Page 47 of The Glass Girl

Hey Bella you

But his words go in my ears and die inside me

You okay Bella

With that mouth that mouth that once was mine

Get away from me

I push

Just get away from me

Oh there is Lemon in the middle of the room

Shouting and laughing

Hey Bella show me your nips

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Holding up his phone

Bella be like the statues,he shouts.

We did this art project,he tells the people around him.

The human body is a beautiful thing,he says.

Gray tooth’s eyes are glistening he is watching me closely

Chanting all the kids chanting

Nip slip nip slipand

Dylan get your hands off me

don’t touch me

your skin hurts me

all of you hurts me

and I’m flying apart and moving toward Lemon

chants in my ears

and I will be the statue

This is like a movie of me

That I’m watching

Like it’s not happening to me

Dylan holding my arm

He took my heart and ate it up and swallowed it

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