LXXII | Some Test

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I'm tailed by the nurses
for a month.

They won't leave
until they do

THE TEST.

I think they're overreacting.

But of course,
I don't track these things—

like a normal girl.

The doctor is firm
even when I make a scene.

Boring questions.

Routine.

Her eyes are kind.

Calculating, patient, bored.

The angel from the first day
was obviously

a hallucination.

The asylum is crowded.

David still has his escort
—that's four nurses.

There's a new patient:
Siti.

So six nurses.

Asher escapes getting shadowed
and I'll ask if why

if they'll just relax

and let him talk to me.

He looks at me often,
so I know he wants to.

(At first I thought
he's just feeling guilty

like he was

before.

Then

I remember.)

The one who used him

is me.

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