Stay Grounded
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Last published Tue, Aug 22, 2017
"Don't Trust charming, Sky. Wanna know why? Because the guy who knows just what to say knows it all too well. Tricky things like love aren't meant to be practiced."
Skylar Reed has never been one for making friends. She's awkward, She's weird, And she's... Super grounded, thanks to her two best friends and a last minute attempt to impress her Bad-boy of a crush. Now she's stuck in her room for summer break under her mother's authority, with only one visitor that likes to peek his head in her window.
Tristan Sheppard hates Skylar's life-long obsession over a bad-boy, who just happens to be his Smoking, Motorcycling, Ass-hat of an Older Brother. Whilst he's busy disappointing his parents, Tristan is busy trying to hold their family together, and now his only means of escape has been confined to her bedroom all summer long. It's a good thing he can get in through her bedroom window.
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