The Cowardly BadBoy
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Last published Sat, Dec 31, 2016
"Your such a coward. You think your so bad? You have that armor on so tight that it's becoming apart of you. Don't let your cowardice keep you from finding happiness. Because you put your walls so high up, so no can reach the real you. News flash, I'm not afraid of heights."
I said as he looked at me with one emotion, that I see everytime, in his face...pain.
"And what? Your trying to see the man behind the Lion. Testing my limits? Seeing if anyone could love me? If-If I could love anyone? I'm not your puppet, I'm not your charity project, find someone else to 'rescue.' I don't need saving."
He stared at me with such intensity and infuration that for once, I saw the beast behind the man.
He started to walk away as memories of last night flashed in my mind... The tension and trust that built up, but along with it something that maybe only one sided, and if I wasn't going to get hurt I was gonna have to take a page out of Nathan's book, armor...
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Ariel is someone who is always kind, always generous, and always beautiful. She chooses to see the good in everyone, but what happens when Nathan doesn't want anyone to see the good in him, especially Ariel. She sees the broken scared and fragile boy behind the beast everyone else sees.
Nathan has a past, like every clichè badboy. But his past isn't what haunts him, it's his future. He feels safe and isolated in his armor and walls, the only thing that makes him feel....nothing. What happens when Ariel threatens to knock those walls down and wreck his life?
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