our fall in may||BWS (completed)

Chapter One

Mayella

"Kindness Is The Language Which The Deaf Can Hear And The Blind Can See."

-Mark Twain

I lost my sight when I was eleven years old.

I barely remember what it was like when the blast hit. I remember a flash of light then complete darkness. The ringing in my ears became the only thing I could hear until the screams pierced through it. I remember the coughs and cries for help. I remember the pain the most. Not only my pain, but the pain around me. The agony of my classmates, my friends.

You would figure I would suffer severe PTSD of a terrorist attack which killed my best friend, but I experienced none. The therapists claimed its because I was so young. I claim it was because I was too distraught that my emotions stopped. But when I turned fourteen, and the shock wore after three years, I became depressed and it finally hit me that my life long best friend was killed.

I remember the months after in the hospital. My lung callused several times. My right leg was torn to pieces, I was lucky the grafts saved it. But I don't remember the sight of my leg, or the graphs.

It was dark. Completely black. My family tries to help with expensive optical surgeries, but it never rids me of the darkness. The darkness taunts me.

And it always will.

Bradley

"One Person's Trauma Is Another's Loss Of Innocence."

-Jodi Picoult

I was ten when I was assaulted.

And I remember every second of it.

I yelled for her to stop so many times, screaming for help. But no one could hear me.

So I endured it.

I was too weak and young. Who assaults a helpless child? Marianna Gill is who. She was mentally unstable, but I don't take that as an excuse.

Now I can't be touched without flashbacks. I don't communicate with anyone. Even though it was ten years ago, I can never forget what it felt like.

And I never will.

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Yes Bradley was assaulted by a female so you can put the pieces together. But the reason is she's blind and needs to touch everything, and he can't be touched.

Don't get triggered. Leave now if you are going to hate on my story or me. Because all it is is a story. Not real.

-Rose