Hey guys! I know I know, another story? Yes. Now please, before anyone complains about "not updating this story" and such, I want you to know that I have not stopped writing them, I just have writers block. Every writer gets it, and I hope you guys can understand. Your favorites will be updated, I'm not promising anytime soon, but they will be updated. Please Enjoy the First Chapter of "You Found Me"...

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Please Note: This story takes place in New York/Manhattan/Brooklyn

Rated M: For Language/themes


YOU FOUND ME

Pale Blue Eyes

ELI

"So, we have a deal?" I asked my fifth offer of the day, with a forced smirk on my face as he smiled, reaching out for my outstretched hand as he said, "You drive a hard bargain Mr. Goldsworthy, but my company is willing to do absolutely anything for the property of that auto shop."

My heart sunk, but I knew this is what I had to do, "Just be gentle with the wrecking ball on her."

"I assure you the death of your auto shop of ten years shall be quick and painless," he joked, as I smirked at his unreassuring reassurance, "Well, I guess this is it? I suppose the money should be transferred into my account by next week?"

"Yes sir, I will have someone come by your house over the weekend so you can sign the final papers, then the money will be immediately transferred," I was about to thank him until he interrupted me, "The whole million dollars...that is."

He was grinning, as if this amount of money was what he carried around in his pocket, but as the amount fell from his lips without a stutter, I knew that this was the right guy to sell my shop to.

"Thank you," I whispered, avoiding eye contact, knowing this is the hardest thing I've ever had to let go of in a long time.

"No Eli, thank you," as I made my way out of the office in Manhattan, I decided to take the long way back to the station and walk a couple of avenues over to the Twin Towers Memorial.

I took a deep breath, holding back tears as they formed in the rim of my eyelids. I traced over the names, engraved on a cold stone, "Imogen and Bella Goldsworthy, we love and miss you."

My wife and daughter.

I shook the memory when the bittersweet, bone chilling wind hit me in the face.

"Time to get back to Brooklyn," I muttered, making my way down the steps of the nearest train station that I could get to due to the freezing, forty mile an hour winds that were picking up.

As I miserably swiped my metro card, walking towards the Q-line platform, I stopped dead in my tracks. My heart sunk into my stomach, air getting caught in my throat as blue eyes came into my vision.

She wasn't dressed fancy, not like how the business women dress, head to toe in million dollar clothing with a Louis Vuitton bag or the 'oh so fabulous' Juicy Couture crap that I see women cling to everyday.

No...she was sitting on the floor, shivering, wrapped in a dirty looking, moldy, must smelling blanket.

I didn't know what to say.

"Clare Edwards?" I asked, second guessing myself that my high school sweetheart was currently similar looking to a homeless person.

I remember her as a smart, kind, loving girl. I was baffled and shocked as to how this was how she turned out to be. If I recall, my high school years were more unstable than hers, how could she end up like...like this?

She glanced up at me, then back down at the floor, not saying a word. With the way this was going, or the way she was acting, I couldn't really tell if she was breathing or not from the tensed look on her face.

"Can you at least nod your head so this way I know I'm not crazy and I'm currently eye to eye with Clare Edwards? The one from Degrassi High School?" She took a deep breath in, and I kneeled down in front of her.

At that moment, I was staring at her, waiting for a response.

People around me didn't acknowledge us, probably too busy to even glance in our direction, and from the moment she hesitantly nodded her head, her dead curls bobbing up and down, I knew exactly what I had to do.

END OF CHAPTER 1


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