Mykel Turner was nervous. There was no other way to describe the way she was feeling. The man she once loved, then hated, and later on sent to prison for the last five years, was out, and according to the letter she received the other day, he was coming back for her.
Why once a person became part of your past, they thought they could be part of the present too? Life was finally good for her and she wasn't sure what kind of effect he was going to have once he came back.
An explosive relationship from the beginning, Mykel and Connor Blackwood had dated on and off throughout their entire High School experience. Raised in a small town in Mississippi named 'Willow Creek', population over two thousand people. Being an interracial couple, her black and him white. It was rare to see, but many didn't have any problems with it. The ones who did, however learned how to keep their issues to themselves.
Hooking up when they were just thirteen and fourteen years old, Mykel should have known getting with the resident bad boy wasn't such a good idea, but she was blinded by his good looks. Olive colored skin, the brightest blue eyes she ever seen on a person and his curly sandy brown hair. Connor had deep dimples that popped out anytime he smiled.
He was the guy that was always in the principal's office for fighting or getting caught smoking weed on the back staircase with his friends. Every girl young and some old wanted him, but he wanted her. The little nobody that kept her head in a book, came from a poor family, and wore clothes that were two sizes too big for her.
