You Saved Me Once Book 1

I lock eyes with him, and seconds later my eyes lock with Ro-chelle. She sees Hayes’s head on my lap. So does Jeff. Which makes him go back to his car, but I’m running after him.

“Jeff!!” I yell to him. My voice is still too weak, but I try my hardest to swallow the lump in my throat that won’t go away.

“What Alex!?!” He shouts. His voice is on the brinks of break-ing. My tears come first.

“Wait!!! Please!” I cry.

He stops walking and turns to me in panic.

“What’s going on, why are you crying?!? A-are you okay?!?” He panics.

“Can we talk in your car?” I ask, while staring off at my car.

I wipe my face as we head to Jeff’s car, the closer we get, I can feel my pulse increasing. When we finally make it to his car, we sit in the back seats in silence for a while. I needed to tell him what hap-pened, he deserved to know, but I wasn’t ready just yet. I’m always so bad at communicating my true feelings. So instead, I grip our held hands together tighter, and kiss him. He kisses me back passionately, while giving me a hug.

up my thigh. Just like Ryan

“I’m sorry.” He

comment, all I can do is cry. I couldn’t

“Something happened

scares me. My heart flutters in sadness, and my stomach keeps

car. He slams the door on his way out which makes me jump.

my car, only to

“What did you do to Alex?!?”

“You don’t want

harder, my throat burns. A

Rochelle and Lorene have now been woken

drunk.” Jeff spites

“You fucking junkie.”

a drunken already-bruised Hayes. Before it starts, we’re dis-rupted by Adam running