"Alright, I'll start with an introduction to me and all the people I'm gonna tell you about, so errrr, welcome, I guess? I'm Cassie Langer, I'm seventeen, and I'm an aspiring fashion designer doing my senior year at Crestville High in some town in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. I won't bore you with the long-winded description of what I look like, this isn't My Immortal and my name isn't Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cassie always faded into the background of life, mostly only interacting with her inner circle of close friends and seeing herself invisible to everyone else at Crestville High, and that's how she likes it. So imagine her surprise when her former friend and long-time crush - kind-hearted jock Ryan Park - decides to reconnect with her. As Cassie's growing connection with Ryan draws more attention to her, she starts gaining the confidence to take on her bullies and break out from her shell. However as she grows closer to Ryan, her close and protective childhood friend Chad Hills starts showing his own feelings for Cassie. Will she continue seeing where things go with her self-described "perfect man", or find herself falling harder for her best friend. This is the first of a series. I decided not to dump the entire story that I have planned out into one and split it into several different ones. So consider this as Cassie Book #1. This story as well as the series as a whole blends silly humor, cuteness, and also some pretty dark storylines, if you're into that kind of stuff. Also, this book makes use of music, so every chapter has a song that correlates with the story being told. I do not own any of the music or song lyrics used and every song used is linked in the chapter, all rights belong to the artists and composers :) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: November 10, 2020 EDITED: November 21, 2022

Maybe this is going to be a good year. Sure, these last few months have been a little... dramatic and soap opera-esque. But still, it can't get much worse than that. It can only go up from here. Right? Best to not tempt fate, huh. ---------------------------------------------‐------------------------- New Year, New Attitude, at least that's how Cassie Langer wants to start her year. After moving on from a quite frankly bumpy relationship with the school's alpha male Ryan Park, Cassie is settling into a new romance with her longtime best friend Chad Hills. With her new beau Chad, her twin sister Hope, and her best friend Naya by her side, Cassie wants to take every day as it comes and go with the flow, ridding herself of the overthinking and anxiety that plagued her last year. But if she thinks she's going to have it easy, well... she's fooling herself. Throw in a crazed stalker, a rivalry, PTSD, nightmares, drugs, and an ex-boyfriend's phone, and she's about to realize that what comes up... must come down. Forewarning, this book is definitely a lot heavier than Book #1 and contains drug use, sexual scenes, violence, etc. BUT, despite all of that, it still keeps the same fun, light humor that came with the first book, so don't be too put off! This story as well as the series as a whole blends silly humor, cuteness, and also some pretty dark storylines, if you're into that kind of stuff. Also, this book makes use of music, so every chapter has a song that correlates with the story being told. I do not own any of the music or song lyrics used and every song used is linked in the chapter, all rights belong to the artists and composers :)