The Life Of Hayden Salvatore

Introduction and chapter 1

Introduction

 

My name is Scarlett Salvatore. I am 17 years old, And this is my life . . .

 

Chapter 1

September 30^th was today’s date. It was extremely windy, freezing cold and at 4pm it was already becoming dark outside. “A year today” I said to myself. A whole year since my brother, Hayden Salvatore committed suicide. Even now I cannot say his name without letting the tears pour out of my eyes, the more I try to hold them in the more they seem to trickle down my stone cold cheeks.

He was only 19 when he gave away his life just because some b***h messed with his mind and broke his heart into shreds. She was his life, he’d do anything for her literally anything, he proved that by writing her one final pledge of forgiveness, one final letter to fix the little pieces of his heart, so they would fit back together perfectly, but no, there was no reply from her, not a letter back, not a text, not even a whisper. The night after was the night it all happened.

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It was raining heavily outside, I could hear the water overflowing in the pipes above my window, the sound of the rain bouncing off of the window was continuous. I could see the river from my window getting higher and higher by the second, it had never rained like this before.

That was when I realised that it was 7pm. Hayden always gets home at 6pm for his dinner, he’s never a minute late. Never. My parents where at work still till 9pm but I couldn’t wait till 9pm to see if he would arrive home I had to do something now. Alone. Time began to race, it was now coming up to 8pm and Hayden was still not home I’d been trying his phone since 7 but no answer, he must’ve had about 100 missed calls by now. I’d had enough of staring blankly out my window just waiting for his figure to appear towards the house, shining among the street lights. So I flung my coat over my shoulders and left the house. Where could I look? I walked around the whole neighbourhood asking anybody I saw if they had seen a 6ftish black haired guy wearing ripped jeans and a white hoodie, but there was hardly nobody outside as the rain was still at it’s worst. He didn’t even have his coat, If he’s out here he’s going to be freezing cold, his lips are probably starting to turn blue. Maybe he’s been kidnapped, I didn’t know anything, and I just wanted my brother back. I didn’t want to think of the negative things right now I wanted to concentrate on the positive side of things. I decided to head for the bridge maybe he’s crossed this way to find shelter until the rain had calmed a bit. Heading for the bridge I saw something on the floor up ahead. I began to run towards the object I saw still on the floor hoping for some clue of Hayden’s where abouts. As I crept closer I realised it was a shoe. But it wasn’t just any shoe. It was one of Hayden’s shoe’s. I picked it up and pulled it in tightly to my chest. “Come on Hayden, I know you’re here somewhere, please” I whispered to myself. Just hoping to find my brother. I was shivering and soaked through all my layers of clothing but I wasn’t giving up. I was just a few blocks away from the bridge now so I sped up not wasting any valuable time. “Hayden!!” I shouted repeatedly hoping for some sort of reply. But there was nothing. Eventually I got to the bridge, I thought I saw something standing on the bridge in the distance but I wasn’t sure. I wiped the rain off of my eyes, and to my shock I was right there was someone standing on the bridge. “Hayden, Hayden! Is that you, Please don’t do anything stupid”. I sprinted towards the figure. It was Hayden. His lips where all blue, his face was pale and stone cold. “Hayden, Please get down, I’ve been looking everywhere for you, please just do this for me. I love you bro. Come on, tell me what‘s wrong”. He just stood there in silence, tears were running down his face. “ I love her Scarlett you understand that right?, She was my entire life and I fucked everything up by kissing that other girl at the dance last week, she won’t forgive me and I can’t live without her”. I didn’t know what to say, I was scared incase I said the wrong thing and he just. Well. Jumped. “ Yes I know that Hayden, You love her with all your heart, maybe you just need to give her a little more time. Trust me, she’ll realise how much you truly feel for her. Just get down Hayden, I don’t want you to do anything silly, You’re my life and the best brother anyone can wish for, loosing you now, I don’t know how I’d cope. I love you. Please get down, For me?”. He didn’t get down. He Reached towards his pocket and handed me a letter, it was soaking wet and the ink had smudged but it was still readable. “ Listen to me Scarlett, I’d like you to put that in your pocket right now for me”. I didn’t speak but did as he said, I didn’t question him. “ Thank you” he said to me, tears still filling in his eyes. “ Scarlett, If you had nothing to lose and nothing else left in your life, Would you die for the one you loved?”. My eyes filled with tears and they poured down my face. “ Hayden, please don’t say things like this, your really worrying me now. No, I wouldn’t die for the one I loved, I’d die with them. And I know your life isn’t going your way right now but we can work it out, together, please. I really love you, I don’t want to loose a perfect brother like you, no-one can ever replace you, ever”. He slowly shuffled his feet forwards, a centre metre at a time. “HAYDEN!!! NO!” I shouted as loud as I could. But he didn’t listen to me. “ I’m so sorry Scarlett, I love you so much. You take care of yourself, take care of mum and dad, and tell Brooke that no matter what, I’ll always love her for eternity”. Then he jumped, he leaped off of the slippery wet bridge and he was gone, all that was left was the shoe I had found that I still had in my arms clenched tightly. It suddenly hit me, my brother Hayden Salvatore, He was dead.