Cassidy, or Cass, is a role model. It sounds really cheesy, but she's the kind of girl that wears makeup everyday and a new pair of desingner skinny jeans. But she does it because she feels like it. But she also loves sweatpants, Ben and Jerry's, and 80's music. She doesn't dress up for the popularity, or just because she thought it looked good. It waseems to impress her crush, James Andrew. He's perfect. Has an education, can hold up without his parents, and a 6-pack. Cass has been crushing on him for 3 years now, and you'd think by then that a person would move on from someone who had shown no signs of liking her in the past 3 years, but not Cass. Then, rumors start to go around that James has a girlfriend. And at the same time, someone familiar steps in to Cass' life, making things so much more complicated.
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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