"Being reunited with your childhood best friend after eight years apart? Sounds like a heart-warming story. Finding out that said best friend is now a complete jerk who's determined to make your life hell? Not so much." Georgie and Connor were once inseparable. Best friends from birth, they did everything together - well, that was until Connor's dad got a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity and the family was forced to relocate to New York. At age sixteen, Georgie's life is totally different - her main goal being to keep her head down and escape the brutalities of high school with as little emotional scarring as possible. Balancing school, work and her dwindling social life is enough of a challenge, but it's about to get a bit more complicated when her conceited ex-best friend gets thrown into the mix. Maybe friendship should come with an instruction booklet.

"And the Christmas lights serve to remind us to provide light to others during the holiday season and throughout the rest of the year. Sometimes it's hard to remain on our path, and the light shows us the way, even in the darkest of times." "And what if your life is all one big darkest time?" "Then you need to surround yourself with more light." Angela's innate ability to judge people is tested when she meets Seth, who teaches her we're not all as we seem, especially around the holidays... ----- ©2021 M.Dalto Published to Wattpad 11.24.2021 Completed 12.23.2021

What could be worse than having your enemy shoved forcefully back into your life? Unfortunately for Phoebe Brooks that's exactly what happens when her brother chooses to get together with the worst choice imaginable - her enemies sister. Sebastian Diaz, her childhood friend turned enemy was the last person in the world, Phoebe wanted wrapped up in her life. Terrified of a future stuck together, the mutual enemies agree on a pact. A pact to work together to destroy the blossoming relationship between their siblings before it's too late.