- a tale in which a certain boy, ricky bowen, could hold everyone's pain but his own.

Nini Salazar-Roberts has been best friends with Gina Porter for as long as she can remember , and she's been attracted to Gina's older step brother, Ricky Bowen, for as long as she Can remember. What happens when Ricky suddenly shows an interest in Nini too? Lightly inspired by the Kissing Booth Started: July 28,2021 Finished: December 26,2021

"𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡, 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧; 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞!" "𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞." Nina Salazar-Roberts and Richard Bowen. Two very different people who live two very different lives and who have two very different ideas when it come to love. Love has always been on Ricky's rough side; He's seen it rip his entire family, house and life apart and he wants nothing to do with it. So, he got in the lonely business of being a traveling journalist because nothing is better than going on long vacations alone. He has no interest in love and no empathy when it come to heartbreak. That is until he runs into his polar opposite while working on a story in Paris: Nini. A french cafe owner who just so happens to be the biggest hopeless romantic alive. When these two collide, they decide to give each other challenges to prove that one of their over the top ideals of love is right. Who will win this challenge?

(adj.) mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding - 𝗔 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘 in which Nini Salazar-Roberts has to get over her angsty attitude in order to work with an FBI agent who is just as angsty as she is to solve her sisters mysterious death.