Part One
Hayley
Prologue: The Beginning of a Mistake
Set the Scene.
It’s around late summer, closer to early fall. September to be politically correct.
I am around fifteen years of age, though slightly closer to sixteen.
He has just turned nineteen.
I come from a town in Iowa. Cedar Rapids to be specific.
He was originally from New Jersey. Wyckoff to be exact.
He is a well known musician who has been on many a world tour. I would say that he’s well respected in the music industry, but no one’s ever that well respected coming out of Disney.
I would be what he calls a struggling musician, but I’m extremely close to a record deal. He’s given me numerous offers to join him, but I would as always decline. I wanted to make my own name and my own music. Not his.
Despite the age difference and the question of legality (don’t you worry, we aren’t having sex, so it IS legal), we were a couple. I was of course hiding from the media as much as possible, putting on the act of friendship so no one would know. Just a few rumors here or there, but they were quickly covered up.
We went to many a family function together, and they all knew we were dating but didn’t argue when we refused to pose for pictures.
The outdoors were calm and that’s where I was with my cousins and him, standing in a circle on the stage. Majority of my cousins were in their mid-twenties to their thirties.
It was just like any other time we were around each other, but this time slightly different.
This time they had decided that they were going to try their hardest to get me smashed.
Welcome to my first mistake
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Thoughts? Feelings? :]