Silence by Deborah Lytton

Author:Deborah Lytton [Lytton, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Teen Fiction, Teen Romance, YA Fiction
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 2015-03-02T23:00:00+00:00

Pieces of a puzzle

— Hayden —

I almost told her. I almost told her everything.

I drive home slowly, thinking of her. The way she looks at me, as if I mean something to her—something real. Stella is the first person outside my family who knows something bad happened to me. I can tell by the emotion in her eyes, the expression on her face.

What makes her different from everyone else is that I sensed no pity in her. It was more like an embrace. In her reaching for me, I was comforted for one split second. And in that second, I was understood.

I can’t allow that to happen again. I can’t let her get so close. I have fit the pieces of myself back together. Pieces that were tossed around by my mother. Some were destroyed, but I glued myself together. If I let Stella in, she could pull some of those pieces loose. I don’t think I could put myself back together again—not after Stella. She could destroy me.

If I were smart, I would pull away now, before it’s too late. But I made her a promise—seventeen days to show her that she can imagine herself differently, without sound. I am showing her what she can do without hearing. I am opening her mind to possibilities. I can’t walk away now.

I will just have to be stronger.

Love brings pain. Don’t let yourself fall in love.

Anything but that.

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