Lucy's pov;I foolishly trusted that everything would improve shortly. My miserable past and present are the same. I stopped believing in better days since I don't think they will come, so I made the decision to flee the want that had me. As I stood on the abandoned bridge and looked at the front, I could hear water flowing beneath it. When I closed my eyes, I remembered my father's death. I thought he was a coward for taking his life and leaving me alone. But I can understand how bad he felt then. How hard it is to raise a child with nothing to spend. I always ran out of the house to escape him, but he stayed behind. He had to go through so much to take care of me. I always whined that he wasn't there for me but I wasn't there for him either. I never once spoke nicely to him. I realised that I was the one who hated him all my life. Tears began to roll down my cheeks as I thought more about my father. I made the mistake of not staying behind. I was wrong when I didn't understand his l

Tyler's pov;I had been looking for Lucy everywhere, for days now. I had checked her usual spots, called her friends and scoured the city. But I couldn't find her. I asked the private investigator who I asked to find Lucy to see if he had any leads. He told me he was still looking for her too, but had no luck so far. I thanked him and decided to go back into the city to look again. I drove around town from sunrise to sunset, checking everywhere I could think of that she might have gone - parks, restaurants, the bridge, her old job - but it was always the same: no sign of Lucy. My search finally led me to a small cafe in a secluded part of town that neither of us had ever been before. A waitress there said she remembered seeing someone matching Lucy's description a few days ago with another woman. Maybe it's Mrs Smith whom she always talks about. With the connecting flight, It took me three hours to get to Mrs Smith's apartment in El Paso, but it was dark. I knocked on the door and cal

Lucy's pov;The constant ringing of the bell woke me up. When I got out of bed, the door opened and I was able to squeeze the covers around my neck. A maid came in and started working by folding the sheets. I sighed and let go of the blanket and walked into the bathroom. The slamming of the bathroom door made me jump in and out of the shower quickly. I put on a dress I don't want to wear and went downstairs to have breakfast. I sat with my head down, far away from the family I live with.While eating, I heard Mr Johnson talking, "I'm going to Hawaii tonight for a business meeting. Since it's an important meeting, don't call me until it's an emergency." I continued to eat as he talked about his trip to Hawaii. Jake interrupted him by saying, "I'm going to my friends' party tonight." "No. You're not going anywhere.""I didn't ask for your permission. I'm going to the party if you don't allow me." "I'll cut your allowance if I hear you went there." "I don't care." With that, he left

Lucy's pov;Ms Davis said in a firm voice, "Don't think I'll let you leave you if you haven't eaten or don't go to college. I won't leave you no matter what. So don't be stubborn and eat your food!" With that, she kept the food tray on the desk and left the room. I sighed looking at the ceiling. Three days passed, after that night. Ms Davis took away my phone and cut me off from the outside world on one condition that I should give up on returning to Colorado. She wouldn't let Jake talk to me either, but Jake found his own ways to talk to me. Like jumping inside the window into my room at night. Looking at the food, I longed for it, but I restrained my desire and went under the covers. I have to go back to Colorado. Whatever happens, I won't eat anything. I heard a knock on the window. I got up and opened the window to let Jake in. When he entered, he asked, "How long are you planning to starve like this?" "As long as she lets me go." "Then you will surely die. She is more stubb

Lucy's pov;While I was waiting in the lobby, I saw Tyler heading straight for the elevator as soon as he stepped inside the company. Should I talk to him? "What are you doing here?" Daniel asked me as I looked at the elevator. I turned to him and asked, "Do you think this will work?" He sighed and said, "If you want to know, come with me instead of staring into space." Daniel and I entered the elevator and when the elevator car went up I felt all eyes on me, so I locked my eyes on the floor instead of looking at them. Daniel put his hand on my shoulder and said, "What's on your mind?" I shook my head and said, "I'm starting to doubt the plan we came up with."He took his hand from my shoulder and said, "Don't worry about it, I'll help you if anything goes wrong." When the people in the elevator got off on the fifth floor, I asked Daniel, "Can I ask you something?""Yeah, what is it?""We've never been on good terms with each other even for a day. And, we got into a scandal beca