Meant to Be

Taking care of children is hard enough when you're a parent. It's harder when you're a seventeen-year-old high schooler. Lucy Hastings is the caretaker of five foster siblings -Seth, Serena, Derek, Oliver, and Ariel. The six of them have been together for years, under the love of their foster parents. When their foster mom passes away their foster dad needs to work more to make ends meet. The kids want to be a family, so Lucy steps up to take care of the kids. Keeping everybody around her at arm's length, Lucy finds it difficult to hide her true self from new student, Wesley Reynolds. He seems to be everywhere, why can't she escape him? Lucy has denied feelings of affection for anyone. She pushes away anyone who could care about her. What's she to do when she can't deny her growing feelings for Wesley Reynolds? Meant To Be is created by Samantha Auz, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Samantha Auz · Realistic

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Chapter 43: Bugs And Insects Bring Sadness

We’ve been packing up our things for days now. Our court appearance and last moments together are tomorrow morning.

I woke up before the sun came up this morning to practice in the mirror what I was going to say to Wes. I never thought practicing how to break the heart of the person you’re in love with would feel worse than actually going through with it. I think imagining Wes’ face in my head is what’s making it worse. When he’s actually in front of me, I always feel a sense of contentment. Wes makes me feel safe and I can be my neurotic and insane self around him.

Using the mirror wasn’t my best idea, because whenever I saw my face looking sad, I’d start crying. My head would lean down over the sink, and I would let out all the sobs that I could.

I texted Wes to meet me in the library of the school. On Sunday mornings, our school does some kind of book club for old women in the library, so the doors weren’t locked.

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