This love story began with a lie. Harry Styles is absolutely crushed, empty. Relationships keep failing him, women keep using him. All he wants is real love, a real girl has substance, a mind, who can relate to him on a level he never had before. He wants love. One night a purse comes into his life and he is fascinated with its contents, the books, the music, and the edgy colors of lipstick and eye shadows. Above all, the most important thing that was in this bag, was the journal. Harry creates a fantasy girlfriend, unable to get hurt he reads the words of this girl that goes by Linc, and he falls head over heels. Every word she penned in her journal is like music to him, he can hear it over, and over. He can relate to her, he understands her. He's safe just imagining her, imagining what she's like,how beautiful she is, funny and smart. It's safe. He can't be used, cheated on, lied to or broken. Finally he can't stand it, and he sets out and meets this girl. Once he does, as soon as his eyes met his dream girls, he can't help but use the journal to his advantage. He knows what to say, how to act, what she likes and what shehates. It's a manual to her heart. It's a manual for her to take down every single wall, and get her to trust in him completely, to share herself on levels she hadn't done with anyone before. So Lincoln falls, and she falls. Will Harry ever return the lost handbag and tell the truth? Will he admit to the fact that he read her most intimate thoughts, her private world that she created in her journal? Will he own up to the violation of privacy, of manipulation? Or will this relationship always be started with a lie? Copyright writetospeak 2013

This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

"It's hard letting go. I'm finally at peace but it feels wrong." {Under going editing. It's being rewritten from the beginning, grammatical errors are being fixed. Should be completely edited and polished by December}

******READ A BIT OF MY LATEST CHAPTER TO SEE HOW MUCH MY WRITING HAS IMPROVED LIKE HONEST ITS SO CRINGEY I CANT****** Falling in love with your best friend seemed too cliche for my liking, so me and my best friend always knew we weren't going to do just that. However, life is so unexpected and before I knew it, I had a brain tumor, was stripped of my old life and given a new one. A life without my best friend, Niall Horan. I left the X Factor, where I had made it up to bootcamp, but it didn't matter. My dreams were crushed, there was no hope. I never did tell Niall, about my brain tumor and just cut contact with him. He didn't need to worry about me. What I didn't realize is that Faith also comes into play and well Faith does whatever the hell it wants. So next thing I know, here I am, reunited with my best friend. My brain tumor is gone, and I have my best friend back. It's times like these where I realize it's just a little too good to be true. And it is. Slowly, without even meaning to, I start falling for the boy who was none other then my best friend. Everyone knows falling in love with someone you simply cannot have is a nightmare, and I feel as though this nightmare will just never end.

The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.