Love, marriage, and divorce. No one can really understand what happens the second we fall into these categories.
There's also a saying, you have to actually be happy with the person you love and grow to love the person you marry. Sounds simple, but it's way more complicated then it seems.
Arrietty, a simple naive 19 year old girl meets James. It's a story that has been told since the beginning of time. They meet, they fall in love, and they get married.
But a story never just ends with marriage. There's children, careers, families, and life that never really stops. Even when you desperately want it to.
So what happens when James stops loving Arrietty? What happens when he has fallen for another? What happens when the divorce papers are shown to Arrietty? What truly happens after the happily ever after?
One month, one month she has asked to build a family. To try to keep some sort of peace before everything gets destroyed. One pact, one promise, and one stupid divorce.
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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