What if?
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Last published Wed, Sep 16, 2015
"What if the sky wasn't blue? What if the sun didn't shine and it was dark forever?
What if...I'm making one of the biggest mistakes yet?"
Shayla has lived 18 years full of what ifs. What if she had taken the scholarship and gone on to college a year early? What if she had just went to pick her brother up when he once again called asking her to pick his drunken self up? What if her parents still loved her? What if she hadn't ruined every relationship she had with a guy. What if she didn't have her one and only friend Colton Seemes. What if she finally decided to take back some control of her life and maybe find the man of her dreams that she's pretty sure she deserves. But what if, she's looking in the wrong place?
Follow Shayla as she comes to terms with life's ups and downs and maybe even finds that it shouldn't be lived with "what if's".
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