Something real
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Alexandra had it all. A simple life with friends and a lovely family and she wanted nothing more than this in her life. For her everything was perfect. But everything changed after that night. At the age of 13 little Alex had to go through the horrible pain of losing her parents in a car accident. Alexandra had to move to a small town in North Carolina to live with her uncle and aunt leaving everything about her previous life behind but one thing that never left her was the pain of losing her parents. As the years passed by, Alex now finds herself on the last day of school of her senior year. She had lots of fun during high school and dated guys here and there but the thing is she could never let them near her heart, afraid that the pain of losing someone you love will just increase. But then she met James and they started dating but her mistake was giving a piece of her already broken heart to him. She thought that with James by her side she can face anything and the pain in her heart will lessen but she was wrong. The pain only increased when she finds him making out with some girl in the janitor’s closet. Heartbroken she vowed to never let any guy break her heart again like this. She promised herself to never fall in love again. But will she able to keep her promise after meeting her hot new neighbor Toby? Will she be able to give him a piece of her heart again? Will this be Something Real this time? This summer the story of Alexandra and Toby will begin. Read and find out what lays there for them in the end.
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