Damien Foster is just a high school student with not a care in the world. Before his parents left him and his sister to fend for themselves in an old Victorian house to move to Las Vegas, he was a shy and quiet boy but that all changed. After being arrested twice and suspended almost twenty times, he has gotten a pretty notorious reputation for being the school's "bad boy" but when the troubled teenager meets Christy Lawrence, an Honors student, his whole world is thrown off balance. She tries so hard to bring out the good in him when really, he just wants to do things his own way.
Christy, the Honors student, who gets over-achieving grades and at the top of her class. She is very social and loves to have fun. But it's not the way you would expect a normal high schooler to have "fun." Let's just say it doesn't involve parties and getting wasted.
Damien on the other hand, the advanced yet notorious for his bad reputation, likes to travel with the odd sort of kids and loves to party. When he's not sneaking alcohol or drugs into the classroom, he's usually hanging out with his best friends, Charlie and Rebecca or hanging out at home with his younger sister, Danielle.
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"Damien, what is that?" Christy asked, completely oblivious to what was in the bottle that Damien held.
"Oh this? It's called Super-Magic-Fun drink." He replied with a small sly smirk on his face. His arm twisted the bottle around in his hand like he was Houdini.
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?
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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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