Hey y'all 🧍♂️ this is my first published story so. Please don't bully me.
Uh so ig this is a first girl at Welton type thing?? Maybe a Charlie Dalton love story??
Here's an excerpt 😌
Claire smiled and looked over to Charlie, "Go brush your teeth, we can do the other half of the experiment, now,"
He nodded vaguely before disappearing back into his room.
Claire prepared a Petri dish and swab and Charlie came into her room soon with a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.
"I only smoke one, right?"
"Just one," she replied, sitting on her bed.
Charlie nodded and sat at her desk, lighting up, "You want one?"
"No, thanks,"
He lit a cigarette and took a drag, "Why don't you smoke?"
"I know there's a smoker inside of me somewhere and I don't want to let her out,"
Charlie closed his eyes for a moment, "There's a smoker... there's a smoker inside you?"
"You heard me, Dalton,"
"Okay, but- but that doesn't make sense,"
Claire shrugged, "Sure it does. You can't possibly know everything about someone, Charlie. You don't even know everything about yourself. Everyone is a million little things inside one person,"
He nodded, "Something tells me you're not struggling with Mr. Keating's poetry assignment,"
Anyway I hope you guys enjoy! Also if you know me in real life, you absolutely do not.
When a 14-day dating challenge erupts between skeptical Blossom and her secretly smitten best friend Hunter in the waning days of 1999, their easy friendship is plunged into a maelstrom of teenage angst, unrequited affection, and the terrifying possibility of genuine love.
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The year is 1999. Grunge is fading, pop is taking over the airwaves, and the looming Y2K bug casts a faint, paranoid shadow.
Blossom, a cynical, introspective teenager with a sharp wit and an even sharper skepticism about the existence of love, finds herself entangled in a bizarre challenge.
Her best friend, Hunter - all easy charm and perpetually tousled hair - has proposed a "14-Day Bet Date." He claims it's a social experiment, a way to prove to Blossom that love isn't just a fairy tale.
He insists they go on carefully orchestrated dates, engaging in classic romantic tropes - eating out at the local diner, trips to the rollerskating rink, picnics under the stars, the whole shebang.
But what Blossom doesn't know is that Hunter's intentions run much deeper than scientific curiosity.
He's secretly, desperately in love with her, and this elaborate charade is his clumsy, teenage attempt to finally convince her of it - and hopefully, to convince her to love him back.
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---Book 1 of the Generations series---
ATTENTION! This series could be stand-alone books if you really want them to be ;)
Word count: 74,743
Written and Made by: Julia B. Ambrose