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His gaze returned her own, unblinking, and for a moment it seemed as if the paradox had opened to freeze them in this suspended moment forever. She could spend an eternity memorizing his face, and just wondering what it was that made her loath and crave him simultaneously; but with the serendipitous mercy of all moments, it passed, leaving the silvery girl clinging to her own pathetic nostalgia, and feeling peculiarly, scarily, alone.
He had risen to a stand, as she had ought seconds before, but the purpose of this movement was not to linger - Not to hesitate, as she had. China, too, stood: But by then, the boy had spread most malcontent ebony wings, and his step led through the gaping door. For a moment, she stared at his retreating back, with a mingled feeling of shock and gnawing rejection. A salty fluid began to well in her eyes, but she had never cried without feeling before, and did not recognise the emotion of sadness until one crystal droplet had already escaped to streak down a blushed cheek.
"Itachi-" She followed him to the doorway, but lingered there, unwilling to step out into the cold white expanse of fallen snow, as if that would make it all real. Her tune fell, not weak, but scared. She had been a fool to preach that she feared nothing; If he left, perhaps he would walk out of her life forever. Then what would she do with the freshly constructed hole in the dome of her perfect mindset, where his face had lingered. It would gape, like the ruined windows of this cursed place, and she would look through it and see only the cold reality beyond. "Stop. Itachi!" Another tear rolled down her cheek, and she dashed it away irritably, not understanding the moisture.
Arms held herself tightly again, in a defensive gesture that was quickly becoming familiar. "... Don't leave me." Just a whisper - But it was cold, so cold and empty in the decrepit shack without him there.
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