forty buttons
[Private]
[Written in her scribbly little handwriting is a list. Anyone else would be clueless to what it means, but to her it sure as heck means a lot.]
Rorschach
Eddy
The wusspuss Cat
Wybie
Edward
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[She doesn't really realize that the journal's open when she kind of just... whispers to herself. She's idly fiddling with that key that's stays 24/7 on some plain old string around her neck, wondering if the castle is trying to take everyone she cares about away from her, and watch in amusement at the outcome.
As much as she doesn't want to admit it to herself, tears have been shed over all of her friends who have gone home so far.
Sometimes she can't keep that kind of thing private the way she'd like, but it's helpful to have someone there to comfort her. That's what everyone who's gone home did when another went away. Wybie left, Edward was there. The Cat left, Wybie was there.
Now that there was hardly anyone left besides adults, Coraline was beginning to feel very, very lonely]
...Why does everyone keep leaving me?