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I woke up in the middle of the sidewalk where I had my mini meltdown several hours before, I looked around myself to find that there was a 2 inch layer of melting snow, with the exception of a 10 foot circle around me. I must have caused it to start storming when I broke down, and fallen asleep when my body became too exhausted from crying and maintaining a miniature blizzard to stay conscious. It was beginning to get dark, so there weren't very many people out on the streets, but there was still that emptiness.
How does one describe emptiness? As nothing? As something? I could feel it, so is it a thing? I could feel it swirl around in my chest, like a drowning ocean, or a swallowing fog, threatening to consume me if I allowed it. If I let it consume me, I would only be crushed by the weight of my own depression. I had to overcome it, but I couldn't do it alone.
I once again felt the gentle brush of air as Wind embraced me. That's right, I wasn't alone. I closed my eyes tightly, tears leaking out beneath my eyelids, and silently thanked her. Without her support, I would have been crushed by my own loneliness and misery all those hours ago, when I first woke up on that frozen lake, when I met that strange boy, when I discovered that I couldn't speak.
A thought struck me. That boy, Jack, he saw me. Am I not alone? Or are we just alone together? So many questions and no one to answer them. Not even a way to ask them.
Maybe Jack was still there. I turned my head to the sky and asked my only friend to take me back the the place where I began.
I felt a sudden tug in my chest, I felt sad for some reason, and so lonely. Tears welled up in my eyes and began to run down my face. Yet I still didn't understand where they were coming from. They weren't mine were they?
I reached up and wiped the salty tears from my face. So I was crying. Huh.
I heard a familiar fluttering and turned to see Tooth flit through the doorway. She got one look at my tear-stained face and puffy, red eyes, and her smile faded instantly.
"Jack?! Are you alright?" She gasped as it started snowing lightly around us, "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
I looked up at her, confused, "I don't know..."
"What?" Tooth asked me, understandably confused.
"I don't know," I repeated, "I was just sitting here and I felt really sad for no reason... and I just started crying, but I don't know why."
And then, just like that, the sadness was gone, the emptiness was filled, and the loneliness disappeared. It was as if it never even happened. The light frost that had gathered around my feet had already melted. I wiped my face clean with the sleeve of my jacket. There, all of the evidence was gone.