Chapter 1.
Nothing Left
There she stood her fiery hair aglow from the street lamp a couple of feet away, contemplating her life. Well, what life she had left… her dim emerald-green eyes darted back and forth as her shaking legs neared the edge of the unsteady brick bridge above the riverbank.
Only one thought crossed her mind as she started to sway, there's nothing left. Nothing left for me anymore. With a silent goodbye to the stars she leapt.
JPOV
His shoes scuffed against the gravel road skittering tiny rocks everywhere. He was just on his way back to his house when he saw her causing him to come to an abrupt stop roughly 20 feet away. Her hair seemed to ignite the dark purple sky on fire. She seemed so fragile, yet so serene almost as if she was just a mirage, an image from another world. Her tiny legs shook violently slowly drawing their way to the rocky edge of the uneven bridge.
As I got closer I could tell from the way she held herself she was going to jump. Shoulders slacked, head tilted up towards the sky almost as saying goodbye. Her eyes were closed with silent streams flowing down her pale freckled face. She didn't seem to notice me come closer as she spread her arms as to fly away from some deep depression holding her back.
Things were running through my mind, who was this girl? What could be so horrible that would cause someone to decide to just end it all? But most of all, why did I feel some sort of attraction to her? Yes she was beautiful, but I've never met, let alone seen this girl before in my life and still I felt some sort of magnetic pull towards her. Almost like someone was telling me to save her, to not let her give in to the temptation.
She was starting to sway flowing with the wind, when I realized what I had to do. She was leaning backwards, her back towards the river bank falling effortlessly like it was the trust game and she trusted the riverbank to catch her; to save her from her self.
Not thinking and acting on pure instinct I dove trying to grasp her hand or anything I could manage to grab, as she started to slip away.