(remember this is a short story so everything moves fast. It's a memory in Hue's head.)
"I knew I loved you then but you'd never know. Cause I played it cool when I was scared of letting go."
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AMIR TURNER.
PAIN. An everlasting, agonizing feeling. We feel it so strongly but still have no sense of it. Why does it hurt so bad? Why do some of us feel it more than others? In the physical or mental. Even the things that we thought would make us whole, broke us with pain. Pain. Find your purpose. Make your pain worth it. The more comfortable you become in your pain, the more you'll be able to deal with it. Don't ever let anyone tell you that pain doesn't last forever. It's in you, we're human but my advice is just don't let it define you.
Amir laid in bed staring at the window as Ouni rambled on about last nights events. "Hue?" Amir became fully aware of the conversation all of a sudden.
Ouni bit her tongue as she let his name slip from her mouth. "I didn't say Hue. I said Juni, my love."
"Don't insult my intelligence. I know what I heard!" Amir snapped. She could hear perfectly fine. "Hue did what? You're saying Hue drugged me? To get me out of the club?"
"What? No. I said that Hue has had Vince watching you all theses years." She corrected.
Amir bit down on her bottom lip. She bit so hard that she would soon draw blood if she did it any harder. "You get him on the phone, now. I don't care how. Now."
"Amir."
"He doesn't get to do this, Dyouni." She cried out. "He left me. I didn't leave him. He doesn't get to- it's not fair. He didn't care enough to come see about me by himself, he sent Vince. He doesn't get to keep tabs on me. He'd know exactly how I was doing if he would've just stayed in my life!"
Amir was livid. No one may understand why she's so frustrated but she did. Hue was her puppet master for years. She didn't know it then but she knows it now. He controlled every emotion that she had. Her world revolved around him. She was doing so much better once she gained control of her feelings. "Vince is here somewhere. I'm gonna find him and I will beat Hue's address out of him if I have to."
"I told Hue-"
"Girl you think he gives a damn? Are you dumb? Vince is still here and he isn't leaving until I leave this hospital room. The only way he wouldn't be here is if Hue himself were here. And he's too much of a coward to show his face." Her tone was harsh and she was unknowingly snapping at Ouni.
