Nacht 9: Everything I Long to Do

Ten days after Ranger moved to Miami, Stephanie bit into Pino's meatball sub and found a diamond ring. Without thinking, she agreed to marry Joe.

At the beginning, life was really nice and easy for an empty soulless shell.

She smiled her pleasant smile.

She drifted along the current of time.

She got tossed into dumpsters and kept on blowing up cars.

She got chased by dogs, rats, bees and crazy skips.

She ate, she drank, and then slept.

She would not admit but she never ever stopped dreaming of him.

One cold raining windy winter night, she startled awake and her heart cringed in fear.

She half crawled, half rolled out of the lonely queen size bed in sheer panic.

She stumbled into her small dark kitchen and found that poor old Rex had died in his sleep.

She crumbled to the cold hard floor and wept.

She had never ever felt so lonely.

And the next night, her nightmares began.


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