You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in.

At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it." "Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.

I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation.

He laughs, sucking his lip ring into his mouth. "I promise I'll go easy on you." A naughty feeling dances inside me. "What if I don't want you to go easy on me?

Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.