The Forbidden

"Do you understand statistically the chances of something going wrong? It's worse than the chances of dying in a convertible. Four point three percent of people on a plane die in a plane crash, and that's not including planes that have gone missing! There's more of a chance of me dying here than there is of me having a heart attack right now!" I say quickly, squeezing his hand tighter, and he lets out a yelp.

"When did you search all this?" He asks me, laughing a little at me.

"When my parents told me they were shipping me off on a plane to no man's land," I say, and look over at him. "By the way, the name's Giana."

"Ashton," he says, nodding in my direction.

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Giana Reese, a seventeen year old, shipped off to live with her grandparents in Apache, Oklahoma for bad behavior.

Having never met any of her family, she is shy and timid towards the idea of spending her junior and senior year there. Nonetheless, she does, and in the process she makes new friends, and gets a job.

The problem? Her boss.

Twenty-five year old Ashton Gilling has everything. Perfect family, perfect friends. Having just bought his own bakery, he needs someone to help him around the bakery, as his sister moves and goes off to college, and the only other employee he has delivers for parties and events for him.

So, they fall for each other. No big deal, right? Wrong.

Her parents disagree with the whopping eight year age gap between them.

With only a few people fighting for her, what'll happen to the relationship? Hiding a relationship from her absent parents couldn't be that hard, could it?

'The Forbidden' takes a heartbreaking view of a young girl striving for her parent's attention, and in the process, gives her something she didn't even know she wanted : love.