The Cliff (Eminem)

Life Cheats

Madeleine

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I glanced at his peroxide blonde hair. He was cute.

I mentally face palmed. How could I be thinking this when I was a second away from suicide just about half an hour ago?? I sighed sadly, and he turned his head to give me a concerned look.

"You alright??" He asked.

Then he groaned.

"Of course you're not fucking alright!!" He muttered mostly to himself.

"Do you really care if I die or not??" I asked quietly.

He gave me a look of bewilderment.

"Fuck yeah I care!!" He was going to say more but then, he suddenly became really quiet.

I looked around. I hadn't really been paying attention to where he was taking me. We were in the worse part of Detroit. He shifted uncomfortably as we stood in front of a pretty small house.

"My friend lives here. He lets me live with him. Umm c'mon in." He led me to the front door. The house was far worse than my place. But I would rather be anywhere but my place. Slowly I walked in with him. The inside looked pretty comfy. I followed him into what looked like a kitchen.

"Want anything???" he asked. I shook my head.

"No thanks.." I muttered.

He kept giving me sympathetic looks and I felt very uncomfortable.

He gave me a chair and we both sat down. He kept shifting and twitching.

"So umm. Anything I can do for you??" he asked. Wow he actually really cared.

"No, not really. But thank you for umm saving me." I whispered the last part.

His blue eyes drilled into mine.

We sat quietly for a moment.

And then I couldn't take it. I finally broke down and cried.

"Oh shit!! Shit!! c'mon don't cry don't cry!!" he panicked trying to comfort me. Suddenly he was at my side, holding me and rocking me side to side.

"Shh........ it's all going to be aright..." he murmured very quietly.

Slowly I fell asleep to his mumbles and rocking.

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I woke up on a couch. Panicking I jumped up and quickly looked around.

Then I remembered yesterday and flinched.

I had tried suicide.

But then I smiled.

Somebody cared.

"You want breakfast??" somebody asked behind me and I jumped.

"Fuck, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you!!" He said quickly walking up to me.

"I'm fine." I mumbled.

"Soo..." he muttered.

"Umm yeah I guess." I answered.

"Ok come with me." he smiled and led me to the kitchen.

On the table there were two plates with waffles.

"Thanks..." I said sitting down.

I froze for a second.

"But I have one question.." I stated.

He looked me in the eyes.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"Why do you care??" I asked.

"Why did you save me?? Why did you take me here?? why didn't you just leave me there?? why didn't you let me die?? why??" I asked. Tears burned in my eyes but I still pondered on.

He looked very uncomfortable. He shifted about 200 times before finally answering.

"I couldn't let you die. I couldn't leave you there. Even If I wanted to. But I didn't, I didn't want you to die. I didn't want anoth- a person dead because I didn't save them. Life is too unfair. I just couldnt.." he ended with a whisper.

I stared at him.

After that conversation we ate our waffles in silence.

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