A Quarter After Three
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MatureOngoing8m
Last published Mon, Mar 23, 2020
"I don't want to be around you." He says quietly. "But I don't know why my heart craves you..."
"Then don't push me away." I whisper, looking into his eyes.
"I'm so scared." He says, and the vulnerability in his eyes makes my heart ache.
"So am I."
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Lillian Barnes is your typical high school student, she goes to school, makes amazing grades, but she's not a social butterfly.
She has a pretty normal life, until the mysterious guy she's never noticed, is suddenly everywhere around her.
She wants to avoid him, but she starts to realize she can't. She can't help but feel like she's meant to be in his life. After all, she doesn't really have anyone else.
Read as the two people find each other, they might soon come to realize, there's more than what meets the eye between them.
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