Falling For Alaska (Lakeside #1)

Prologue

ALASKA

I’m screaming.

It’s so loud, I’m frightening myself. Only I can’t stop it, I can’t control it.

Thick tears fall on my cold cheeks as I try to hug myself with my bleeding and broken knuckles, unconsciously realizing that the sight before me will be forever frozen in my mind.

My knees hurt from staying on the ice, and I bounce back and forth like a mad girl, almost laughing because how could this ever happen?

Terrible things happen to terrible people, right? Isn't it how it’s supposed to be?

I see everything, and yet I’m stuck watching it, screaming, crying, shaking, kneeling before the reality I will never, ever accept.

This didn’t happen.

I’m alright.

I’m alright.