"I admit it. I was afraid to love him. He was an amazing mystery and he carried things deep inside him that no one has yet to understand and I, I was afraid to fail, like so many before me. He was the ocean, and I was just a girl who loved the waves but was just too terrified to swim." I'm Amelia Jane Messar. I'm just a normal 17 year old that has just started her senior year at high school. I live in a normal house, in a normal town with my pretty normal family and I guess you could say I was a very normal girl, nothing special at all. And I thought everything was going to stay that way but just as I started my senior year things began to start changing, and the timid school girl I was finally started to change. But this tale isn't all about the changes I go through, it's about who changed me. Luca Millar, he was bad. He smoked a lot and alcohol was one of his closest friends, he was cocky and arrogant, he broke the law frequently and he drove way to fast for his own good. And he didn't care one tiny little bit because no one ever taught him how to. But spending more time with him made me realise that there was way more to Luca that first met the eye, a couple of real dark tales hidden beneath the surface of this supposedly gorgeous and perfect bad boy. And I tried not to fall for him, with all my inner soul and being I tried, but I suppose I just could not help myself. But Luca made me feel different then anyone else ever had. He seemed to want to be the best man he could be for me, he couldn't bare the thought of me getting hurt by anyone, including him. He made me feel as though he would kill to protect me, a girl who cared about someone as worthless as him in all her perfection. I knew this all wasn't true, and many people told me so. He was just playing a game. But for once I just really wanted my tale to end without the pain and sorrow. And I think deep down I always secretly knew that there would never be anyone else. I only ever wanted him.

❝I'm afraid I'm about as cool as a rubber duck...❞ ❝ So ridiculously cool then?❞ ▬▬▬▬ Quinton Granger was very much like his younger sister, Hermione Jean Granger, well known for his studious nature among peers. However, there was a significant difference between the two, unlike Hermione, Quinton didn't possess magic. He was a muggle. Arthur Weasley has always been fascinated by muggles and their lifestyle, so when he meets Quinton one year as the older brother drops Hermione off at King's Cross, the two strike up a conversation about the function of a rubber duck. The two became fast friends and Quinton becomes a regular at the Burrow whenever his sister is invited over. Ginny is trying to come to terms with her feelings over the Boy-Who-Lived, who doesn't pay her any sort of mind outside of being Ron's little sister. Hermione gives her the advice not to pine over Harry, that she should look at other boys, although when Hermione suggested it, she wasn't exactly suggesting her older brother. It started off as letters between the two while Ginny is at school and becomes something each time the two see each other again. Plot credits go to the amazing Pseudonymphadora ❤ [CREDIT TO JANICE SUNG FOR COVER ART] [WATTYS 2018 LONGLIST]