Lyon – Chapter 10
I could hear the party going on outside, and the laughter and gaiety while one so young suffered just feet away.
Life is strange as f**k. Some people can be suffering while others have no clue, and they are just going along with their daily life as usual.
I wanted to go down there and yell at them to get the f**k gone, which was stupid. None of those people had anything to do with what had happened to her. What I was really pissed about, was the fact that I couldn’t act yet, and I wanted to be up and moving, but I needed to be holding her more.
to watch, and gauge where she was in her head.
who she is, because those f***s were cowardly assholes? She hadn’t done anything wrong, and as far as I can see, they’d taken more than enough from her already.
you something?”
k.
need to know so I know what to do fo
”
w where your heart and mind is.”
first one to ask me that question.
good that you asked, and it’s making me think right now…”
l, baby?”
next to me. Her eyes were red from crying, but even that didn’t take away from their beauty.
when she rubbed her face against my hand like a baby fawn,
hand, still warm from he
stly angry; at them, at me,
, but I tried to warn her.”
s she said, that he was saying to her, made me uncomfortable. It’s like I could see through his bullshit but she couldn’t.”
do anything about it.”
myself for standing there like a scared
“Bu
that say about me. Why didn’t I use some of that to help her?”
you trained in any of the arts?”
t kicked in I guess. But while they were up those stairs, and she was screaming for me, I couldn’t move. I was too afraid.”
r, or why some people can accomplish the impossible in certain situations. All I can tell you, Angel, is that you were meant to survive, and that’s why you’re here, and you shouldn’t feel any guilt for that. What else?”
h and I’d get sad. It feels wrong to laugh, like I should remember t
don’t you kill yourself if you don’t want t
n’t taking that shit back. Obviously no one had talked t
a piss poor job of it.
ers was all f****d up, and she wouldn’t heal like that, but only get worst as time went on.
t, that’s,…that’s cruel.”
ng to yourself is cruel. You begrudge yourself happiness, and you walk around trying to look like, and be, someone else, so la
t I?”
otion…”
your parents’ house. What are you talking about?”
That much I was sure of.
ake yourself feel guilty for that later, like you’ve done with everything else since the incident.”
h an a*****e jerk?”
pped her hand over her mouth, and I howled with laughter. I couldn’t help myself, I rolled into her, taking her down with
t bitch that was just here, that’s who I want
d her quick and rolled away.
on let’s go.”
e.”
, another weapon, only of a different nature. So you see, Angel, you weren’t useless, and you won in the end.”
with your misguided belief that you have anything to feel guilty about.” Now come on.” I pulled her up and held
wondering, most likely, what we were doing together since I had her hand lo
My first inclination was to pull her down on my lap, but I didn’t think she was ready for that yet.
get you some food, you want to come
tearing into that lip with her teeth.
my hand and followed me away f
olton, Elena said you’d be here soon.” Jennifer blocked
.
e opened her mouth to say something scathing no doubt, but was thwa
r taste, but I couldn’t help laughing.
ved that fire in her, and I will do everything in my power to draw it back out of her To break open that shell, and drag her ou
sed like that, but who gives a f**k?