Skylar's POV Homecoming. That's all I could hear at my school today. Girls were highly pumped up with excitement, whispering and giggling about the dresses they were going to fill up their closets with. While the boys were shamelessly eyeing the girls, deciding who to ask out for the dance. Every single hallway of Crestmont High was drowning with all that hype. It was sickeningly sweet. People like me could almost throw up rainbows and confetti just by looking at those excited teenage faces. It wasn't that I was against this all, it was just my lack of interest towards such events which made me way less excited than an

Skylar's POVMy mouth fell open in surprise as I eyed him.Caden?He was probably the last person I was expecting to see here, especially threatening that girl with a freaking gun. On queue, my eyes trailed down to the gun in his hand and I gulped heavily.Judging by his barely masked surprise, he hadn't been expecting to see me here either.That was an enough distraction for the girl to roll over and stand up on her feet. It took her mere seconds to runaway in the darkness. Caden frowned at the way she had disappeared off to but surprisingly, didn

Skylar's POVI woke up hastily at the sound of the coffeemaker buzzing. It almost felt like someone had driven a tractor right into my house. Believe me, it was a horrible sound to wake up to.I sat up groggily on the couch, rubbing my eyes and pulling my hair away from my face simultaneously. "Dad?" I asked tiredly.Watching my dad making a cup of coffee for himself the first thing after waking up was something I wished to wake up to every day. It felt nice and refreshing to see my parents in the mornings especially, something that almost never happened.I let out a loud yawn and noticed that he was dressed up in a black suit; his work clothes. Which either meant that he had just changed and was leaving, or he had just come back here. In this case, it was definitely the latter.

Skylar's POV"As for the introductions," Jesse spoke up. "I'm Jesse. This creep is Adrian. This nerd is Seth." He continued before pointing over at Shane who was already glaring at him. "And that's...Shane." I couldn't hide the disbelief from my voice. "For real? You guys are a real gang?"Caden passed me an eye roll. "Isn't that what I just said?"I ignored his offensive tone and looked back at the others with slight disbelief. "It's just surprising."I was highly aware of how much sketchy and mysterious our town could be, but I hadn't exactly expected to find myself in between a gang. A real gang."And you, gorgeous, are the first ever person to know about it." Adrian said with a smile.I furrowed my brows at that, because that was when the questions came. A lot of th

Skylar's POVIt was when somebody nudged me that I jerked awake from my little slumber. I would've probably ignored that slight nudge only if my brain hadn't woken up. But when I did wake up and looked around me, I was left a bit shaken.Oh shit.I was still in the classroom while everyone else had left. The teacher, who was supposed to be the substitute one, was standing in front of my desk, tapping her foot impatiently as she looked at me, probably waiting for me to get my whole self out of there too."Dear, you don't sleep in class. I believe you know that?" She asked me in a distasteful way.