Sugar Coated Secrets

SOME SECRETS ARE ROTTEN INSIDE.

ESPECIALLY IF THEY MUST BE KEPT.

Throughout high school, I was invisible, silently hoping Ford Keller, the quintessential bad boy everyone adored, would notice me. When he asked me out, last minute to prom, I thought my prayers had been answered.

It turned out to be a cruel joke, one that nearly broke me completely.

I smile.

I pretend everything is fine, running my grandmothers bakery.

I act like I don’t remember him from school, but I remember most of the things they did that fateful night.

In a town with every reason to lie, there is no one I can trust.

Not him.

Not them.

I need to get the hell out of this town, but I can’t, not yet.

To survive, I have no choice but to play their game.

IF HE’LL LET ME GO.