Walking on Fire
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Introduction: Was this what life had really come to? Most people look forward to turning eighteen, but what If there is nothing to look forward to? Julie Fescue didn’t get the car of her dreams, or even a fraction of that. When she turned eighteen and graduated high school, she got her special, reserved spot at the “Pig sty”, a bar in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She wasn’t partying at clubs like the normal eighteen year old, she was working at one. She doesn’t have parents to get her out of this hell either, just a best friend to help her live through it, who helped her get this much needed job. Where is this so called graduation gift?
Do friends really have your back when you need them? Have you ever really come to realize that maybe they’re not friends at all? Rich, popular, private school taught Aaron Briar doesn’t really trust the people who are his so called friends. This isn’t the worst of his problems though. What if you live without really living, just wandering this earth till something good in your life happens , if that will ever come. Beyond all that, his love life isn’t dead, because it had never really been alive .He has never had a girl fall “in love” with him for all the right reason. When it comes down to the moment, who can you trust?
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