《When Machines Break》CHAPTER 2- PAIN
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I ran to my room, tears still streaming down my face. As soon as I got in, I locked my door and leant against it breathing heavily. Frank was right, I am useless. I looked across my room and saw my blade on the table, gleaming in the moonlight. It seemed to be almost calling me over towards it.
Such a beautiful piece of metal work, yet so deadly. One deep cut in the right place is all it takes. Then I would finally be at peace and reunited with my mama. I walked over to it and was about to pick it up when there was a loud banging at my door.
"HEY LEO!" It was Jason. Uggh. What did he want now?
"yeah?" I answered.
"Piper wants you to fix her watch." He informed me.
"Just leave it by the door" I said.
"Ok" and with that he promptly walked off, probably to go make out or something.
"Piper wants you to fix her watch" I mimicked under my breath as I went to go pick it up. "Fix this, Fix that! It seems all they need me for is to fix their things and cause more problems" I muttered angrily.
I looked at the time, it was already ten minutes past midnight. I looked down at Piper's now fixed watch and then blinked at the clock in amazement. I had been rambling for nearly three whole hours!
Now I come to think of it, I am rather tired. I yawn widely and crawl into bed, not bothering to change cloths, Id only get about half an hours sleep until I need t get up again for the next day and make all Argo II preparations, and yes they take ages because I'm always half asleep while doing them.
I try to get comfortable in my tiny bed amongst all my weird creations. I close my eyes and drift asleep only to be greeted with nightmares from Gaia, almost as bad as Tartarus.
~Althea-Hellfire
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