Paisley | ✔️

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  Dysfunctional. If Paisley could describe her family in one word, it would be 'dysfunctional.' How she wished she could have just lived in a white picket fence house.

  After what seems hours of walking, she found herself in their local playground.

  When she was sure that the darkness and silence were all that surrounded her, she sat on a bench and broke down.

In her seventeen years of existence, there was one thing she realized, and that was that heartbreak came in many forms.

Friends can break your heart, family can, and even you can break your own heart as well.

Hell, even people who don't know you can.

  As she opened her smartphone, the light from the screen illuminated her, now swollen red, face.

  'Dakota Adam'

  She wouldn't care.

  'Chipmunk' a.k.a Elliot Chastain. Paisley smiled at the little nickname he had on her phone.

  She had put 'chipmunk' as his name, because of his chubby cheeks back when they were younger, and she had her's saved as 'bunny' on his, because of her buck teeth when she was twelve.

  She tapped his name, and after a few rings he picks up.

"Hey," he answers on the other end. "Paisley?"

"Yeah," she clears her throat. "Can we talk?"

"I'm so sorry, bunny, but my dad and I are actually about to go somewhere." He replies apologetically. "Maybe tomorrow, yeah?"

He called her 'bunny' whenever it was Paisley's birthday or when he couldn't be with Paisley when she asked him to.

"Yeah," she says before hanging up.

'Nicci Dufort'

She and Nicci were best friends before Riley and Ariana.

Her thumb hovered over her name.

No, she couldn't bring herself to call her. She was too ashamed of what she did.

She felt too broken to be mended. She felt alone.

  Then a shadow moves in the dark.