The Day He Saved Me

Chapter 2 02

Word Count: 845 | Released on: 07/04/2025

I look up at the clear blue

aring my gaze away from it.

e pain inside my chest every time I

s as I look at my own shaking ha

a mo

my skin stings as I collapse onto the

ms at the corner of my eye, and I know that i

the pain in my heart – I can no longer feel i

are as he stares at me. « Is this all that you could get for me

ide me. How could h

n working hard to earn it by juggli

at the local bookstore. The owner is k

immediately snatched it out of my hand. Well, at least not

forcefully robbed my wallet last time. I don

n the world of gambling now. I've seen those deb

rous ground by hiding my money fro

that I won't starve m

helter to live in, that you can still stay under my fucking roof

have moved here in New York. She wouldn't have sold our hou

rd him becomes

ied, Tuck tricked Mom with

ect us and take care of us. And when he finally revealed his tru

dy, and he used her to help him solve hi

spats. « Don't look at me like that with those ugly

I try to reach for my th

rs, and every time he looks at them, they remind him of all those ang

and I groan in pain. Furious, he stomps out of the foyer towa

Feeling my blood boiling, I storm into my roo

this. I've promised myself not to cry anym

. I miss h

still here with

. Died in

ed her that she shouldn't be driving that morning when she had barely enough

er get into her car every time she went for work

I couldn't see her anymore

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The Day He Saved Me

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“« It's you and me. Together, » he says, his voice soft yet unwavering. « Us against the world. » In that moment, I want to believe him. I want to believe that someone like him - untouchable, adored, the golden boy of our school - could really mean those words. That the universe could be kind enough to let someone like me hold on to someone like him. But life isn't a fairy tale. I know that better than anyone. Growing up, I learned to fear men. To distrust their words, their smiles, and their promises. My stepfather was my first lesson - a cruel man who used his fists and his words to break my mother and me into pieces too small to repair. I watched her endure him, and I told myself I'd never give anyone that power over me. I would never let anyone get close enough to hurt me. And then came that morning. The day Jake Spencer - star quarterback, school heartthrob, a boy who lives in a world so far from mine it might as well be another galaxy - saw me. Not just looked at me, but *saw* me. It was the day he saved me. Maybe he didn't realize what he was doing, but it didn't matter. That small act of kindness cracked something open inside me, like sunlight slipping through the shutters of a locked room. But Jake Spencer doesn't remember that day. How could he ? To him, it was nothing - a fleeting moment in a life full of glory and victories. But to me, it was everything. It was a lifeline, a flicker of hope in a world I thought would always be dark. It doesn't matter. I tell myself that every day. He's the golden boy. I'm the invisible girl. We belong in two different stories, and I'm better off blending into the background. It's safer there. For both of us. But fate has never cared about what I want. When it brings us together again, it isn't gentle. It strikes like lightning - sudden, fierce, and utterly unstoppable. He crashes into my life, turning everything I thought I knew into chaos. He tears down my walls, breaks through my defenses, and leaves me exposed in ways I never thought possible. He destroys me. And just like the first time, I'm the only one who remembers. But what I don't realize is that this time, he's breaking too.”