Brooklyn Lenning has always been the invisible girl, the social wallflower, for as long as she can remember, sheltered and happy from the real world in her all girls' boarding school in England. The day came though when her family recalls her to the fashionable Lenning Corporate buisness world in sixth grade, giving birth to her new phobia. Life at Kingston High, a private high school, is all right, she wasn't the only one brought back from England, her best friends came with her. Under their protection, Brooklyn survives life at Kingston at the top of the social ladder, so to speak, with her best friends at her side, shielding her, the youngest and most innocent of them all. They're not just her friends, but her sisters, her boarder sisters, and they'll do anything to protect one of their own. Even to protect her from her greatest fear, her fear of boys, more specifially, good-looking teenage boys.
So here she is considered in the popularity clique of Kingston High but also a bit forgotten, after all she doesn't do anything remarkable or scandalous like her besties, just homework, track team, family charity balls, nothing unusual for any student at Kingston's private high school. No one questions her distance from guys- no dating, no guy friends, no nothing- she just fades into the crowd of her friends as they subtly help her away from their boyfriends. But Brooklyn's entire world changes the moment Zachary Darkthorn enters her life.
Darkthorn was your typical rich popular playboy- badass, ladies' man, the Golden Boy, star quarterback- he had it all, all except the grades evidently when a little mistake in his English homework threatened his position on the football team. Desperate, he asks for a tutor and is thrown into the life of Brooklyn Lenning, the social wallflower.
Every Wednesday, at 4pm in the little nook of the History section, Brooklyn is forced to literally face her fear for an hour. Will Zachary Darkthorn be her cure or her downfall?
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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