Keep Trying, Sweetheart
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MatureComplete Fri, Jun 9, 20233h 50m
17 year olds are typically focused on college. And their SAT scores that they've been waiting for since forever ago.
So are Jessica and Cora. More than everyone else and only in each other, though.
Seeing who gets the higher score, higher grades, whoever gets accepted into the lowest acceptance rate college, it determines their moods for the rest of the day.
Rivals, but when Cora finds out a secret about Jessica's family life, she realizes the way she's handling it isn't just because she wants her in the best shape for the next test they have to take.
It's because she loves her. And she has. For years.
And when Jessica's faced with a life changing altercation with Cora, she realizes she loves her just as much.
But will the two ever get over their rivalry and admit it?
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