Justin

Justin doesnt know much about Skylar, or her life and she doesnt know much about him either. But thats what he likes about her. She doesnt know everything like everyone else in his small town, with time she might, but as for now shes going to have to be in the dark a bit!

People

Skylar wasnt to sure of where she was, but she was sure of the fact that she was far far away from home. The woman in the hotel office glanced at her.

"You do know that shit like that gets stolen pretty easy, right?" the old lady said as she motioned towards Skylar.

She was withdrawling all the money she had in her bank account, and she knew her parents were probably looking for her and that the cops could track things like that so she needed to get out of this hotel as fast as possible.

"Yes ma'am," she mumbled and handed the woman a 50 dollar bill, whch definietly should've been more than enough for the crap room she'd stayed in last night "have a lovely day!"

She walked out to her car, which was still wet from the night before. Then she just stood there for a while and looked around.

why am i doing this, where the hell am i?

The thoughts ran through her mind quicker than she could process them. She kept driving and driving and before she knew it 3 hours had passed and she was running on empty.

She wasnt to sure if this gas station was safe, let alone sanatary, but if the sign read correctly it was the last gas for about 100 miles and she didnt need to break down in the middle of no where.

She filled her tank and was smart enough not to use her credit card, so she wouldnt be found. Inside she grabbed 3 mountain dews, some lays potateoe chips, and a snickers bar.

The clerk would not stop staring at her, and to be honest she didnt mind. He was definietly cute and from what she could hear of him talking he seemed smart.

She approached the counter and set all her stuff down on it.

"Where ya headed?" he asked as he flashed her a beautiful smile. Ok this guy was seriously cute.

"Anywhere thats not Oregon," she smiled up at him "how bout you, why are you working here"

"Money's good," he talked while he scanned her items, "and i need to get to Nashville to start my music career."

"Well," she watched him intently, "where exactly are we right now?"

He laughed "So you're a run away?"

She nodded slowly "Yeah i guess thats what i am."

"Well you're about 70 miles outside of plano texas," he handed her her items and some cash back "but where exactly are you headed?"

She leaned across the counter and flicked his name badge

"Well Justin, maybe you should come and find out."

Watching

Skylar couldnt believe what she'd just seen. In fact, she didnt want to believe what she had just seen. Like so many other things she just wanted to burn it right of her memory, but at the moment that wasnt an option.

She sat on the top step of the long stairway that led up to the bedrooms, her knees pulled up to her chest and her head in her hands.

That wasnt real, you're minds playing tricks on u!

She had to believe that, but when she flipped open her phone and saw the picture, she knew that she was just lying to herself.

Kyla was in jakes arms, with her head burried into his chest. And she was crying.

Why would Kyla, her BEST friend, go crying to Jake?! EW! This wasnt doing good things for her reputation, in fact it wasnt doing good things for Kyla's either.

What could possibly be so horrible that Kyla couldnt tell her? And before Skylar knew it, she was crying. She stomped down the steps and tried not to trip, her vision was blury and she did all she could to not fall face first down the stairs.

She pushed past the people, gawd how'd everyone get here? The living room seemed packed, and it fet like everyone was staring at her. She made her way to the door but someone tugged her out by her wrist before she could open the door herself.

She finally reached her car, with her wrist still firmly clamped by his. Clearly the person was male.

"Stop," He reached forward and wiped a tear off her cheek and tucked a loose piece of hair behind her ear.

She struggled to make out his face through the tears, but she could tell it was Tyler.

"Maybe you should stop," she jerked her arm out of his grasp and fumbled to unlock her car door "you're supposed to be with Kyla! did you forget about her?" She was yelling at him now. "I dont need you to be my knight in shining any more Tyler! I think i made that pretty clear when i kiss-"
He grabbed her shoulders firmly and kissed her on the mouth, hard. She just shut down, she knew she didnt want to be with him and definietly was not going to kiss back. He finally pulled back.

"Maybe you're the one who should just shut the hell up sometimes." He said under his breath, but just loud enough for skylar to hear. He stormed off, leaving her alone and tired and crying.

She didnt even realize it was raining, didnt even think about the fact that she was soaking wet.

She just hopped in her car and drove. Not home. Not to Kylas.

Just anywhere that wasnt here.

Wild goose chase

This was dumb, she knew this was dumb. But for some reason Kyla couldnt stop thinking about jake, trying to find jake, and asking herself questions about jake in her head.

Is he cute? yes. Is he nice, that u know of? yes.

She pushed her way past a few people in the hall than banged on a door. No one answered. She continued to hit it as hard as she could with her fist. Her hand was throbing now, but she just kept going. Until finally the door was opened and there was nothing left to hit, unless she wanted to move hir fist forward and pound Jake in the face.

There he was. Standing in a room. A room that was clearly his own.

And here she was. In a hall. On the verge of a panick attack.

She hadnt even realized she was crying until he reached up and wiped a tear off her cheek. She sniffled a little and let him guide her in with a slight tug of her wrist. And she didnt even care that she was sitting on his bed and crying into his shoulder as he held her.

"Is it about your parents?" he whispered into her hair.

At this point Kyla didnt even care that he seemed to know about they're pending divorce. She noded.

He pushed her up right, not in a rood way, just so he could look at her. She watched his eyes as they looked her over. His shoulders firmly held her upright, she knew if he loosened up she would fall forward onto his lap.

Next thing she knew she was spilling her guts to him. This boy, who hadnt done anything for her but sit and hold her and wipe a couple tears.

"They didnt even tell me, they didnt want me to know. And then next thing i know dad left. And moms date-" he cute her off.

"I know, i know the whole story."

She gave him a confused look and shook her head, no. "wait what? how do u know the who-"

he cut her off again, but he shrugged first.

"Because..." he reached forward and held her hand "I listen."

The party

Kyla watched him, she didnt know why she was doing it, but she was. She couldnt help it, she'd been watching him for about 3 months and still hadnt gotten up the nerve to talk to him. He turned around and she just knew he had seen her. She quickly turned away and went back to pouring herself a sprite.

Jake wasnt her type, Jake wasnt meant for her, Jake was a punk, Jake beat up a guy, Jake could never make her happy, Jake Jake Jake.

The thoughts ran through her head un-conrtollably, all the things she'd heard about him and all the things she'd said herself. She couldnt help but wonder if any of it was true, if anyone really knew this kid.

Then it hit her, why was he even here? This was a party, as in "jocks preps and cheerleaders" kinda party. As in "no jake allowed". As in "what the hell was he doing here"

She turned around again...but it was to late, he was no where to be found. Figures, he always had a funny way of disapearing like that.

Skylar came over and hugged her. "OMG you will never believe what i just heard!!!" Kyla turned back to her sprite so Skylar couldnt see the annoyed expression on her face. She through in an edge of perkiness to her voice that could only be discribed as very very good mock enthusiasm "OMG what?!?!?!" She heard Skylar move her hands off her hips, kyla was pretty sure they would be held in front of her like she always did when she was gossiping "I just heard that Tyler is sooooo totally crushing on u!!!!" Skylar grabbed kylas shoulders then and spun her around.

They both started squealing, but Kyla definietly wasnt feeling it. She didnt care about Tyler, she didnt care that she was at his house, and she didnt care that he was "sooooooo totally crushing" on her.

All she cared about was finding Jake.

Tyler

Gorgeous. Popular. Jock.

Jakes brother???

talk about a shocker...

Since they were little kids jakes been in Tyler's shadow.

Tyler loves his baby brother though, he just doesnt show it so much in public.

Skylar

Kylas "best" friend. She may think she knows everything, but she definietly doesnt.

Jake knows shes been controling Kyla since they were little kids, sklyar thought that SHE would look better in the cinderella costume so kyla could NOT have it...it had pretty much been downhill from there!