Sharedroom Stories

There is a version of this story in which nothing happens. In which two teachers share a room on a school ski trip for five nights, maintain a professional distance, and say goodbye without either of them doing anything they can't take back. This is not quite that story. The Mountain is a novella about the gap between wanting something and being allowed to want it - and about what it costs to be decent when decency is the last thing you feel.

Scarlett Blake pensait enfin souffler. Le concours d'écriture du lycée était sa chance de s'échapper, ne serait-ce qu'une semaine. Mais le destin, lui, a un sens de l'humour cruel. Quand elle découvre que Jacob Callahan - l'arrogant, le provocateur, son pire cauchemar - est le second gagnant, tout s'effondre. Pire encore : une chambre d'hôtel. Partagée. Entre sarcasmes, regards brûlants et vérités étouffées, Londres devient le théâtre d'un jeu dangereux. Ils se détestent. Ils s'attirent. Et dans les silences entre deux éclats de voix, une histoire plus sombre se dessine. Et si la chute n'était que le début ?

Six teenagers wake up in a house they don't remember entering. No warning. No explanation. Just locked doors, rigid schedules, training on things they don't know about. They're told they're special. They're told they need training. They're told it's for their own good. Friendships form under pressure. Enemies are forced into proximity. Kindness becomes a liability. Power comes with consequences no one warned them about. And the most dangerous thing isn't what they can do It's what this place wants them to become.

Kenzie Monroe and Peter Beckett are two people with the same birthday, connected by their mothers. Despite not liking each other, they keep it together for their mothers. They try to keep it together as their parents surprise them with a trip, believing they're friends. What could go wrong? I'll tell you. Everything.

in which a boy and a girl who are complete strangers, have to share a hotel room. - {copyright - mamimuhloley 2015} - lower case intended.