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Falling Before We Started

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Parts 16
Time 1h 44m

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"- it's like tasting different kinds of pudding and then going for the one that is more suitable to your taste even though it may look yucky and disgusting"
Mr Joel Matthew told his daughter."

Being a young adult is the right time to live life and taste different puddings as Mr Joel always tells his 17 year old daughter...Mercy. 

Mr Joel has always wanted his daughter to experience life and go on date but she wouldn't as long as she is concern she doesn't see any reason why she should start dating at her age. 
She keeps reminding her Dad and her best friend Tamara that there is nothing important about her dating and relationship is not what they seems to make out of it.

 In other to make her comply to his desires of her having a boyfriend and living life a little...he prolonged her education progress of going into the university for a year.

Mercy, finding  herself in a messy situation after discovery a big hidden secret has to fight against her heart for falling in love as life decided to take a new turn.....All Rights Reserved

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𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝙲𝚊𝚖𝚙? ~~ "𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐?" "...𝙴𝚛𝚛, 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐..." 𝙸 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚞𝚝. "𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗?" "𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚊𝚠 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐." 𝙸 𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎. 𝙷𝚎 𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚕𝚖, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐. "𝚂𝚊𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝?" 𝙰 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚎. "𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞." 𝙷𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛, 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎. "𝚂𝚞re." ~~ 𝚃𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚆𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜: 𝙰𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚎. 𝚅𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝚂𝚎𝚕𝚏-𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖. *This work is fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or events is coincidental.