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Taking Risks

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Reads 152
Votes 4
Parts 15
Time 2h 56m

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adventure alcohol anxiety badboy cancer comedy death depression drama drugs family fear fire football grief loss love relationship risks romance sad suicide teen teenfiction

Ellie Marshall has gone through way more than any seventeen-year-old should have to.

When her brother, Tyler, dies, it's the last straw for Ellie. She's made a rule to live by to keep herself from getting hurt. Don't get close to anyone, and stay away from anything that involves danger or pain.

Carson Holbrook has a cocky smile, and an attitude to match, and he's made it his mission to make Ellie smile. He's popular, and the captain of the football team. 

When Ellie goes back to school for the first time since her brother died, she and Carson meet, and the walls that Ellie has been building around herself for years slowly come crashing down.

Ellie knows she should stay away from Carson. He is the exact definition of what she told herself to stay away from. But when her best efforts of trying to push Carson away, fail, and only makes him try even harder, this forces Ellie and Carson to form a friendship.

In this story, Carson teaches Ellie that there's more to life, and that taking risks is what makes living life all worth it.

- This story will be mainly in Ellie's POV, but there will also be some chapters with Carson's POV as well.All Rights Reserved

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The Broken Pieces Left Behind

Becca Adams has a plan:- 1) Survive Senior Year with as little drama as possible - so far that was working 2) Ensure that her mother remains alive 3) Graduate When her father died three years ago, Becca was forced to grow up, quickly. Her mother had a nervous breakdown and now acts like she's the teenager. But other than having to take care of her adult mother her life was going just as she had planned. She craved the stability and control that her planning gave her. So much of her life she felt like she had no control over things so she left nothing to chance. So what happens when a stupid school assignment puts her in close proximity with Jack O'Connor one of the hottest guys at her school? Becca knows Jack, he's a playboy. And she knows this because she lives in the same apartment building she does and sees the bevy of girls he parades around. Nothing good can come from this and she is determined to keep her distance from a boy who may just break her into un-fixable pieces this time. But the more Becca tells him that she wants nothing to do with him the more intrigued he is with her.