p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"Yo! Midterms are done! Third quarter has begun! /span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"We emwill/em be trying to put in lots of effort to update ALL the stories 'til they're all caught up./span/strong/strong/p
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p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" /span/span/strong/strong/strong/p
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p id="docs-internal-guid-08a148bf-5232-0853-2180-cd0872bce69e" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"When I woke up, I was back in the room I had started in, the testing room. Christina was walking around the room, pacing up and down the length of it. I looked at her with a puzzled look on my face. She saw the look and pressed her hands over her face, running over to my side./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Azkane. We need to get you out of here. I changed your results to Dauntless. Just sneak out the back and-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Christina? Why are you freaking out? What-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"She pulled me out of my chair and rushed me to the back door. "I'll tell them that you puked. Go home and don't look back. Go, Azkane Woodly. Go," Tears lined her face. She had pushed me through the door and closed it behind me./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"I didn't know what to do or where to go, but i had another day before the day I had to choose where I wanted to belong for the rest of my life. Whenever I felt lost or lonely, I would go to Azzy's house. It was only a few blocks from my house... But wait. I forgot. He doesn't like me anymore and we wont ever get to see eachother anymore and basically, my life just fell apart in those three seconds. My knees gave out and I dropped to the cement of the road, flinging all of my weight down. I heard a shattering coming from my legs, but I couldn't feel any pain. I was numb. I couldn't think. Azkane was all I could think about. He was the only guy who was nice to me when no one else was and who stuck by me when shit got rough. He's been my friend for so long, I don't ever remember a time without him. Now, there's a void in my heart, a dark, empty spot that is just pooling with nothingness and worthlessness. I feel like I'm nothing. I am nothing. My torso flops down onto the road, in front of my knees. Time seems to slow down as I just lie there, in the middle of the street, sobbing, and not hearing anything. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"A voice lulls me out of my dark place where only death lurked. I match the face to the voice and all of a sudden, life is brought back to my body. My head jerks up and there he is. My savior, my Azzy. Pain floods my brain and I wince. Right, my leg. I point to it while trying to hold back tears./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""You never were too careful, T." Azkane smiles softly and gently, pulling me into an upright position. "Let me call for some help." He pulls out his cell and dials the emergency room. Az tells the person on the other line that I fell and probably shattered something in my leg, then hangs up and looks at me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Why are you here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""I knew, somehow - don't even ask how I knew - that you were in trouble and I ran until i found you. Some part of me knew that you would be walking to my house, too. It's like a 6th sense." A smirk sneaked it's way over his face, making my insides feel all warm and mushy./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Thanks, Azzy. For rescuing me. Again," We laughed at my joke. I had always said that Azkane was my knight in shining armor, because he just appeared when I needed him. "But I was sure that you hated me..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""How could anyone hate you? With your cute, baby face and your super blue eyes. I don't think anyone could stay mad at you for very long." He kept acting so nice. What was he playing at? Why?/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""But then-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"He sighed and dropped his head. "I needed to keep up my reputation. You know how we dated in secret for so long and how I 'dated' girls on top of you?" I nodded. "It was because I was the king of the town. Everyone looked up to me and aspired to be me, and I couldn't be dating a boy. It would've ruined me..." His voice trailed off. Azkane didn't bother looking at me, but I knew he wasn't lying. "I love you... Amity." His head stooped lower and his lips brushed against mine. I felt the warmth of all those years of happiness with him by my side come rushing back./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"I smiled. "I love you, too, Azkane." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"A car came up next to us and halted. "You the two kids who called? About one guy falling?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"Azkane nodded and slipped away from me to talk to the driver. I was loaded up and taken to the hospital soon after, with Azkane holding my hand the whole way./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"We emwill/em be trying to put in lots of effort to update ALL the stories 'til they're all caught up./span/strong/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"Thank you guys for sticking with us in this journey!/span/strong/strong/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;" /span/span/strong/strong/strong/p
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p id="docs-internal-guid-08a148bf-5232-0853-2180-cd0872bce69e" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"When I woke up, I was back in the room I had started in, the testing room. Christina was walking around the room, pacing up and down the length of it. I looked at her with a puzzled look on my face. She saw the look and pressed her hands over her face, running over to my side./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Azkane. We need to get you out of here. I changed your results to Dauntless. Just sneak out the back and-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Christina? Why are you freaking out? What-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"She pulled me out of my chair and rushed me to the back door. "I'll tell them that you puked. Go home and don't look back. Go, Azkane Woodly. Go," Tears lined her face. She had pushed me through the door and closed it behind me./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"I didn't know what to do or where to go, but i had another day before the day I had to choose where I wanted to belong for the rest of my life. Whenever I felt lost or lonely, I would go to Azzy's house. It was only a few blocks from my house... But wait. I forgot. He doesn't like me anymore and we wont ever get to see eachother anymore and basically, my life just fell apart in those three seconds. My knees gave out and I dropped to the cement of the road, flinging all of my weight down. I heard a shattering coming from my legs, but I couldn't feel any pain. I was numb. I couldn't think. Azkane was all I could think about. He was the only guy who was nice to me when no one else was and who stuck by me when shit got rough. He's been my friend for so long, I don't ever remember a time without him. Now, there's a void in my heart, a dark, empty spot that is just pooling with nothingness and worthlessness. I feel like I'm nothing. I am nothing. My torso flops down onto the road, in front of my knees. Time seems to slow down as I just lie there, in the middle of the street, sobbing, and not hearing anything. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"A voice lulls me out of my dark place where only death lurked. I match the face to the voice and all of a sudden, life is brought back to my body. My head jerks up and there he is. My savior, my Azzy. Pain floods my brain and I wince. Right, my leg. I point to it while trying to hold back tears./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""You never were too careful, T." Azkane smiles softly and gently, pulling me into an upright position. "Let me call for some help." He pulls out his cell and dials the emergency room. Az tells the person on the other line that I fell and probably shattered something in my leg, then hangs up and looks at me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Why are you here?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""I knew, somehow - don't even ask how I knew - that you were in trouble and I ran until i found you. Some part of me knew that you would be walking to my house, too. It's like a 6th sense." A smirk sneaked it's way over his face, making my insides feel all warm and mushy./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""Thanks, Azzy. For rescuing me. Again," We laughed at my joke. I had always said that Azkane was my knight in shining armor, because he just appeared when I needed him. "But I was sure that you hated me..."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""How could anyone hate you? With your cute, baby face and your super blue eyes. I don't think anyone could stay mad at you for very long." He kept acting so nice. What was he playing at? Why?/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;""But then-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"He sighed and dropped his head. "I needed to keep up my reputation. You know how we dated in secret for so long and how I 'dated' girls on top of you?" I nodded. "It was because I was the king of the town. Everyone looked up to me and aspired to be me, and I couldn't be dating a boy. It would've ruined me..." His voice trailed off. Azkane didn't bother looking at me, but I knew he wasn't lying. "I love you... Amity." His head stooped lower and his lips brushed against mine. I felt the warmth of all those years of happiness with him by my side come rushing back./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"I smiled. "I love you, too, Azkane." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"A car came up next to us and halted. "You the two kids who called? About one guy falling?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"Azkane nodded and slipped away from me to talk to the driver. I was loaded up and taken to the hospital soon after, with Azkane holding my hand the whole way./span/p
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