Leaving Expectations

To seventeen year old Alice Michaels, being the new girl is a familiar concept, considering her father and her constantly move across the United States for his job as a successful architect. Ever since her mom died life has just meant a few brown boxes thrown into the back of a moving van. Finding comfort and solitude in books, Alice just doesn't see the point in actually putting herself out there, and, as she puts, interacting with the human race. Finding herself once again thrown into a new town, she is determined to get through senior year without to much complication...... And then there is Ryan Goldman, who is anything but shining gold to people in this town. After all, he has been stuck in this sorry excuse for a town for seventeen years. He knew everybody, and knew the reputation they had given him: resident bad boy. After years of trying to find someone who would see him in a different light, he thought that there was no hope and stuck to doing what he was best at: being an arrogant, rude player. After all, wasn't that in the job description? Both of them struggling to find trust and deal with what life has turned them into, Alice and Ryan's world collide together in the small town both of them were forced to be in and soon hope to get out of. Will Ryan finally prove himself to be anything but a bad boy? Will Alice reach out of her bubble and put trust in others? Or will old habits die hard? She is supposed to be a good, quiet girl. He is branded as the bad, egotistic bad boy. What happens when they leave all expectations of themselves behind? Copyright © 2014 All Rights Reserved, including the right to claim parts of this work as your own in any other form of writing.