25 - Captive Hearts
Pain is a powerful emotion that toys with hearts like they are insignificant objects and clouds judgment as if love, no matter how fierce and strong, never once existed in the horizon. According to Ambrose Bierce, "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." Alex and Callie did just that, and they were left with a demanding numbness that gnawed and ravaged their being like a plague. And they suffered separately when no words could have been said to alleviate the deeper cuts they have inflicted upon each other - not even a simple apology. It's not like they tried either. Callie had never felt more misplaced than she was, sitting in Sydney Tucker's living room on a royal blue divan sofa - awkwardly trying not to lean back to the abundance of matching
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