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Cherophobia

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Reads 5,671
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Parts 53
Time 6h 11m

"Cherophobia" he said scooting closer.

 "Are you okay? " I asked and shifted further away from him feeling uncomfortable with him sitting next to me.

 "Do you know what it is?" I slightly shook my head at his question. Okay this was getting really weird. I didn't understand what he was saying and here he was still scooting over. 

"It's when a person is often afraid to participate in things characterized as fun or being happy....".

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When a traumatised young man escapes his family to live with his uncle in another country in hopes of a better life, he finds it.

But not from his therapeutic sessions with his psychologist.

No.

He finds solace and healing from Keturah, the young black lady who has her own battle and scars to heal from. She doesn't know how to do that. 

Heck! both of them don't really know.

Until he comes back for her.All Rights Reserved

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Max is struggling, plain and simple. After dropping out of school two years ago to help his mom with the bills and losing his best friend, he's just kind of shut things out. His life has been in pure survival mode. Work, pay bills, survive. But things only getting more complicated when he's ripped away from everything he's ever known. His mom, never the most put together woman has an affair with her married boss and gets pregnant. Now she's decided to move them both to Beverly Hills and into his place! With new step siblings that hate him before they've even met and a man that thinks he can just jump in and be his father, Max has had just about enough of everything. On top of all that he's starting up school again, and with these new fancy rich kids, Max feels even more suffocated and out of place then he did before. Will Max figure out his place or fall farther and farther into the background suffocating?