You Saved Me Once Book 1

The room goes quiet. I’m still in the kitchen, frozen, and wet. The water from my hair, now drips on the kitchen floor.

I open the freezer, just to double check, even though I know there’s no ice cream left. But, with the freezer door open, it stops me from see-ing her room.

I go upstairs, grab my bag, MP3 player, headphones, and my cam-era.

I can’t spend another night in the house alone, not again.

My car was in the shop, so I call a cab and go downtown.

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were lights, people, laughter, and enough life to

wind blows, and the air is misty.

of people without their permission. They look happy. It seemed like they were in a different world then me, a

had ice cream, that I could eat. Taste like sugar-soaked vanilla, but it did the job.

entire time, while I listen to my head-phones, and play a game with the sidewalk. I avoided the lines on the sidewalk, the lines were my secrets. If I stepped on a line, then I had to say a secret out loud.

could blurt them loud, and feel

in, the music

Another line. Another secret.

to blurt it, when

feet again, I feel paranoid. Did the person in the car hear my secrets? Will this travel around town too? Another thing with the