California's Stow Away
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Last published Fri, Mar 17, 2017
Tia Benson was tired. Tired of her parents arguing. Tired of her friend lacking school. Tired of all the noise surrounding her that drowned all attempts of escape.
She was a suffocating flame, smothered with so much fuel it starves of oxygen, desperately gasping for the light again.
Until one night, when it all becomes to much, her flame dangerously flickers due to an overnight argument with Dad. Fearful of her ambitions for the future she runs away for the first flight that leaves Gatwick airport, in search for a adventure in her, so far, oxygen deprived life.
But that isn't all she finds in California. This is a love story after all...
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