So due to my negligence, I posted this short little chapter that reveals a lot! I hope you enjoy and I hope I can get another chapter out by Sunday night! Once again I own nothing!

Karleigh's POV

I finally pulled the bike over onto the side of the road, upon arriving at a small park my father use to take Pogue and I when we were little. There was a little stream, and in the summer children would play by the waters edge looking for tadpoles. Now, late fall, no children were here and the frogs had long grown up and left. The park looked abandoned and dark, only lit by several lamp posts, just what I needed to be alone. I headed towards the stream just for a look, I always wanted to wade in it when I was younger, but my father insisted it was too dangerous. To do it now would be crazy, it was far to cold and the water was moving way to fast. I sat down by the edge, getting lost in my own head as I mindlessly threw little bits of grass and leaves into the stream and watched flow away.

*Flashback*

It hurt not to talk to Reid, or any of the guys for that matter. But I knew the only way to get over him was complete and utter shutoff. I was here to focus on my singing. Of course, all work and no play would kill me, so Kelly made sure that I got out of the studio when she realized I hadn't come home at a decent hour. She was the best roommate I'd had so far at Hillridge. There was the piano player that I was matched up with when I first got here back when I was fifteen, and she practiced all hours of the night. It wasn't that she wasn't good at playing either, it just wasn't as relaxing as I needed it to be. I figured that the school thought that since we both did music we'd work out, but she was so quiet and reserved, I couldn't even tell you her name if it hadn't been plastered to our door all year.

It was my second year when I met Kelly, a fine art student with a focus on painting. Kelly was half Filipino and half Irish. When the end of the second school year came to an end, we decided to stay roommates over our third year and fourth year. At the end of my third year when the whole Reid incident went down, Kelly was really there for me, we would talk all night and she'd let me cry on her shoulder when I needed, and some times we just decided to get really drunk and rant. It was the best.

It was just after Winter break of our fourth and final year at Hillridge and classes were gonna start on Monday, only two days away. We were cleaning up our apartment, blasting music and having some wine. There was a knock at the door, probably just our neighbors telling us to turn down our music... Again. Kelly went to answer it and a man pushed his way into our apartment. I could hear them shouting from my place in the laundry room. I wandered out to the man's back turned to me, and Kelly's eyes pleading for me to understand the situation quickly. I noticed Kelly mouth something, and being a singer, I considered myself pretty good at reading lips. But I had to be wrong, she was telling me to hide. The man quickly turned to see what Kelly was looking at when I ducked behind a wall again. I stayed like that for a few seconds when I finally worked up the courage to look again. The man was passing now, and it was at this moment I saw what was in his hand... A Knife.

*End of Flashback*

I was shaken from my memory by a hand on my shoulder, I shrunk to the ground and cowered at the touch, only to find the hand belonged to Tyler. My heart was racing from the moment, my adrenaline was pumping and I didn't mean to start to cry.

"Karleigh it's ok, I'm really sorry for sneaking up on you," Tyler hugged me tight as I cried. I knew it wasn't his fault, it was that man's one who did this to me, who made me scared of everything, who took away my best friend.

Tyler held me tight as I shook from my silent sobs. The build up of my feelings all bursting at once onto poor Tyler. But he was supportive and comforting.

"Come on let's get you home." He lifts me up into his arms and carries me towards the parks exit, when I see he's not alone. My brother and Caleb come running up, questioning Tyler in a blur of words that I was too tired to make out. It was so dark I could only make out Pogue by the outline of his silhouette due to the street lamp behind him.

It was then I realize my fear building back up as I looked around for the one who was missing... Reid. I struggled out of Tyler's arms ready to run again. When Pogue grabbed my shoulders and pulled me into a hug.

"He's not her Karleigh. He's not here." He whispered to me as he embraced me.

I let out a sigh of relief and they guided me to Tyler's Hummer and Pogue headed in the direction of where I left his bike.

"I'll meet you guys at home, and Caleb, if he shows up, get rid of him before he tries anything else."

I knew he was talking about Reid, but what would he try. I was too tired to figure it out. So I snuggled up against Tyler, who held me in the back seat, still comforting me. I was soon lulled to sleep by the vibrations of the Hummer bouncing down the road back to the Parry estate.

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