This vignette takes place about a week after A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU ends, and after Marguerite has turned to her home universe. Definite spoilers for the book!

Heather Lewis lived a pretty normal life, and she definitely wasn't an outcast--well, that was the case until she had fallen in love with lead singer John O'Callaghan. As she falls into the clutches of depression, she meets him again a year later. Heather, though scarred and broken, had learned her lesson and had built up walls. Second chances were overrated for her. But could the same boy who tore her life apart be the same one to keep her mind off the edge?

Love at first sight? I don't believe in it. Love at first dance? Maybe. It was just another summer, just another trip. When I met Kennedy at the steps of a pizza place one night, he seemed so ordinary to me. Just a stranger. I never thought I'd see him again. In a social gathering, I saw him once more; and he invited me to dance. That's when I found myself falling head over heels in love with a stranger. In a course of a week I'd realized that he was no stranger to me at all, and meeting him again, and dancing with him again, definitely was the biggest mistake of my life. Then I realized that it was that horrible mistake that changed my life.

[Sequel to His Saving Grace.] In one year, everything had changed. I had found her, I had loved her, but now I had lost her. The girl who had fixed me, the girl who was my heroine, the girl who had saved me was the same girl who tore me apart and left me broken, even more shattered than I ever was. She had told me to never give up on anything. And I'm not giving up on her.

Me? Well, I, Katie, was nothing special. I was a nobody. Him? Garrett was definitely special. He was somebody. The last thing I needed in my life was a broken heart to fix. The only thing he needed was someone to save him before he faded away completely.