You see, when you're in high school, you just kind of drag yourself through each day.
Maybe you decide to be the captain of the football team, the lead in all the schools plays, that person that sings at every school assembly because the principle is obsessed with them, or you could be the person that nobody dares speak to.
Like me, Florence Greene, the schools 'bad boy'. But a girl.
I mean it's easier this way on so many levels.
Nobody talks to you, no boys try those cheesy pickup lines on you, nobody bothers you.
Well, that's just cause their scared.
There was this rumor going round the school when I was thirteen, that I hit and bullied a girl in year ten, causing her to leave school. Something to do with her looking at me the wrong way or teasing me for being in year seven.
Really realistic I know, it gets even better.
Anyways, being the attention hating person I am, I went along with it. Thinking it would get people to shut up, they did eventually.
So now I'm the bad girl. Yes I know, what a great story to tell.
But, believe it or not, it gets even more juicer.
I'm sixteen, seventeen in a few months must you know, and there's this new kid at school.
And he thinks he can be the bad boy.
Ha, what a joke.
This is all i have to say on the subject:
(clears throat)
To the drop-dead gorgeous Teo Walker, previous 'bad boy', excruciatingly annoying player, stubborn ass with a head too big to fit in the MCG,
Nobody likes a scrub.
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?
*****
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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