Prologue

To helplessly aware

By Charlie Burton

 

GRACE Lister, nineteen and taking an art course at the University of California - intelligent, mature, down-to-earth, but slightly outcast by her enigmatic and shadowy past.  Her best friends are a group of five guys who have excelled into music stardom whom her mother works as a stylist for, and though she rarely sees them except during the holidays, has formed tight knit relationships with two in particular.  One, her closest friend, and the other, perhaps her soul mate…but there are times even when Grace doesn’t know which is which to her.  Through the turmoil of regret, passion, infidelity, honesty, anger, sexual-tension, youth, friendship and love, Grace hopes to finally straighten out her life, her mind and her heart, but will the on-going saga of her life end as it always does or will she finally be left helplessly aware of her uttermost desire?

Chapter 1