"Why the fuck are you even here anyway!? For fuck's sake, I don't need anyone!" the girl blew up as her cheeks flush in anger, outrage and confusion. However, just two words from the girl diffuses her anguish, her body relaxes, her gaze softens, her body practically betraying her as she hears her say "Come cuddle?"

"Do you want me?" "No" "Are you sure?" "No"

As she disconnects her lips from mine, she shoots me a smirk that sends chills down my spine. "You have no idea how long I've been waiting to do that," -- Aspen Grayson has had her fair share of crushes in her life: the beautiful celebrity in her new favorite tv show, the cute girl that sat behind her in algebra, the cashier that she crossed paths with for only a few minutes at the grocery store. But those were just simple infatuations that didn't last past a day. None have ever amounted to the crush she has on Ivy Charleston, her straight best friend.

Another short and sweet story in which the shy klutz and the redheaded sweetheart's new-found friendship blossoms into something more. ♥

Annabelle doesn't know how to read, and she wishes she could. However she never saw herself learning how too. Life just wasn't that easy, and learning how to read didn't really matter when she worked from sunrise to sunset so she can afford some bread. However, everything changes when one peculiar woman stands in her shop, book in her hand.