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?
(Before You Leave #1)
She was sent to boarding school over the smallest of mistakes...
Okay, burning down your schools gym might have been a big one. But she didn't mean to do it. This time. And she's certainly no snitch.
She's had a fine life. But she wanted something more. And so she created chaos.
She was misjudged and misunderstood.
And now she's the havoc of Birchwood Prep. They call her the devil's bitch, the principal's worst nightmare, and a screwed up whore.
They can think what they want, JJ Ashton has heard these all throughout high school. She doesn't want a future, she just wants to take control of now. She's everything Birchwood Prep doesn't want, but is deemed to get after her Father decided it was the only option for her to find some discipline.
She's not going to make it that easy for them.
Gideon Andrews is the perfect student. Good grades, never missed a day, and never had been in trouble of any sort. He thinks life is great, but meeting JJ, she thinks life for him could be better. Less plain and vanilla.
He hates her guts. It's mutual for her as well.
But the headmaster has made it Gideon's personal mission to get her back on track and into a better life. She's allowed two screw ups, has to join a sports team, pass all of her classes with at least a C and get some friends before the year is over, or she will be held back.
And she's not about to go another year in the hellhole called high school.
(Marked mature for language and brief talk about sex.)
*Still editing parts/making corrections*
(Sequel is called: When I Stay)