Chapter 53

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The class breaks at 12 PM and parents arrive

To gather their children for home.

Sunday afternoon heat wavers upon the blacktop

Swimming for the sky like snakes.

"Sorry for the wait."

He arrives with a towel hung from neck

Sweat beading his forehead.

I rise and shake my head.

"I don't mind."

As I speak, I feel a sudden chill fall upon my shoulders.

I give a shiver as something like snow melts through my skin

Icicles cutting into heated flesh.

Be careful.

A voice whispers in my mind, accompanied by ice.

"Shirayuki..."

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