Crush

"Hey, Presley," he'd greeted, his dimples flashing.

Even at five years of age she'd known that smile could only mean trouble. "What?"

"You know I have a crush on you, right?"

She remembered the heat in her cheeks as she blushed. With embarrassment, of course. "Ew!" she exclaimed. "Break up with me!"

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Gavin Santos has grown up since his troubling years in elementary school. Now a senior in high school, he has just enough time on his hands to drive the people around him crazy. And boy does he ever!

Presley Langford was the girl he swore he would marry one day, before life got in the way. They'd grown up together on the wrong side of Granite Woods, but they hadn't let their circumstances keep them down. Yet when Presley got the chance of a lifetime to make it out of town, she'd taken it without even saying goodbye.

But what's a guy to do when the crush he swore he had gotten over resurfaced in full force years later? And what's a girl going to do when she realizes the boy she left behind has grown into a man with a heart of gold?

Maybe, just maybe, they could prove that what they shared was more than just a crush.