《love to die for | mattia polibio》o n e
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i woke up to the sweet smell of waffles, meaning it was friday. mom always makes waffles on a friday. thank god the weeks almost over. one more day of school and this weekend i get to kick it with my best friend natalia.
i'm beyond excited to see her, it's been three weeks since i moved houses with my mom after my parents divorce. thankfully it wasn't too messy, but it meant i had to move schools and therefore move away from natalia.
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the day dragged but i was finally home. my bags were packed and i was ready to head over to nat's. i checked the time as i was leaving, and it was 6.59pm.
i smiled at my mom, 'bye, i'll see you sunday night!'
she returned my smile, 'bye y/n! be careful on your way though. i've been hearing rumours that there might be some crazies around tonight'
i nodded and made sure the door clicked behind me.
i decided i would walk to nat's house, ive never really liked buses and, besides, it was only a 35minute walk.
i jammed my airpods into my ears, my hands into my pockets and began walking.
when i was around 15minutes away from her house, i started hearing noises coming from the street up ahead, the one that i was gonna have to use.
the closer i got, the louder the noise became. it kept growing and growing and i could feel the earth beneath me pulsing.
soon, the mass noise began to branch out into individual voices, each screaming out passionately.
i froze, remembering what my
mom had warned me about. the protesters genuinely terrified me. they all had a certain look in their eyes, one which i couldn't even describe.
fuck
i decided that the best thing to do was to just keep my head down and move through the crowd, as quickly as possible.
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cars had been flipped and wrecked, surrounding store windows shattered and glowing fires dotted around the entire scene.
i was almost in the center of the cluster when the sound of sirens began to flood the street and flashes of blue and red attacked my eyes. the police.
i started increasing my pace and my heart rate followed accordingly.
my desperation to escape was heightened every passing second. there was people everywhere i turned and i was being knocked and bumped from every angle. all of a sudden i felt i had lost control of my breathing.
every part of me was struggling to maintain itself and i suddenly became aware of everything.
my brain felt like it was crashing against my skull with every slight movement. my heart was thumping harder and louder with every pulse and i felt as if the ground beneath me was shaking.
i tried my hardest to ignore everything and continue to the end of the street but everything was blurring together and my legs felt like jelly.
then i heard the first round of gunshots. screams began ricocheting off of every brick wall that surrounded and my heart plunged into my stomach.
just before i lost myself and everything turned black, i felt someone catch me.
the last thing i saw was a pair of big brown eyes and plump pink lips on a beautiful caramel face accompanied by a shock of jet black hair...
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