"Why the fuck did you help him? What is your fucking problem? He was supposed to feel the pain and think about what the fuck he did. Why did you help him like a fucking good samaritan?" He seethed the words like they were acid, every drop stinging my delicate skin. My heart beat accelerated and mild shivers ran down my spine and I didn't know how to calm myself down."No one deserves pain," I muttered lowly. -----------------------------Hope is the studious girl of Liberty High. Like typical nerds, she likes to spend most of her time in the library reading books or hours studying to get the scholarship. She is a shy, nice, intelligent and poor girl who hates violence and tries her best to stay out of trouble. But, like everyone she has a past that chases her. Heath is the opposite of a good boy. He is rich and is blessed with attractive looks but has a stone hard heart and attitude cold as an ice. His piercing blue stare makes everyone fear him. He is in a gang and may I add the leader of the it. But he too has a past that haunts him, memories that hurt him deeply and fears that he can't seem to overcome.The worlds of both Heath and Hope change when one day they accidentally collide in the boring crowded hallways of their school. One look at the timid brown eyes and the blue-eyed boy finds himself intrigued by the layers of pain she's desperately hiding within them. As Heath unintentionally gets close to Hope he figures that under this sweet facade of hers, lies a very dark secret. Now the question is will Heath be able to save Hope from her demons or will they consume her in their darkness for eternity? And will Hope be able to change the town's bad boy? As it is said "only a good girl can change a bad boy."
Lihat lebih banyak#Chapter195Epilogue-4"Hey Hope," he weakly uttered, and Heath quickly moved forward and was going to lung onto him but I moved him back."What the fuck are you doing here?" Heath raised his voice but I didn't flinch. Not even a muscle."Heath let me." I swiveled my head towards his face and assured him but he just glared at Jason."Can we talk?" Jason asked almost pleading but I didn't fall for his words."We have nothing to talk about," I said in a neutral tone."You heard her now you better turn the fuck around and get away from us." Heath seethed the words in rage and I put my hand on his chest and looked at him in the eyes which were focused on Jason."Hope please listen to me." Jason bluntly ignored Heath and pleaded earnestly to me and I looked over to Heath who was now watching me.I took a deep breath and then looked into the pair of green eyes that were once my friend but now all I saw was how he had broken me in the worst way possible. He had betray
#Chapter194Epilogue-3"Hey Em, look who I brought with me today. It's Rose, my girlfriend." With every word the enthusiasm in his voice dropped and at the 'girlfriend' word his voice was almost a painful whisper.I didn't say anything other than hugged Heath and rubbed his back. Whenever we would visit my dad-which was rare, he would do that to me because he knew that the whole incident still stung a little if not more.When I got my acceptance letter my mom was elated and told a million times about how proud she was of me. And later on, when my scholarship letter came mom cried for an hour telling me how I finally made it. But when I told my dad all of this all I got was silence and my eyes staring hard at his name on the stone. I didn't get to hear how proud he was of me or anything but as I was thinking about all of this, his words from that day when he went limp in my arms rang in my ears and I realized that he would be proud of me. Even though he wasn't a dad to me in m
#Chapter193Epilogue-2"She'll be fine Heath. And she can never hate you. I just talked to her the other day and I explained to her how I want to be with you. She understood that as she knows I love you." I said but he still looked unconvinced."Heath, she has Frank to be there for her. She won't be on her own besides that I promised to call her every day." I said and he parked the car outside a small garden and I looked out. It was a cemetery as the board on the top of the gate said that and I was confused. We had just bid goodbye to my dad. Then I remembered that we were here to meet Heath's sister since I still hadn't met her. All that I had seen of her was a photograph that was always on Heath's side table next to his bed. She was beautiful just like him. I wish I could meet her in person."I know Rose. It's just....it wasn't the way she looked at me with tears in her eyes. It was the pain of separation that's making me question this all. I don't want to take you away
#Chapter192Epilogue-1 Hope's POVIt was a summer Thursday morning. The warm glowing sun rays were trying to lighten the Earth with their yellow light. Thick smoke of clouds was floating in the sky trying to stop the penetrating rays of the sun from reaching the earth. But they forgot that light can never be stopped. It always finds a way to get past things and reach the other side.I leaned my head against the headrest of the car seat and relaxed. I took a deep breath of air which calmed my internals and I smiled. I felt good. I felt happy. I felt complete. The past 5 months since dad's tragic death had engraved deep scars on my heart for eternity. Even though so many days, weeks, months had gone by. There wasn't a day my weak little heart didn't squeeze in my chest due to the reel of the memories that always played in my mind on repeat. I missed him with every fiber of my being and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't really forget him. I wanted to forget him in h
#Chapter191"It's time to say our final words to Mr Alex Ray Hanson before we go out, and proceed with the burial. If any of you has an eulogy or something you want to say. Please step up here." I looked at mom who was crying. At once she stood up to get onto the podium but tripped halfway and Frank rushed to her rescue. But she did make it to the stage. She stood in front of the podium, and everyone in the room gave her sympathetic looks.I laid my head on Heath's shoulder, and immediately his arm pulled me to him and I sighed."I remember Alex and I met back in college, and fell in love immediately. We shared good moments and they're going to be ones that'll I miss forever. He was a. . .good man." The slight pause in her words was something that only I detected."I will remember him and miss him in every walk of my life. I really wish that he would have stayed a little longer on this earth and... I'm sorry." She stepped down as tears rushed down her eyes."Indeed w
#Chapter190I hadn't slept for a single second for the past two days and I hadn't even eaten a proper meal. All I could see and feel was the memories of that day. The sight of dad taking a bullet for me and then falling onto the ground. His blood-drenched shirt was something that haunted my dreams. I had so many conflicted feelings towards dad. I hated him yet loved him. And now that he was gone I felt empty. Why was this like it? Why couldn't I just feel one emotion for him? Why did this all have to be so messy and painful?"Heath, please make it stop...this pain is hurting me." I whimpered in his hoodie."I will, but you have to listen to me." His words caressed my ears and I sniffled so hard that my nose began to hurt. I pulled away and looked at him with my eyes."He's dead Heath." I bit my lower lip and soon I tasted a metallic liquid in my mouth. Heath quickly freed my lip and then ran his finger on it. "Rose, you have to stop crying because I can't think stra
#Chapter189Pain. It was still there multiplying with every passing second and if I could I would have stopped the time. The void in my heart was still fresh and empty. My brain and heart were still in the mourning phase. All in all, I wasn't ready. I hadn't even stood on my feet for the two days. And my eyes had been wide awake all the damn time. If I fell asleep. Minutes later I would wake up screaming and covered in sweat. The imagery of that day was plastered to my eyes and mind. No matter how much I tried I couldn't forget. That was the main reason why I couldn't go to the funeral. There weren't any options to weigh since I had made up my mind."Rose." Heath sweetly called my name but my heart didn't flutter."I've got a basket full of chocolates. I can only give it to you if you open the door." As always Heath was going to bribe me. But then he never asked for anything from me other than staying away from Jason. I stayed quiet and I heard shuffling from outside t
#Chapter188Hope's POVHave you ever lost someone whom you loved in the back of your heart even though you didn't want to? Have you ever felt the sensitive tendons of your heart, tearing apart with excruciating pain? Have you ever felt empty or numb? Or have you ever lost hope in life?Two days. Two days had gone by. I lost track of time as I was in my bed lifelessly lying on it while blankly staring at the window.I hadn't eaten or even drank anything for the past hours. I had a packet of hot Cheetos under my bed. A few minutes ago I ate it and that was the only thing I had swallowed down my throat for the past two days. The reason was my head was painfully pounding and I had fainted three times in total because of lack of energy. Closing my eyes was not an option. Whenever I would let my eyelids drop they would take me to the incident that occurred 48 hours ago. I didn't want to relive it, so for the sake of my sanity I munched on some Cheetos. When I was a bit ok
#Chapter187As I stared at him I saw his eyes getting wide and his mouth opening. Before I could ask him what was wrong he dashed towards me, and pushed me so hard that I fell on the ground with a painful landing. But it was nothing compared to the gunshot that rang in my ears. I watched the scene happening before me. It made my throat let out a loud scream that could have awoken the dead. It was laced with such racking pain. Everything around us stopped. Even my heart. My eyes had watched dad falling onto the ground with a thud as loud as a thunder. I raked his body with my eyes and saw red fresh blood coming out of his chest. Within minutes he had his shirt soaked in blood.Thick blinding tears escaped from my eyes and my body began to tremble vigorously, as I registered what had just taken place in front of me. Dad had gotten shot while saving me. Shakily I crawled to his body and quickly put his head on my lap and grabbed his face in my hands. I ran my thumb on hi
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