The Songs I Stole
“You were there, and I ran my car into you, it was me. I had been drunk and I just couldn’t do anything. When I realized what had happened, I had brought you to the hospital. It’s me, the reason you can’t speak. I took away your voice, Vanya.” I stare at him, my face blank. But inside me, everything burns in a raging storm. I want to scream at him, want to tell him how much I hate him, how much I want to tell him that I will get revenge. But looking at his guilty and broken expression, I am forced to wonder whether it is worth it? …Maybe it is.
Vanya Averin had always dreamed of playing with her band in front of thousands of people, cheering her on, listening to only her. That is until the school’s hotshot, Kieran, drunk hit her with his car. Declared as mute for life, all Vanya wants is to get through the last year of school undetected in the shadows. But Kieran isn’t ready to leave her alone. He knows what it feels like when dreams shatter. Maybe there is more to the hair-obsessed goalie than Vanya knew. Maybe the goth, V, fake-dating every smart guy’s wet dream wants more than he lets on. Maybe her volunteer sign language tutor and V’s pretend girlfriend Taylor is not perfect as she seems.
Maybe I have already forgiven him, and I wanted to tell him that. I wanted to tell him that maybe I had somehow come to love him. But I couldn’t. All because of him. Which is why it is better that these words remain unspoken. Alike the songs that he stole.
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The Songs I Stole
Teen FictionVanya Averin had one dream - 'I stand under strobing lights, millions of people screaming, for me. And then, I sing. And they would hear, they would want to.' But now her voice is lost, all because of Kieran Gallagher, the school's infamous jock, wh...
