Reeve Wilmot is forced to return to her town after being gone for nearly two years.
Once back she has to face the music and face the people who don't believe her truth. She'll also have to confront her feelings for Adrian Stovak, the boy she loved...
Adrian Stovak is standing on my doorstep. He's standing in front of me, his eyes ocean blue eyes boring into mine. All air halts in my lungs.
I know I hurt everyone by leaving but I hurt Adrian the most. He might not even realize or care to admit but I know him, well I knew the old him and he's the type of boy who would never let on to even being remotely hurt.
Just the way he looks at me lets me know that I hurt him more than I hurt anyone else.
But I know I did.
Leaving was best regardless of what anyone thinks or says.
Any other option would result in hurting everyone I cared about more than they deserve.
I walk into the living room, Adrian following at a safe distance behind. I sit on the floor like I did when I had my notebook and he takes a seat on the couch. We are silent, me staring at the wall and him looking at me.
He came here so I just need to let him say what he wants to say then get this over with.
After a few breaths, Adrian sighs loudly and asks, "Why'd you lie."
I scoff, I knew he'd ask something stupid like that. He's trying to get me to say I lied. Well, it must suck for him because I didn't. "I ever lied."
"Cut the bullshit, Reeve."
"I didn't lie so why don't you and my own damn mother leave me the hell alone. I don't have to explain myself to you or anyone else for that matter. Either don't talk about it or get out because I'm not doing this again!" I yell at him.
I'm tired, so tired of everyone trying to talk me out of what happened. For months that's all anyone tried to do until I left. Even when I left I didn't fully escape it.
Adrian runs his finger through his hair and lets out a frustrated sigh, "You sent my brother to jail. We were all raised together, none of us are capable of what you claim he did."
Throwing my hands in the air I tell him, "You want me to lie to you. You and everyone else want me to tell you that I was wrong, I must have been drunk and imagined it all. That he never did anything wrong and I'm just a child who craved attention.
"I'm not doing that. I'm not lying about anything. And just because we were all raised together doesn't mean bull, because I never thought that if I came to you and told you the things that happened that you would defend him." I cry.
I'm not finished, "I was a child just as much as you were but no one believed me because he was the star athlete and the town's golden boy."
I was barely able to get anything else out. The rest of my words died on the tip of my tongue. Very few people know the details about that night and I'm not confiding in Adrian while we are screaming at each other.
"Reeve, you sent my brother to jail over a car accident. That's why it's called an accident." He yells.
Everything leaves me, all my air, all my will, everything.
They only told him it was a car accident.
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