You Saved Me Once Book 1

Chapter 38: 22Please Forgive Me

I sit in his passenger seat, while Hayes drives.

When he saw me walking this late, he offered to take me home.

I said no, more than once. I didn’t want to be in that car with him. I didn’t want to be near him.

I gave in after a while though.

The ride is quiet, but there’s always Hayes’s music, to fill the si-lence.

“Are you feeling better?” He asks me.

I’m nervous.

“Yeah.” I lie.

“How about you?” I ask him after more silence.

“Yeah.” He says.

He looked better, but his voice was sad though.

I look at the steering wheel and remember what Jeff and I did in Hayes’s car, not too long ago. I feel

guilty again.

We drive around for a while, I watch the street lights change. The changing lights are like dominos.

“Alex.” Hayes repeatedly calls my name.

I ignore him and face the window instead.

He starts to honk his horn, until I respond to him. I cover my ears for a while, still turned to the window.

It starts to get funny when it goes on for more than 2 minutes.

“Hayes. Stop doing that.”

I grab his hand on the wheel and laugh for the first time in a while. He honks it again.

“I see you Hayes! What do you want?!” I laugh.

He could make me smile and break my heart at the same time.

“I’m sorry, Little Richards.” He smiles. I squeeze my sleeves, and nod.

There’s more silence between the two of us. My eyes aren’t glued to the window anymore, though. Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

We’d occasionally look at each other. I’d smile at Hayes, when he’d nod to the music. He’d smile back.

After a while, everything went silent again. We are now close, to our street.

The car slows down, I can hear the tires against the wet pave-ment. Hayes stops the car and turns

down the music.

“I want to show you something.” He whispers. I laugh.

“Why are you talking like that?” I whisper back.

“Do you want to go home, Little Richards?” He whispers. I whisper back to him.

“No.” I say.

He can’t shake his smile, it makes me happy. He turns the volume up on the radio again, and we just

drive.