Stay by Garnet Christie

Two names––opposing meanings.

Lizzie:
DuBois––a name of pain. The root-word of heartbreak.
Saber was the boy terrorizing our school halls. His uncle was the man who exterminated the happiness in my life by taking my parents from me.
I’ve spent the last seventeen years shutting out the nightmares, piecing my existence back together.
But the bandages are fragile.
Saber’s return to Copperslane shreds through the tender healing I’ve tried to nurture.
I’m left with two hopes.
That Saber doesn’t stay and he’ll stop looking at me like he understands pain.

Saber:
I never thought a name could be a light. But in my darkest moments, Eliza is the single hope I’ve ever known.
She was the candle guiding me out of the abyss.
Seeing her reawakens dreams once lost––that her love is mine.
Unfortunately, our twisted past weaves only suffering for my flower.
And her thinking that I know nothing of pain shreds through my heart.
Now I’m wondering if I should stay, and if she’s my fiore at all anymore.