It is the middle of January, chilly, people taking down Christmas trees and Christmas decorations. Scarfs, boots, and beanies were worn while it snowed uncontrollably. Hello, I'm Lara Jean Song Covey, a 16 year old outsider not interested in friends, nor making any. I'm half-Korean half-white and I live in Virginia. I lost my dad a year ago so I live with my Korean mother who can't speak English nor understand it, and live with my sister Kitty, AKA Katherine. Just starting junior year a couple months ago, and I'm still very invisible. I'm not much of an "open" person so I keep a lot of things bottled up. So I have a journal I write in. I have been using it since middle school, if anyone ever found out about my journal and read it, it would destroy me, and the whole point of a thing called "privacy"
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?
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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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