Cold

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Okay, last chapter!! I've never finished a book and I'm so happy.  Like I have handwritten random little short stories, had plans for them but have never finished them. So this is really big for me.  

After I post this chapter, this is it!  The sequel I will start once y'all vote on Caramel or Cinnamon, and that info is in the Title chapter.  I will not announce the sequel title until 5:00pm Sunday, February 19.  I will keep tallies on the choices and the winning tally will be the title.  

Note: keep in mind that for this chapter, Harley has really lost her mind, so I know it's annoying, but there will not be many paragraphs.  Just sentences and strings of thoughts from Harley. 

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Harley stared at the plate of food in front of her.  

She was back in the penthouse. 

With Theo.  

With Tabitha. 

With Barbara. 

They were no longer friends. 

Barbara knew what Theo was going to do.  

Barbara didn't tell Harley. 

Harley wanted to kill them all.

But she couldn't.

They kept her in a straight jacket 24/7.  

They kept her mouth taped.  

She hasn't spoken in days.  

She refuses to eat. 

She refuses to drink. 

She refuses to speak.  

She lived in her head 24/7.  

She hated it in her head. 

There was too much Jerome there. 

There was too much of her family in there.  

There was too much.  

"....not eating....."  Harley heard the voice again.  They come in and out of range for her.  

She was mute. 

She was dead inside. 

She wanted to die. 

"....the syringe...." she heard again.  "...tubes..."  

Harley felt tears leave her eyes.  

She hated the tubes.  

It's how they made her eat.  

Why were they keeping her alive?

She felt hands grab her.  

Ice cold hands.

Foreign hands.  

The only warm hands were Jeromes hands.  

Jerome.  

Harley missed him.  

She felt the tears spill as her mouth remained duct taped.  

They held her down with ropes.  

They held her hair back.  

They shoved the tubes up her nose.  

She screamed through the duct tape.  

She blacked out.

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She woke up on the floor.  

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