Prologue - The Day I Met Ryder West

                                    

                                          
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PROLOGUE - THE DAY I MET RYDER WEST
                          
I STILL REMEMBER the day I met Ryder West.  

                          
        It was certainly... one of the most interesting moments of my life. But maybe that was because I never really got to do anything interesting at all.       
                          
       Ryder West on the other hand was a different case.  He always had the reputation of being a 'bad boy'. And no, by 'bad bad' I don't mean the player wannabe 'bad boy' we see in the movies and fell in love with. No. Ryder West was more like... the criminal, rebel bad boy with more issues than Vogue. 
                          
    That's why I was more than surprised with myself when I, Chloe Anderson, a good, religious girl with perfect grades and good manners started hanging out with him. 
                          
        I come from a small, wealthy suburban village called Oakheart just a little bit outside of Westchester country.  Everyone here is nice and friendly, a little bit conformist and noisy but that is normal in the Suburbs. Oakheart is a very small, clustered diverse community filled with family oriented people, small children and Christian worshipers so I can't really say this place is the most interesting place in the world since nothing exciting ever happens here. 
                          
    Well... you see that was before Ryder West moved to Oakheart -and gave life and excitement to this place or more importantly to the ones who wanted it. The ones who wanted adrenaline and danger and... life. And surprisingly they were a lot of people who wanted all these things. 
                          
     It all began about a year ago when troublemaker himself moved to Oakheart after he vandalized his last school in a drunken state and the court decided instead of putting him to a juvenile detention center to relocate him to Oakheart as his 'punishment' for vandalizing and trespassing school premises. If I didn't knew Ryder West better I would've laugh at his punishment since Oakheart was like a paradise and any one would be lucky to be able to live here. But after I got to know him I realized that Oakheart was like hell to him. 
                          
And for everyone else after he moved here. 
                          
    Everyone, including me, was shocked when they found out Ryder West was going to move to Oakheart, some of them were even scared. I mean come on; Oakheart was always famous for its perceived safety and relative lack of crime; bringing someone like Ryder West here was the biggest mistake they could ever make. 
                          
And we were right. Because Ryder West wasn't one to change. 
                          
  The whole 'changing environment' and 'meeting new people would be good for him, a fresh new start'; that didn't work out of course. He continued causing troubles and did whatever he could to keep his 'bad boy' reputation. That wasn't the worst thing though. The worst thing was that he had –somehow - managed to take down with him good kids from notable, wealthy families and turn them to some kind of mini versions of him. 
                          
   It was just... unbelievable! One moment everyone was scared of him and avoided him at all costs and the other they all admired him and wanted to be part of his 'group'.  The boys had him as their 'role model' and the girls, the precious naïve girls of Oakheart, couldn't help but fall for him and his good looks although they were too exaggerated to admit it and made no move whatsoever to go anywhere near him. 
                          
I used to be one of these girls. Actually I used to be lot of things.
                          
   But just like Oakheart changed when Ryder West moved here just like that I changed too. The good, innocent, really religious and moralistic Chloe Anderson had somehow change to a new, a very different Chloe.