Hi beautiful, I'm not gonna bother you for too long. I'm just here to let you know about my new book "Rather be Jack" here's a lil sneeky peeky for it.
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"He drinks Daniels at the bar, drives his daddy's jaguar, rocking clothes with wills on the tags.
Yeah, he's all up in your face want to put him in his place but right now I'd rather be Jack."
Austin Mallory was just another troubled teen in the bunch, well a bit more troubled than the usual, "why is my body changing?" troubled. His parents died his seventh-grade year, leaving Austin with no parents and a shattered life. Yet still he drags himself ups out of bed every day and proceeds with life, he's doing ok when yet again God throws him a curveball and his 'best friend' is suddenly betraying him by dating his seventh-grade crush.
Austin's about to give up when something or should we say SOMEONE reaches out to him after finding him alone on the football field on the anniversary night of his family's death. Yet instead of running from the possible murder scene she stays, that's what baffles him. He thought she couldn't get any deeper than a kiddie pool so why does she stay? He thought after so long she would have forgotten about him, his existence brainwashed from her mind by Jack, but there she stands. Her boyfriend's letterman jacket draping off of her small figure, tears running down her face. Austin swoops in like the hero she wants, as well as the one she needs. She finds that after hanging around Austin, Jack just seems like a watered down version of Ken the Barbie doll. Her heart is set on Austin, but her sympathy and her mother keep throwing her back to Jack. She leads Austin on then cuts him off. She spends almost all of her time outside of school with Austin, but when they walk in those doors she's whisked away once more by Jack and his star squad of athletes.
Jacks got it going for him whereas Austin.... Well, Austin doesn't. Giving him just another reason to rather be Jack.
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