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The Day He Saved Me

Chapter 3 03

Word Count: 1109 | Released on: 07/04/2025

t with my tears. I can't be

w many bruises he has

to do out there ?

ing ? I'm just a teenager who

gain from my part-time job be

r that Mom had been working hard her entire life t

new where s

iolence against me to make me speak, but how can I

finally comes, when I find it, I will disap

as I stare at my reflection in the mirror. Just

n't wait for it. School is the place whe

art until two and a half hours later, but I c

initial reason why I'm wearing it is to avoid Tuck's rage, to make the effec

ted, but my glasses and I

g on my shoulder, and these thick glasses, I look nothing less like a bookw

ay. Be good

y heart, hoping to encounter something good to

of my backpack. When it finally arrives,

al. But since I come earlier, it's no

that all the seats are already taken. I have no cho

the window that somethi

immediately recognize him because he atte

captain. The guy that most of the

, during which he usually sits at the popular table with

im, but his picture-perfect existence is

ance, I can see how his masculinity can intimidate other guys

. Damn. I doubt that he recognizes me, so it wi

indow, I can't help but wonder why

like...su

oticed it before that he has a shiny toy. I don't know

r him pick it up, I can sense that he's standing not

ns, speaking on the phone. « My car is broken, dammit. I'l

r football practice. And the

st like that. Like magic. It's not like

wondering when I'll

take her to various places. Fun places. A sa

unusual happening. Right. I'm sure of that

my thigh. I shudder. I can also feel the heavy b

ing have anything else to do other t

s skirt today – I just want to start m

e-length, and from the way it looks, I doubt that it

wear something way

man's rough skin continues caressing my thigh. A gasp almost es

escape him, and he easily traps me again. Oh, God, has no

they ? All of them are too occu

ing me yelp. I suddenly decide to just scream for help,

Chapter End

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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.”