Begin Again
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  • Reads 1,951
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  • Parts 35
  • Time 3h 7m
Complete, First published Mar 10, 2016
'I wish our lives could begin again, if only we were different people.'

It's definitely a cliché for a new student to become the talk of the school.  

Delano Cadieux was about to experience a whole new change in his life. Upon his parents' divorce, he was forced to pack all of his stuff, bid goodbye to his spotlight, and follow his mother as they start a new life in the outskirts. What could possibly go wrong, right? Wrong. 

His mother's career encountered a pitfall. He was bullied by the other kids in the neighborhood. And he falls for a mysterious girl who only appears at night. 

The day everything was supposed to get better, his father was killed in a fatal car accident. Since then, all the secrets that the mysterious girl had been keeping all this time, was gushing out like floodwater. What would Delano do when he finds out more than he could expect?

🥇 First place (Gold award) in Teen Fiction (The Heart & Soul Awards) 
🥇 First place in Teen Fiction (Magical Books Awards 2020)
🥈 Second place in Romance (The Spotlights Awards 2020) 
🥈 Second place in Teen Fiction (Future Awards 2020)
🥈 Second place in Teen Fiction (Gen Z Awards 2020) 
🥈 Second place in Teen Fiction (Wattpad Selenic Lights Awards) 
🥉 Third place in The Sunset Awards
🥉 April Monthly Bronze in The Wildrose Multiawards
⭐ Honorable mention in Modern Romance (World of Romance Awards)
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