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Essay / Personal Account: A Short Story - 1269
I could feel his shoulders rise and fall as he breathed. I never turned from the edge to face him. Not when he argued with me. Not now as he turned and headed back towards the stairs. Nor when he stopped at the door, hand on the handle, and sighed. It wasn't until Lisa arrived that I looked away from the devastation I had wrought on my town. “So, how did the rooftop serenade go?” » she asked. I turned to her and could see the smile falter for a moment. “We had an argument. He left." "And you stayed," she replied, watching what was now a battle between local heroes, fire trucks, and the blue-green fires raging in the distance. "And I stayed." "I want to talk about it." "I need your help with a job." “Oh really? And what kind of work do we do?” “Just you and me” “Find something interesting at the bank.” another name. Several more in fact. I'll need help managing them." "And you need my help specifically to do that." We call the