Prologue - several months later
I stood on the top of the roof building, staring out at the fog rolling across the city. It was a quiet day. The cars were parked, the rare one passing through the street. The town was small, not exactly a tourist destination. It was a sleepy town. Nothing and no one was out, all was peaceful. Too peaceful.
The wind whipped my hair into my face, but I didn't bother brushing it away. I felt numb. Like every emotion I had was running at overdrive, so my body had decided to dull it all out. I felt nothing, yet I felt everything. It was a weird phenomenon that I wasn't in the mood to understand.
The door to the roof opened. I knew who it was. Only one person would come up here.
"Cammie?" The hesitant voice approached me with that familiar, thick British accent. It was laced with worry, and uncertainty. It had been a while since we'd seen eachother. Hearing her voice on the phone last night was like speaking to a stranger from a distant past. So much had changed. The familiarity was almost too painful to bear. And yet, she was still here. Through the thick and thin, we always stuck together.
I finally faced her, and my face crumpled. Bex rushed over to me, abandoning all formalities, and threw her arms around me. I burst into tears, hardly the image of a twenty one year old woman who was meant to have her whole life together. But I couldn't keep anything together. Not anymore.
"Cammie, what happened?" She asked breathlessly, her hand going in soothing circles around my back. There were no questions about where I'd been, why I'd left, what I'd been up to. And I was so grateful for that, because right then, the last thing I wanted to do was recount the events that had led to this moment. The events that had left me devoid of just about everything. What had mattered most had been cruelly snatched away, and there was nothing I regretted more than leaving.
"Zach." I sputtered, my voice cracking on his name. "He's dead."
Woohoo! A cliffy! To all my old readers, I am overjoyed to finally be back and writing again. To all my new readers, hey there! I'm thrilled that you decided to check out my story.
The chapters will get longer, I promise, this was simply to grab your attention. Interested yet? There's a lot of unexpected drama to come, so you're in for a treat.
Buckle up, my sweethearts, you're in for a bumpy ride.
-Ivoryyy.