Saving Grace (editing)

19: grace // Maybe Different

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For the first time in ages... I smiled.

Why?

Was it possibly because of that boy...

It was a strange feeling, that is to smile again after so long and yet... it came so naturally at that moment.

Why?

Things were looking so dark yet... He and his sister ignited something within me that I hadn't felt in so long.

Something I didn't think even existed or was true anymore...

They were different to every other person I had encountered.

They had pure hearts... I could tell.

But the boy, he intruiged me the most.

I was drawn to him somehow, and it confused me.

Maybe it was the way he spoke to his sister with upmost gentleness, his care for her so clear.

Maybe it was his steady and affirming gaze, his grey eyes anchoring me down.

Maybe it was his genuine smile.

Maybe it was his kind voice.

Maybe it was the way he didn't look at me as if I was broken.

Maybe it was the way he was respectful and slightly curious as well.

Maybe it was the way he seemed like he wouldn't run away from me.

We didn't need to say anything to each other... I already knew that he was different.

Maybe... he could save me.

And maybe, things could finally look different.

And that foreign feeling that I thought no longer existed? It was hope.

Hope.

~Grace

[a/n: this chapter has been revised/edited as of 26/01/17]