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Will you come back?

It had been months before she finally talked to them. She started out with a simple 'hi' until it became a one whole group conversation filled with inside jokes and memes that took her back to a time when they were just three. Maybe it was merely circumstance that drove them apart and brought those two together. In her defense though, those feelings were simply a force to be reckoned with; they tied her down, anchored her to the bottom of the ocean until she drowned in them. But yesterday, Sabine had messaged her privately, asking that question, and Aba was reminded why she didn't want to go back -- why she didn't want to see them yet.

I can't.

She was afraid that seeing them would make all of those inexplicable feelings come back, that it would break her like it did before. Time, she needed it badly; time to build up her defenses to guard her heart, and time to pick up the shattered pieces of herself.