the air smells like the promise of tomorrow and nothing has ever smelled more terrifying

"One side of me says, 'I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, 'I wonder how her head would look on a stick"

"And as I started into his eyes, I finally understood the meaning of love..." Her name is Chrissy Clark. After a drastic move from Manchester to Melbourne, she meets the one who completely changed her life, her neighbour, Luke Brooks. When she starts dating him, everything goes well and everyone envies their relationship, but when she falls pregnant, everything isn't as easy as it was before. Pregnancy is never easy, but being a pregnant teenager comes with a lot more hardships. How will the couple handle it? Find out in The Boy Next Door.

In which a boy and a girl fall in love during the winter. [luke brooks short story] //short story #559; #543; #485; #307 //