The Summer Bucket List

"sometimes you meet someone, and it's so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. as lovers, or as friends, or as family, or something entirely different. you just work, whether you understand one another or you're in love or you're partners in crime. you meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances and they help you feel alive. i don't know if that makes me believe in confidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something."
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Ariella Thorne was always very quiet. She wasn't spontaneous or daring in the slightest. Quite the opposite in fact. As long as she had her close friends and trusty pointe shoes, she was okay with it. She didn't really need any danger or complication in her life. She was satisfied with what she had (or so she thought) and her goals were clear; get out of the hellhole she called school, get into the American Ballet Company and be a successful. Then maybe she'd think about marriage and a child and maybe adopt a puppy.

Her whole life was laid out before her eyes, but whoever said that her plans would work out? Who knew that the summer before senior year would change her? Well, Blake Jacobs did. And that's how the summer bucket list was made.