16 parts Complete Fourteen year old Kacey Vargas met seventeen year old Ryder Mitchell on one of those borderline days: in the first week of September, when the sun is locked in a battle with the wind for summer's last breath. She thought he was dangerous, he thought she was beautifully innocent, and Kacey believed that the rest would be history.
But soon, fall winds started to blow across their relationship and Ryder started to change. He trapped her, he suffocated her in cigarette smoke, he knocked her down like a tree in a thunderstorm.
Why? Because Ryder knew that the moment she saw autumn colors, she would decide to break free from his grasp.