by Rita Branches
Publication date: August 8th 2016
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult
Can a beating heart
bleed from the shattered pieces?
BLURB
Her heart cracked when her best
friend walked away; it completely shattered when she lost her family in a
tragic accident.
Now orphaned at seventeen,
Charlotte Peterson is forced to live with her former best friend, Jacob Parker.
Charlie, a talented pianist, desperately wants their loving friendship back,
but something is holding Jake back. The more she spirals into the darkness of
depression, the more she needs him.
Jacob vowed to stay away from
her—no matter how much he still loved her. Armed with secrets that would have
destroyed both of their families, he chose to end their friendship and walk
away, which nearly killed him. As he watches the girl he once knew begin to
fade away, however, he realizes that their relationship is more important than
the truth he’s hiding.
Now it’s up to Jacob to put the
pieces of Charlie’s broken heart back together—even if it means revealing the
secrets he so desperately wants to protect her from.
Will Jacob find a way to bring
back the carefree, talented girl he once knew, or is it too late for both of
them?
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Jacob
These two weeks had been hell for me.
I didn’t know how I was going to pull this off for the eight
months I still had left in this hell of a town. My parents didn’t get me, and
she was around all the time, suffocating me. My heart skipped a beat every time
I heard her voice, and it doubled in speed when she was near me. I wouldn’t be
able to stay away, I knew it. She was breaking my heart all over again.
I heard her at night, when she thought everyone was sleeping. I
just sat on the floor, resting my head against the wall, and listen to her cry
and throw up every other night.
I stayed there like a jerk, as if I didn’t give a crap about her
or her feelings, but I cried. I missed her. I wanted to hold her at night and
tell her that everything would be alright, but I couldn’t. I promised I would
stay away—I couldn’t hurt her, anymore. I pushed my knees to my chest to hold
myself together and to keep me from crumbling. Sometimes, I had to place my
closed fist against my mouth, so she wouldn’t hear me sob. I wished she would
have, though. I wished she would have opened the door and saw me sitting there,
caring about her, suffering like she did.
My mom was getting suspicious about me. She knew about her, or at
least that something wasn’t right. My face, the permanent dark circles under my
eyes, and my lack of appetite wasn’t normal, though. I was okay, before her
parents’ accident—I had started to pull myself together.
***
This night was especially bad. She stayed in the bathroom for hours.
I had been on the other side, hearing her cry and wishing I could take it all
away.
I was starting to get really scared for her. I left before my
parents woke up, unable to face them and those disapproving looks, anymore,
like I wasn’t doing anything right with my life. They wanted a perfect son and
they didn’t have one.
I was in no condition to go to college—I couldn’t even imagine
myself being closed behind four walls for another four or five years. I needed
something to take my thoughts away—something that would fuel me with
adrenaline. They wouldn’t approve of the plans I’d been making. They’d hate
them, in fact, but I didn’t care, anymore, I just needed to get away.
Author Info
Rita Branches is an independent
YA (young adult) author who enjoys spending every free moment (when she´s not
reading) writing emotional stories. Visit: http://ritabranches.wordpress.com/
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