you,” you whisper, snickering because I’ve given in once again. Is this what dating is like? …show more content…

I still haven’t really let him touch me yet, but that’s okay; he understands. We held hands yesterday though.

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It’s been two years. You don’t come to mind anymore, at least, not all the time. I’m beginning to think what happened never actually happened in the first place. Maybe my mind exaggerated, just like everyone told me? Well, the people I told, anyway - which isn’t very many.

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Sometimes moments happen so fast you forget they even happened until you hear someone speak a certain chain of words and here I am again stuck in the dirt, falling, but this time, I can hear you utter the word “Bitch” and laugh when I push you off and tell you to stop. I met your sickeningly green eyes and that’s an image I’ll never forget; your face and the feeling of your body on top of me is a feeling I will never forget. Am I shaking because I’m scared or because I’m cold? It’s 26 degrees outside but I tell people I’m weird and get cold in the summer so I’ll wear hoodies and jeans even when there’s a heat warning and it’s because of you. Because of the black dirt under my nails, the pounding in my head, and the cherry-coloured liquid dripping from my

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