A little help, everyone - Part 2 !

Remember long long ago (last week) when I asked for your kind votes to help me get published in the Indireads contest for my story "A Second Chance"? 

Well, here's an unexpected twist. We were allowed two entries in that contest. And both my entries got selected in the final shortlist, as it turns out. (You know where this is leading, right?)

Anyway, last time I may have tried scratching your emotional nerve center with a picture of a kitten begging. That was lame and I apologize for tryin...