Follow Me Into the Dark

When Nathan moved away for college, he thought he was in for the time of his life. Girls, drinking, parties…but he never expected to run into her. Zoey Dempsey was the girl who got away, quite literally. One day she was at school, with friends, in his classes, and then the next, she was gone. It wasn’t for a few weeks when her parents said she ran away from home. They didn’t know where she was or if she’d come back.

To Nathan, it sounded like they barely cared if she returned or not. He wondered about what happened to her for years. Did she move to LA to become an actress? Was she some artist somewhere? What was she doing? What he didn’t expect was to see her walking to class, and he never expected her to say he got the wrong girl. He knew her, had a crush on her, and maybe even loved her. He knew it was her…but she seemed determined to make him think she wasn’t her.

Zoey has a dark past, even before she “disappeared”. She finally got back to some semblance of a normal life when Nathan stumbled back into her world. She never expected to hear her real name again. She never guessed anyone from her old life would remember her. She never thought anyone cared.

She wants to talk to him. She remembers how good of a friend he was, how easy he was to talk to, and most importantly, how he seemed to understand without saying a word. But she can’t. She can’t let him follow her into the darkness, but he seems determined to try anyway.