"Calum?" my voice sounds around the filthy and rather empty space. Dirty containers along with endless amounts of beer cans, boxes piling with dust, broken glass, and a dull carpet stained by what I hope isn't blood is littered around the sleazy room. "Ivy?" a voice slurs from a corner. His grey long-sleeved shirt is smeared with a deep shade of red, eyes red from the alcohol, striving to stay open. Sitting on the ground, he rubs his eyes and takes another look at me, "Is that you?" he croaks. The papers I held in my hand falls as my jaw drops along with it. A forbidden tear rolls down my cheek. What?

When Kae finally runs away from home with her best friend, after all those horrible years, she meets a boy with magical brown eyes, the boy that will change her life forever. But what if he finds out about her past? Her scars? The late nights of crying? Will he stay, or will he run away out of her life, just like everyone else?

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks, especially when its been broken countless times before. But why is it that we keep going back to the ones that hurt us, even once we know what they're capable of?

Calum believes that he's got everything a guy could ever wish for: popularity, a band with his best friends, and pretty girls in his high school swooning over him. He always thinks that whatever Calum wants, Calum gets. But of course, nothing stays the same. It all started when a girl named Kristen bumped and crashed into his life and asked him to pretend as her boyfriend for a month. Calum knew it would be nothing but a stupid deal until that stupid little thing started changing every single thing about what he always believes in. He woke up one day realizing three things. One, not everything he believed in is always true. Two, he knew something in his life was missing. And lastly... He's sure as hell that he's not pretending anymore. * Published: September 2013 Completed: March 2014 Status: Major Editing