"What if I never get over you, Mas? What if, all my life, when I meet someone new, I can never fall for them because they aren't you? Or better yet, what if I can't fall for them because whenever I look them in the eye, all I see is you? I can't do this anymore, Mason. We're over, everything about you hurts. What's the point of loving someone, if I can't even look them in the eye without crying?" As the conversation dragged on, I could tell her eagerness to end it grew. With a subtle shift in her gaze, she broke eye contact and scanned the area, searching for any sign of Hudson's car.
As if on cue, her brother's car pulled into the parking lot. As it approached, my desperation to prolong our moment grew. I needed to say something to make her stay a little longer.
"I'm not a bad person," I whispered.
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A video gets leaked of Ellie's boyfriend, Mason, making out with a different girl at a party, Abbie. The girl Ellie never liked - the girl who was 'like a sister to him'.
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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