SNAP! And that's the way the ankle crumbles. Because you see Stephen, once a star athlete for the basketball team, has now been relegated to the sidelines after a horrific incident during a game, the whole of the summer holidays his hopes for redemption soaring in the air, touching the milky blue sky of his fantastical elation, but as time passes he finds, unfortunately, his ankle not wanting to cooperate.
How sad indeed.
Then there is Elaine, a normal girl who, after losing her boyfriend in a car crash, has fallen into a deep depression, not wanting to get out of bed or go to school she struggles to find a reason to just breathe, which I think many of us can attest to having gone through the same (maybe not the car crash thing though).
These two are at their rock bottoms, wishing for their past lives back, wishing for all that they had lost.
But, what if, they were to meet each other? What if they were no longer two, but now one? Sounds cliché? I promise you it isn't! As becoming one is harder than it looks. Believe me, I've tried.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
*****
Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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