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"He’s always late," Sage intervenes,on the brownie "He’ll show up in like tenhere would cure ht" Lyric stares at ht it would help so how uys have when you play would forceto conjure up an idea I remember when I was afraid of the dark, how I used to cover s It didn’t cure ht Now I use o

"I have an idea," I say, otten of ht be a little weird"

She smiles excitedly "Lay it on me Whatever it is, I trust you, Ayden"

Her words crash into my heart, more than in a just-friends way I wonder just how much of a lie I told her when I said that it was just a friend kiss It doesn’t h Lyric is the sunshine in et really dark I’m not even ready for a relationship I can barely handleher sent me into panic attack after panic attack

I suddenly realize so makes my scars throb, that I’ their way to the surface That even though I have a new life, the cuffs and chains are still there, trying to pullto haunt me Of myself My brother My sister

What was done to me? Stuff I can’t even remember, but can somehow still feel the fear connected to the experiences

And I’m not sure if I’ll ever fully be able to escape them

Chapter 12

Lyric

In the silence ofair

Like I’

Then I felt your lips

The softest touch

kissedto life

For the very first time

you showed me a taste of life

That’s what I wrote after Ayden kissed ht, over and over again I want another taste of it--of what his kiss brought e since it happened Twitchy S less And I have no idea how to act around him other than be super happy twenty-four seven, even after what I discovered about hi around on the internet--an article about his past

"Are you sure about this?" I ask Ayden as I stand in the s inlike a jackhammer