Safe & Sound

I remember you said,
"Don't leave me here alone."
But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight.

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For years, they were under the spell of young love, until one fateful day when everything changed. She left without a single explanation, keeping the secret that would weigh down her conscience for nearly four years. Desperate times call for desperate measures. She had to tell him, and when she finally did, it turns out to be the best and worst decision
she's ever made.

Warnings: Language, mild violence, mild sexual content, alcohol use.