If I told you Jace McKinnon and I had a happy ending, I'd be lying. Just between us, that's all we really were. A lie. We never went to prom, got engaged and eventually married. I loved him and I lost him.
I never really had Jace, though. To him I was just a girl with nice boobs and a whore complex. And to me, he was everything. Which by the way, was NOT what I had planned.
Jace was my best friend and literally all I had left. And after all of the bullshit I went through with love, I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting this.
We agreed one day, at around two AM that relationships were useless. I was heartbroken, he was just done altogether. We also agreed that we definitely weren't going to fall in love, and even acting that way would be absurd.
But one day he asked me how I felt about him. I told him I saw galaxies in his eyes. It might have been a quote on Tumblr, but it was 'our quote.'
We had a lot of things. But love was not one of them.
The messages didn't mean shit to him, but they were all I had to make me smile.
But this isn't MY Story. We'll save that for another time. This is the story of Jace and I - a love that remained galaxies away.
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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