The corners of the diary scraped against the unhealed wound on her face and there was a burst of sharp pain before blood began oozing again.

Jeremy did not notice, however. He brushed past her shoulder and his broad and powerful shoulders hit Madeline's thin body and in an instant, she fell down beside the bed. In front of her, was the open diary that Jeremy had dropped. Madeline looked down and she saw the words she had written. "Jez, finally I get to see you again..."

Madeline looked at the words written on the diary page and laughed at herself. Laughing and laughing until tears began to run out of her eyes unconsciously.

The warm water dripped past the bleeding wound, along the curve of the chin, and finally, mixed with a drop of blood, dripped onto the sentence in the diary.

Jez...

Her former Jez had died in her heart.

That gentle sunshine, the boy who had said he had wanted to be with her forever, had completely died in her heart...

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Some pus developed in the wound on Ma