A Different Affinity

~"Why're you helping me?" Her voice is throaty and hoarse. I pause, a surely quizzical expression gracing my face as I try to collect my thoughts.

"You seem like you need saving."

Her cold gaze never leaves mine, challenging every thought and explanation trying to push through my sealed lips. An eerie silence engulfs us.

"Maybe I don't want to be saved." ~

After her best friend's suicide, Skylar Jakeman is forced to deal with her grief and the past traumas of her life by herself.
Or so she thought.
When coping mechanisms turn into irrational actions and reality is blanketed with empty beer bottles and endless lists of parties, Skylar finds herself in the arms of her sworn childhood rival: Braxton Stark.