in too deep | [REWRITING]

49| Other Books By Me

The Way I Loved You

She'd die for love. He didn't believe in love.

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From reading The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, to watching 10 Things I Hate About You, to listening to You are in Love by Taylor Swift, Emily’s life is a sum of moments she has spent after romance. Watching, reading, listening or daydreaming, romance has never failed to comfort this high school junior of 17 years of age. She has her own issues: self-sabotage, random mood swings, lack of focus in studying, randomly popping up acne and not loving the way she looked. But she could forget all that as long as she is reading about two people falling in love and finding their happily ever after.

Emily wants a romance for herself too, and she knows just the person for it: Landon McArther, a senior in her school. According to Emily, Landon is handsome, sophisticated, well-spoken, and unlike any of the immature boys in her class who didn't get her at all. Landon is everything Emily has always dreamed about and moreover, he appreciates her for the person she is. But there's just a teeny-tiny problem.

Landon McArther has a girlfriend.

While that wasn't on Emily's bingo card, she hopes, prays, and longs for the day Landon will be single because he is Emily’s soulmate, and he has to be, and she awaits her chance for romance. At the same time, her seatmate in chemistry, the rumored delinquent and grumpy assholiest asshole Nathan Callahan, makes fun of her romantic dreams.

Can Emily ever find true love?

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Floating

Gwen Bradbury has seen the end. Gwen Bradbury has learned fighting again.

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Gwen Bradbury's life is a torture to her. She is floating above everyone else, where her existence is like a void, eating her up from the inside, little by little every day. It isn't visible to anyone else around her how she is losing herself. Gwen wants freedom. She wants to escape. But she is not one to give up. The darkness and demons can't do anything to her, not again.She will fight till she cant take it no more.

Oliver Carlson is not your typical boy next door. He is not the popular bad boy with a dark past you will find in every book. Oliver is not cocky, not famous, not one with eight pack abs. He is Oliver, quiet, silent, hiding in shadows, away from everyone else, on his own. He has learned to keep to himself, build his suits of armors up and shut everyone out. Nobody really knows him. He doesn't care. What hurts is that when his popular brother Owen Carlson gets everything he wants, leaving Oliver nothing.

So when Gwen Bradbury unintentionally unexpectedly crashes in Oliver Carlson's life, she tries to convince him that life is beautiful with her broad smile and crazy endeavours. Oliver does quite the opposite by shutting her out on the outside but maybe secretly slowly letting her own a piece of his heart.

But what happens when both Oliver and Gwen are faced with disasters that make their second skin fall apart in front of their eyes abandoning only the truth?

Completed.

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dreams we buried

When you've gone numb, what does it take to feel again?

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   After her mother's death, Thalia Jamieson is stuck in the fog of high-functioning depression. She goes through the motions of her life-doing what's expected but feeling nothing. Her dreams, her passions, even her sense of self have faded into a dull, gray existence. That is, until an English assignment pairs her with Caiden Walters, the boy she used to have a crush on.
   Once the popular, well-liked football player, Caiden has withdrawn from everything he once cared about-his friends, his team, even his future. His slate-blue eyes, once full of life, now reflect only stormy bitterness, and he refuses to work with Thalia. But when a chance encounter at a graduation party leads them to reminisce, their walls begin to crumble, and they decide to feel something again-even if only physically.
   But will that be the answer to everything? Or will it only remind them even though they can't feel anything their hearts are still capable of shattering into pieces?

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Infidelity

A short story.

Two college professors talk about infidelity.

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