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My chin quivers.
Come back. Please come back.
"Did you guys see that, too? Or am I hallucinating?" Neil utters.
My head whips around, my eyes wide in shock as I stare at them. They're all looking at me with wide eyes, their jaws slack as they stare into the distance.
I turn around, looking where my hallucination just was and only see the dust settling to the ground, the pale-yellow sand tinged red from the setting sun.
"You saw her?" I cry.
I thought it was in my mind. But it wasn't. She was real. She was real, and I don't know what it means, but the fact that my heart beats heavier, my body shot with adrenaline, makes me know what it means.
It was him. It was my soulmate.
It was Roman.
Don't give up.
If he were to tell me anything right now, it would be to not give up.
“Guys?” comes a wobbly voice.
I turn around, seeing Trish staring at Shauna. I glance at her, seeing her eyes barely open, her knees shaking for only moments before she collapses to the ground. Her lids open wide, rolling in the back of her head, showing off the whites of her eyes. Her jaw tenses, the entire muscle along her face and neck going taught.
Then she starts shaking. Trembling heavily as her spine arches. Her entire body tense, her arms twitching against her sides as her body rocks against the ground.
“What’s wrong with her?” Trish screams.
“She’s having a seizure!” Neil shouts, running up to her. He pushes her on her side, his body pinning her against the earth. He brings his fingers to her cheek, tilting her face to the ground.
“What are you doing?” I scream, my fingers going to my hair. I pull on the ends, feeling helpless, feeling sick, feeling out of fucking control.
“I’m trying to help her!” he shouts.
Trish cries, “It looks like you’re hurting her.”
He scowls at her, keeping her pinned to the ground. Shauna continues to thrash beneath him. What feels like hours, even though I know it’s only been minutes, goes on with all of us staring at Neil trying to control Shauna so she doesn’t hurt herself.
“Shauna!” I cry, wanting this to be over. Wanting it all to end.
Finally, it does.
Shauna’s body goes limp beneath Neil. He rolls off her instantly, his knees in the sand as he lays her on her back.
She’s motionless.
Her eyes open wide.
“What’s wrong with her?” I whisper, my jaw slack.
“Shauna!” Trish screams, falling to the ground. Trish shakes her shoulders, her fingers burying into her skin as she attempts to wake her. “Wake up, Shauna! Wake the fuck up!”
“Shit,” Neil mumbles from beside me.
I look at him with a frown, taking a step away from him and toward Shauna. I squat down, my knees creaking and aching as I grab her hand. My fingers trail along the warm skin of her palm, sliding up until I hit her wrist. I press my fingers against the tendons, holding tight and closing my eyes.
Please.
