into the light

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I bite my lip 
all through dinner
everything I repressed

everything I pushed away

is threatening to b u b b l e 
TO THE SURFACE.

"Do you want to play upstairs?"

I ask Zaina,
as soon as we're done 
clearing up the dinner table.

"Yeah! 
Lemme get my Bratz dolls,

I'll be up in a second."

I go to check on Suki,
before realizing that she's gone
to Keiko's house for a sleepover.

I hear Zaina rushing up
and I brace myself.

She rushes into my bedroom,
drops to the carpet and starts arranging
her dolls,

"I was thinking Chloe and Jade
could be a part of this secret-"

"Zaina?"

"....what? What's wrong?"

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