Sara
My heart was pounding so loud I couldn’t hear anything else. Some part of me was aware that Jaxon was trying to talk to me but it felt like he was far away, and I couldn’t hear anything he said. I couldn’t hear anything but the sped-up, out-of-sync sound of my heart. I almost felt like I could hear and feel the tears in it.
It felt like whoever had done this had literally ripped pieces of me away. Everything hurt, and I felt like my body might crumble to ash. I couldn’t understand how I was still standing. Abruptly, I felt my knees buckle. I started to fall to the ground–it seemed a long way away, and the action seemed to be happening in slow motion.
Jaxon’s arms around me felt like melting iron. It burned and hurt worse than I felt like the fall would have.