ELENA'S POV

My days began to blur together, in a never-ending cycle of loneliness and guilt.

It wasn't an easy feat to accept that Lucas had been right about Raymond all along, while I was blinded by my own emotions.

I couldn't handle Raymond alone. He wasn't the person I knew as my best friend anymore. It felt as if the scales had finally fell of from my eyes.

The desperate vibes he gave off these days rose my suspicions, and I did not want to bother my parents with this information.

I could not risk them getting entangled with whatever Raymond had planned, and end up loosing them because...