Babel Novel
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Chapter 9
“Please, just let me go.”
“If you leave, what happens to Lydia?”
“You only remember Lydia as your sister–what about me?”
He said nothing.
Desperate, I sank to my knees before him.
“I’ve never begged you before, but I’m asking you now–please, just let me go! Give me a chance to live.”
“A chance to live? What about our sister? Our father? Tell me, where are they?”
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“You only see the dead–father, sister, mother, Lydia. Am I not your family too?”
His eyes softened for a moment but quickly hardened again.
“You? No!”
No? No!
It felt like a thousand needles piercing my heart, unbearable pain.
He and Mom had never seen me as family.
The deaths of Dad and Lena had haunted me for
years.
Clutching my chest, I struggled to breathe.
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I finally understood that pain so intense it leaves you breathless isn’t just a literary metaphor.
When the heartache reaches its peak, it really does make it hard to breathe.
Noel looked down at me with icy disdain.
“Stop pretending. Come back with me.”
Soon, I found myself calm again.
The last flicker of light in my life extinguished.
glanced at the bustling crowd around me, suddenly overwhelmed with a profound weariness of everything and of this world.
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Calmly, I said to Noel, “Alright, I’ll go back with you.”
He paused for a moment, then said nothing.
I stood up, mechanically putting one foot in front of the other, walking ahead of him.
As the train rushed past in front of me, I charged forward without hesitation.
There was no fear, only despair.