Kai stood with his arms crossed, leaning his back against the cool metal of his dark gray SUV. The night had slowly grown colder, forcing him to pull a dark grey sweater over his light colored tee-shirt while he she quietly explained to him what happened. She sat perched in the passenger seat of the vehicle; her sandaled feet rested on the ledge of ( Read more... )

“Is it so hard to believe me?” she asked softly, running her fingers across the surface of the pale plush carpet underneath her. She had long since given up trying to hold back her tears, now allowing them to fall freely down her cheeks in thin rivulets. Her back was pressed firmly against the side of the couch with her legs tucked tightly to her ( Read more... )

“She has to face him eventually,” Zane whispered hurriedly at Ami.
“She will face him when she’s ready. Leave her alone,” she hissed back, craning her head to make sure that the patio door was closed so that her friend wouldn’t hear them.
“Why are we whispering if she can’t hear us?” he plucked at a lose string on the couch, rolling his eyes at Ami’s ( Read more... )

When her friend showed up on her doorstep with tears in her eyes - she should have known that something was wrong, although her friend did have a flare for dramatics.

When her friend lunged into her arms and sobbed on her shoulder - she should have recognized that something was anything but right, although her friend did still have that flare for ( Read more... )