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Pure Obsession (Finn) - Chapter Three
Date: 11/1/2017, Categories: Reluctance, Author: SITTING, Rating: 23, Source: LushStories
trying to regulate my breathing as I watched the steam billow out of mouth. I needed to stop smoking. There was a little family walking down the street, a short distance away from me. Two adults, one kid. The parents each held one of the child’s hands and I could hear her laughing. It was a sweet, innocent sound. I never remembered feeling that way myself. So carefree. Maybe I was born different. I turned and a sign in the window of a shop caught my eye. TO LET/MAY SELL. GROUND FLOOR & PART BASEMENT. CALL 07568249538 FOR ALL ENQUIRIES. I looked up at the gigantic, Victorian building. It was very smart, with huge windows and carved stonework. The first floor upwards had been converted into offices and apartments but everything below was in need of repair. It was sad in a way. Through the window I could see a vacant room, a huge dusty space which had been abandoned halfway through a renovation. There were pots of paint lying on their sides, a stepladder leaning against the wall, an old sink in the middle of the room. Sometimes things just needed to be taken care of. If someone came along and bought it, they could fit it out and make something amazing but if no one cared, it’d just stay there and get older and more rotten with every passing day. It needed saving. Just like people needed saving. And yet, if you didn’t try saving yourself, why should anyone else care? Nobody cared about anyone. You had to make people care about you, make them value you. I dug my hands in my ...