**"Happy birthday to you"**
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**"Happy birthday to you..."**
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**"Happy birthday dear-"**
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**"Emilie?"**
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** My niece looks up at me, a knife on her Snow White themed table cover. **
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** "Sweetie, it's not safe to have knifes around without adults with you." **
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**She shakes her head, pointing to the corner of the room. I stare at the pink w...
** My heart starts to squeeze in my chest, emptying me. **
** Lines of fire burn at my flesh, I shut my eyes.**
**I rub my arm...**
**up and ****up and******
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** down **
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** I focus on that. **
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** Slowly, my chest feels ****ˡ****ᶦᵍ****ʰ****ᵗᵉʳ****** **and my arms feel as if they were ****_wittled _****o...
My mother sighs, shaking her head in disbelief. I look over towards her, following her eyes. A picture of Miny Missy fills our flat screen. I catch on when I hear the word ''missing' used.
"Is that not the third one this week?" questions my father. "It is," worry fills her usual bubbly voice within seconds.
Miny Missy was always miny in bravery. The fork challenge must've lost her. Pity. ...
