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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hey! I'm Yuri Plisetsky. I'm 14 and in my final year of middle school. I have two friends Victor, a junior in high school, but he comes by for breakfast most days, and Trevor, who's in my class. We go way back. As I turned the corner, I saw Victor sitting at the table eating breakfast not an unusual thing, he does live next doorbr /"Morning!" Vic said cheerily "Coffee?"br /"Sure! I love when you bring coffee!" I exclaimed as I sat /"Well it's time I go. School is waiting, speaking of which Yuri hurry up before you miss your bus." Victor said beforebr /"Don't worry I got this all timed out, I'll get there just as the bus does," I said before stuffing bacon in my face in five minutes Trevor was gonna text me to tell me the bus passed our predetermined spot to signal it's time for me to head out. Ping. Oh looks like the bus is running early todaybr /"See you Dedushka!" I called out as I stepped outside the house and broke into a light jog. The stop was a little way down the road about a five-minute walk but only three minutes jog those two minutes can be the difference between missing the bus or not quickly the red sign came into view/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"As she spoke I remembered this, mom won the case when this happened before but we ended up moving back to prixia cause he kept showing up and harassing /"Is our home in prixia still being rented out?"br /"No I might have to sell it…"br /"Why don't we just move back and give him this apartment?" I suggest. Not only would this skip the trial and give me more time to get through to /"It's not that simple.. I can't just leave my job you know..and then I have to sign you and Sasha up for school and…"br /"Come on Mom we were all happier there.. And this city has bad memories and he hasn't dropped this in the last 2 years. Do you think he's really gonna stop?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Mom was quiet for a bit then said "he knows that address too.."br /"Well, you were gonna sell it anyway right? We could just get a different house there…"br /"Otabek… I am so sorry for all of this... You are only 13.. You shouldn't be solving my problems.."br /"But.. You don't have anyone else.." I said, 'cause it's not like I could tell her I'm actually 21 or anything. And it's true mom didn't have anyone around this time, the step monster moved us here under the guise of helping my older sister Alina become a successful ballerina but really it was to isolate both her and My mother."br /".. But it'll take a while to arrange.. We might not make it until December when the school year has already begun."br /"Hey.. That'll be ok.. And I'm helping you pack everything.."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hey! I'm Yuri Plisetsky. I'm 14 and in my final year of middle school. I have two friends Victor, a junior in high school, but he comes by for breakfast most days, and Trevor, who's in my class. We go way back. As I turned the corner, I saw Victor sitting at the table eating breakfast not an unusual thing, he does live next doorbr /"Morning!" Vic said cheerily "Coffee?"br /"Sure! I love when you bring coffee!" I exclaimed as I sat /"Well it's time I go. School is waiting, speaking of which Yuri hurry up before you miss your bus." Victor said beforebr /"Don't worry I got this all timed out, I'll get there just as the bus does," I said before stuffing bacon in my face in five minutes Trevor was gonna text me to tell me the bus passed our predetermined spot to signal it's time for me to head out. Ping. Oh looks like the bus is running early todaybr /"See you Dedushka!" I called out as I stepped outside the house and broke into a light jog. The stop was a little way down the road about a five-minute walk but only three minutes jog those two minutes can be the difference between missing the bus or not quickly the red sign came into view/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"As she spoke I remembered this, mom won the case when this happened before but we ended up moving back to prixia cause he kept showing up and harassing /"Is our home in prixia still being rented out?"br /"No I might have to sell it…"br /"Why don't we just move back and give him this apartment?" I suggest. Not only would this skip the trial and give me more time to get through to /"It's not that simple.. I can't just leave my job you know..and then I have to sign you and Sasha up for school and…"br /"Come on Mom we were all happier there.. And this city has bad memories and he hasn't dropped this in the last 2 years. Do you think he's really gonna stop?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Mom was quiet for a bit then said "he knows that address too.."br /"Well, you were gonna sell it anyway right? We could just get a different house there…"br /"Otabek… I am so sorry for all of this... You are only 13.. You shouldn't be solving my problems.."br /"But.. You don't have anyone else.." I said, 'cause it's not like I could tell her I'm actually 21 or anything. And it's true mom didn't have anyone around this time, the step monster moved us here under the guise of helping my older sister Alina become a successful ballerina but really it was to isolate both her and My mother."br /".. But it'll take a while to arrange.. We might not make it until December when the school year has already begun."br /"Hey.. That'll be ok.. And I'm helping you pack everything.."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Wow.. Look at the time we should both be heading to bed.."br /"Right," I said as I stood up and headed for the hall. I shivered as I passed my older sister's room. I thought I'd never be here again yet so far I've been here the past for a week. 2 years ago and 11 years for me Alina died. I still remember everything. My mother screams in horror. How I ran frantically cause I thought maybe someone had broken in and the silence as I saw what she was seeing. Cut only but the sound of a rope timidly swinging side to side. I blocked out the vision of my sister though. Perhaps it was instinct to protect my then-young mind cause when I think back all I see is a shadow swinging like a metronome. As I enter my room I spotted an old camera. That's right I never did give Yuri back his camera.. Maybe I should next time I see him. As I looked I realized the video he had me record wasn't the only one saved. My curiosity got the best of me so I sat on my bed and began looking through./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I'm home.." I said as I walked through the door, and dropped my bag at the /"Hey, Hun.. how was school?" My mom askedbr /"It was ok." I shrugged as I head up the stairsbr /"Dinner will be ready in a bit, I'll call you in a bit."br /"Ok, mom!" I said as i entered my room and sighed "Home at last .."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Um.." she beganbr /"Now you just wait here! I won't accept disrespect in this house!"br /"Tom!-" My mother beganbr /"Thank you for excusing me," I said before leaving. I didn't wait for a response before I bolt to my room. As I got to my room my heart was beating a mile a minute. I looked around my room looking for a distraction. as the muffled sounds of screaming seeped from the slit in the bottom of the door and vibrated through my bones. Soon my eyes landed on the dye. Well now is as good a time as any I guess/p