Skylar "Sky" Baker in “Tethered” {Original Story}
"Oh God... It's my fault. I did this."
When Skylar Baker comes home for the summer her sleepy little home town isn’t the place she used to know.
Two girls have gone missing since she’s last been there for spring break - one found dead in a remote stretch of the woods a week after Sky went back to college, the other gone for three days when she gets back.
The town is up in arms, rumours are flying, but neither the police nor the dubious neighborhood watch have come up with anything useful.
It’s almost enough to make Sky forget the real reason she was afraid to come back home.
Jesse and Nico.
Cousins - but brothers at heart.
Sweet boys who grew up just a little on the wrong side of the tracks. One of them Sky’s ex boyfriend and the other her best friend. One the boy whose heart she broke and the other the one she has been in love with since she was old enough to know what that means.
At first Sky does her best to avoid them both - not ready to face the fallout of that disastrous spring break - but when on her first night back the police storm the boys’ home, she comes running.
Because she’ll always, always come running when they need her.
But this time she's too late…