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"It was an infatuation with an unattainable girl. You were in love with the idea of her. Not her."-Riley Lawrence, expert in love and how to survive high school.
Riley Lawrence is a survivor. His friend Nora (and the love of his short life) is a fighter. Together they are the definition of awesome and have the ability to save the world, just not themselves.
You see all his life Riley has been surviving, which he comes to realize is nowhere near the same thing as living. What brings on this sudden realization? Well it's a combination of being diagnosed with cancer and also meeting, befriending and falling in love with the charming, fearless and utterly charismatic Nora. Together they embark on a journey of learning how to live rather than just survive and maybe even how to love.
Join them in their adventure and help them answer the question, when love isn't about forever, what is it about?
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"I've never been kissed before." I admitted shyly. He looked stunned, he was so confused. The way he was looking at me shocked me, I was looking down when I felt him pull my chin up to look at him. "Good because I want to be your first and your last." Victoria Walters a.k.a Tori has never had her first kiss let alone ever had a boyfriend. Tori has built a wall that's indestructible trying to protect herself and her secret. Tori only has a few more months left to live, she has cancer and the doctors have told her that there is nothing more that they can do to help her. They tried chemo therapy to see if it could help with her cancer but it didn't work, the cancer is spreading and it's only going to get worse. The chemo took away most of Tori's hair but it's been a year and its started to grow back just in time for her new school year. It's Tori's senior year of high school which means she has a few more months left to keep the wall up and walk the halls unnoticed. But what happens when someone does notice her? Gabriel Quinn a.k.a Gabe is a popular, but not one of those stuck up populars who does bad things to you. He's the kind of popular that get's noticed for being such a nice guy. Gabe has always had a crush on Tori and he feels that senior year is the year to finally make his move on Tori. He wants to be her boyfriend, be her first kiss and be her prom date but little does he know that Tori won't be alive for much longer. Tori won't ever get to graduate, go to prom, have her first boyfriend or her first kiss. She always wanted these things but she knows she can't have them because of her condition and the fact that she and the person will only end up hurt in the end. What happens when Gabe tries to get Tori to open up? Will she open up to him and finally get her last first kiss? Or will she die with regrets of knowing she had the chance and she blew it? ~Created and written by xInspiringWords/Samantha~
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