Bree Apollo is an average fifteen-year-old girl: she loves chocolate, baking cupcakes, and her neighbor, the hunky and all around popular seventeen-year-old Foster Quinn. Except Foster is clueless about her feelings for him, instead treating her like a kid sister and begging for her homemade desserts. As a fellow chocolate lover, he should be Bree's for the taking, if it weren't for his oh-so-perfect girlfriend.
After she overhears Foster making fun of her to his friends, she's devastated. And not even chocolate can take away the pain. She intends to wallow in grief for a boy that was never hers to begin with, but Austen, her eccentric new neighbor has other ideas.
The strange boy down the street always wears a black fedora, walks barefoot, and focuses all his energy on building a treehouse in his backyard. For some reason, he's elected Bree to help him. At first, she turns him down because he acts too awkward and takes everything she says literally. But after learning of his autism, she decides to help with his construction (forgiving him for not being a chocolate fan), even though she doesn't know a think about power tools.
As Bree and Austen grow closer, Foster notices Bree no longer worships the ground he walks on. He wants her to go back to that doting version of Bree, but Austen has become more important to her than she's ready to admit.
Austen may just be the one to help her move on from Foster.
Like two pieces of a puzzle, they fit together perfectly.
This is my very first book. I hope that you will like it :)
DISCLAIMER: This book contains mature scenes, violence, verbal, physical, and emotional abuse, mental illness, substance abuse, and suicidal character. If any of these themes may trigger you, please do not read.
Aelia (protagonist 1):
- Has selective mutism
- Has social anxiety
- Introvert
- Loves reading
- Loves Mia
- Loves sunflowers, chocolate cake, and pina colada ice cream
- Very competitive
Jake (protagonist 2):
- Loves Aelia
- Loves books because of Aelia
- Ambivert
- Best Chef ever
- Father figure for his siblings
- Does not smile much, but he has the cutest smile ever with his dimple on the left cheek
- Suffer from depression and anxiety
- PTSD
Mia (Aelia's best friend / Jake's little sister):
- Extrovert
- Loves to party
- Ray of sunshine
Dylan ( Jake's best friend):
- The most extroverted person ever
- His favourite activity is annoying Jake and Mia
- Protects the girls at all cost
- Jake's personal therapist
- Loves experimenting love
- Now hates running because of Jake
- Loves music and anything Jake cooks
- Genius
Austin (Jake and Mia's little brother):
- Chill
Book extract:
"The little mute?" he laughs. I stop walking at this comment, my blood boiling. "Let me know when you're done with her. That pussy must be fu-" He doesn't have the time to finish his sentence. I throw a punch, hitting him square in the face, the impact making him fall into the couch behind him. "What the hell is wrong with you?" he shouts as he wipes away the blood coming out of his nose. It must be broken; it's not looking very straight from where I'm standing.
(Mature content. 18+ readers)