Chasing Smoke
WinterWriter11
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  • Reads 273
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  • Parts 24
  • Time 3h 19m
WinterWriter11
Ongoing, First published Sep 20, 2017
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We've all been in that situation of the impossible chase after a person who we just can't catch. Basically, like chasing smoke. 

Chase Harding knows that situation far too well. He always thought he would never be the kind of guy to follow behind girls like a lost puppy. That is, of course, until freshman year he fell in love with his best friend.

 Camila Smoke always thought of Chase Harding as nothing more than the best friend in the world. She always questioned why he was always so prepared to be by her side when no one else was, but she didn't mind it at all. 

The two best friends expected their senior year to be chill and unexciting, but what they didn't see coming were the mixed up feelings slowly being revealed. 
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Cover by @Tweeter109

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The Short and The Furious ✔

20 parts Complete Mature

It's true what they say -you should never kiss your roommate. Something that Everly Peyton and Ares Dante prove quite excellently. But there's something else that they could tell you as well: if you're going to fall in love with your roommate never let them fall in love with you too. Keep them at a distance. Well, for five years, Ares and Peyton completely disregard that rule. And once it starts to become real, once they start to think that falling in love (and kissing) their roommate couldn't be that bad after all- -though it still bringing up some negative connotations- -there's this one big hurdle they have to come over. Family problems. Betrayals. Shotgun-reactions. Abuse. When falling in love with your roommate goes wrong, what do you have left? Not a place to live, not your same life, not your normal routine, or friends, or happiness. Neither of them know how long it's going to take the other to get over or heal from it, but when more of their pasts unravel, when they're pushed back together and can't ignore the other's pain? They force themselves to move on. But moving past heart break is always harder than it seems. **I no longer agree with ideals/things I wrote bc I was a child***

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