A story in which Candace Porter meets Jude Garner in a bedroom during a party, and the two of them begin an instant relationship full of love, trust, heartache and sabotage.
Candace Porter, sixteen-year-old tennis prodigy doesn't know much about Jud...
| W H E N C A N D A C E M E T J U D E | • • • | Candace |
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The sun didn't shine much on the smallest of small towns where the young brunette resided in. The trees began to lose their color, signaling the arrival of Candace's favorite season yet; fall. Fall was her favorite season for many different reasons. The major one being that her birthday would be happening soon.
She would be seventeen.
She'd been waiting for this very birthday since her older sisters first turned seventeen, when she was still a little girl. First, went her eldest sister, Maya, who had received a sparkling white Lexus and access to a small percentage of her trust fund.
Serena, the middle child of them all was livid to say the very least. But it didn't last long. Because sooner or later, her seventeenth rolled around. And she was awarded the same gifts and car. Although—it was in a different shade. Their mother and father knew better than to make that mistake.
There wasn't much that could be said about her sisters—Candace wasn't very close to them, due to having different values and overall morals. Candace couldn't stress enough how difficult it was to be raised side-by-side with people who didn't understand you. And simply never made an effort to.
It was a childhood from hell, so she would say.
Sixteen wasn't the best year. She'd spent the last summer entertaining her then on and off again boyfriend, Finn. But after finding about his late-night meetings with a girl from a neighboring town, it was safe to say that they were off again—and they would stay off.
Much to Finn's dismay.
The young college boy had bugged her about rekindling their failed relationship for months on end. To the point where completely blocking him on every app and changing her number seemed to be the only way to keep him from reaching her.
Candace had awoken this morning to her family starting breakfast without her—again. Her mother always claimed to not want to wake her whenever this happened. But Candace knew. She knew that they simply didn't see the reasoning for telling her breakfast was ready if they had no interest in eating with her.
The reasoning for this was something that Candace couldn't even get into on a Monday morning. Delving into the details and thoughts of last summer and her issues with her reappearing eating disorder would set the rest of her day up for downfall.
And she couldn't have that. Not on the first day of junior year. The most important year of high school.
Especially for Candace, who had been working toward a tennis scholarship since freshman year. Not that she necessarily loved the sport, but it would without a doubt, help her with her inevitable escape plan out of her hometown. Which nobody knew about.
