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Gone In Manhattan

Gone In Manhattan

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WpMetadataNoticeLast published Sun, Nov 16, 2014
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14-year-old Jessica Patterson has nowhere to stay for the summer. Her mom sold her apartment, her dad's out seducing women, and she can't afford a summer camp or class. She lives in a tent behind a supermarket and has no phone or internet, and has nothing to do. Tables turn when her one and only friend, Anna Watson, offers the guest bedroom to her until her life gets back on track. With a few personal items packed away in a small tote, she accepts the beginning of a new start, not knowing what is to come. Are changes bound to happen? Are friendships meant to last? Read "Gone In Manhattan" now to find out!
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The Bet

"How can you say that?!" I yell at him. "It's simple Korinna. You and I will never be friends again. And you can sit there all you want and pretend that I'm the one who broke up our friendship when in reality YOU were the one. So before you judge me and hate me for doing this to you, you better first take a long hard look in the mirror at what you have become and get it through your head. I don't and will NEVER love you!" He snaps back at me. "Fuck you, Arlan!" I slap him across the face before leaving the and slamming the door behind me. Korinna and Arlan used to be the best of friends since they were five years old. Then something happened during Freshman year that made him resent her and start becoming her bully. Now as Seniors, this will be their last year of ever having to see each other and Arlan is about to inherit his parents money that he is to receive when he not only turned eighteen. His brother came back home to make sure he is doing everything he is supposed to. There's just one problem that could ruin him being set for life. He made a bet with his best friend that he couldn't make Korinna to ever trust or like him ever again enough to sleep with her. Now he has to make sure he wins and that his brother doesn't find out. Korinna is curvy is gonna turn eighteen a couple of months before graduation and she can't wait because that way she can go away to college and leave behind her life here. Everyone knows that her father died when she was little and was now living with her alcoholic step mom that hates her guts and his blowing all the money that Korinna was supposed to be getting but hasn't. After an incident that happened years before, she has shut down and tries to keep to herself as she is bullied constantly. What happens when her ex best friend asks her out and suddenly starts taking interest in her more than as a friend? Will she trust him or see right through him and his player ways? © Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved

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