♡I was shocked to see whose still bewitching eyes had just accidentally met with mine. Giovanni! A boy, a crush, and one fantastic kiss. I thought I'd never see him again. ♡Dual POV ♡
It's the mid-90s on the West Coast: grunge music, mix tapes, pag...
Gio and Ren are fictional characters, but Ren does share some aspects of my general teenage life back in the 90s. Everything that happens in the book is a work of pure fiction except... what happens between Ren and Charlie in middle school. Here is my diary entry about the boy he is based on.
**Please excuse my horrible spelling and penmanship, as I think I was writing this in bed in the dark.** (The photo on the right is "Charlie").
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Gio is loosely based on my middle school crush (upper left of the photo above), who I only actually talked to once and forgot even existed until he popped up in a vivid dream of mine over 20 years later. That dream and my memory of how I felt about him and that period in my life prompted this story. I thought it would be just six-ish chapters long, but somehow grew into a whole novel—my first big creative writing journey ever.
And so, from the future, looking back to the past, I'd like to thank him.
More Fun Things:
Here is a comic strip I did to amuse my friends who hung out at "Cool Beans Cafe."
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Finally, the cover when I first uploaded the story to Wattpad.
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