Fake it 'til you make it has been the motto I live by since my mother died.

I'm also doing a really bad job at the making it part.

The night we met, I was at my lowest.

But you gave me a reason to feel happy again.

For the first time in over a year, I was optimistic.

You and I? We're the same. Don't form attachments. Follow the rules. Don't dream of a future.

Too bad our hearts wouldn't listen.

And this storm we're going through? The one that threatens to rip us apart?

It doesn't care that I'm falling for you.

Falling for You is created by Jennifer Van Wyk, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Falling for You

I watch the most amazing smile light up his face when I tell him I’m feeling the same. How could I not be?


I felt it the first night we sat at Balance sharing dessert.


Even before my mother passed away, I didn’t form attachments. Didn’t build relationships easily or often. Growing up, I liked only two people aside from Mom. Jillian, my best friend, and Lucy, my other best friend, and that was pretty much it. I had other friends, but none of them were close. Because it was just my mother and I, there were no aunts or uncles, no grandparents, no cousins. It was easy for me to assume it was normal to only having a very small number of people in my corner.


Rex and I have only known each other two weeks and yet I’ve given him more of myself than any of my friends at the salon who I’ve known for years.


Chapter 35: He's Already Changing Me. And I Like It.