Saving The Broken

Prologue

*4 years ago*

"Grace!" Yelled my father, I turn to stare at him with a broad look

"What?"

"I know you snuck out last night" he pointed a finger at me "What have I told you? If you are going to sneak out at least use the front door, damn it. If you fall trying to make that jump your as good as dead" he growled at me

If you are wondering what he is talking about, let me explain. We live on the top floor of a crappy apartment; I have a ladder that leads to the top of the roof and from there is a gap between our apartment and the building next to us. Well, I sneak out a lot and use that as my way out, I jump from our side of the building to the next. It scares and pisses my father off tremendously.

It is quite a big gap and if I miss calculate even a small portion of momentum needed to make the jump I could fall to my death, but I am the top kid in my math class and I'm the star player on the track team. Shocked? I know what's an emo kid like me doing being good at math and some kind of sport? Well, I cannot tell you, I am just simply good at them. Anyways he thinks I am going to fall one day, I mean it would only be a four-story drop, but whatever. 

'Who cares right?'

"You're overreacting, I won't fall" I say rolling my eyes before turning back to my art and music

I can hear him sigh before closing my bedroom door. You see it is just my dad and I, my mom left us when I was a baby for some rich guy. It was hard on my dad, but he pulled throw to take care of me. I look just like my mother, or so my father says, and I hate it. I have her long light brown hair and dark brown eyes; we apparently have the same features as well. But I get my short height from my dad

I look up at the clock to see its past dinner time, I get up to go eat turning off my music on the way to the door. It's weird my dad didn't come get me for dinner like he always does, I place my paint brush down in a water cup next to the door and whip my hands on my pants. I slowly pull open the door. I peak down the small hall and see nothing, I make a move to walk down the hall before I hear voices

"Where's my money John?" Asked a very deep voice. 

'John? As in my dad?'

"I don't have it yet! I'll get you the rest of the money next week, please I need to feed my daughter" he pleaded. I slapped a hand over my mouth and pushed myself into the wall

"I gave you a deadline and you didn't make it; you said you were going to have the money this week, so I gave you an extension. No more time John, where's my money?"

"I told you I don't have it!" My father yelled

"I guess we'll just take your daughter"

"No! You leave her alone" it sounded like some struggling and I peek around the corner only to see my father being shot and falling to the ground

I scream before taking off towards my room, they start yelling for me to come back. I just slam my door shut and lock it before heading to my window, the door would not hold them for long. I struggle to get the window open, and  as I finally push the window up the door slams into my wall and I crawl out the window onto the old fire escape rushing up the broken stairs. I make it to the top only to come to a stop

I hear their shouting and the sound of people trying to get up the stairs, I quickly look at the other building and back up to make the jump. I start running as the men appear on the roof and I leap off the roof as one of the men tries to grab my arm, throwing me off. I try and grab the side of the other building, which thankfully I do. Trying to pull myself up my arms strength was not doing me good. I could feel myself slipping

"Boss what do we do? Shot her?" I heard one of the men ask as I struggle to hold on

"Nah, she'll fall. Let's just go before the cops arrive" the boss says before I can hear them running away

"Please god, give me a second chance" I whisper as I lose my grip

I scream as I feel like I am falling in slow motion to the ground and to my death, my father always said I could fall doing this jump. He was not wrong; this was how I was going to die. I reached my arms up and trying to grab the air like that was going to help as my body hit the pavement. It all hit me at once and before I was fully out, I could hear siren and feel my blood around me. Feeling the sicky substance coming from somewhere on my body and spreading around my dying body. I knew right then and there that I was dead

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1- What was your thoughts on the slightly improved chapter?

2- I made it longer if you couldn't tell

3- Who where those men?

4- Will her mom ever come back for her?

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Republished date ~ May 28, 2021

Love,
~ TheDevil