You Saved Me Once Book 1

I sit in his passenger seat, while Hayes drives.

When he saw me walking this late, he offered to take me home.

I said no, more than once. I didn’t want to be in that car with him. I didn’t want to be near him.

I gave in after a while though.

The ride is quiet, but there’s always Hayes’s music, to fill the si-lence.

“Are you feeling better?” He asks me.

I’m nervous.

“Yeah.” I lie.

about you?” I

“Yeah.” He says.

but his voice was sad

what Jeff and I did in Hayes’s car,

the street lights change.

repeatedly calls my

him and face the window

still turned to

“Hayes. Stop doing

laugh for the first time in a while. He honks

you Hayes! What do you want?!” I

He could make me smile and break my heart at

sorry, Little Richards.” He smiles. I squeeze my sleeves, and

silence between the two of us. My eyes aren’t glued to the window anymore, though. We’d occasionally look at each other.