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And I think sometimes, something that can

make you happy, could turn out to be the last thing

you ever would have expected.

1Happiness, The Fray, The Fray

Patrick

What a bad fucking night. I huff and curse and

growl and fight with my eyes. I can’t stand

anyone, I don’t want to see or hear anyone or

anything for a hundred kilometres around because

tonight, I’m telling you, I could really do

something to end up behind bars.

Tonight, I’m biting. And only to kill.

I have this strange tension going on, this mixed

anxiety, half psychotic and half compulsive, that I

could commit a crime.

It was Aaron’s words together with these new

feelings that I didn’t ask to have and that I didn’t

want, but by now they’re here and there’s nothing I

can do to ignore them.

Just like the voice of that stupid little devil that

sits on your shoulder suggesting what you should

do, what things to try and that you shouldn’t listen

to anyone else but him, even if he knows he’s not

in the right and that listening to him would mean

the end, for me and for all those around him.

I’ve made a decision: I have to stop looking for

her when she’s in the pub. I have to stop knocking

on her door to see if she’s all right. I have to stop

watching her, from a distance and in silence, with

the fear that someone else might be able to read