Won't Stop Running

When bad boys do bad things, why are we always so shocked?
Not Saylor.
She knows that good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people.
She knows it's not fair.
Nobody knows it more than her.
Except maybe Tom.
He knows what it's liked to be loved by everyone and then nobody at all.
Her mother would say she was bad, his mother would say he was good.
Turns out it's more complicated than that.
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Saylor is a perpetual third wheel. It's been that way her whole life. At first, she didn't care, and now it's kind of a running joke that she will be alone forever. Fear can make the right person run for the hills when it wants to.
This is the story of how she stopped running.
And maybe,
just maybe,
the story of how she turned around.