Not Giving Up
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“Well, will you be introducing yourself, or are you busy reminiscing about some childhood memory involving the boy next door and mud pies?”
At this Katerina's head shot up, while around her, her fellow classmates giggled. Meeting his gaze, shock coursed through her, Katerina's eyes narrowing.
“You...”
Third year student Katerina Thorpe finds herself in an awkward predicament when a childhood acquaintance, Ashton LeBlanc, suddenly reappears in her life as one of her professors. Finding her irritation towards him amusing, Ashton wonders what might have transpired during their childhood that led Katerina to disappear from the lives of him and their friends.
As the two of them begin to reacquaint themselves, Ashton starts to see the broken hearted girl that walked out of his life, and how he might have played a role in her departure. All the while, Katerina realizes that it might not be easy to put her trust in other, however when things start to fall apart in her family, it's her childhood friends who are there for her. With Ashton, she soon realizes that the feelings she had thought she had quashed all those years ago, are still there.
With their relationship rapidly evolving from friends to something more, while Katerina is still Ashton's student, Ashton and Katerina are faced with a tough decision. Is embarking on a relationship worth possibly destroying both their careers?
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In an instant his lips were on mine, and without even knowing how, I felt myself succumbing to him. I pulled away quickly, but both of his hands went around me as he caressed my cheek, and then his lips crushed against mine again, this time with much more urgency. I wanted to stop him, but I found that I couldn't. I let myself kiss him and give up what I believed in, after all, it was this that I needed to do if I wanted to succeed in the dare. And to be fair, I didn't really mind, Mr James was more than attractive. Ella is a typical seventeen year old girl who, on the first day of school, becomes friends with the wrong group of people, who threaten her to flirt with her teacher and make him fall for her. Ella is left with no choice but to do this, and day by day, she tries to get as close to her very attractive art teacher as she possibly could. However, in the midst of this, she starts realising that she actually does like Mr Edward James more than she thinks she ever would. On the other hand, her teacher struggles to stay away from the student whom he finds himself falling for. And at the same time, he has another struggle: he is being blackmailed by someone who knows all about his dark past, and his present: the interest that he has in a certain student. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/howtomakeyourteacherfallinlovewithyou Sequel: https://www.wattpad.com/story/230145321-intrigue #4 in Teenage #164 in Teen Fiction #257 in Forbidden #144 in Teacher
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