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"Home," I breathed out before my wants could convince me otherwise "Take me home"

Twenty Three

Tears fell fro On our way to Lucinda, I idly consoled oodbye this ti was on the wall

Maybe Jaxon and I were destined to be star crossed lovers We’d gone five years without each other and we survived, albeit with bleeding hearts Still, we survived We would survive again

I stuffed the voice inside of me that screamed, I don’t just want to survive! I want to love and be loved! I want to be happy! I want hiedI couldn’t be part of There was no way it was going to work There was no way I was going to sit back and let those wo of that and of Jade Smith fuelledher and…

It hit ht I knehat I was doing, and I could have walked away I didn’t, though At that point you’d et you

What the fuck? How had he known I’d moved on?

"Dahin a nanosecond

The impact happened in slowThe car head lights co ofto one side as ainst the ; the eerie silence that followed

Dizzy and confused, I openedin reat in the side of my skull I opened my mouth to screaroan

So round Water coated ht I was being rescued fro away the rain, and saw a face in a balaclava ain Yes, it was a definite screa ofs and I was in the air I experienced the terror of my life when I saw a dark van; doors were opened, one dull interior light on, andtoward it Trepidationtaken

I screamed and cried until I felt the botto comprehendible in my dizzied state Then a sharp pain inquickly into a state of unconsciousness

I opened ht adjusted to the inani soft Ithe blanket over top ofin the strong sled with sweat I licked my lips My dry mouth tasted faintly of copper Blood? What the fuck? Where was I? What happened?

Moving was a bitch of a task bringing all kinds of horrid agony to my skull I felt around me as I sat up Wooden headboard, ht table, perhaps I blinked and looked again Yes, night table

I was in a bedroo lovely Whose bedrooodda all the pent up anger and frustration I’ve been taken The car accident Not et to me Why me? Why?!