Save Me [ Dave East ]

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East Harlem , New York 

December 24th , 2008

The night before Christmas in New York was always special , the city lights were beaming so you could see the big city from your window and everyone seemed joyful.  It seemed as is every one in the city was happy and everyone was at peace. It may have seemed like that but some people were just unhappy with themselves and the things that they were going through. 

Sixteen year old Ivanna James was sitting on the metal bar of the balcony connected to her room , her hands trembling as her grips tightened around the bar. She starred down at the concrete she was five stories up and all she could think about was how she was going to take her life and how her pain would just quickly fade away. The empty streets where no one could see her , where in just a few moments she would take her own life. 

Tear spilling from her eyes and her curls covering her face , looking ahead hoping she could find just one more reason not to jump but nothing to was coming to mind quick enough. All she could think of was the names she had been called at school , how everyone talked about her father and mothers passing , the constant bullying , and etc.  No one cared about how she felt or the things she had been through or at least that's what she thought.

" I don't mean shit to anyone...I'll never be shit." She cried out feeling herself jerk forward a bit and she quickly gripped onto the bar to keep herself from falling . Glancing down at the streets again she seen a tall boy dressed in all black coming towards her house. Ivanna's dangling feet caught the young man's attention. 

He looked up towards her stopping dead in his tracks. The two made eye contact , David Brewster was his name. On his way back home from hanging out with his boys. He was fully covered due to how cold it was. She looked him in his eyes hoping to find something to say but he beat her to it. 

" You should be careful up there baby girl..." He spoke up shoving his hands into the pockets of his Nike sweats. She didn't speak , she made a slight movement forward and he quickly knitted his eyebrows together. 

" What are you doing." He stepped closer to the building just in case she decided to make any sudden moves. The sounds of Ivanna's door opening caused her to look back to see her older sister Crystal coming inside. 

" Ivanna what are you doing ? " She somewhat screamed out running towards the balcony but before she could make it to the sliding door Ivanna found herself releasing  her grip from the bar and falling forward.

David was in completely shock but he knew to move quickly , he looked up as her 120 pound body came falling down from the five stories she was up he kept his hands up and he kept contacted on where she was falling. 

Squeezing her eyes shut she allowed her body fall straight down , she felt her head starting to quickly ache and her body freeze up making it hard for her to have any certain feelings about the decision she had just made. Before she knew it she had safely fell into David's arm. His body falling back onto the floor with his arms wrapped around her protecting her from the fall. 

Crystal's screams had brought the neighbors outside to see what had occurred , she ran down the steps of their apartment building until she got down to the main floor running outside to see her little sister's little body hugging onto David Brewster's tall muscular body. 

" Ivanna ! " Crystal quickly ran over to her little sister pulling her off David draping her arms around her tired effortless body crying as she hugged on her rocking them from side to side. 

" I wanted to go be with mommy and daddy." Ivanna cried out hugging onto her sister's body as she trembled not realizing that what she had just did crazy and not well though through. 

She just wanted her pain to go away...

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A few hours ha passed and the neighbors had gotten the news about Ivanna's suicide attempt , David was being nursed by Crystal he had hit his back pretty hard in the attempt to catch Ivanna from the fall. 

David in all his eighteen years of living  never had witnessed someone trying to end their lives. Of course he had heard about it and people around his school doing it but he never thought he'd be saving someone from taking their life. In some certain way he felt like a hero but he was humble about it he was just glad the girl didn't die in front of him. 

He sat on the couch beside Ivanna who slept with his knees pulled into her chest while he had a pack of ice on his back and Crystal sat on the ottoman in front of his icing his hands for him that were slightly bruised. 

" I can't thank you enough for helping my sister...I knew she wasn't feeling good about our mom and dad's death but I didn't ever think it would get this far..." Crystal looked down speaking lowly shaking her head. 

" I had to do something , I did what I had to for your sister. I just hope she realizes that theres more to life and that she will and things will gt better." David nodded looking up at Crystal who had a few tears slipping from her eyes. 

" I cant lose her...I lost them already I promised them I'd be there for her and I'd make sure she was alright. I'm feeling like I failed them." Crystal sat the ice pack on his knuckles and wiped her face sitting up from the ottoman. 

" I think you just gotta talk to her." David spoke removing the ice packet from his back and leaned back onto the couch tending to his knuckles a little more.

" Thank you again." Crystal spoke standing up and making her way into the hallway opening the cabinet pulling out a blanket and heads back into the living room. 

" It's 1: 45 am and I know its pretty late for you to be walking home so you can stay here for the night. " Crystal handed David the blanket in her hands ulling a smile onto her face. 

" Thanks...I never caught your name?" David asked looking up at her and took the covers from her. 

" I'm Crystal and that's my sister Ivanna." Crystal smiled walking over towards Ivanna slightly shaking her causing her to wake up looking around and stand up as Crystal grabbed her hand standing her up and leading her into the hallway. 

David and Ivanna made eye contact the entire time until she disappeared into the hallway. He shook his head getting out of his trance once realizing she had disappeared from his vision. So many things ran through his mind after making eye contact with her. 

For some reason he automatically felt and seen the pain in her eyes. He seen the pain in her eyes and he knew why she was on top of that balcony ready to take her life. Quickly standing to his feet he walked over to the light turning it off and laying back onto the couch taking his shoes off in the process and draped the cover over his body. 

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The next morning Crystal was waken to her little sister sleeping beside her in her full sized bed. She kissed her cheek and made her way into the living room seeing that David wasn't on the couch sleeping but the blanket was folded and there was a paper sitting on top of it. 

It read " I'm sorry I couldn't say bye I had somewhere to be this morning. I'll try and comeback to check on you guys soon. I hope everything gets better." Crystal smiled a little to herself placing the note on the refrigerator and grabbed the blanket placing it back in the cabinet

That was the last time David Brewster had seen the The James sisters....

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