Rose

STELLA was silent for a few long seconds, but she cleared her throat and spared him just one glance. "If you tell anyone, I'll make you bald."  

"I am not sociable."  

"Good." She bit into her lower lip and rested her head back on his shoulder to avoid his gaze. "When I was seventeen, I got into a car accident with my mom. It was raining heavily, and the windshield had stopped working, so she couldn't see anything. There was thunder and then a lightning strike, and somehow we crashed into the sea under the bridge, and while we sank, I could only hear the sound of the thunder over and over again. I thought I'd died, but…"

"But?" 

"Someone saved me." 

"Who?"  

"I'm not sure. I was falling unconscious, and I couldn't really make out his face."  

"It was a he?"