Author's Note: This is just a pre-story bit. Its meant to be a bit more artsy? I guess that's the only way to describe the style I wrote in for the prologue. So, hope you enjoy and the first chapter will be up shortly after this.

Disclaimer: I don't own a thing except this story and any original characters you see. Everything else belongs to Susie Hinton.


Prologue:

The haze was thick and suffocating. Somewhere in the deep end my mind was drowning. Common sense floundered. It begged for a life preserver that I didn't want to take. It would pull me to safety. Out of my self induced state and to the shore where pain and reality would once again set in.

I relished in my drunken stupor; hands sluggish as they rode up the cotton t-shirt. Tracing sweat streaked palms across hot flesh; over his chest and down to his stomach. A foreign set of hands caressed my naked back. Along my spine until they came to rest on my butt.

The haze was getting thicker. My mind was deadweight at the bottom and I knew it would not resurface anytime soon. Instinct took over in its place.

I tugged at the fly of his jeans. The foreign hands came to remove the rest. I leaned back, staring at the face before me. The dark curls, greased with hair product and sweat. Eyes glazed, looking at me through the haze as mine looked at his.

Harsh, ragged breaths filled the silence of the room. It reeked of nicotine and sex and loud indiscernible music sounded from the other side of the wall. People milled about the house able to step in at anytime. I thought that should bother me, but it didn't.

I stared at the stranger on the bed. Half dressed, with only a t-shirt and I couldn't remember its color. I couldn't remember who sat here with me.

A crooked grin caught the stream of moonlight through the tattered curtains. My lips curled in response. Instincts claimed me as I crawled up his chest, straddling his waist. The weight of us both together brought us down with a soft Umph! onto the mattress.

Our mouths parted as one and I let the rest of myself be taken in by the haze.