"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~ William Shakespeare
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Kailani Hummel, an innocent small-town genderfluid teenager, gets sucked into a world that seems like only they can navigate in an attempt to save everyone they love. Will Qu...
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Mrs. Rivera had left the substitute teacher with an open lesson plan while she was away. The class wasn't used to having a free period of the sorts, but a packet for extra credit and free time to work on their other assignments was well beyond appreciated. Most kids were smart enough to take the extra day of no studies to work on their in-class projects and papers.
Unfortunately, Hunter Ryan was not one of those kids, and it was really beginning to piss Phoenix off.
The redheaded boy inhaled deeply, glaring into the back of Hunter's head as he drew little pictures on his sticky notes and cut them out with his friends. This time it was a gun, and Hunter was pretending to shoot around with Marcus not far from where Kailani Hummel was sitting.
Phoenix sighed, tapping his pencil on his five-subject notebook as he watched his mother write in a journal Quinn had given them. This had to be the original Lovebug one, with more to come throughout their relationship.
It was one of the many signatures of his parent's love. A way of remembering everything they had together. Quinn had always gotten Kailani a new notebook with a different design, engraving, and sometimes even a different color when they ran out of room. He remembered seeing them on that massive bookshelf in his Mom's old office, his sister's rooms, and even one in Callisto's bookshelf.
Phoenix hated those journals.
Hated them with a passion.
Phoenix couldn't understand why out of all the things his mother had, Kailani Hummel would leave them stupid books first before anything else. No, he didn't like seeming greedy and appreciated the other things Kailani had left him, but when money was an issue, Quinn never let them touch their savings accounts from Kailani. The only ones that ever had were Beth, Riley, and Reese.
How peachy.
And obviously, Mommy's perfect little stars would put that money toward a good cause, their education, or something boring like that.
Beth got married and went to school to be a veterinarian, and Riley went to school and used her inheritance to help her low-income students to keep music alive, where she worked in Upstate New York. And then, who could forget that Reese went to school in North Carolina and planned to go for her doctor's in family law and psychology?
All three of them dedicated a portion of their inheritance to research on the brain, body, and Lupus for Juniper and Cyra, hoping their fate wasn't going to be like their mothers.
