*Sequel to Close* Jason grabbed my arm forcing me to stop mid-spin to look into his worry- filled emerald eyes. "You're surrounded by people who don't want to let you go Kiara." I shook my head. "Maybe they should. I don't want to hurt anyone anymore! I can't lose anyone else." I countered, my voice cracking as my eyes grew moist with tears. He snaked his hand around my waist gently pulling me into a hug. I took in the smell of him, the feeling of his warmth, the comfort of his sincerety. But it wasn't enough. I had set off a chain reaction and I was prepared to stop it. I tore from his grasp and stalked away from him. "You can't do this by yourself!" He called after me. I slipped on my jacket and zipped it up. "Watch me." ~•~ Battered and broken, Kiara wakes up into a life she can't remember. The love of the people around her seems to do more harm then good in her quest to find answers. With the loss of her best friend and first love Matt, she can't help but feel like it was her fault. Little does she know she sits in the middle of so much more. Old friends, but new faces to her, return. And they return along with bits and pieces of her memory. She begins to think that maybe it's just better to forget, but forgetting could also make her lose everything.

"Where are you going?" He called after me. I rolled my eyes and kept walking, dripping water the entire time. I finally got to my car, and once I reached for the handle he grabbed my wrist and spun me around. I met his green eyes and crossed my arms. "Yes?" He stepped forward, pressing his body against mine, backing me against my jeep. I suddenly felt warm in my drenched clothes. I bit down on my bottom lip, as red creeped into my cheeks. "This would be easier, if you didn't keep walking away from me." His voice came out smooth and husky. He leaned down, his face advancing towards mine. In responce, I edged up, his body supporting my weight. I was just simply waiting for our lips to meet, and while I was waiting I noticed; at this moment I was no longer pretending. *** Samantha-also known as Sam Brinner- is your normal teenage girl facing normal teenage girl problems. Her life seems okay and fairly managable until her best friend Emily somehow convinces her to go to a midnight Carnival. There, Sam meets the boy that flips everything around, Daniel. She thinks it was only a one time thing until she runs into him again, and again, and....again. Suddenly, they're the talk of the school, and to everyone else, their obviously in love. But what everyone doesn't know is that, they're only pretending. But the question is, what happens when it stops being that way?

With a dead mother and a drunk for a father Kiara has no one to lean on, no one that truly cares- except for her best friend Matt. But when Matt is forced to go off to college, Kiara is left to deal with her father's drunken and abusive ways alone. Fast forward two years and Kiara is finally the adult she wanted to be. At 19 she now has the freedom she always longed for and the escape from the pain of her past. But just when everything seems to be coming together, Matt appears back into her life with disturbing news. In an instant, the world she knows is no longer her own and the security of own her life is compromised. The road of heartache, loss, love, and betrayal is the new road Kiara will have to travel. But the question remains: will she be able to find the truth in time, or will she be trapped in the same tragic loop as her mother? *Re-edited and finished version

They met on a vacation in Hawaii. She was there to try and heal her broken heart while he was trying to escape his fame. For four days they played the happy tourist couple. Only on her last night there did she succumb to his charms. Brianna Morgan was known best in her town for dumping the towns most eligible bachelor when she found him cheating on her. Now she was stuck in the middle of planning her crazy best friends wedding. Two weeks before the wedding her reluctance to be involved became a stern no when she first spied the best man. Chase Montgomery was so over being the most talked about man for his action movies. If he never made another movie again he would be happy. He needed something real. Something like the four days with that beautiful woman in Hawaii. The first woman to ever say no to him and the steamiest night of his life. She was gone in the morning and he never saw her again. Idle thoughts of her became no more when he realised she was the Maid of Honour at his best mates wedding. Now all he had to do was convince her that their time spent vacationing together was enough to prove they were destined to be together.