Unraveling April Sawyer

II

Chapter two

I suppose I should feel bad about completely abandoning my supposedly best friend at the party. After all, we'd known each other for more years than I could count fingers on both hands. Together, we had been through a lot, but as I saw Enzo's vicious smirk any rational thoughts were pushed back to the very back of my mind. Riley was nothing more than a simple bystander, a stranger. The time we had spent with each other was irrelevant and she washed away with my fears, leaving no memories of my unconditional love towards her. Suddenly we had just met mere seconds ago.

If I only could see the truth behind my head high lies, I would know that Riley deserves better. However, as my demons danced in front of my eyes, clouding my actions with fear and selfishness, I would always come first. All I could think about was Enzo Sukram and me, no one else existed.

He knew my deepest and darkest secret. He held the power to my downfall; a downfall that I wouldn't be able to recover from. If he wanted to, he could completely ruin me, leaving only dust behind as he crushed me in the palm of his hand. That was what I was afraid of, because I knew that he wanted nothing more than to do bring me to my knees after what I've done. He wanted revenge and would stop at nothing to get it.

So my feet continued to slap against the stone concert as my breaths became nothing more than gasps.

This time, my actions towards Riley weren't fatal; I had simply broken my promise and left the party without her. I knew she would have forgiven me after a quick hug and an empty promise of never repeating the action again. I was thankful to that; I truly didn't want to lose her. Even so, I knew that I would go to further extents if it would benefit myself. She might be my best friend and I might adore her, but in my twisted society I would always be the queen and nothing could ever change that.

I was selfish; I only cared about myself, but everyone had flaws and this was simply mine.

I was panting heavily when I finally saw my house in the distance, but I kept pushing myself to go faster. Whatever it would take to get as far away from Enzo as possible. My mother was surprised when I entered the front port of my home with a loud bang. She sat up straight from her position in the couch and pushed her glasses up her nose.

"April?" she asked, "what happened?"

"We need to move", I wanted to say, but as I saw the stacks of bills scattered in front of her, I knew that I could ask that much of her. Ever since my father had left us a couple of years ago, my mother had struggled with her finances. She had been devastated, refusing to do anything other than mop around at home, which eventually lead to her being fired from her job. It was only when I noticed the I unpaid bills stacking up that I managed to shook some sense into her. So she begun working again and thankfully it was enough to keep our house. Anyhow, the sudden need to move would only raise unwanted questions that I had no way to answer.

"Nothing", I settled for saying, "the cops came and I had to run so that I wouldn't get busted."

"Oh", she uttered, furrowing her eyebrows as she regarded me, "but you didn't drink anything, did you?"

I knew she was only concerned so I settled for the half-truth. "Only a little, don't worry."

She nodded and smiled tiredly at me. "Well", she dwelled on, "sleep tight honey."

"You too mom", I said as I escalated the stairs, but I knew I couldn't sleep yet; not with Enzo still on the loose.

"Why wasn't he still in jail?", was the question I intended to find out. "And why had he come back?"

A/N:

So look, I know this chapter wasn't even close to being as long as the previous one and not much happened, but I wanted you to get to know April's relationship to some of the most important characters of the book. Anyhow, the next chapter will certainly be more interesting, but to be completely honest; I want this book to be complex and for it to be that way you need to get to know the characters on a deeper level. It is also a way so that you can relate to them more and understand their reasoning. So if your not into that, I suggest you find another book that fits you better since there's loads of different and not to mention awesome books here on Wattpad which will give you just that experience.

I will stop babbling now, especially since most of you probably skip the author note anyway. So without further ado: vote, comment and share!