Not Only a Pipe Dream
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Last published Sun, Aug 19, 2018
Based on a true story, a story of love found despite very confusing circumstances pondering sexuality and trying something new even with the fear of getting caught.
Meet Ashen, an artsy teenager who's nearing the end of highschool soon, but her grades and her health are holding her back. She has a condition that causes her heart to beat abnormally fast and the symptoms that it brings have made her miss many days of school and fall behind. This is where Ian comes in. Ian is a couple years younger than Ash, but he is highly intelligent, even though he doesn't want to admit it.
Ashen and Ian have known each other since they were young, due to their parents being coworkers and close friends, but they never seemed to click, that was until now. Ash was kicked out for a week and she needed a tutor for her online classes and Ian just happened to be taking the exact same courses as her. So Ashen stays at his house for a week, and the rest was history. Follow along with this blossoming love story in the following pages.
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