10.

I closed my eyes, wondering if death could be any worse than everything else I had gone though.

Regardless, I was ready to embrace it with open arms, so that it would put an end to my life, my misery, everything. I could've finally gotten the peace I so desperately craved.

In my supposed-to-be last moments, I put in a final effort to notice little things about me; the way my heart was rhythmically beating its final beats — like a song with a lot of bass — how my breathing was, ironically, calmer than it had ever been.

But death never came, because you had saved me.

Your hands wrapped around my body, and pulled me back just in time, the car's wind and dust all that was hitting me.

x x x