*This story is undergoing MAJOR editing!* Zoe is an east-coast girl stuck three thousand miles away in California for graduate school: she's young, beautiful, and hardworking, but terribly shy and lonely. Nathan is a US Marine recently home from deployment in Iraq: he's handsome, fun, and chivalrous, but a haunting pa...
I pushed away from the dinner table and stood up really fast, then bolted for the door. I couldn't just stay here and listen to him tell me he was leaving, I just couldn't deal with it. Tears start running down my face just as I reach the edge of the grass and sidewalk about to enter the street, but arms wrapped aroun...