I Will Save You

Kidd glides to the beach where Olivia sits with her friend Jasmine. It is later than his last dream, and the girls watch him but do not address him. Now that she knows of his depression, Olivia regrets missing signs that Kidd was not okay and refuses to leave Kidd. She claims that he is unlike other guys, and tells Jasmine about the time he protected her from a group of college guys who harassed them. When Kidd confronted them, there was something “wild in his eyes” (127), like the night on the cliff. Kidd said he would save her. When Olivia was shoved to the ground, Kidd hit one of the guys in the face, head-butted two others, and punched another in the gut. After he and Olivia ran back, Kidd apologized repeatedly. Kidd floats away, remembering the details of that night.

Devon visits with a gun and even though Kidd knows it is a bad idea, he follows him. As they walk, Devon rants about how people with privilege and money try to control everything. When Kidd insists that some are nice, Devon agrees but says that sometimes innocent people need to be sacrificed in a revolution.