Three years.
Three years without his touch, without hearing his voice or having him there to pick her up off the ground when she needed it.
Three years.
Three years since the last time she saw him smile, felt him in the same room as her.
But it wasn't her fault.
He was quick to overreact, hard to make listen. Fighting, never ended well for them. She knew that from the beginning, but she wanted to find a way to make it work.
But that was three years ago.
Odessa was a smart girl, always has been. She was particularly book smart, but had a decent amount of street smarts. She couldn't tell anyone where to buy drugs, but she could defend herself if it came down to it. She just wasn't the smartest when it came to men and relationships. Which is why her previous relationship crashed and burned.
But that was three years ago, and now, Odessa was auditioning to be an ensemble dancer in an up and coming musical, Hamilton. Her entire life, she had loved to dance. And now, if she made this audition, she would get paid for doing what she loved. An actual dream come true.
For three years, Odessa had been building herself up so that she could bring herself to forget about him, but three years can go down the drain in the blink of an eye.
I feel his dirty hands touch me once more and move up higher to my thighs. I try to jerk them away but he locks my arms in his hand above my head as a thousand hot tears leave my eyes. No...no...please...
I shut my eyes, not wanting to see this face another time. I shudder in disgust as he brings his lips to my neck and starts kissing me. Suddenly, I hear a groan of pain and I get free of his disgusting hands. I don't feel him on me but I don't dare to open my eyes. Another moan is heard again and a punch. I open my eyes and see him kneeling and bleeding.
I watch at the boy who saved me and he hits him hard as more blood floods from his lips and nose. It's so dark and my tears don't allow me to see my angel.
My savior moves as his fist connects with his face and my angel's hair glow under the moonlight and I stop breathing. Corbyn?
The boy falls to the ground unconscious as Corbyn hits him in the jaw for the tenth time. His eyes move to my glossy ones and without any thought, he comes to me and wraps his arms around my body tightly. And just like that, I start crying harder as I bury my head in his neck and tug hard in this shirt.
He doesn't say a word, he just pulls me closer to him and leaves me to surrender to this cathartic cry that overwhelms me.
My brain stops working and the only word that exists is 'save'.
I open my mouth and after so many weeks, the first words that slip my lips between cries and sobs are
"You...you saved me"
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Amelia is a young girl with a simple life and plans for her bright future. After her parent's death, everything she thought she knew will alter. But actually, all that is about to change when a blonde annoying boy will come into her life and break everything she believed into pieces. And who knows even save her and himself...