Different

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Reads 8
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Parts 6
Time 31m

"Even from the fake start I just wanted to be the one not in pain, you know? I hadn't realized it but a few weeks in after our first kiss I always had the sudden urge to smash my lips against yours, but the butterfly's inside me were killing me. I hadn't had them in a while, but they were- they were like razor sharp blades in my stomach."

He sighed.

"And that was the kind of pain I was avoiding," it was my turn to sigh. 

"And how'd that work out for you?" 

"Terrible."

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Since Babette was a kid she wasn't even close to fitting in. She was a poet with a head of dreams and a heart that's smashed. When Cole, a low life stoner, comes around and asks her to be his fake, temporary girlfriend, her life becomes completely different.All Rights Reserved

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