After Skye's life-changing events in 2019 pass through, a new school year begins. Amazingly, she has transferred to the school all her new friends go to, but the questions of if this 'family' is willing to stay together linger in her head. And her biggest concern is how they would react to the truth about her family heritage-- her brother, Brian Crandall, someone who had caused multiple severe problems toward their group and to many others.
To Skye, it's only a matter of time that all her new friends would abandon her. She feels she would be dragging everyone down because of her parents' deception and abuse and, the amount of trouble and conflict her brother has caused
Unbeknownst to Skye, her friends--this family she has will continuously grow and support her, wanting badly for her to accept them to her fullest potential.
Above all, they want to liberate her from the chains the Crandall family uses to drag her down.
A family will do anything to protect one of their own, and these friends will stop at nothing to make this possible for their dear friend.
'Tangent Points - Points on a line that cross paths once, then never meet again.'
Dysfunctional individually in their own ways, they somehow are functional as a group, you'll never see one without the other, and the other, and so on and so forth. They're essentially a family who need each other.
Like all people, they all make mistakes, and sometimes never agree with their family, but at the same time, they learn and begin to appreciate the lessons that come with the mistakes.
Many, many pieces will become vital to this family. To them, life was like a rollercoaster ride. Just as long as they had people riding with them, they knew they would be okay. However, some of them start to wonder whether or not this bond will last forever. There is no such thing as forever; the days are numbered for a reason.
Have you ever met someone who alters the course
of your life? For good or for bad, they've come in, given and taken, and then- BOOM! Your life was never the same. There's always a change, an altering of reality. When you meet those people, the reality that you've known your whole life is suddenly gone and a new one has taken its place. When those moments happen, there's no going back. You can try to return to the way things were but nothing, and I mean nothing, can take you back to exactly how it was. That's what happened to us. I think that's why we're still trying so desperately to get back to some sort of normalcy. Four years later and we're still on the ground, crawling, in search of the happiness that was lost that June. Summers will never be the same. Midnight walks through my neighborhood will never be the same. Field parties with bonfires and loud music will never be the same. I still don't know why you left and what lead you to the decision you made. What I do know is that we're here. We're alive and we're pushing forward to the future. A future that you're not a part of. But in some ways, I'm glad
you're not a part of it. I just wish it wasn't like this.
*** TRIGGER WARNING***
SA, abuse, suicide, substance abuse, and mental illness.
This is a complete story that is much like life; fast, full of surprises, and not always how we want it to be. This has been a project of mine for over three years. It was self-published on Amazon, but after some issues in publication, I decided to just upload it on here. I hope you fall in love with these characters like I have.
The friends in this story are trying to make names for themselves, figure out who they are, who they can trust, how to love, and how to separate themselves from a restrictive community. As in any coming of age story, they will experience growing pains... but will they survive them before its too late?
PLEASE READ THE TRIGGER WARNINGS.