Love's Not Popular - The Complete Series Contemporary Romance

Third Cousins, Tina Lee

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Follow this gripping saga - Book 1: Cassie is a popular girl and she knows it. In fact, when she’s asked to define the person that she is for her school yearbook, she ends up choosing that very word. But popularity can be a fickle thing. When Cassie starts to learn this, she realizes that everything she had built for herself is about to coming crashing down around her. Book 2: Cassie’s moved on from high school and into everything that comes with college. She’s lost interest in the parties and the popularity race that comes with the party scene. In fact she’d much prefer to spend some quiet time with her new friend Sam rather than party the night away, but when he pushes for some fun and her ex Eric seeks her out, she finds herself being pulled into a world that she thought she’d escaped forever. Book 3: Messing around with her ex has gotten Cassie into trouble. So why is she still doing it? When Cassie starts to realize what’s really important she knows that she’s already left it for too long. But is that going to stop her from trying?

Sujets

• Contemporary romance
• Contemporary

Informations

• Publié par: Speedy Publishing LLC
• Date de parution: 15 février 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781681851853
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Table of Contents
Title Page
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Love's Not Popular
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
A Synopsis...
Inspiring Words
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Copyright
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The Complete Series
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Contemporary Romance
By: Tina Lee & Third Cousins
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Love's Not Popular
Losing Cassie
Book 1
Contemporary Romance
By: Tina Lee & Third Cousins
A SYNOPSIS...
Cassie is a popular girl and she knows it. In fact, when she’s asked to define the person that she is for her school yearbook, she ends up choosing that very word. But popularity can be a fickle thing. When Cassie starts to learn this, she realizes that everything she had built for herself is about to coming crashing down around her.
INSPIRING WORDS
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.”
- Elizabeth Edwards
CHAPTER 1

“I know I said there weren’t any wrong answers, but you’re kind of missing the point,” Sam said. He was a scruffy-haired wannabe journalist with a bad lisp, and he was frustrated with me.
I didn’t get it. I was answering his questions in the best way that I could.
“You’ve already got a ton of pages in the yearbook dedicated to your cheerleading and extra-curricular activities,” he said. He looked resentful. He didn’t make it obvious, but it was there, lurking in the shadow of his ocean-blue eyes. “This should be about the person you are.”
“The person I am?”
He nodded. “You know, like what makes you, you?”
I’d just told him that. I’d told him about my cheerleading and the pep rallies that I had led. I told him about the charity drives that I’d helped organize. What else was there to say?
He sighed. “You’re just not getting it.
I opened my mouth to say something about not being stupid, but he didn’t give me chance. “Look at it this way. If one of your friends had to describe you, then what would they say?”
“This seems like a really dumb question,” I told him.
“Well, no one else has had this much trouble with it.”
My face dropped into a scowl. I’d known Sam since our first year in high school. He’d been some quiet, scrawny kid who struggled to make friends. I was the opposite. When I walked through the high school doors on my first day, I’d already started to curve out. My hair had been long, my features soft. I’d had no trouble getting friends. Within the first month I was dating a guy two years older than me.
Sam was a nobody and he had no right to talk to me in the way that he was.
“Well, I guess my friends would say that I’m popular.” I tilted my head as I spoke. I could feel thick, warm waves of triumph poring over me, as his face turned into a scowl.
“Is that really what you want me to put?” he asked with a tone heavy with condescension.
“There are worse things in the world to be remembered for,” I said. “I mean, let’s face it, at least I am going to be remembered.”
He could hear the dig without me having to point it out. He sighed again. “What’s the matter?” I teased him. “Realizing that I’m right?”
“Not at all,” he said calmly. “I’m just thinking about how very much I pity you.”
“Excuse me?” He might be a writer for the yearbook, but that didn’t give him any right to talk to me like that. He was a nobody at the school. Didn’t he know how it worked? Didn’t he know that I was an adornment, a glittering feature that helped make the school, and especially our year, stand out? Didn’t he realize how hard a social butterfly had to work to make it seem effortless? I deserved his respect from the word go.
“Oh, look at your cheeks turning all red,” he said. “What’s wrong, princess? Aren’t you used to people telling you it how it is?”
“I get why you don’t have friends now,” I said coldly.
“Oh, that’s a low blow,” he retorted quickly and I could tell that my words were bouncing off him with little effect, if any. “Anyway, do you really want me to put ‘popular’ down here, or do you want to give this another try when you’re not feeling like a total bitch?”
“What the hell?” I snapped. “Have you been like this with everyone?”
“Only the people who earn it.” He leaned back in his chair. I could tell that he was enjoying his fleeting moment of power and that it had gone to his head. “If you want, I could book you back in for the day after prom. I’ve got a few free spaces then.”
“Do whatever the hell you want,” I said, getting to my feet. “If a bottom-feeder like you even knows what you want.”
“Well, it takes one to know one,” he said brightly, as I pulled open the door. I hesitated. I didn’t want to leave with him having the last word. I didn’t want him to think that he’d won. It wouldn’t have been right. That wasn’t how the social structure at high school worked. He was a loser and I was popular. He needed to remember that.
I turned around and looked at him. He looked a little surprised that I’d stopped making my exit. “Don’t you have a girlfriend?” I asked, as a revenge plot quickly formed in my mind.
“Yeah, why?”
He looked at me cautiously. It was the same kind of look that a hiker might give a poisonous snake. I could see him trying to calculate what move I was thinking of making next and how likely I would be to actually make it.
I smiled at him and walked back over to the table. I could feel my cell phone pressing against my leg through my pocket. I slid it out and worked it so the camera feature came up.
Without giving him a chance to move, I quickly dipped my head down and planted my lips on his cheek. The phone gave a little vibration as it recorded the picture, and before he had a chance to move I had stepped out of arm’s reach.
“Well, I’m guessing that you don’t want her to see that,” I said coyly. He looked pissed. I could feel his sudden panic about the leverage I’d just created, and it tasted delicious.
“What the hell?”
“You’ll remember your place next time, won’t you?” I said, with an edge of warning that couldn’t be ignored. “I won’t have you talking to me as though I’m an idiot. That’s just not how things work around here.”
“So, what?” he demanded, as he stood up and reached out for my phone. I clicked my tongue in a disapproving way and quickly put it back into my pocket. “You’re going to break me and my girlfriend up just because I was rude to you?”
I shrugged. “Maybe,” I played with him. “I mean, you’ve been mean to me, so why shouldn’t I be mean to you?”
“You’re a piece of work.” Sam glared at me, as though I had suddenly become his arch nemesis. “You think that because you’re popular that you have it all, but you don’t.”
“I don’t?” I arched in an eyebrow in his direction. “Are you offering me something that you think I haven’t had yet? Let’s see it.”
“You’re going to wake up one day and find this princess thing all gone,” he warned me weakly.
I didn’t bother to reply. He’d lost my interest. I had the leverage to make sure that he kept a respectful tongue in his mouth from now on, so I didn’t need to stick around and listen to his idle threats and prophesies. Plus, I was already late to meet Eric.
CHAPTER 2

The football field was on the other side of the school from the old, stuffy classroom which Sam had picked to interview people for the yearbook. The lawns and open spaces that lay in between the field and the school building were all vibrantly green and manicured to perfection. The buildings and grounds guy and his staff were die-hard perfectionists, which was something I could appreciate.
The blossoms from the fruit trees which grew in a small orchard next to the school, were throwing sweetness into the sunny air. It was gorgeous day. I was glad that I’d picked a light, cotton crop top and short denim cut-offs that morning to wear, because if I’d have been wearing anything heavier, I would have been sweating like a beast.
I could hear the heavy grunts and loud cries carrying from the field before I reached it. I could tell that Eric was out practicing. I smiled secretly to myself as I realized I could pick out his distinct grunt from all the others.
I walked through the