Diamond Desires

Prologue

The rain was drifting across the city, splattering over the large full length window, that gave the view of the city several feet below me.

So here I was; tired, annoyed and a little disappointed in myself and my life. I got rejected for the job again which was the only last hope I had. I was expecting an attendant's job at the very least but seemed like I was just too unlucky.

My mom was lying in the hospital bed for more than two months now and I had not a single penny in my account. Somehow, I had managed to collect enough money to make the doctors let her stay for longer, dropped out of many classes, sold out my car that used to be my dad's, just before he decided to leave and never come back.

I had just entered an empty bedroom because there was no way I could go out and face everyone with another bad news. If someone found me here I was going to be in a lot of trouble. A cold breath left my lips and I shivered. I dragged the window open and took a step out in the balcony, allowing the drops of rain to fall over me and soak me in that moment of utter melancholy.

I allowed myself to hang freely from the railing, not concerned about the heights below me. Not thinking twice about the unsettling fear of slipping and dropping down from the fiftieth floor of a hotel building.

The darkness had started to take over the already grey sky, possibly because of two reasons; the Sun was about to set and the rain was getting just heavier and gloomier.

I heard a deafening thunder not far away and a chill ran down my spine, giving birth to a totally decent thought; what if I jump?

I opened my eyes and stared down at the tiny asphalt roads below, with even smaller and minute cars buzzing like insects over it. All it would take was letting go off the railing and dropping myself loosely. That's it. End of my problems.

The thought was dominating everything; responsibility, happiness, my mom, everything. All that mattered was freedom.

My breath went a few hundred miles in a span of a few seconds as I began to take action over my immature and most stupid plan I had ever made in my life.

My phone buzzed in my pocket and I knew it had to be one of my friends, rooting for me to get a job but what was I supposed to tell them? That I failed again? I couldn't.

Cautiously, I jumped to the other side of the railing, my heels clicking with the metallic structure. My heart was beating in my mouth as I stared down again. All it would take was letting go, I thought. I took a deep breath, deciding that this was it. All the memories, everything I had done all my life, good, bad, every haunting memory, every fear I had seemed so precious at that very moment and I re-thought about it.

I had to. All my senses came back altogether and I suddenly realised how stupid I was.

This wasn't the solution.

This is never a solution.

But I was too late to realise that. My feet imbalanced over the metal bar and I almost fell down. But suddenly and as surprisingly, a hand grabbed my arm with infinite force and threw me back inside, making me stumble and fall on my knees.

"What the"- I gasped for air as the rain continued to pour down my face and I slowly realised I was alive. Wasn't I?

"Bloody hell." I heard someone curse behind me and I climbed back on my feet before turning around to see who it was. Someone had just seen me doing a stupid act of mine.

"Are you even in your f*cking mind?!" He yelled again and I turned around to witness a man in his twenties, as soaked in rain as I was. His dark hair were all damp over his forehead but still somehow magnificent. Although I failed to recognise him, thanks to the rain that was making a heavy curtain in between us.