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"So you're in high school?" He has dark black hair and piercing blue eyes.

"Yeah, it's my senior year this year..."

"Oh cool, you're eighteen then?"

"No I just turned seventeen." I replied.

"Oh cool when was your birthday?"

"Today actually."

"Well Happy Birthday..."

"Val."

"Is that your full name?"

"No it's not, it's... uh... short for Valentine..."

"Well Happy Birthday Valentine." He smiled.

"You can call me Val... it's what all my friends call me."

"Valentine it is." He winked. I bit my lip slightly. "Wanna go somewhere Valentine?"

"Mm... I don't know you could be a serial killer for all I know..." I joked. He chuckled slightly.

"Well there's only one way to find out isn't there...?" He held out his hand. I bit my lip looking to his hand and then up to his blue eyes. I moved my hand cautiously to his.
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Valentine Villete is a seventeen year old who met and fell in love with a music teacher, Levi Romero, over the summer of her junior year. Little did she know, Levi would be her teacher her senior year... While that problem exists, Valentine's family was already in shambles but it crumbles into dust when her brother takes money from her mother's drug dealer boyfriend, making Valentine make some tough decisions between earning money to replace what her brother stole, or choosing love that could potentially kill her lover.