"Down in the valley where the girls get naked If you throwin' bands then you know she gon' shake it,
1, 2 break 'em 3, 4 rake 'em
These niggas grind hard but these bitches grind harder climbing up the pole
Just to get out the bottom the crowd below stay ready for the show, the pimps, the dough don't let it take your soul
We make fallin' on the sky look easy-I used to be that preacher, telling people what to do, judging everybody, full of pride and self-consumed 'Till one day, I fell so hard; Lost my Faith in God; I couldn't even pray
So I say: Don't matter who you are, don't matter what you've done
You're never far from grace
We're just sinners saved by Grace
Everybody got a past
We're just sinners saved by Grace but ain't everybody got a future
I don't listen to nobody, that's claiming to know God but can show no love, that cold and so hard and don't say that I never told ya don't matter what's your sin, His love is there for ya and I pray your focus don't go down, you turn your life around, some way and some how... "
Life is full of contradictions, a woman raised in a church is a woman who is aware of the darkness in light. A woman who was raised in the streets is a woman who respects the rules of life, a woman raised in both is a woman who was raised to survive, no matter what, no matter where she's placed.
"Do you think we're soul mates?" She asked, lifting her head in order to lock eyes with him.
It took him a moment, mustering up his answer. Thinking about how they were so alike, but so different. How they had been through similar things and had the same outlooks on certain perspectives in life. The connection that they shared.
It was like she was made specifically for him. No one would ever be able to hold a candle to her and the way she made him feel. She was his person, and he was hers.
"To be honest...yeah." He replied, wrapping his arm around her.
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Knucks is a misunderstood teenage girl, deemed as destructive to the society with her reoccurring outbursts and rebellious behavior. Anger fuels her defiant spirit but beneath her exterior, lies a vulnerable girl searching high and low for someone to help her through a time of crisis.
Bones quiet and reserved, has nothing but a hard exterior looking from the outside in, when in reality he is just an innocent boy. He's fighting to keep his head above the water also known as life, that is trying its hardest to submerge and break him down mentally.
When the two teenagers find themselves in an environment far away from home with others just like them, it leaves both of them separately hopeless about the outcomes of their future lives.
One night upon meeting each other, one felt as if they had nothing to live for anymore, while the other felt the same way only holding a different meaning a sense.The night bringing them closer than ever eventually has to come to an end.
It's up to the two of them to carry out the strange but alluring connection made with each other, or leave it in the night they met.
SLOW BURN; 2 books in 1
STARTED; FEB 19th 2024
PUBLISHED; MARCH 3rd 2024
FINISHED; SEPTEMBER 29th, 2024