Authors Note

I guess you could compare it to getting high. Being around him was like that. Taking those first few drags as a test and then going in full blow. Refusing to stop because the bliss it gives you was calling your name and too nice to abandon.

I remember Mama saying "Hide yourself and be a daughter worth having parents who wants her." Everyone always thinking I was a perfect and fragile China doll. Funny, because I always saw myself as an old scratched record.

He drew me in even worse than like a moth to a flame, pretending to have never have met me and Dahlia Luschwick was gone like creamy sea salt caramel ice cream.

Truth was, she was gone as soon as he asked those fate changing words.

"Just Lose Yourself, Darling."