Kayla is a smart, focused, top-mark student in her last two senior years of high school in a private facility for rich kids in Florida. All she wants is to get accepted to Harvard and graduate with top marks to follow the career she has set for herself. Her entire life is about becoming an independent and successful vet. She has micro-managed it and planned it to the tiniest detail. Leaving no room for a social life or living her teen years like her peers.

This year has had its ups and downs, with her stepbrother of almost ten years coming to live under the same roof after being raised apart after their parents married. The chaos and drama his appearance has brought, since he despises not only his father but Kayla's mother too, has made home tense. He's a rude, defiant, and arrogant pain in her ass who is hellbent on causing trouble and listens to no one.  

Dane is the polar opposite in every way - Vain, oversexed, a playboy who takes nothing seriously except booze, girls, and his motorbike while he rebels in every way against his father for ripping apart his family. Looking like a teen idol, acting like someone who doesn't need to take accountability for anything in his life, Kayla honestly cannot stand him. She sees a loser who will live on daddy's money and drink away his youth while sleeping with every girl in the county.

At 17, they have known one another most of their lives and never had any kind of friendly relationship. They have always been classmates but never friends and definitely not siblings. - but all that is about to change. 

A series of events pulls them closer, a forbidden and unexpected accidental kiss, and they plummet into confusion as feelings grow that neither expected. Slowly the walls come down between them, and they have far more in common than they ever imagined.

TEEN DRAMA

　　My mom leaves us alone, her mood a little worse, but I hope a night out will cheer her up and make her forget about everything for a while. Forget about Dane’s blatant ignoring of the house rules and bailing off school. She should be used to it by now.


　　Bryan and her haven’t fought in a couple of days, so I am hoping maybe she can get relief from her latest stress. A night away from it might improve her mental state. Some one-on-one couple time which they haven’t had in ages.


　　“Where do you think they were all day?” Elisa asks shyly when she’s sure my mom's footsteps have disappeared into another part of the house, and I shrug in answer. I told Elisa everything this morning when I picked her up for school and then sat like an anxious weirdo in our first class for him to walk in, but he never did. He has no idea how uptight I was all day and how often I checked my cell phone to get nothing but silence.


CHAPTER 54